It has been about a week and a half since I have added my first two blue green chromis to the qt tank and they have been doing well. A little bit of trial and error on what foods they are willing to accept, my local place feeds their fish spectrum pellets which I had some of these at home. When offered the fish did not show much interest in these or the formula 2 pellets that I have. I did however earlier in the week pick up some raw shrimp and scallops from the grocery store. After deciding that trying to cut up each piece of shrimp to a size that would fit into their mouth was going to be a bit of a pain I decided to place the shrimp into my blender. Bit of trial and error but now have something that seems to work. When I place the shrimp in they all go crazy over it, and have finally started to relate my presence of being around their tank as the promise of food to be coming shortly.
Last Friday I had picked up one more green blue chromis to add to the other two that I had picked up the week previous. I had set up a drip acclimation for the fish and added him to the tank. When first added the fish seemed fine was swimming around the tank with the other two and not hiding. No aggression was noted among any of the fish. Saturday before I was getting ready to leave for work I saw the orginial two swimming around the tank but was not seeing the third. I found him laying on his side under one of the pieces of pvc that was put in the tank for hidey spots. When I got home he was dead. All the parameters where spot on no detectable ammonia or nitrites and the ammonia alert badge haning on the tank was not picking anything up either. I called the store the next day and talked to the manager about what had happened. I was informed that they had no guarentee on their saltwater fish and even though I took the correct steps and it was probably the fish they would do nothing. A bit disappointing considering that locally they are the only place that carries saltwater fish and the next nearest places are about 40 miles away. I decided to give them one more chance and picked up another blue green chromis yesterday.
This time I shortened my acclimation process, made sure to find out what the specific gravity of their water in their system. Which I found to be where I am keeping mine at 1.025. Added the new fish in and again was swimming around with the others. Today 24 hours later and things are looking good. Everyone is swimming around happily and eating well. Hopefully things keep going well this time around. Later this week will give the scallops a try and see how well those are recieved.
Last Friday I had picked up one more green blue chromis to add to the other two that I had picked up the week previous. I had set up a drip acclimation for the fish and added him to the tank. When first added the fish seemed fine was swimming around the tank with the other two and not hiding. No aggression was noted among any of the fish. Saturday before I was getting ready to leave for work I saw the orginial two swimming around the tank but was not seeing the third. I found him laying on his side under one of the pieces of pvc that was put in the tank for hidey spots. When I got home he was dead. All the parameters where spot on no detectable ammonia or nitrites and the ammonia alert badge haning on the tank was not picking anything up either. I called the store the next day and talked to the manager about what had happened. I was informed that they had no guarentee on their saltwater fish and even though I took the correct steps and it was probably the fish they would do nothing. A bit disappointing considering that locally they are the only place that carries saltwater fish and the next nearest places are about 40 miles away. I decided to give them one more chance and picked up another blue green chromis yesterday.
This time I shortened my acclimation process, made sure to find out what the specific gravity of their water in their system. Which I found to be where I am keeping mine at 1.025. Added the new fish in and again was swimming around with the others. Today 24 hours later and things are looking good. Everyone is swimming around happily and eating well. Hopefully things keep going well this time around. Later this week will give the scallops a try and see how well those are recieved.
