Some Fish & Sea Horses!!!
Some Fish & Sea Horses!!!
The seahorse lives in the refugium and eats glass shrimp and fortified live brine.
My refugium is really a second small tank with all kinds of cool creatures. I love it.
Keeping to my motto of "Stock Hard and Stock Fast", I have added about 60 acros and another handful of fish.
3 Cleaner Wrasses
1 Rosy Fairy Wrasse
1 Exquisite Wrasse
1 Eight Line Wrasse
1 Helfrichi Fire Fish (paired up)
1 Brazilian Seahorse
1 Yellow Seahorse
I have a total of 9 clams
Man what a crazy few weeks!! I am on a tear! I love to push limits and I certainly have here. This will be an interesting experiment either way. Stay tuned. I won't hold anything back.
Speaking of full disclosure, my beautiful Grey Angel has been acting very erratically for the last two days. I am sure all the new fish and corals have encroached on his space and he is showing signs of stress. He otherwise looks healthy and is eating but he pretty much stays in the front of the aquarium and loves to stay in the right corner. When he is there he twitches and acts not his normal placid wonderful self. I moved some pieces out of the aquarium to help relieve his stress. I feel sure that he will adapt to his new surroundings sooner than later. This fish had lived in a 90 gallon for the last 8 months and lived through a few negative events. He is very hearty.
However, his stress is being felt by the other fish. The Moorish Idol is his best friend ands they usually swim side by side throughout the tank. Now he is solo. I can detect some displeasure and confusion in the MI. This makes him react a little more aggressively towards the smaller fish and you can tell they are a little more erratic in their behavior. Most all of the fish are eating well, so I hope this will pass soon.
The Blonde naso has had some crypto spots that have morphed into something less uniform in shape. I am not sure what it is. A few of the other fish have a few spots of Ich. But there has not been a full blown outbreak. The hippo, the Labouti's Fairy wrasse, the purple tang all have one or two spots of ich. Not very unusual.
I don't treat for diseases nor do I quarantine. I believe both are way too stressful on all the inhabitants. The best course of action is to allow their own immune system to fight off the parasites or disease. I feed spectrum pellets soaked in garlic extreme and I feed some frozen food soaked in garlic as well as selcon once or twice a week. I feed live brine and ghost shrimp once a month. I focus on good water quality, UV and ozone to combat illness.
This protocol has been far superior than other methods discussed ad infintum on RC. Remember also that there is the stress of the owner, ME, to think about as well. If I were to get stressed out or overworked and my wife came home with rock all over the place trying to catch a fish and coral all over the place and another fish tank somewhere and me trying to keep the water quality and bio filter going, etc. etc. Then I would have been out of the hobby by now.
Sometimes, Rarely
, but sometimes, LESS IS MORE!!!
Some Fish & Sea Horses!!!
The seahorse lives in the refugium and eats glass shrimp and fortified live brine.
My refugium is really a second small tank with all kinds of cool creatures. I love it.
Keeping to my motto of "Stock Hard and Stock Fast", I have added about 60 acros and another handful of fish.
3 Cleaner Wrasses
1 Rosy Fairy Wrasse
1 Exquisite Wrasse
1 Eight Line Wrasse
1 Helfrichi Fire Fish (paired up)
1 Brazilian Seahorse
1 Yellow Seahorse
I have a total of 9 clams
Man what a crazy few weeks!! I am on a tear! I love to push limits and I certainly have here. This will be an interesting experiment either way. Stay tuned. I won't hold anything back.
Speaking of full disclosure, my beautiful Grey Angel has been acting very erratically for the last two days. I am sure all the new fish and corals have encroached on his space and he is showing signs of stress. He otherwise looks healthy and is eating but he pretty much stays in the front of the aquarium and loves to stay in the right corner. When he is there he twitches and acts not his normal placid wonderful self. I moved some pieces out of the aquarium to help relieve his stress. I feel sure that he will adapt to his new surroundings sooner than later. This fish had lived in a 90 gallon for the last 8 months and lived through a few negative events. He is very hearty.
However, his stress is being felt by the other fish. The Moorish Idol is his best friend ands they usually swim side by side throughout the tank. Now he is solo. I can detect some displeasure and confusion in the MI. This makes him react a little more aggressively towards the smaller fish and you can tell they are a little more erratic in their behavior. Most all of the fish are eating well, so I hope this will pass soon.
The Blonde naso has had some crypto spots that have morphed into something less uniform in shape. I am not sure what it is. A few of the other fish have a few spots of Ich. But there has not been a full blown outbreak. The hippo, the Labouti's Fairy wrasse, the purple tang all have one or two spots of ich. Not very unusual.
I don't treat for diseases nor do I quarantine. I believe both are way too stressful on all the inhabitants. The best course of action is to allow their own immune system to fight off the parasites or disease. I feed spectrum pellets soaked in garlic extreme and I feed some frozen food soaked in garlic as well as selcon once or twice a week. I feed live brine and ghost shrimp once a month. I focus on good water quality, UV and ozone to combat illness.
This protocol has been far superior than other methods discussed ad infintum on RC. Remember also that there is the stress of the owner, ME, to think about as well. If I were to get stressed out or overworked and my wife came home with rock all over the place trying to catch a fish and coral all over the place and another fish tank somewhere and me trying to keep the water quality and bio filter going, etc. etc. Then I would have been out of the hobby by now.
Sometimes, Rarely
, but sometimes, LESS IS MORE!!!
