nanonøkk
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this is mostly for beginners but for all of you also as a good example of what non researching, testing and patience dose versus researching and testing and patience
hey everyone you may know me as the person who made a lot of mistakes and asked a lot of dumb questions and that also has terrible grammar i’m sorry about that but i’ll make this short
and i also promise you please bear with all the mistakes and poor grammar because this might help some of you out
so my first tank i didn’t measure anything and i did a bunch of dumb mistakes like these
- i poured a lot of things into my tank i couldn’t test for which is very bad
- i added livestock that i miss identified in the past and things that i just couldn’t keep in general
- and the third thing is not leaving the corals alone and tweaking every different thing because something is incorrect
- and three this hobby is all patience you need to wait and observe and see if it’s not a one day thing
- if it isn’t a one day thing and a actual problem then you need to ask questions if you don’t already know how to solve it because you may end up trying to save it but make it worse
- also know how much to feed and write everything you do down the more simple the better and don’t tweak things to fast or to much at one time do it slowly
now here is my old tank and i’ll post some pictures of some of the problems i had with it and say what they were and then what it looks like at it’s happiest and the end
but you can skip to the second post for the good example tank of mine it will be a comment on this thread
anyways to continue the beginning december 26 2019
hopefully that worked but two day set up yikes added the sand and the water and bacteria first night then damsels and rocks two mushrooms and a kenya tree coral
one of the damsels died the next morning and i feel bad going through this and i’m sorry to all these fish that have died due to my lack of knowledge
the story of king the clown fish
he was my third fish i didn’t acclamate him to the tank so he got ick and then the damsel got it they both died
(oh and to add on i was over feeding this tank a lot but i stopped when i started learning)
the only inverts big failure phase
i added two nems at this point i forgot that i had that rock nem till my big big crash in the summer when i first started to learn that’s to some yelling almost i’m sorry for being stubborn and ignorant
also mind you this tank hasn’t been set up for a month now and has a giant bubble nem it lived surprisingly for a while till it died when i forgot to plug in the heater after a water change
and i took the shrimp back because it was stealing food from the nem and mushrooms and i didn’t like that
the replacement phase
the first obvious issue bought another nem and as seen on the it died and started a mini cycle in my tank because or big changes in a nano tank and i got mushrooms but back to them later
see all that yucky stuff everywhere i was over feeding and overdosing nutrients that were expired and not good phytoplankton which is bad dont do this if your a beginner don’t do any of this please
then i added a clownfish and then i said a few weeks later let’s get another one (not good) they both were acclimated but fought to the death while i was at school they both died
the i didn’t learn but then start learning a bit after but not enough and still big changes
oh wow were to start with this mess
got a six line wrasses ended up killing everything in the end except the fish his name was mortis kinda ironic a bit
and then my first longest living fish dochie the clownfish very nice but loved a very sick nem that died shortly because it was bleached
also the second light was because i thought i needed more not the case
i kept changing the rock scape every few days which is bad very bad
and everything ended up dying because of mortis and my moving everything constantly
the start of the research
ok so i research mortis bad for this tank with dochie mortis removed
changed rock scape and added a rock which i took out for a rock that had mushrooms on it and then i got candy cane and zoa both of those died from unknown things i still have the mushrooms as of today but not the original i sold it at the end of the tanks life
second mistake big algae problem because i had really high nutrients and switch to a light that could grow algae fast so i got snails and a test kit but still not enough
the algae problem is fixed later though
the heavy research phase but still fail
the snails oh the snails i love them but this is a sad story so the package got lost in the mail and I had to get a new one and some of the snails died because they got lost in the package
snails and vibrant worked (vibrant for me was a bad thing) but not good enough needed something else and i changed the rocks one last time
the rodi and the finally getting it down but not quite yet
ordered an rodi the sandbed started looking cleaner
got a algae scraper so i could stop scratching the glass everywhere
and then got a dragonette more about her later but another good example of buy only what you can care for
next phase the starting to get it right phase
got more coral was going to upgrade but ended up not doing that i’ll explain below
the dragonette ended up dying due to some problem overnight but was eating fine before that (fed him to the nem turned out a bad idea)
and then that anemone some of you will recognize that he died to stability issues and starvation which then i started scheduling everything that i do from now on and then a stupid last test after this explained in the last phase
final phase before shut down but i won’t go into the shut down phase because it’s not important
new tank for holding the fish for my new tank that never happened ended up taking them back
i also stopped dosing useless stuff
got a new nem it never shrank it grew a bit in my time having it he now lives in another tank
put a box on the cheato to help it ended up becoming an algae scrubber thing
got a shrimp and then lumi my favorite fish i’ve ever owned
then this fuzz showed up did something on impulse which should never be done ended up selling most of everything and it stayed up in the background of my new tanks cycle holding some new corals and the rest of what i wanted to keep
