Eb0la11's 165G Reef Tank Build - Page 9

Eb0la11 · #81 09-30-2009, 06:22 AM

Hmmmm, Im hearing more and more clicking as the days go on. Probably 50 clicks tonight in groups of 6-8 at a time usually.

I am shocked at this turn of events cause it was no where to be heard for the first month the tank was up. Do mantis shrimp have the ability to make that clicking noise at an infant stage?

Can someone enlighten me on what kind of Mantis Shrimp I may be up against?

fishytime · #82 09-30-2009, 03:41 PM

Just a thought.....I had a hermit that loved trying to climb up the silicone in the corners of the tank. He would try for hours, sometime making a series of clicks as his shell kept hitting the glass.

Eb0la11 · #83 09-30-2009, 07:01 PM

Hmmmm, I was looking at the tank last night for a good thirty minutes and cant see anything making a movement to go along with the clicks :/

I might isolate the rocks I anticipate it inhabiting one at a time into the refug until I can hear the clicks from in there, then I'll get him out. I think theres only 5-6 rocks it could be coming from.

Eb0la11 · #84 10-01-2009, 10:55 PM

Well, I got my eel to eat today which is awesome. So it looks like things are still going very well in my tank. Havent heard as much clicking lately but we'll see if it persists.

On a sad note, my Frontosa in my FW tank died and I have no understanding why. He was only maybe 2 years old and looked very healthy and everything else in the tank is healthy as well. I removed several fish over the weekend to sell at the auction but that should only make his life better but I can only really think that this might have had an effect on him. They werent even the same species of fish...

fishytime · #85 10-01-2009, 11:02 PM

aw...sorry to hear....always loved fronts.....stress is stress....whether you were trying to catch the front or not perhaps the stress was too much?

Eb0la11 · #86 10-02-2009, 06:51 AM

Yeah its possible. I was shocked to be honest. I didnt see anything wrong with him really at all leading up to this. He was an unbelievable one too. So much nicer than the ones in the store. I think he was a Zaire one. My FW tank looks so much less crowded now. I might have to add a fish after I know things are back in order with it.

Eb0la11 · #87 10-10-2009, 07:47 PM

Ok, time for another update.

We've had some really cool things develop in our tank and one really horrible thing that happened.

I'll start with the bad. Our eel decided to commit suicide a week ago. I havent posted much in the last week because I was so ashamed that I even let this happen. We got the little guy and he was doing awesome. Swimming well, found a nice home in one of our rocks, was coming out quite regularly, we got him to eat nice and early and then we found him on the floor dried up.

We had a decent lid covering the tank, but he managed to evade it and escape through the overflow chamber which has an eggcrate screen in front and was make-shift covered until we could get a proper lid.

Because of that we've decided to slow down just a bit and sort everything else out before we keep buying livestock.

Since then we've been setting up the rest of the tank. We finally got a new circuit run from the breaker, a 20A one, and now we're getting the fuge going and our full light spectrum is now in effect instead of just half of them.

We have a deep sand bed of about 5" in our fuge that I seeded today from the sand in our DT. I'll also put in a couple choice pieces of live rock to help seed and then maybe in 4-5 more months we can get a mandarin once the fuge becomes a copepod factory.

Next we're going to get our auto top off working and figure out this skimmer that only wants to leak.

Once we have all systems going 100% we'll likely make a lid that is custom made for the tank that no eel will ever be able to escape from and we'll be looking for another.

Outside of that we have added three more fish. A blue tang and two blue/green chromis. We also bought two more pieces of live rock and a pulsing xenia coral that seems to be a 3 for 1 as we also have a new patch of about 6-7 quite small zoas on it and another coral I have yet to identify.

Next up, Im looking for some Chaeto for the fuge. Anyone willing to donate some of their weekly/bi weekly harvest?