yea....i need to get a lid over my sump..or he will prob jump out..even though there is a good 2 inches between the water level and the tank rim... as for the snails, the hermit crab attacked them while they were snailing around on the sandbed....and he jumped on em....thats what caused their death....
i had the puffer die in there a while back....never contaminated anything tho...i did testing yesterday and everything was up to par....so nothing is wrong w. the water....
yea...i had like 1 little hermit in there...tht was all....i took out my bumblebee snail cause i knew he was still alive and i wanted him in my display....so hopefully he can get a lil bigger than what he is now...... as for feeding mr. MHC. lol ill throw some food and him and the eel can share....lol
yea....i need to do somethin about it...idk if i should get a reg canopy cause i would have to drill it out...and i wouldnt exactly be able to fit it on very easily cause the plumbing and whatnot....but i woke up this mornin and i was watching my clowns...and all of a sudden i heard something that sounded like a rock hitting the glass....so i looked in the sump and i see my hermit sitting in the first chamber of my sump....and im like...how the eff did he get in there!? he must have found a way to climb up the silicone or something.....idk....but i had my feeding tongs and i pushed him back up the wall ito the second chamber....(main one where the eel is) and i exposed him to the air a little bit...and when i put him in the water, he started floating...and he was like trying to swim his way back down.... it was hilarious...lol
Hello PVT! I am glad you found the eel and that he is alive and well. I'm also glad that Pierre is out of your DT. You do need a cover for that sump of yours and the quickest, cheapest method that I know of to suggest to you is to get you some egg crate and cut it to fit the top of the sump. I'm sure you can think of some way to secure it on there also. Push come to shove, you could get you some of that velcro and use that to secure it. That way it's easy off, easy on. Nice pics. Glad things are starting to move in a positive direction.
home depot or lowes sells it. it is called light diffuser and is for florescent lighting so it would be in that department. be sure to get the white one. the chrome or painted ones will not hold up to the saltcreep.
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As far as lighting goes for the fuge, i wouldnt go any lower than Metal Halides...
Just kidding
I, along with many other reefers i have seen use simple shop lights. The lights that run 60w bulbs that are just the fixture and the shroud. Let me tell you, i spent virtually no money on those......well i actually stole them from my dads garage.... teehee.
But they are only about $20 and will grow any type of Macro Algae you throw in there. I have 3 diff types going myself Bubble caulerpa, Chaeto, and red chaeto type algae.
Definitely a better alternative to buying a whole set of pc's or flourescents for some simple algaes.
Hope this helps
By the way, page 6 of this thread is very cool, i've had exams this month so i've been catching up tonight Gonna go back and read the rest now.
also. my clownfish seems to like to swim vertically in the corner......she has been doin it since like..3 days ago. i font think its a swim bladder disease cause she can swim just fine, no rapid breathing, or not being able to keep balance.... she just likes to sit in the corner vertically and float there...i was reading that maybe she is hosting the corner....and thats why shes doing that...idk..its weird.... anyone ever heard of this?
Hello PVT I'm not familiar with clown behaviors, but know CJo is. She should be along soon and hopefully give you some insight to what you're seeing with your clown.
Yep, mine do all kinds of weird things! That is why they are clowns. Who knows whether this is hosting behavior or not. My one clown swims up and down the corner and has never tried to host the frogspawn as is very common.
BTW, clowns do not need an anemone, they are just fine without one. Even when provided with an anemone there is no guarantee that they will host. Some dive right in and others never host.
yea..my last clowns didnt host one...i didnt have one for them to host.... they would have rarely gone into my torch coral every once in a while..but that was it....i may get an anemone for them if these guys actually do well in this tank and once i have a good copepod community started up....then maybe ill get an anemone for them...lol
also ,
i had an idea....and that was to try to introduce a hippo tang to my tank......once i am able to find a baby one. maybe about .5 to an inch in size. do you think the 65 would be suitable for a tang this size? i dont see why not....i was looking around at different sites and they all said different tank minimums...some were saying 120...all the way down to 40.... i know the 40 one is total b.s. but ill ignore that one....but i also saw one that said 70g....i think that if that is a real minimum, he would be happy in my tank for some time. ya?
i just figured id throw that one out there....lol
im sure people have kept tangs in a 65g before and had them live a nice life.
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WTG! Very easy to work with.... it's a snap.
Gonna go back and read the rest now.