Help me God
Help me God
I am a complete newbie, I read the forum and visited a couple of fishstores .
I have 2 FW tanks with tropical fish and cichlids. I like testing water and PWC. I don't eat until my fish eats.
I am very happy since I got fish. Seriously, happier than I ever remember.
Usually I'm quite down during the darker months.
But I was getting envious of corals, the movements of SW fish, and especially their personalities (not colors).
I feel bad that I'm betraying my FW fish.
But I bought a 20g Nano SW tank with 2 Tomato Clowns and a lot of live rock on CL. It has some polyps and of course to me it looked all amazing, compared to my simple plants in FW:headwally:
So I transported that thing 39 miles 1 way. in my car.no water loss w/3 buckets. It looked scary ; I remembered the crab and stopped rearranging the sand in the mud w/my bare hands. asked hubby to keep the flashlight on the crabs so I won't crush him.
I couldn't see the rocks, let alone fish, that I was putting there b/c of the dirt at 7pm and at 2am is was clear. I went to sleep happy.
Now 3 days after the move the emerald crab dies, I think it wasn't the molt.
I drop everything, pick my 4 yo and go to LFS to get water for the 5g PWC.
My skimmer is full of foam too- not good news.
I did rearranged the rocks with many hiding places which Clowns divided immediately, but I don't hold hope for the crab.
It has been ok since then,but I haven't seen the crab for 4 days... how did I kill him? I tested ammonia 0. I need to buy API test for marine.
I added all the Kent's additives today as Sat will be a week since I own the tank.
Please, don't think that I'm a moron, I am very excited and love to learn.
I knew there are some critters in SW tanks, but I didn't expect such a variety and didn't even think of a possibility of them being poisonous or stinging me.
I always put my hands in water b/c I like it (I like planting without gloves too), now I will wear gloves.
Also I will forgo anemones and Zoas no matter how pretty as I have kids.
I realized that I am in for quite a eye-opening experience.
I have 1 question : there are some black moldy spots appeared on 1 of the rocks, pea-sized the most. I looked at 1 under 20xmagnification, it looks like a few dark brown snails/shells. It dried up fast in my pocket (I know...)
WTH is that as I scraped it of with my nail?
I have 2 Turbo snails for 2 days now, but it takes longer for the eggs to hatch and they have been exclusively on glass. 1 is active,another doesn't like to be touched- goes immobile for hours.
I have a very good eye when it comes to animals/bugs (so bad I am that I could never see the mushrooms in the forest, only critters), I notice all the changes,so I hope I'll catch the problems at the very start.
I clean the glass inside daily. I topped off water twice w/RO FW in a week.
What else should I do?
Is this new growth dangerous for corals/polyps/fish? :worried:
Also I was told to use daylight T5 for 3 hrs max or I'll have green algae.
Tested one day- got algae, scrubbed off. I don't freak out, I act.
Now I think 3 hrs is low-light conditions, shouldn't it be 7-8 hrs? :hmm4:
I still hope to get Blue mushroom to grow as they should be OK with low light.
I don't need anything fancy, I want something that will work in my setup.
Anything that looks like coral is fine with me. anything alive will work.
I need QT as well, have an empty 15g.
I love this hobby - no time to shop for clothes and toys for kids-
hauling buckets of water and testing and scrubbing; actually should
save our family some money. who could have thought...but I'm happy.
Thank you for your help.
Help me God
I am a complete newbie, I read the forum and visited a couple of fishstores .
I have 2 FW tanks with tropical fish and cichlids. I like testing water and PWC. I don't eat until my fish eats.
I am very happy since I got fish. Seriously, happier than I ever remember.
Usually I'm quite down during the darker months.
But I was getting envious of corals, the movements of SW fish, and especially their personalities (not colors).
I feel bad that I'm betraying my FW fish.
But I bought a 20g Nano SW tank with 2 Tomato Clowns and a lot of live rock on CL. It has some polyps and of course to me it looked all amazing, compared to my simple plants in FW:headwally:
So I transported that thing 39 miles 1 way. in my car.no water loss w/3 buckets. It looked scary ; I remembered the crab and stopped rearranging the sand in the mud w/my bare hands. asked hubby to keep the flashlight on the crabs so I won't crush him.
I couldn't see the rocks, let alone fish, that I was putting there b/c of the dirt at 7pm and at 2am is was clear. I went to sleep happy.
Now 3 days after the move the emerald crab dies, I think it wasn't the molt.
I drop everything, pick my 4 yo and go to LFS to get water for the 5g PWC.
My skimmer is full of foam too- not good news.
I did rearranged the rocks with many hiding places which Clowns divided immediately, but I don't hold hope for the crab.
It has been ok since then,but I haven't seen the crab for 4 days... how did I kill him? I tested ammonia 0. I need to buy API test for marine.
I added all the Kent's additives today as Sat will be a week since I own the tank.
Please, don't think that I'm a moron, I am very excited and love to learn.
I knew there are some critters in SW tanks, but I didn't expect such a variety and didn't even think of a possibility of them being poisonous or stinging me.
I always put my hands in water b/c I like it (I like planting without gloves too), now I will wear gloves.
Also I will forgo anemones and Zoas no matter how pretty as I have kids.
I realized that I am in for quite a eye-opening experience.
I have 1 question : there are some black moldy spots appeared on 1 of the rocks, pea-sized the most. I looked at 1 under 20xmagnification, it looks like a few dark brown snails/shells. It dried up fast in my pocket (I know...)
WTH is that as I scraped it of with my nail?
I have 2 Turbo snails for 2 days now, but it takes longer for the eggs to hatch and they have been exclusively on glass. 1 is active,another doesn't like to be touched- goes immobile for hours.
I have a very good eye when it comes to animals/bugs (so bad I am that I could never see the mushrooms in the forest, only critters), I notice all the changes,so I hope I'll catch the problems at the very start.
I clean the glass inside daily. I topped off water twice w/RO FW in a week.
What else should I do?
Is this new growth dangerous for corals/polyps/fish? :worried:
Also I was told to use daylight T5 for 3 hrs max or I'll have green algae.
Tested one day- got algae, scrubbed off. I don't freak out, I act.
Now I think 3 hrs is low-light conditions, shouldn't it be 7-8 hrs? :hmm4:
I still hope to get Blue mushroom to grow as they should be OK with low light.
I don't need anything fancy, I want something that will work in my setup.
Anything that looks like coral is fine with me. anything alive will work.
I need QT as well, have an empty 15g.
I love this hobby - no time to shop for clothes and toys for kids-
hauling buckets of water and testing and scrubbing; actually should
save our family some money. who could have thought...but I'm happy.
Thank you for your help.
