TexChuck's 32g BC
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TOOMANYFISH
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Looking good , now you can get some light demanding corals
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Found these guys at the LFS. They had paired up, as you can see !! I've been looking for 1 for a while...
I got them home, drip acclimated and in. They swam a bit and promptly disappears into the rockwork.
I fed some mysis and marine cuisine last night and didn't see them, and a small amount of elos pellets this morning, still didn't see 'em. Hopefully they'll come out soon and get some food !
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I got them home, drip acclimated and in. They swam a bit and promptly disappears into the rockwork.
I fed some mysis and marine cuisine last night and didn't see them, and a small amount of elos pellets this morning, still didn't see 'em. Hopefully they'll come out soon and get some food !
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TOOMANYFISH
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Nice additions
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Thank you !!!! I love the yasha as well. One has been coming out and hanging out between the sand and glass, but the other is hanging out under the rockwork.
I've read you should feed twice a day, so I've been target feeding with frozen mysis and a turkey baster. The clowns don't let anything get low enough in the tank.
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I've read you should feed twice a day, so I've been target feeding with frozen mysis and a turkey baster. The clowns don't let anything get low enough in the tank.
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Hi All!
Haven't updated in a long time. I went to a local frag meet, met some local reefers, and went 'off grid' a bit with the hobby. An update is long past due. Also, thanks to everyone who provided me assistance and encouragement along the way! Here's my current stocking, with pics below.
Fish:
Bonded pair wild caught true percula, -- they've gender identified now and the female is growing
Bonded pair yasha goby
Inverts:
Cleaner shrimp (first inhabitant!)
Peppermint shrimp
Red banded snapping shrimp (alpheus randalli, bonded with yasha)
Fighting conch
Royal urchin
Trochus snails
???? Snails (breeding like crazy)
TONS of brittle stars
Huge bristleworms
No crabs
Corals:
Soft:
Brown mushroom
Florida Ricordia
Green Star Polyp (back wall)
Zoa's
Orange (unspecified)
Electric oompa loompah
Scrambled eggs
Blue hornet
Laser lemon
Utter chaos
Tiger eye
Pinwheel
LPS:
Hammer Coral
Frogspwn
SPS
Wildfire digitata
Green digitata
Ora German blue digitata
Ora purple plasma acropora
Ora tricolor velera
Montipora setosa (orange/pink)
Red Montipora cap
Mystic montipora
Birdsnest - Ora green ponape
I think that's it.
I dosed with azythromyacin once because of an insane cyano breakout. Took my skimmer offline for a month or two, but I got it dialed back in.
Only dosing is kalkwasser in my ato resovoir.
Current readings:
1.026 salinity
7 kh (monitoring - had carbonate precipitate out in a jug of lfs bought water)
400 ca
1400 mg
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Haven't updated in a long time. I went to a local frag meet, met some local reefers, and went 'off grid' a bit with the hobby. An update is long past due. Also, thanks to everyone who provided me assistance and encouragement along the way! Here's my current stocking, with pics below.
Fish:
Bonded pair wild caught true percula, -- they've gender identified now and the female is growing
Bonded pair yasha goby
Inverts:
Cleaner shrimp (first inhabitant!)
Peppermint shrimp
Red banded snapping shrimp (alpheus randalli, bonded with yasha)
Fighting conch
Royal urchin
Trochus snails
???? Snails (breeding like crazy)
TONS of brittle stars
Huge bristleworms
No crabs
Corals:
Soft:
Brown mushroom
Florida Ricordia
Green Star Polyp (back wall)
Zoa's
Orange (unspecified)
Electric oompa loompah
Scrambled eggs
Blue hornet
Laser lemon
Utter chaos
Tiger eye
Pinwheel
LPS:
Hammer Coral
Frogspwn
SPS
Wildfire digitata
Green digitata
Ora German blue digitata
Ora purple plasma acropora
Ora tricolor velera
Montipora setosa (orange/pink)
Red Montipora cap
Mystic montipora
Birdsnest - Ora green ponape
I think that's it.
I dosed with azythromyacin once because of an insane cyano breakout. Took my skimmer offline for a month or two, but I got it dialed back in.
Only dosing is kalkwasser in my ato resovoir.
Current readings:
1.026 salinity
7 kh (monitoring - had carbonate precipitate out in a jug of lfs bought water)
400 ca
1400 mg
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I'm considering the next fish or two. Right now my lists includes these fish ... anything else you guys think I should look at? I would only add 1-3 more.
Tailspot Blenny
Helfrichi Firefish
Yellowhead Jawfish
Banggai Cardinal
Royal Gramma
Other small gobies? Keep the rock/passive fish theme.
Any other fun symbiotic relationships I can highlight like the goby+shrimp group? I don't want the headache of a nem...
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Tailspot Blenny
Helfrichi Firefish
Yellowhead Jawfish
Banggai Cardinal
Royal Gramma
Other small gobies? Keep the rock/passive fish theme.
Any other fun symbiotic relationships I can highlight like the goby+shrimp group? I don't want the headache of a nem...
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New addition! Twin Spot Goby.
Upon much deeper research, I recognize this is a very difficult fish and not the simple sand sifting goby I thought I was getting. I seem to have made a mistake, and now must make the best of it. I think I'm up to the challenge. If not I have an exit plan.
So here's the plan: tonight when I fed, I dusted the sand bed with a mix of reef roids and coral delite; sharing much of the natural plankton food of the goby. I also fed a mix of frozen pe mysis, omega brine and cyclops. The goby took some brine and has been sifting the sand.
I'm going to feed twice a day, and make sure the sandbed is full of goodies, a regular mix of the above. I'll spot feed the two spot brine - I do this already with my yasha.
I took a lot of pictures, and if he starts to shrink/starve or doesn't get fat soon, he's moving to my friend's 600 with 28 square feet of sandbed.
Best pic I have - sorry for the dirty glass.
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Upon much deeper research, I recognize this is a very difficult fish and not the simple sand sifting goby I thought I was getting. I seem to have made a mistake, and now must make the best of it. I think I'm up to the challenge. If not I have an exit plan.
So here's the plan: tonight when I fed, I dusted the sand bed with a mix of reef roids and coral delite; sharing much of the natural plankton food of the goby. I also fed a mix of frozen pe mysis, omega brine and cyclops. The goby took some brine and has been sifting the sand.
I'm going to feed twice a day, and make sure the sandbed is full of goodies, a regular mix of the above. I'll spot feed the two spot brine - I do this already with my yasha.
I took a lot of pictures, and if he starts to shrink/starve or doesn't get fat soon, he's moving to my friend's 600 with 28 square feet of sandbed.
Best pic I have - sorry for the dirty glass.
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TOOMANYFISH
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Grama is very territorial for a small fish lol and the jaw fish will need a lot of sand to sift. He'll also cover everything in your tank with the sand
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TOOMANYFISH
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Your tank is looking awesome [emoji1303]
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JVan82
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I have a royal gramma, had 0 territorial issues from him. I have 1 clown and the Mandarin, his and the gramma, usually hangout under the same rock at night. Only behavior I was surprised by was his excavation. He moved a lot of sand under my rock to make himself a lil home.
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Thanks for that - I didn't now the Gramma were diggers.
I'm in north Dallas
Closest LFS is Apex, and I go to Fish Gallery too... I'd say I've spent the most time at DNA. You?
