Been sick with a major stomach bug all weekend, anyone got any sympathy for me? I couldn't even get out of bed to take care of my tanks and the useless hubby wouldn't feed them. Bah
Anyway, Friday night, I found a guy selling off the insides of his nano tank so he could convert to FW. Picked up 30+ pounds of LR, a cleaner shrimp, a dozen or so hermits, 3 or 4 snails, 3 emerald crabs, 4 or 5 small feather dusters, pair of Sebae clowns, 1 sixspot goby & one fire dartfish. I considered taking the clowns and the sixspot in to my LFS but then I got sick and wasn't up to doing much of anything, so they had to go in my tank as it didn't seem a good idea to leave them in a bucket all weekend. (really need to get my qt set up, and I have it here now, but like I said, I literally couldn't get out of bed until a few hours ago.)
Anyway, my nitrates are a bit high at the moment, which I think really just has to do with moving the live sand bad from the 1 year old tank it was in and putting it into our tank. I'm using Amquel+ right now because we are going to go buy water to do the next water change and my husband didn't do it because he's helpless without me. The fish all seem to be doing great though.
Fish I had first are:
1 Foxface
1 orange spotted sleeper
pair of gold headed sleepers
I was hoping to add some or any of the following:
green or yellow clown goby
fire or coral beauty angel
six line wrasse
spotted cardinalfish
Royal Gramma
yellowtail damsel
Ocellaris pair
My questions are:
a. should I fish out the clowns and take them in the first chance I get? I know it'll be nearly impossible to get them, but I THINK I could maybe catch the clowns as they're out and about a lot more than any of the others. And they get so big, I know they'll limit the other fish I can have in the future.
b. what about the six spot goby? Again, probably impossible to catch, but is he going to be okay with my other gobies? So far, he seems to have chosen a spot on the bottom left of the tank and the orange spotted is on the bottom right. The gold headed pair are all over the place and have a burrow in the bottom center.
c. Am I going to be able to add any of the fish on my wishlist to these or am I stuck here until I can catch the above?
d. What do you feed your tank? I've got marine flakes, marine pellets, seaweed sheets, and frozen marine cuisine carnivore food. I've also been giving them frozen baby brine, frozen spirulina brine, and frozen krill. And a few frozen bloodworms out of curiosity, which they LOVED. I'm thinking of getting some marine snow, what do you all think of that, or is there a type you recommend? I have pods in the tank and I plan to add more soon.
d1. I've got the feather dusters and several mushrooms that came on a rock, so I want to make sure they're getting fed too, what should I be doing?
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Anyway, Friday night, I found a guy selling off the insides of his nano tank so he could convert to FW. Picked up 30+ pounds of LR, a cleaner shrimp, a dozen or so hermits, 3 or 4 snails, 3 emerald crabs, 4 or 5 small feather dusters, pair of Sebae clowns, 1 sixspot goby & one fire dartfish. I considered taking the clowns and the sixspot in to my LFS but then I got sick and wasn't up to doing much of anything, so they had to go in my tank as it didn't seem a good idea to leave them in a bucket all weekend. (really need to get my qt set up, and I have it here now, but like I said, I literally couldn't get out of bed until a few hours ago.)
Anyway, my nitrates are a bit high at the moment, which I think really just has to do with moving the live sand bad from the 1 year old tank it was in and putting it into our tank. I'm using Amquel+ right now because we are going to go buy water to do the next water change and my husband didn't do it because he's helpless without me. The fish all seem to be doing great though.
Fish I had first are:
1 Foxface
1 orange spotted sleeper
pair of gold headed sleepers
I was hoping to add some or any of the following:
green or yellow clown goby
fire or coral beauty angel
six line wrasse
spotted cardinalfish
Royal Gramma
yellowtail damsel
Ocellaris pair
My questions are:
a. should I fish out the clowns and take them in the first chance I get? I know it'll be nearly impossible to get them, but I THINK I could maybe catch the clowns as they're out and about a lot more than any of the others. And they get so big, I know they'll limit the other fish I can have in the future.
b. what about the six spot goby? Again, probably impossible to catch, but is he going to be okay with my other gobies? So far, he seems to have chosen a spot on the bottom left of the tank and the orange spotted is on the bottom right. The gold headed pair are all over the place and have a burrow in the bottom center.
c. Am I going to be able to add any of the fish on my wishlist to these or am I stuck here until I can catch the above?
d. What do you feed your tank? I've got marine flakes, marine pellets, seaweed sheets, and frozen marine cuisine carnivore food. I've also been giving them frozen baby brine, frozen spirulina brine, and frozen krill. And a few frozen bloodworms out of curiosity, which they LOVED. I'm thinking of getting some marine snow, what do you all think of that, or is there a type you recommend? I have pods in the tank and I plan to add more soon.
d1. I've got the feather dusters and several mushrooms that came on a rock, so I want to make sure they're getting fed too, what should I be doing?
The link in my signature will take you to my photo diary, which I'll update soon!
