teddscau
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Hey guys, just picked up the tank on Wednesday! It's 90g, we bought it off of Kijiji for $1000, and it came with all sorts of SPS corals, a few leathers, two photosynthetic gorgonians, six sun coral polyps, zoas (they seem really tiny though?), and equipment. Man, those zoanthids are freakishly small, though. Each polyp is only a third of a centimetre in size, so I really don't know. Again, the guy hadn't been feeding his corals, so maybe they'll start growing larger.
Wednesday was a freaking nightmare setting everything up. The tank was super cloudy because we had to put all new sand in it, so by the time we put the live rock in we could only see an inch or so into the tank. Putting the corals in was so stressful because we had no clue whether we were piling them on top of each other. I accidentally brutalized the poor montipora (in my defence, I thought it was just some sort of spongy coralline growth on the live rock). Anyways, I acclimated them carefully and all that jazz, then I just about had a meltdown when the temperature in the tank spiked. Those metal halides are just a nightmare! I want to get rid of the halide on the right and replace it with an LED to help with the heat.
Right, so I beat up the corals a bit because I couldn't see what I was doing, not to mention the live rock they were on weighed a ton. Anyways, checked on them this morning, and all their polyps were opening up! I wanted to make up for their stressful ordeal yesterday, so I fed them some Reef Roids and gave the sun coral some mysis shrimp. The sun coral gobbled down the food and is out again, wanting more, so I think I'll feed them a bit more tonight (they were being starved at their old home). Everyone's brightening up too, so I think they're happy.
I rearranged the live rock again since I can actually see in the tank now, and I'm really proud of how good of a job I did! I've never arranged live rock before. Ooh, I'll have to post pictures later! Anyways, I tried really hard to provide I decent amount of "floorspace", as I'm planning on buying two pairs of dragonface pipefish to try to breed. I also created a ton of caves with the live rock. I also tried to create a lot of "depth" and "texture". I hope everyone makes it. My dad's in charge of monitoring the parameters, so if something goes wrong, we'll know who to blame.
Oh, I guess I should tell you some of the critters I'm planning on getting:
Two pairs of dragonface pipefish
A pair of firefish
A pair of Banggai cardinalfish
A pair of Ocellaris/false percula clownfish (my parents said we have to get them -_-)
A pair of yellow clown gobies
A pair of black clown gobies
Wednesday was a freaking nightmare setting everything up. The tank was super cloudy because we had to put all new sand in it, so by the time we put the live rock in we could only see an inch or so into the tank. Putting the corals in was so stressful because we had no clue whether we were piling them on top of each other. I accidentally brutalized the poor montipora (in my defence, I thought it was just some sort of spongy coralline growth on the live rock). Anyways, I acclimated them carefully and all that jazz, then I just about had a meltdown when the temperature in the tank spiked. Those metal halides are just a nightmare! I want to get rid of the halide on the right and replace it with an LED to help with the heat.
Right, so I beat up the corals a bit because I couldn't see what I was doing, not to mention the live rock they were on weighed a ton. Anyways, checked on them this morning, and all their polyps were opening up! I wanted to make up for their stressful ordeal yesterday, so I fed them some Reef Roids and gave the sun coral some mysis shrimp. The sun coral gobbled down the food and is out again, wanting more, so I think I'll feed them a bit more tonight (they were being starved at their old home). Everyone's brightening up too, so I think they're happy.
I rearranged the live rock again since I can actually see in the tank now, and I'm really proud of how good of a job I did! I've never arranged live rock before. Ooh, I'll have to post pictures later! Anyways, I tried really hard to provide I decent amount of "floorspace", as I'm planning on buying two pairs of dragonface pipefish to try to breed. I also created a ton of caves with the live rock. I also tried to create a lot of "depth" and "texture". I hope everyone makes it. My dad's in charge of monitoring the parameters, so if something goes wrong, we'll know who to blame.
Oh, I guess I should tell you some of the critters I'm planning on getting:
Two pairs of dragonface pipefish
A pair of firefish
A pair of Banggai cardinalfish
A pair of Ocellaris/false percula clownfish (my parents said we have to get them -_-)
A pair of yellow clown gobies
A pair of black clown gobies
(but keep the advice coming!). The guy was only feeding them once or twice a week, so they've been begging me for food. Yesterday and today I fed them frozen mysis in the morning. Today, I decided to give them an additional feeding at 1. I gave them some chopped silversides and spirulina enriched brine shrimp for their second meal today. They look absolutely stuffed, so I don't think I'll feed them anything for supper. They're really good eaters, though.
