On Saturday I received a lovely 2" Hippo Tang. Brought it home, and Drip acclimated it over 3 hours. From 1.027(lfs ato failed to kick on that morning) to 1.025, and added into my 20 gallon quarantine. I have an Aquaclear 70 and sponge filter for filtration/gas exchange. 3lbs of cured live rock, and a couple pvc fittings.
Having read a couple recent threads on people with new hippos, I turned off the lights so it's ambient, which is to say fairly dim, as it's in my basement, wrapped cardboard around 3 sides of the tank, and picked up some fake plants today to put in there as well.
I had a sheet of nori on a clip, which the tang seemed to eat overnight as it was mostly gone this morning, so I put in a fresh sheet. Lfs tells me it was eating nori and mysis. Haven't yet tried mysis.
So far I have only seen the Hippo poke it's head out of a pipe once to nibble on some nori. Beyond that it seems to stay hidden.
From everything I have read about this fish tells me this is pretty typical being so new to the tank, but I just want to confirm this.
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
SG 1.025
Temp 76f
Having read a couple recent threads on people with new hippos, I turned off the lights so it's ambient, which is to say fairly dim, as it's in my basement, wrapped cardboard around 3 sides of the tank, and picked up some fake plants today to put in there as well.
I had a sheet of nori on a clip, which the tang seemed to eat overnight as it was mostly gone this morning, so I put in a fresh sheet. Lfs tells me it was eating nori and mysis. Haven't yet tried mysis.
So far I have only seen the Hippo poke it's head out of a pipe once to nibble on some nori. Beyond that it seems to stay hidden.
From everything I have read about this fish tells me this is pretty typical being so new to the tank, but I just want to confirm this.
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
SG 1.025
Temp 76f