As I was looking along the empty tanks in Pet City today, I stumbled upon this skinny guy that seems to be under fed.
After doing some extensive reading about them and their diets, I decided to bring him to a better home. Once he stayed in the bag for about an hour, I released him to the tank. He stayed at the bottom around the seashell for about an hour or so, then began fluttering around and eating some. So I threw in some frozen cyclops that I had, and he immediately began to picking the sand like a hog!
Also I heard they are good at eating worms and pods, so thanks to Mike, I have a tank full of pods and worms that came from the live rock that he gave me this weekend! Not to mention, he also gave me some prilifera to try and reduce some of the nitrates as well. We built a temp stand for the tank as of now, and I have a 30Gal fuge I am going to be building to add some chaeto and live rock to also reduce some nitrates and build up my pods for future anoroxic captures.
I've still got a long way to go before corals, so I believe my next purchase will be some better lighting than these 50/50 fluorescents I am running now. The rock looks like a pile of rubble for now, but it does the job until I can get bigger pieces to build a nice looking reef. Here's a shot of the tank now:
My PH is looking good and so is the nitrite. I am going to get a Phosphate test kit next to see how that is doing.
After doing some extensive reading about them and their diets, I decided to bring him to a better home. Once he stayed in the bag for about an hour, I released him to the tank. He stayed at the bottom around the seashell for about an hour or so, then began fluttering around and eating some. So I threw in some frozen cyclops that I had, and he immediately began to picking the sand like a hog!
Also I heard they are good at eating worms and pods, so thanks to Mike, I have a tank full of pods and worms that came from the live rock that he gave me this weekend! Not to mention, he also gave me some prilifera to try and reduce some of the nitrates as well. We built a temp stand for the tank as of now, and I have a 30Gal fuge I am going to be building to add some chaeto and live rock to also reduce some nitrates and build up my pods for future anoroxic captures.
I've still got a long way to go before corals, so I believe my next purchase will be some better lighting than these 50/50 fluorescents I am running now. The rock looks like a pile of rubble for now, but it does the job until I can get bigger pieces to build a nice looking reef. Here's a shot of the tank now:
My PH is looking good and so is the nitrite. I am going to get a Phosphate test kit next to see how that is doing.
