PALuxton
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Hi all,
I need to do a sanity check on my fish stock and what to feed. We've recently completed a house move and I'm awaiting delivery of a second tank. Without going into much detail about how I came to the occupants of this current tank, the combination of new and existing fish is new to me and hopefully is sustainable. If not, some will go to the new tank. This is a waterbox infinia frag 155. So 5ft long but shallower. I originally bought it as a frag tank but ended up needing it while moving and transferring from one tank to another. Move happened in January, with most coral moving in March and April.
Inhabitants:
2 clowns, one 7 years old, one 4 years old, both from previous tank
1 sailfin tang (smaller), previous tank about 2 years old
1 bicolor blenny from previous tank, 4 years old
3 blue chromis, new to this tank, have had for 4 months
1 yellow corris wrasse, new to this tank, 4 months
1 chalk basslet, new to this tank, 4 months
4 springer damsels, I really only wanted 2, but a local reefer was shutting down his tank and so I took a chance with all 4. It's been a week, and so far so good, no warfare breaking out yet, but I hope I didn't over do it.
Before the damsels, I was feeding twice daily, a mix of frozen cubes, but I cut them up, so like 2/3 to 1 cube twice daily. The chromis are sooooo hungry/aggressive, and the damsels are still kind of timid. I just did an extra feeding cuz I'm worried they are not getting enough. And the basslet is a little displaced too, so making sure she eats. Am I feeding too much? Not enough? Hopefully fish count is okay.
I have an lfs keeping my 6 line wrasse and scopas tang as I felt they were too big/aggressive for this tank. They will go in the new 280 gallon planet aquarium due later this month.
My phosphates were running about 0.05 to 0.07. But I got a new batch of hanna reagents and it's now much lower, recording 0 a few times, and now at like 0.02. I sent in a water sample to get a better reading on that. Wasn't sure if the zeros were related to water changes or underfeeding or change in reagents. Nitrates have been between 8 and 12 this past month. Alkalinity stable at about 8.2, and calcium at about 475.
Much of the coral was transferred from other tank and is doing well. But I recently acquired a green digitata that's frustrating me, so trying to dial in my nutrients to appease it. Pics of tank and digitata attached. Everything else doing well, but some hammers are mad as I try to figure out lighting and flow. This waterbox is very different than the 130 PA I had, and have switched from hydra32s to radion g15s.
I need to do a sanity check on my fish stock and what to feed. We've recently completed a house move and I'm awaiting delivery of a second tank. Without going into much detail about how I came to the occupants of this current tank, the combination of new and existing fish is new to me and hopefully is sustainable. If not, some will go to the new tank. This is a waterbox infinia frag 155. So 5ft long but shallower. I originally bought it as a frag tank but ended up needing it while moving and transferring from one tank to another. Move happened in January, with most coral moving in March and April.
Inhabitants:
2 clowns, one 7 years old, one 4 years old, both from previous tank
1 sailfin tang (smaller), previous tank about 2 years old
1 bicolor blenny from previous tank, 4 years old
3 blue chromis, new to this tank, have had for 4 months
1 yellow corris wrasse, new to this tank, 4 months
1 chalk basslet, new to this tank, 4 months
4 springer damsels, I really only wanted 2, but a local reefer was shutting down his tank and so I took a chance with all 4. It's been a week, and so far so good, no warfare breaking out yet, but I hope I didn't over do it.
Before the damsels, I was feeding twice daily, a mix of frozen cubes, but I cut them up, so like 2/3 to 1 cube twice daily. The chromis are sooooo hungry/aggressive, and the damsels are still kind of timid. I just did an extra feeding cuz I'm worried they are not getting enough. And the basslet is a little displaced too, so making sure she eats. Am I feeding too much? Not enough? Hopefully fish count is okay.
I have an lfs keeping my 6 line wrasse and scopas tang as I felt they were too big/aggressive for this tank. They will go in the new 280 gallon planet aquarium due later this month.
My phosphates were running about 0.05 to 0.07. But I got a new batch of hanna reagents and it's now much lower, recording 0 a few times, and now at like 0.02. I sent in a water sample to get a better reading on that. Wasn't sure if the zeros were related to water changes or underfeeding or change in reagents. Nitrates have been between 8 and 12 this past month. Alkalinity stable at about 8.2, and calcium at about 475.
Much of the coral was transferred from other tank and is doing well. But I recently acquired a green digitata that's frustrating me, so trying to dial in my nutrients to appease it. Pics of tank and digitata attached. Everything else doing well, but some hammers are mad as I try to figure out lighting and flow. This waterbox is very different than the 130 PA I had, and have switched from hydra32s to radion g15s.
