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That is what I am hoping. Also from Big E's suggestion I am going to feed more natural food and make my own food mix with a ton of different seafood
My minimalistic 180g SPS tank
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That is what I am hoping. Also from Big E's suggestion I am going to feed more natural food and make my own food mix with a ton of different seafood
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One month progress which I thought was pretty good.
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So I really want a sohal tang or an achilles tang but I am worried with the other tangs I have.
What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?
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Good colour and growth progression in that first post.
looking good.
Sohals are pretty tough tangs and hair trigger temper. They tend to like to rule the roost.
Achilles, too. Not to mention their propensity to getting and dying from ich..
You probably have a better chance of adding the sohal without problems because of how tough they can be. Even with good qt, the stress of adding an Achilles to a tank with established range may kill it.... BUT maybe not... I'm presenting worst case scenarios here.
Both stunning 'I wish I had one' fish but often heartbreaking.
I had an Achilles for around a year. It was stunning but died in a nick outbreak along with my mitratus bfly last year..
looking good.
Sohals are pretty tough tangs and hair trigger temper. They tend to like to rule the roost.
Achilles, too. Not to mention their propensity to getting and dying from ich..
You probably have a better chance of adding the sohal without problems because of how tough they can be. Even with good qt, the stress of adding an Achilles to a tank with established range may kill it.... BUT maybe not... I'm presenting worst case scenarios here.
Both stunning 'I wish I had one' fish but often heartbreaking.
I had an Achilles for around a year. It was stunning but died in a nick outbreak along with my mitratus bfly last year..
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Yeah that makes. Unfort I never QT my fish either so I dont want an ich break out from one either. I would buy it locally so I would know whats going on with it. The sohal is my favorite tang probably or the white tail bristle tooth but I already have a kole so I dont wanna another. The sohal I feel will fight with the powder blue tang I feel, same with the achilles will do the same thing. I have so much room in the tank for them all to swim around so I know they will be fine for now but I fear like 1-2 years from now when they grow. I mean I have the other tank if something bad happens to move them there but idk. Dont wanna cause a fight.
Obviously have the normal chase around the tail thing but no biting
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well I made my own fish food tonight and I have a feeling that after a little bit of this. I am going to have no problems with my nitrates and phosphates being low anymore, we will see though.
Turned the whole tank cloudy and the fish were going NUTS for the bigger pieces and some of the corals had the best daytime PE I have seen in one long time.
In other news, my one clownfish died out of nowhere.
Turned the whole tank cloudy and the fish were going NUTS for the bigger pieces and some of the corals had the best daytime PE I have seen in one long time.
In other news, my one clownfish died out of nowhere.
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thinking about adding some more fish to get my nutrients up.
like 6-7 more chromis, another clownfish and probably a bluethroat trigger since it would be stupid for me to add an achilles unfortunately.
like 6-7 more chromis, another clownfish and probably a bluethroat trigger since it would be stupid for me to add an achilles unfortunately.
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I bought a pair of blue throat triggers and should be getting them tomorrow!
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Did you have a pair of clowns before? If so, and if you want them to pair up, I'd look at getting a juvenile one. This way the clown in your tank already can take over the female role. If you didn't have a pair before, well, just ignore this
Yeah I did have a pair, no idea what happened to the one besides seeing it stuck to my powerhead the one morning. I barely saw them because they were always in the anemones in the back of my tank but thanks for the suggestion.
I will definitely get a juvi once I get another clownfish.
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just got back from vacation yesterday and lost some corals due to the alk creeping above 8, it was closer to 9 when I try to keep it around 7.
Everything else is doing great, including the 2 new triggers. They still hide a lot but anytime I feed the tank or the auto feeder, they are out eating the food which is good to see.
I am still having a hard time of keeping the alk steady long term at like 2 weeks+ (going on all the vacations I have makes it pretty much impossible unless I thought somehow how to test the alk, etc)
I am not going on any other vacations anytime soon so hopefully I can keep everything stable at around:
7 Alk
420 Calc
P04 above 0.05
Nitrates within 4-8
I really liked when I was making my own fish food, I have to do that again. (just smells the house up for a couple hours ahah)
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Corals looked really good this morning with PE which was good to see. Still trying to keep alk stable around 7-7.5. Have to figure out the sweet spot dosing wise.
I also started up dosing FWS and coral
Booster again to see if that'll help color or accelerate growth. I also have aceopower being dosed once a day after lights out, only 10 ml. I did order Reef actif and I may start dosing that.
I also started up dosing FWS and coral
Booster again to see if that'll help color or accelerate growth. I also have aceopower being dosed once a day after lights out, only 10 ml. I did order Reef actif and I may start dosing that.
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