Hey Troub, things are going well i see mate.
Those vids of the firefish were cool - always wanted to keep some of those especially the purple ones, have you seen those ones.
The new goby looks great, do you have to put a bowl of sand in there for him to sleep or is that a different fish species i'm thinking of. That cyano is ugly stuff but keep at it and it will be a distant memory. I had it in a DSB tank during the cycling stages so i know how annoying it is and how fast it appears lol.
The shrimp look very active, love those guys. rather than say anything unkind i have chosen not to comment on that last coral. I find it unfair that i always have to be the one to speak up about weird coral purchases so i will leave it to my good mate Bello to critique that thing - don't you lie Bello..........
- Glad you enjoyed the vids! It was a lot easier to capture some good quality views of the fish with video then it was with pictures. Especially on my cell phone. We actually had a purple one. That's the one that made it all the way through 7 weeks of QT and then died the first day we started to bring the salinity up.
- I don't think we need a bowl of sand in there. It may like it and feel more natural to it. But I don't think it's necessary. (He made it through last night without one). I'll double check and do a little :reading: on it today. But I think that's fish more like the Leopard Wrasse where they bury into the sand to sleep at night.
- The cyano is driving me NUTS! But there isn't to much to do. I think we're taking an approach to remedy it. I've been battling it as it moved from the rocks now mostly to the sand bed. Does killing the lights help to remove cyano at all?
- The shrimp are aweomse! I'm glad I got more then 1 for the 90 gallon. They were ALL OVER the new Trumpet Coral. They were really interested in the super glue area :hmm6: where I broke it off the frag plug and glued it to the LR chunk. And then they discovered the slim... :hmm5: The coral was not to happy after all the traveling, dipping, frag plug removing, rinsing, etc. There was a nice clear slime starting when I put it in the DT. The shrimp were exploring the ooze heavily. But the coral pretty much stopped the slime as soon as it was in the DT.
Finally!!!!
ONE YWG, and ONE coral? I worry about you, Troub. You shoulda let wifey have her way
Good picks though :thumbsup:. The trumpet looks pretty nice. If you notice that it isn't fluffing up, its usually either due to excessive flow, or maybe Neil/Buzz are using it for a pedestal
. Should be fine though, IMO.
- HAhahaha! Yeah, only one of each. But hey, that's 2 new things! ;-) Plus, we expect to be back at the store a few more times during this QT process. And I'm expecting to have all the lighting up by the time this next fish goes in. I better be done before then! :deadhorse: So I'm expecting to add a bit more in the very near future.
And she was fine with this purchase! There was an interesting Zoa rock (bright red tendrils with pale green zombie eye looking centers) and a couple nice Rics (REALLY wanted to buy). But they have good versions of those about every other time we go. Don't get me wrong though, she would have bought more. But the Trumpet was a medium/large frag and we decided to go with something new over 2 of what we already had this time.
- Right now the flow for the Trumpet is... 1-1200 gph head all the way across the 4ft tank on the side glass pointed in it's general direction, down across the front of the rocks. Then there is another 1200 gph head above/behind on the back glass agitating the surface bouncing off the front glass towards the center of the tank. So I don't think it's getting any direct heavy flow. It's all indirect. It's about 7-10 inches up from the Rics that are doing well. So I was guessing that was a low enough flow spot? I'll keep some pic updates of it as it acclimates over the next few days. Since I'm off work and around right now, it will be easy to observe. I just don't know what I'm observing for so much... yet...
What is the plan for theYellow Watchman Goby?
Marty
- Hey Marty! The plan for the Yellow Watchman is to, hopefully, end up as a pair with a pistol shrimp. We are going to have it in QT for around a month if all goes smoothly. Then towards the end of QT, we'll go back to find a pistol shrimp. Probably a small tiger pistol shrimp. And I'm sure a coral or two with the shrimp. LOL.
- I'm not sure if you've seen all the rock sculpting/building stuff at the beginning of the thread. But if you check out this post (
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=21542841&postcount=40), you can see how I tried to make a "Pistol Shrimp Condo". Basically it's just a flat shelf rock piece that is lifted 2.75 inches up to sit right even with my sand bed. Since I didn't do a full DSB in the display, I thought this might give a pistol shrimp (or any other burrower) a place to dig out where the roof doesn't always collapse? And also a place to live "right out in front." Currently, it's where the Orange Firfish has dug out the back side and is living between the overflow. And who knows if it'll even like/use it. But I'm thinking about inserting a small piece of PVC to under the rock for when I release the Pistol Shrimp. Just release it right into the tub and hope it digs out a burrow right there. Or I may just release it right there and see what happens. LOL. But either way, I'm planning on releasing the YWG and shrimp into the tank around the same time.
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Well, I just poured another cup of coffee. So before I start rambling on about who knows what again, I'll wrap it up with a couple morning updates of the Trumpet Coral.
- Cell Phone Pic w/ ambient room light and 36inch blue cheap-o led. - And it's actually really accurate to what it looks like in person -
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I'm glad it was what you were looking for and hope it helps.
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