Good morning,
so I just added my first set of fish to my 6’ 120 gallon about a week ago, cycled with Dr. Tims, current tests using api, have ULR Hanna checked but havnt used it yet.
ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10 (can’t get a consistent reading here)
Salinity 1.024
Temp 80 (live in a dessert and with AC set at 78 in the house that’s where the tank is running)
Feeding mix of TDO chromaboost extra small, NLS, and a few Hikari seaweed extreme
current stock
Long nose hawk fish
Orchid Dottyback
Helfrinchi firefish (got a deal on him vs the planned purple and fell in love with the colors)
foxface rabbit fish
the rabbit fish started off swimming and hiding about 50% of the time, was eating well. The last two days it has stayed in a cave and been switching to its dark stress colors pretty often. The dottyback stays hidden most of the time but eagerly comes out for food. Hawk fish is front and center all the time. Firefish disappeared for first 3-4 days but now peaks it’s head out and came out for food.
my question is it seems they come out more when the power heads are off. I have a Maxspect gyre 350 and 330, opposite ends both horizontal. I started with a pattern found on here which alternated pulsing flow between the two on antisync throughout the 24 hour period with a max of 60%. That seemed two strong so I switched to the LTC setting with a max flow of 40%.
yesterday though the rabbit fish wouldn’t even come out for food.
Is this just me not being patient enough or could I be missing something? Any pointers to get him to get out of the cave more? When he was out the rest of the fish came out more too.
I do plan on adding a pair of clowns and a royal gramma in another week or two once I am sure these are settled in. And then wait another 3-4 weeks before any more additions.
so I just added my first set of fish to my 6’ 120 gallon about a week ago, cycled with Dr. Tims, current tests using api, have ULR Hanna checked but havnt used it yet.
ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10 (can’t get a consistent reading here)
Salinity 1.024
Temp 80 (live in a dessert and with AC set at 78 in the house that’s where the tank is running)
Feeding mix of TDO chromaboost extra small, NLS, and a few Hikari seaweed extreme
current stock
Long nose hawk fish
Orchid Dottyback
Helfrinchi firefish (got a deal on him vs the planned purple and fell in love with the colors)
foxface rabbit fish
the rabbit fish started off swimming and hiding about 50% of the time, was eating well. The last two days it has stayed in a cave and been switching to its dark stress colors pretty often. The dottyback stays hidden most of the time but eagerly comes out for food. Hawk fish is front and center all the time. Firefish disappeared for first 3-4 days but now peaks it’s head out and came out for food.
my question is it seems they come out more when the power heads are off. I have a Maxspect gyre 350 and 330, opposite ends both horizontal. I started with a pattern found on here which alternated pulsing flow between the two on antisync throughout the 24 hour period with a max of 60%. That seemed two strong so I switched to the LTC setting with a max flow of 40%.
yesterday though the rabbit fish wouldn’t even come out for food.
Is this just me not being patient enough or could I be missing something? Any pointers to get him to get out of the cave more? When he was out the rest of the fish came out more too.
I do plan on adding a pair of clowns and a royal gramma in another week or two once I am sure these are settled in. And then wait another 3-4 weeks before any more additions.