reeflover101
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Mel I have plenty of RO water if u ever want to come get some and i can give your bucket also.....
Mel has a tank hip hip hooray
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EvilMel
is a serious goby fanatic
What? What club forum? Gary in Mobile?
This is all so overwhelming...everyone's generosity.
So you all know...I've got the tank set up...it's got substrate and it's mixing with salt right now. I'm getting it going! YAY!
I should be getting some rock from Chase tomorrow and some from Wayne on Feb 10th (I hope that's a good date for him!).
So yeah...I'm working on it!
Maybe I can host the March meeting? I feel all reef energized again. It's totally bizarre.
Now my only decision is whether I can keep a jawfish and a shrimp goby in the same tank. I'm thinking yes. It's completely contained (I can close off the tiny little back hole really easily). Most people know I've always wanted a jawfish. But I also debate about a goby-specific tank.
Once again I've got someone here at home who wants some fish to look at in the water column (but not in a pushy way at all) so I'm debating about a pair of Matt's black clowns. I love those guys but the last thing I want is for them to bite the crap outta me like the pair did that I had a long time ago.
Oh...decisions...decisions...it's a great feeling to have these decisions to make again.
This is all so overwhelming...everyone's generosity.
So you all know...I've got the tank set up...it's got substrate and it's mixing with salt right now. I'm getting it going! YAY!
I should be getting some rock from Chase tomorrow and some from Wayne on Feb 10th (I hope that's a good date for him!).
So yeah...I'm working on it!
Maybe I can host the March meeting? I feel all reef energized again. It's totally bizarre.
Now my only decision is whether I can keep a jawfish and a shrimp goby in the same tank. I'm thinking yes. It's completely contained (I can close off the tiny little back hole really easily). Most people know I've always wanted a jawfish. But I also debate about a goby-specific tank.
Once again I've got someone here at home who wants some fish to look at in the water column (but not in a pushy way at all) so I'm debating about a pair of Matt's black clowns. I love those guys but the last thing I want is for them to bite the crap outta me like the pair did that I had a long time ago.
Oh...decisions...decisions...it's a great feeling to have these decisions to make again.
Angela Short
New member
You should get a mixed pair of clowns. My buddy has a orange mated with a black clown from Matt. They look so cute together!
EvilMel
is a serious goby fanatic
Good lord, Randy...clown happy, much? Are any of yours breeding?
Rev...I took pics of it right after Nathan and I put it together, then with substrate and water in there, but that's all I've got right now. I don't think it's very exciting so I was waiting until I had some pics with rock and/or fish. I hate plain setup pics! Sorry.
Rev...I took pics of it right after Nathan and I put it together, then with substrate and water in there, but that's all I've got right now. I don't think it's very exciting so I was waiting until I had some pics with rock and/or fish. I hate plain setup pics! Sorry.
Hell no... I don't think I feed them enough/the right foods to get them to breed... My GSM might be breeding because they hang out behind the rock their anenome is on sometimes... I can't see back there... I just figure its fish food...
Oh, and Ashley requires a clown pair per tank... Otherwise I wouldn't have any tanks...
EvilMel
is a serious goby fanatic
hah hah...that's how you trick her. You say..."aren't these clowns over here really neat? Wouldn't you like to have ANOTHER kind of clowns? Just let me get ONE more tank...the last one...I promise..."
OK so...I still can't decide if I should have just gobies, or gobies plus a jawfish, or gobies plus a pair of onxy clowns (Angela...I hate those little orange buggers so NO WAY! hah hah).
I'm not sure. It would be neat to have a goby-only tank but then I doubt I could contain myself from getting like one firefish or something else that's out in the water column.
It's also very tempting to get a jawfish since I've always wanted one and I will now have a completely covered tank (another good reason to get clowns). BUT I don't want to kill my bioload either. I enjoyed it when I had a bunch of tiny gobies and practically no bioload. It was nice and I didn't feel like such an a-hole if I didn't feed them because they did just fine without extra food from me (picking off rocks, I suppose...copepods maybe?).
Uuugh. Decisions...decisions.
Randy, I have heard that in a tank a jawfish and a shrimp will learn to get along because the jawfish will just pick up the shrimp and move him if he comes to close. BUT...I was thinking more to maybe have either a jawfish OR a Randall's pistol shrimp.
I just CAN'T imagine having a tank without a goby-shrimp (Randall's shrimp specifically) so I will probably wait on the jawfish and end up not getting because I don't want to cause negative interactions.
OK so...I still can't decide if I should have just gobies, or gobies plus a jawfish, or gobies plus a pair of onxy clowns (Angela...I hate those little orange buggers so NO WAY! hah hah).
I'm not sure. It would be neat to have a goby-only tank but then I doubt I could contain myself from getting like one firefish or something else that's out in the water column.
It's also very tempting to get a jawfish since I've always wanted one and I will now have a completely covered tank (another good reason to get clowns). BUT I don't want to kill my bioload either. I enjoyed it when I had a bunch of tiny gobies and practically no bioload. It was nice and I didn't feel like such an a-hole if I didn't feed them because they did just fine without extra food from me (picking off rocks, I suppose...copepods maybe?).
Uuugh. Decisions...decisions.
Randy, I have heard that in a tank a jawfish and a shrimp will learn to get along because the jawfish will just pick up the shrimp and move him if he comes to close. BUT...I was thinking more to maybe have either a jawfish OR a Randall's pistol shrimp.
I just CAN'T imagine having a tank without a goby-shrimp (Randall's shrimp specifically) so I will probably wait on the jawfish and end up not getting because I don't want to cause negative interactions.
