So since the beginning this guy has been really shy and skittish. But always and still eats well and grazes. I quarantined for 4 weeks before moving to display, it’s about 3.5” now from 3”. I have a 28g jbj nano, moving to 75 ext nuvo end of summer.
I feed seaweed extreme pellets and nori green, brown, red. For the last week I’ve been adding delving, garlic extreme, and dosing stress guard.
the white spots on its tail seem to be more/less pronounced at times but never go away. May be lighting, and the flashes I do see him. Also lower half of body is paler sometimes, like maybe I’ve seen this 4 times. Sometimes color is beautiful, mostly normal I would say. Does come out and graze, swim in power head for a hot 20 seconds and back to the rocks. I would say I first noticed 3 weeks ago. I am thinking it’s just because it is always hiding, stressed, shy, that it gets scratch’s bacteria on rocks? Fighting something in there? There is an active pistol/watchmen combo engineering my tank.
Also 2 clowns, corals, orchid dotty. No fighting issues I can see. I feed 3x a day. Order in: clowns, tang, watchmen, orchid
parameters are good I test a lot, I am going thru 1st year stuff but I’m on it. Had a salinity dip from skimmer, alk drop from coral, etc taking off. That stuff was in the last 3 weeks. Nitrate between 1 and 5 ppm, pho’s between .05 and .1. See image.
I feed seaweed extreme pellets and nori green, brown, red. For the last week I’ve been adding delving, garlic extreme, and dosing stress guard.
the white spots on its tail seem to be more/less pronounced at times but never go away. May be lighting, and the flashes I do see him. Also lower half of body is paler sometimes, like maybe I’ve seen this 4 times. Sometimes color is beautiful, mostly normal I would say. Does come out and graze, swim in power head for a hot 20 seconds and back to the rocks. I would say I first noticed 3 weeks ago. I am thinking it’s just because it is always hiding, stressed, shy, that it gets scratch’s bacteria on rocks? Fighting something in there? There is an active pistol/watchmen combo engineering my tank.
Also 2 clowns, corals, orchid dotty. No fighting issues I can see. I feed 3x a day. Order in: clowns, tang, watchmen, orchid
parameters are good I test a lot, I am going thru 1st year stuff but I’m on it. Had a salinity dip from skimmer, alk drop from coral, etc taking off. That stuff was in the last 3 weeks. Nitrate between 1 and 5 ppm, pho’s between .05 and .1. See image.