Jtnova's Marine Journal (Rip!)

[jtnova13]

boo seffie!

I think they are awesome looking compared to other shoaling fish (chromis)! Anthias will be too big for my tank.

My final addition(s) to the tank will be a yellow tang and some sort of dwarf angel... leaning towards a coral beauty.

Will not be persuing a mandarin since i think the cleaner shrimp and cardinals will steal all of it's food.

 

[seffieuk]

boo seffie!

I think they are awesome looking compared to other shoaling fish (chromis)! Anthias will be too big for my tank.

My final addition(s) to the tank will be a yellow tang and some sort of dwarf angel... leaning towards a coral beauty.

Will not be persuing a mandarin since i think the cleaner shrimp and cardinals will steal all of it's food.

Doubt the cardinals will steal the mandy food - mandy will pick at the rocks and surfaces, Cardinals just 'hang there'

Seffie x

 

[jtnova13]

hmmmmmmmm interesting.

They do hang out like a gang, maybe i will name their group the "bloods" or "crips"... or maybe "latin kings"

edit, i wrote dong instead of do hahahaha

 

[seffieuk]

They dong hang out like a gang, maybe i will name their group the "bloods" or "crips"... or maybe "latin kings"

or the jets or sharks!! Showing my age there!!!

Seffiex

 

[jtnova13]

Got some new corals, mostly zoas, but 2 i need id's on. I got em for free from a local forum.

edit: I think this is GSP?

maybe a neon ricordia?

 

[rabbut]

Got some new corals, mostly zoas, but 2 i need id's on. I got em for free from a local forum.

edit: I think this is GSP?

It's a star polyp of some form, not neccisarily green though, unless the green is more visible in real life, than in that photo

maybe a neon ricordia?

Possible, will have to wait for it to come out properly first though to see...

All the best
Rabbut

 

[jtnova13]

thanks rabs,

they aren't super green like GSP, so they probably arent gsp.

Do all star polyps grow as fast as GSP?

 

[rabbut]

Probably, I've only ever had GSP though...

All the best
Rabbut

 

[jtnova13]

More updates!

First, I finally got my calcium and KH test kits, my stats are:

Calcium: 420 ppm
GH/KH: 125.3 ppm
Are these stats good, if not, how do i correct them? Also, what other tests should i be doing? magnesium? alk?

So... what you really came for:
Meet my newest inhabitant, the green open brain coral!

The pictures don't do it justice, it's sooo much brighter green in life (these are taken under actinics + 1x250w 15000k MH)

being acclimated

first added

today when i got home

What do you guys think? I'm gunna feed him later this week when he gets more used to the tank. He is on the substrate and I have my metal halides on on that side of the tank only to get it some extra light. The photoperiod is 4 hours a day, 8-10 AM and then again 5-7 PM. This is to cut down on the heat gain from the halides.

4x54W actinics (2 blue, 2 white) on for 11 hours, 8 AM - 7 PM.


And introducing! bartleby! hims sleepy

 

[seffieuk]

I was loving the brain coral until I saw Bartleby - he is gorgeous, how did he get his name?

Seffie x

 

[Crazy fishes]

Sorry if this is a little late my first time scanning over this journal. The little 'bug' thing is an amphipod they can grow to 10mm in length and are prefectly harmless. Have you noticed a material like a spider's web in the tank? This is the fine silk-like material they produce for forming a home; they typically find leaves of algae and kelp and use this material to stick the egdes of the leaves together to form a tube. These form great places for the females to raise the young. Quite a fascinating little species.....

Hope this helps

Joe

 

[jtnova13]

As a matter of fact crazy, i have seen spiderweb looking things when the goby stirs up sand! Thanks for that ID!

Seffie, he got his name from the movie dogma. I also want to get a husky named Loki, so they will be bartelby and loki.

Also, bit of sad news except to seffie, my 3 cardinals died

 

[Reesy1989]

Sorry to hear about the cardinals, always hard when you loose a fish

Cardinals

 

[jtnova13]

It's ok, they were new enough that I wasn't attached to them.

I did have a 4 year old rainbow shark that died recently. He was a trooper, made it through 3 tank transfers, a move, conditions not made for him because i couldn't catch him etc.

4 years is a long time for him to live though, so i attribute it to old age.

 

[seffieuk]

sorry for your loss

Seffie x