Baebae
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Hello from Texas, everyone! I just wanted to do a bit of an update post since a lot has happened since the last few times I've posted lol. If anyone has any advise for me, it eould be much appreciated! Idk if this will take very long or not but here we go!
So I started reefing in May of this year. I (ignorantly if I might add) started out with a 10g. Surprisingly it went really well despite the unforgiving size! To make this a little shorter, I'll just skip all of the mistakes and my learning process lol and jump to now.
I now have a 25g and a 5g (the 5g is being prepared for sexy shrimp!) and I'd say things are going pretty well besides a reallyyy bad flat worm outbreak in both tanks. Stocking wise, I have a misbar clownfish, a hawkfish and a green banded goby (along with a bunch of mostly euphillia corals and a few zoas that are trying to survive my emerald crab) in the 25g. I'm think the flatworm problem is coming from my feeding habits... at least in the 25. I feed a mix of different frozen food but mostly frozen mysis. My hawkfish is a big pig but tents to completely miss all of the smaller bits, leaving them to float around at the bottom. I do have a bunch of cleaner snail dudes but idk how much they're actually doing their jobs...
As for the 5g, I only have corals, cleaner snails and a tinyy 6 line wrasse in hopes he'll eat the flatworms. Which he is, cuz he constantly has a big belly (I don't feed him anything else) and the flatworms seem to be slowly disappearing. I know the tank size isn't suitable for him so I plan on taking him back to the lfs once I get the flatworms under control a bit better. I'm also thinking of taking the hawkfish back because I can't ever seem to feed him enough... any tips on that aspect?
Anyways, thank you for reading everything! Let me know what you think! I'll include some videos I took not too long ago too
(the little goby guy in the video tho is now in the 25g, not the 5 anymore.. he's with the big boys now)
So I started reefing in May of this year. I (ignorantly if I might add) started out with a 10g. Surprisingly it went really well despite the unforgiving size! To make this a little shorter, I'll just skip all of the mistakes and my learning process lol and jump to now.
I now have a 25g and a 5g (the 5g is being prepared for sexy shrimp!) and I'd say things are going pretty well besides a reallyyy bad flat worm outbreak in both tanks. Stocking wise, I have a misbar clownfish, a hawkfish and a green banded goby (along with a bunch of mostly euphillia corals and a few zoas that are trying to survive my emerald crab) in the 25g. I'm think the flatworm problem is coming from my feeding habits... at least in the 25. I feed a mix of different frozen food but mostly frozen mysis. My hawkfish is a big pig but tents to completely miss all of the smaller bits, leaving them to float around at the bottom. I do have a bunch of cleaner snail dudes but idk how much they're actually doing their jobs...
As for the 5g, I only have corals, cleaner snails and a tinyy 6 line wrasse in hopes he'll eat the flatworms. Which he is, cuz he constantly has a big belly (I don't feed him anything else) and the flatworms seem to be slowly disappearing. I know the tank size isn't suitable for him so I plan on taking him back to the lfs once I get the flatworms under control a bit better. I'm also thinking of taking the hawkfish back because I can't ever seem to feed him enough... any tips on that aspect?
Anyways, thank you for reading everything! Let me know what you think! I'll include some videos I took not too long ago too
(the little goby guy in the video tho is now in the 25g, not the 5 anymore.. he's with the big boys now)
