So I've been cycled for maybe 2 months or so. Tank (40G Nuvo) is stocked with 2 clowns, 2 Skunk cleaner shrimp (1 just added yesterday), 1 fire shrimp, 2 tiny cortez hermits, 3 scarlet hermits (no bigger than 1/2''), 5 Nassarius Snails, 3 Trochus snails, 1 fighting conch.
Corals: 1 duncan, 1 acan, 1 torch, 1 green mushroom, 1 ricordea mushroom, 1 discosoma mushroom and 1 gsp.
All my corals are looking great and have had noticiable growth (expecially the duncan, acan and ricordia which were my first 3 corals)
Ive lost 1 Nassarius and 1 Blue legged hermit (which were pretty much lethargic from day 1) and yesterday i lost a pepermint shrimp who was super tiny and couldn't compete with the other shrimp in the tank (she was super small but still seamed fine until i seen my big scarlet cleaner eating her last night...who knows what happen there)
water parameters have been great this whole time ammonia 0 of course, nitrite 0 and nitrates 10 (im a heavy feeder, its fun watching everyone eat)
This is what im impressed about, tonight is the first time i tested for cal, mag and alk
Cal 410
MG 1480
Alk 9.7
For a noob (first tank EVER) i feel like im killing it (knock on wood)
i have a yellow watchman gobie who gets out of TTM jail tomorrow, that I've been stressing on cause he hasn't been eating but now he's good, munchin on Hikari s pellets and frozen mysis for the past couple days.
I also have a tail spot blenny and a zebra stripe dart fish sitting in another QT waiting for my gobie to finish TTM so they can start the ttm process.
I also have a pistol shrimp chillen with the blenny and dart who is going to go in another QT tomorrow with the yellow WM for a couple weeks to let them mingle and fatten up before they go into the DT.
I want to give a HUGE thanks to all the people who have helped me along the way and i wanna empathize what everyone always says. GO SLOW, READ READ READ, RESEARCH and RESEARCH some more, ask a million questions and last but not least GO SLOW...
thanks again guys and gals
Corals: 1 duncan, 1 acan, 1 torch, 1 green mushroom, 1 ricordea mushroom, 1 discosoma mushroom and 1 gsp.
All my corals are looking great and have had noticiable growth (expecially the duncan, acan and ricordia which were my first 3 corals)
Ive lost 1 Nassarius and 1 Blue legged hermit (which were pretty much lethargic from day 1) and yesterday i lost a pepermint shrimp who was super tiny and couldn't compete with the other shrimp in the tank (she was super small but still seamed fine until i seen my big scarlet cleaner eating her last night...who knows what happen there)
water parameters have been great this whole time ammonia 0 of course, nitrite 0 and nitrates 10 (im a heavy feeder, its fun watching everyone eat)
This is what im impressed about, tonight is the first time i tested for cal, mag and alk
Cal 410
MG 1480
Alk 9.7
For a noob (first tank EVER) i feel like im killing it (knock on wood)
i have a yellow watchman gobie who gets out of TTM jail tomorrow, that I've been stressing on cause he hasn't been eating but now he's good, munchin on Hikari s pellets and frozen mysis for the past couple days.
I also have a tail spot blenny and a zebra stripe dart fish sitting in another QT waiting for my gobie to finish TTM so they can start the ttm process.
I also have a pistol shrimp chillen with the blenny and dart who is going to go in another QT tomorrow with the yellow WM for a couple weeks to let them mingle and fatten up before they go into the DT.
I want to give a HUGE thanks to all the people who have helped me along the way and i wanna empathize what everyone always says. GO SLOW, READ READ READ, RESEARCH and RESEARCH some more, ask a million questions and last but not least GO SLOW...
thanks again guys and gals
