Tank Journal Archive

[MichaelBinns]

lol acrobatic fish youve got there! i hope i dont get this problem further down the line, but if i do il deal with it then, it would really be a last resort for me, are all fish guilty of this or some more than others??

 

[chimaera]

Wrasse are the worst :p

 

[MTG]

dont talk to me about jumping fish. im up over the 20 mark over the past few years :D

 

[Kavi]

Though they ll have to jump about 11cm up from my tank to land on the floor,I havent seen my fish jump at all, mayb its da type of fish i ve got. So goby s n wrasse jumps

 

[Priscacara]

Two wrasse and 1 goby for me

 

[Aspidites]

Yup, a wrasse and soon to be a goby for me also.

 

[MichaelBinns]

how do you feel knowing suicide was better than living in your tanks? haha i can say this because it hasnt happened to me yet, il be sick when it does tho, expensive meal for my cat to find on the floor

 

[Damjan]

Keep us updated on the cleaner wrasse. I have tried twice without success. I have tried every sort of food and found, as in your case that they liked the mysis the best. Its a real shame as I love the way that tangs come up to them and lay on their sides and the wrasse bob around looking for parasites. Both times they eat fine and are fine for about the first 3-4 months then rapidly decline. I must be that we can not offer the correct diet for them to survive long term. Hope yoy have better success than a lot of us.

 

[MichaelBinns]

i think i might give the beef heart thing ago too just to vary the diet a little!

 

[MichaelBinns]

Couple new purchases today, a new frag rack and a nice chalace, really nice purple colour with bright green mouths! also attatched the hammer to the large rock, thats why its hating life in the photo! Had a hard time doing this for the first time, i used sellys aqua knead it? Set solid but took its sweet arse time!

 

[MichaelBinns]

cant wait to fill my frag rack :p @chimaera

 

[Priscacara]

Beautiful looking chalice! Won't take long to fill the frag rack, hard bit is picking frags you don't want :)

 

[MTG]

@MichaelBinns i have found placing the hammers upright keeps them happyer, that bottom head will most likely die slowly as it wont get much light on that angle, (i often get die off on the heads that are shadowed like that) also faceing that way how are they going for light? id glue it on the otherside :)

 

[MichaelBinns]

It would be hard for me to get the hammers positioned upright on that rock tho, if i was to move it to the other side and had to keep doing thatbwith corals it would be bare on that side? I assumed it would be ok there as hammers dont need that much light? @MTG

 

[chimaera]

cant wait to fill my frag rack :p @chimaera

Glad you finally decided which one! haha.

That chalice looks awesome, glad you picked it up. Works well in that spot as you described too.

For placing corals, putty is good ... but make sure you use lots of coral glue too on both sides (putty-rock and putty-coral).

I'll let @MTG talk to you about hammers, he's the right man for that conversation!

 

[MTG]

It would be hard for me to get the hammers positioned upright on that rock tho, if i was to move it to the other side and had to keep doing thatbwith corals it would be bare on that side? I assumed it would be ok there as hammers dont need that much light? @MTG

hammers arnt that low light they do need a decent amount of direct light to grow and colour up, you dont have to glue they on the base you can glue from the side of the hammers to keep their heads upright or atleast angled towards the light. but yes that left hand side will be a little bare due to it being shaded. maybe you could get away with some basic hammers there and see if they survive but my guess is in a few months they will start shrinking

 

[MichaelBinns]

Hmmm would any coral at all do well there? Otherwise i might have to start re thinking that scape :( @MTG

 

[chimaera]

Rics, morphs and zoas would do well on the slightly shaded side.

 

[MTG]

Zoas might be alright if they get enough light, you don't want anything there anyway because you won't see it to much once you have corals layered at the front imo,

 

[MichaelBinns]

true, il see how it looks once the front is filled, its just i see that side from my bed when im watching tv lol