SeaSerpants Dual Hills 20g ONE MONTH!!!

I would slow down for a bit now. I would also not add the skooter blennie for a while maybe a couple of months as they manly eat co-pod and such you should buy zoo plankton also for the corals spot feed with a turky baster or pipet. the corals will start taking off with spot feeding. looks like you have some lps which you should be adding Ca for they use it to build there skeliton corals like hammer, galixy, frogspawn coral. so you have digressed a bit away from softies only. But that is ok you can get away with doing regular water changes even softies do better with extra Ca in the tank.

Bill

[SeaSerpant]

Thanks Bvlester
I wasn't planning on putting the skooter blenny in for a while, but thanks for the heads up :thumbsup: If i do spot feed should i shut off all the powerheads and everything?
I am dosing Ultra Min s and Ultra Organic, will these be good enough?

Thanks Again
SeaSerpant
PS
Haven't seen the Yasha goby since i put it in... grrr

[karazy]

looking good.
i would put the elegance coral (the one on the far left) much closer to the light, as they require good lighting and over to the shaded side might not be the best for it.
dont worry about the yashia. they are known for hiding for long periods of time when first put into a tank.

[SeaSerpant]

Hey Karazy,
Thanks for the input, i do understand that they need good light but they are also aggressive in that they can really pack a punch with their stings. I will definitely move it if i see any problems with its growth!

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SeaSerpant

I do my spot feeding about 1 hour after lights out as I have a candy cane and a trumpet which feed in the dark they have little tenticals they extend after dark for feeding. My self I do not turn off my power heads but I do know people that do and thier carals may grow a bit faster than mine. The way I see it in the wild the ocean does not spot moving so I don't stop mine either.

Ultra Min s and Ultra Organic should be ok it is just a preferance as to what product you use. I spot feed zoo plankton and rotifers the rest of the food and nutrence the corals get for what is in the tank already and left over food from feeding.

Bill

[SeaSerpant]

Thanks Bvlester,
Does spot feeding enhance good growth or just keeps the coral healthy, or both? Lol, i guess it should be kind of obvious but i just don't know

Just a quick update for today, I saw my little yasha goby come out from inbetween the rocks i tried to snap a quick pic but it was blurry. I hope this little goby doesn't turn out to be shy, but just as outgoing as all the others!!!
And the clowns are doing good, they like swimming across the top and going down to have a nice little dive, is this normal??? One of them is also doing a nice spasm dance for the other to show dominance... how nice?
Thanks
SeaSerpant

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by SeaSerpant

Thanks Bvlester,
Does spot feeding enhance good growth or just keeps the coral healthy, or both? Lol, i guess it should be kind of obvious but i just don't know

Just a quick update for today, I saw my little yasha goby come out from inbetween the rocks i tried to snap a quick pic but it was blurry. I hope this little goby doesn't turn out to be shy, but just as outgoing as all the others!!!
And the clowns are doing good, they like swimming across the top and going down to have a nice little dive, is this normal??? One of them is also doing a nice spasm dance for the other to show dominance... how nice?
Thanks
SeaSerpant

people spot feed to ensure that the coral is getting fed in the wild the lps use there tenticles to grab food from the ocean, however the ocean has a lot of huge food to feed the corals, our tanks dont that is why we spot feed. If you dont mind taking some advice if you can split the rock and have the elegance coral in the middle to grab the direct light and food in the middle.

THe Mh light try having it hook on the side then you can have direct light over the tank. or try running 2 smaller ones one on each side and the light in the middle. other then that , the tank is going slick........


blood shrimp are a great add to a tank like the smaller ones 2 blood shrimp
well done

asmodeus you beet me to the punch with your explination thank you.

SeaSerpant your tank is looking nice.

Bill

[SeaSerpant]

Asmodeus
I tried both your ideas, when i move the MH to the side then the lid won't fit on and then i tried parting the 2 live rock mounds and then the scaping kind of looked crappy... not to mention i burnt myself on the MH lol

Would just switching the galaxy and the elegance work too?

I could rearrange everything even though i am fairly happy with the scape!... would i have to take all the corals and fish out and put them in a sepperate bucket to rescape??? or should i just not rescape?

Thanks for the comments guys, i can't wait till everything grows out! but i guess i have to!!!

EDIT: I have a different filter (fluval) that will enable me to center the light! Hurray hurrah!!! AND if i do get rid of my geckos i can put another one of the same lights on the other side!!!

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SeaSerpant

[SeaSerpant]

ONE MONTH CELEBRATION

It's been just a day over a month so to celebrate i'm going to do what i normally do in updates! Update!
I have recently bought a remora nano skimmer to replace the HOB filter. It is still in the break in period and it's fairly noisy! I did notice an overturned astrea snail and it was empty... oops, and it looks like one of the hermits got attacked and eaten as it's shell too, was empty...

On the good hand, i bought a fire shrimp, a blue neon goby and a red scooter blenny. The "blenny" will eat some certain type of mysis but i am going to buy some extra pods and some other things for it. But for now it is feeding on all the pods in my tank. I know it wasn't very smart to put it in now, but it is doing good and when something does go bad, you can say, i told you so!

I also bought a rock, which i wanted for the pistol shrimp in it. In the rock was actually 2 pistol shrimp and almost a 1/2 foot long bristleworm! Currently one pistol shrimp has paired up with my yasha goby and the other... well i don't know whats happened to it!

I've rescaped, not majorly, but it looks much nicer to me! It wasn't very hard to do so i hope it caused minimal stress to the fish!

Fish/inverts
2 clowns
Blue Neon Goby
Red Scooter Blenny
Yasha Goby
2 Pistol Shrimp
Fire Shrimp
Peppermint shrimp

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SeaSerpant