My very first SW tank

[Chipie]

Hi thanks for the input. The Yellow tail Damsel and the Clown seem to be getting along. I'm getting a little bit of hair algea on the front glass but not much. Also i'm getting Coraline algea on the back, the glass and on some seashells i have in there for the hermits. Is getting coraline a good or bad sign?

I've got a lot of little things crawling the LR at night. Like tiny grayish shrimps. Don't know what they are.
Also found a few snails that only come out at night. They are small also.

And there's something either in the sand or in the LR that extend some kind of tentacles. (long, bright red and thinner that a hair)
Any idea what it is. Unfortunatly i don't have a good macro lense needed to photograph tiny things.

Oh i almost forgot, there's some tubes coming out of the rock with the zoos that have something coming out of it. Look like a little head with two antennas. What could this be.

I'm sure they are all common things but being a total noob. I have no idea.
Thanks

[MikeP]

Originally Posted by Chipie

Hi thanks for the input. The Yellow tail Damsel and the Clown seem to be getting along. I'm getting a little bit of hair algea on the front glass but not much. Also i'm getting Coraline algea on the back, the glass and on some seashells i have in there for the hermits. Is getting coraline a good or bad sign?

I've got a lot of little things crawling the LR at night. Like tiny grayish shrimps. Don't know what they are.
Also found a few snails that only come out at night. They are small also.

And there's something either in the sand or in the LR that extend some kind of tentacles. (long, bright red and thinner that a hair)
Any idea what it is. Unfortunatly i don't have a good macro lense needed to photograph tiny things.

Oh i almost forgot, there's some tubes coming out of the rock with the zoos that have something coming out of it. Look like a little head with two antennas. What could this be.

I'm sure they are all common things but being a total noob. I have no idea.
Thanks

Tank looks good the little grayish shrimps are 'pods' and they are good the little head with antennas sounds like a vermetid snail, not really bad to have but they can irritate some corals with the mucus (stringy web looking thing) that they spit out and reel in (that's how they eat) you should probably get rid of the damsel, he will likely turn to the dark side and beat up your clown (mine did). By the way where are you located? And welcome to Canreef

[Matty]

I had the same damsels with my Clown and they ticked me off only because that they stayed in the live rock all the time.. except for feeding time The damsels and the clown never bothered each other. Though I may have had "ideal" conditions for that as my clown was not hosting.. and I had them in a bigger tank.

[Drock169]

My concerns are the same as some of the others, Clown and damsel in a small area, I would get rid of one of them and replace with another small fish (possibly a goby). You need to remember that the biocubes arent true to the size they say, even though it says its an 8 gallon, the volume is much less than that. Also LPS in a biocube with stocking lighting is not the greatest idea, it will survive but not thrive unless you upgrade the lighting. These are just some of the things I've noticed also being a biocube owner.

[Chaloupa]

Tank is cute! I also would get rid of the yellow tail and replace with a "nicer" personality fish...too small an area for them and a clown.

I have 3 biocubes....I have had LPS corals in all of them at one time or another and they thrived....the softies of course do even better...but I have had hammers, frogspawn, and candycane in mine that did well.... nice job, especially for your first tank!