monkey_biz
Fish Fanatic
some of you may have read my posts in the scientific section, but for those of you that havent or have and have been baffles with technobable i have been keeping fish on and off for more than 20 years and have kept/tried everything. im a swimming pool engineer by trade and love water chemistry.
i keep fish for one purpose (apart from they are relaxing to watch) and that is the quest for perfect water...... in fact im quite anal about it and try everything that is natural and never use chemicals of any kind in any of my tanks. that im a crap chooser of fish, ie if it look pretty ill have it. so what has this got to do with nano's...... read on
now my main tank (juwel 180)
has the normal selection of fishies including some peacock gobies (Tateurndina ocellicauda) and Vietnamese cardinal minnows (Tanichthys micagemmae).
my shrimp tank
has amano, cherry shrimps and some molly babies............. and this is where my problem started
after the birth the female got stressed and slimed and white spotted and god know what else so she was moved into my spare tank (aqua one 418) with sand external filter and UV.
i added a little salt and incresed the temp a bit and the white spot cleared up (no other fish suffered in teh main tank apart from the molly) i added a bit more and the slime went, i added a bit more and some tuffa rock to increase the hardness and finally she started acting normally and eating properly with a SG of 1.024
so.......................i now have a marine nano with a black molly in
so should i......
1) keep it as it is
or
2) get some live rock and convert it properly and have a nano reef with a molly and some shrimps and perhaps a nemo??
i keep fish for one purpose (apart from they are relaxing to watch) and that is the quest for perfect water...... in fact im quite anal about it and try everything that is natural and never use chemicals of any kind in any of my tanks. that im a crap chooser of fish, ie if it look pretty ill have it. so what has this got to do with nano's...... read on
now my main tank (juwel 180)
has the normal selection of fishies including some peacock gobies (Tateurndina ocellicauda) and Vietnamese cardinal minnows (Tanichthys micagemmae).
my shrimp tank
has amano, cherry shrimps and some molly babies............. and this is where my problem started
after the birth the female got stressed and slimed and white spotted and god know what else so she was moved into my spare tank (aqua one 418) with sand external filter and UV.
i added a little salt and incresed the temp a bit and the white spot cleared up (no other fish suffered in teh main tank apart from the molly) i added a bit more and the slime went, i added a bit more and some tuffa rock to increase the hardness and finally she started acting normally and eating properly with a SG of 1.024
so.......................i now have a marine nano with a black molly in
so should i......
1) keep it as it is
or
2) get some live rock and convert it properly and have a nano reef with a molly and some shrimps and perhaps a nemo??
