Mombasalionfish's 60gl fish thing

[Island Reef 242]

The arrow crab passed for unknown reasons.:( Other crabs are still alive. Also I am having trouble with nutrient levels being to high I have started to feed only once a day instead of twice. Any thing else I can do?

I don't know what your maintenance schedule is, but for me, I got my nutrient levels down by doing water changes once a week. I start by cleaning the glass, then blow any detritus, and left over fish food, off the rock using a turkey baster. Then start syphoning out the water. While syphoning I gently dab the hose all over the top of the sand bed to suck up any waste. I do not advise disturbing the sand bed to much, hopefully you have a good cleanup crew and critters that will keep the sand clean for you. I will also clean any sponge filter, filter floss, sock, you may have. I notice you have a canister filter to, those things can become nutrient sinks. so make sure that is cleaned out regularly to.

Another thing you could do is add more diversity to your tank. I don't know if they sell them in LFS's but i put a bunch of bivalves in my tank that i scraped off some rocks on the shoreline. They are great at filtering water.

I hope this helps.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

I don't know what your maintenance schedule is, but for me, I got my nutrient levels down by doing water changes once a week. I start by cleaning the glass, then blow any detritus, and left over fish food, off the rock using a turkey baster. Then start syphoning out the water. While syphoning I gently dab the hose all over the top of the sand bed to suck up any waste. I do not advise disturbing the sand bed to much, hopefully you have a good cleanup crew and critters that will keep the sand clean for you. I will also clean any sponge filter, filter floss, sock, you may have. I notice you have a canister filter to, those things can become nutrient sinks. so make sure that is cleaned out regularly to.

Another thing you could do is add more diversity to your tank. I don't know if they sell them in LFS's but i put a bunch of bivalves in my tank that i scraped off some rocks on the shoreline. They are great at filtering water.

I hope this helps.

Thanks this is very helpful I have a giant hermit that keeps my sand bed 100% clean. Bivalves look interesting. And it looks like I will be doing a water change soon.

 

[Island Reef 242]

Also you should syphon out any detritus accumulating in your sump.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

If you were ever on the fence about getting a giant hermit that will grow to the size of a football here is were you can find one. https://www.reefcleaners.org/aquarium-store/giant-marine-hermit

 

[MombasaLionfish]

The algae is finally getting under control. I have a lot of new snails and hermits.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

I also move this guy to a new tank so he doesn't knock down my rocks.

Ammonia in the new tank is 0 same with nitrate and nitrite. I gave it a few days to cycle and now the hermit is in along with an amphipod and isopods. It looks kind of boring though only a few rocks and a filter soon I will have coral in there too.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Got this little anemone a few days ago it is settling in nicely. Any idea what kind it is?

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Here are some coral pictures. The snails are doing an amazing job with the algae clean up.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

My new polka-dot crab.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

My decorator crab has started murdering snails. I've been trying to distract him with shrimp. Any idea on what I should do?

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Yay my tank is officially a year old. Merry Christmas everyone.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

My decorator crab has started murdering snails. I've been trying to distract him with shrimp. Any idea on what I should do?

I have moved this guy to a smaller tank everything is good now.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Got this little anemone a few days ago it is settling in nicely. Any idea what kind it is?

This is a beaded anemone.

 

[Chefwheredyougo]

How's everything going with the build? Any plans for new things?

 

[MombasaLionfish]

How's everything going with the build? Any plans for new things?

Yes I should be getting a skimmer soon. I also have water ready for a water change. I'm not sure if I told you guys I got pitho crabs they are awsome a male and female both of them eat tons of hair algae.

 

[Chefwheredyougo]

Yes I should be getting a skimmer soon. I also have water ready for a water change. I'm not sure if I told you guys I got pitho crabs they are awsome a male and female both of them eat tons of hair algae.

Pics?

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Pics?

I'll get some later.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Christmas tank.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Pitho crab.

 

[Chefwheredyougo]

Pitho crab.

That guy looks pretty scary.