anyways i hope this was a good lesson of what not to do and i’ll start typing the one for my new tank so it can show a bit of how to up until the new point because it’s only five months old as of right now
hey everyone you may know me as the person who made a lot of mistakes and asked a lot of dumb questions and that also has terrible grammar i’m sorry about that but i’ll make this short
and i also promise you please bear with all the mistakes and poor grammar because this might help some of you out
so my first tank i didn’t measure anything and i did a bunch of dumb mistakes like these
- i poured a lot of things into my tank i couldn’t test for which is very bad
- i added livestock that i miss identified in the past and things that i just couldn’t keep in general
- and the third thing is not leaving the corals alone and tweaking every different thing because something is incorrect
- and three this hobby is all patience you need to wait and observe and see if it’s not a one day thing
- if it isn’t a one day thing and a actual problem then you need to ask questions if you don’t already know how to solve it because you may end up trying to save it but make it worse
- also know how much to feed and write everything you do down the more simple the better and don’t tweak things to fast or to much at one time do it slowly
now here is my old tank and i’ll post some pictures of some of the problems i had with it and say what they were and then what it looks like at it’s happiest and the end
but you can skip to the second post for the good example tank of mine it will be a comment on this thread
anyways to continue the beginning december 26 2019
hopefully that worked but two day set up yikes added the sand and the water and bacteria first night then damsels and rocks two mushrooms and a kenya tree coral
one of the damsels died the next morning and i feel bad going through this and i’m sorry to all these fish that have died due to my lack of knowledge
the story of king the clown fish
he was my third fish i didn’t acclamate him to the tank so he got ick and then the damsel got it they both died
(oh and to add on i was over feeding this tank a lot but i stopped when i started learning)
the only inverts big failure phase
i added two nems at this point i forgot that i had that rock nem till my big big crash in the summer when i first started to learn that’s to some yelling almost i’m sorry for being stubborn and ignorant
also mind you this tank hasn’t been set up for a month now and has a giant bubble nem it lived surprisingly for a while till it died when i forgot to plug in the heater after a water change
and i took the shrimp back because it was stealing food from the nem and mushrooms and i didn’t like that
the replacement phase
the first obvious issue bought another nem and as seen on the it died and started a mini cycle in my tank because or big changes in a nano tank and i got mushrooms but back to them later
see all that yucky stuff everywhere i was over feeding and overdosing nutrients that were expired and not good phytoplankton which is bad dont do this if your a beginner don’t do any of this please
then i added a clownfish and then i said a few weeks later let’s get another one (not good) they both were acclimated but fought to the death while i was at school they both died
the i didn’t learn but then start learning a bit after but not enough and still big changes
oh wow were to start with this mess
got a six line wrasses ended up killing everything in the end except the fish his name was mortis kinda ironic a bit
and then my first longest living fish dochie the clownfish very nice but loved a very sick nem that died shortly because it was bleached
also the second light was because i thought i needed more not the case
i kept changing the rock scape every few days which is bad very bad
and everything ended up dying because of mortis and my moving everything constantly
the start of the research
ok so i research mortis bad for this tank with dochie mortis removed
changed rock scape and added a rock which i took out for a rock that had mushrooms on it and then i got candy cane and zoa both of those died from unknown things i still have the mushrooms as of today but not the original i sold it at the end of the tanks life
second mistake big algae problem because i had really high nutrients and switch to a light that could grow algae fast so i got snails and a test kit but still not enough
the algae problem is fixed later though
the heavy research phase but still fail
the snails oh the snails i love them but this is a sad story so the package got lost in the mail and I had to get a new one and some of the snails died because they got lost in the package
snails and vibrant worked (vibrant for me was a bad thing) but not good enough needed something else and i changed the rocks one last time
the rodi and the finally getting it down but not quite yet
ordered an rodi the sandbed started looking cleaner
got a algae scraper so i could stop scratching the glass everywhere
and then got a dragonette more about her later but another good example of buy only what you can care for
next phase the starting to get it right phase
got more coral was going to upgrade but ended up not doing that i’ll explain below
the dragonette ended up dying due to some problem overnight but was eating fine before that (fed him to the nem turned out a bad idea)
and then that anemone some of you will recognize that he died to stability issues and starvation which then i started scheduling everything that i do from now on and then a stupid last test after this explained in the last phase
final phase before shut down but i won’t go into the shut down phase because it’s not important
new tank for holding the fish for my new tank that never happened ended up taking them back
i also stopped dosing useless stuff
got a new nem it never shrank it grew a bit in my time having it he now lives in another tank
put a box on the cheato to help it ended up becoming an algae scrubber thing
got a shrimp and then lumi my favorite fish i’ve ever owned
then this fuzz showed up did something on impulse which should never be done ended up selling most of everything and it stayed up in the background of my new tanks cycle holding some new corals and the rest of what i wanted to keep
anyways i hope this was a good lesson of what not to do and i’ll start typing the one for my new tank so it can show a bit of how to up until the new point because it’s only five months old as of right now
