I have started my first new saltwater aquarium. I used a 10 gal display tank. With 10 lbs of cured live rock and a 2. To 3" deep sand bed. The display tank was started at the beginning of jan. I added a dump about a month later with 4 additional galons. There is approx 2 lbs of live rock in the sump. I also use a hob protein skimmer that's advertised for up to 30 gal. My current stocking level is 2 occelaris clowns, 2 large nass sails, & 1 tiger pistal shrimp. Corals include several verieties of zoanthids, a frogspawn and some green star polyp. I also inadvertently ended up with some blue snowflake polyps, that are realy spreading. All corals are small frags. I did have a resent loss. My yellow watchaman goby that was living with my tiger pistal. after 1 and a half month of being inseperable. From the tigger pistal. The began to spend more and mor time out of the dugouts. Then one day it started darting around in open water. Attempting to jump. The last 2 days it suddenly stopped feeding. Before the it had a vey good appetite. The next thing I know it was stuck to return pump grate in the sump. A amonua 0, trite 0 trate 5-10 ph8. Any ideas what could've gone wrong with the little goby? All corals open up when led lighting ramps up. I feed mostly misys shrimp.
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Would that be a matter of placing the probes of a volt meter in my water? Are there any recomendations for stray voltage? I never considered that. My occelaris and other creatures seemed uneffected by watever drove the goby to go haywire. Thanks for your suggestion. I am very new to this. I am aware the challenges of keeping a small tank stable. I'm due the knowledge of the experienced club me ether will bee invaluable to me.
Thanks. O.3 Volts. I'll give it a little time and if every thing is ok, I'll put another goby in for pistol shrimp. I'm realy surprised. That was a hardy fish, I had put it though a lot of stress last month when my hydrometer was out of calibration. Accidentally had my salinity at 1.030. Now that I have all parameters in check and stable it died.
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Here is a few pics. This is my new rescape. The rocks are all supported underneath with pvc bases to creat a space for the shrimp to dig without the rocks collapsing to the tank bottom. I tore doen the whole tank yesterday to do that. I hope that creates a good habitat for the existing pistol shrimp, and for the goby I will be getting in the near future. I think one of the factors that stressed the goby was the space below the rocks was too small after months of the shrimp tunneling. The habitat might have gotten too tight for the goby. It was spending more and more time out in the open out of the caves toward the end. Just a theory. Now the rocks are spaced 1 inch off the glass bottom.
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I picked up a frag last monday with a few nice mushrooms. I also noticed it has an encrusting of something else on part of it as well. Now that I've been able to observe it, looks like the beginnings of a green acropora. It's color is looking nice, and it's polyp's are opening every day. This is my first sps, so hopefully it works out. I have a little bit of nitrate, that I will have to get a handle on. But my cal and alk are good. Hopefully my lighting good for it. I can't turn it up too much more do to the other species in the system.
Nitrate isn't really much to worry about with sps like people make it out to be. 10-20 is usually just fine with them, just keep the phosphates down. I know a guy who has amazing growth and colors and at one point his nitrate was 40, phosphate was .1, and had no issues. He usually keeps the nitrate around 10ppm.
Tank is 6 months old soI figured I'd update the thread. Can't provide any pics due to inoperative camera. Tank is loaded with coral. I even put and acro in there. Kind of risky, but it colored up and grew, so i guess my cheap leds are good Enough for an acro, although it's high up realy close to the light. Zoas, mushrooms, Lps monti, fish, crustations and mulusks all thriving. One of my occelaris is growing pretty big. The other is staying rather small.
Agreed! Can't wait to see some pictures when you get the camera working.