Hi everyone!!! My fiancee has been keeping aquariums all of his life. When I first moved into his house, he had two freshwater aquariums ...a 29 gal and a 55. The 55 gal was home to only two cichlids since they decided to kill off all the others. I had always admired the beauty of saltwater fish so I proposed we turn it into a saltwater tank as a project together. This was my first honest to goodness aquarium experience and I LOVED it. It's also extraordinarily nice to share such an interesting hobby with him. He started following Reef2Reef on facebook and I followed soon after. We use this forum for most of our questions regarding our tank.
So a little about our tank...we started a few months ago....cycled it for about a month and started adding fish little by little. We loved our selection...LTA, decorator crab, 6 pajama cardinals (I actually like them more than the benghais ---not sure if I spelled that correctly), damsel, royal gramma (KIA), ocellaris, lawnmower, mandarin, and our last addition was a powder blue tang....
We also had plenty of different species of snails and a couple hermit crabs..
Oh and we had a fire shrimp that lasted 12 hours before our crab ate him....and then wore him.
Then the extinction level event occurred. The first to go was the tang..everything else was dead within a week with the exception of the LTA, crab, snails, and hermit crabs. We really are not sure what caused this to happen since all of the tests came out fine.
Anyway! That's old news. We have rebuilt and we just bought our first tester fish over this past weekend to see if we can start adding fish back to the tank. We'll see how it goes =)
So a little about our tank...we started a few months ago....cycled it for about a month and started adding fish little by little. We loved our selection...LTA, decorator crab, 6 pajama cardinals (I actually like them more than the benghais ---not sure if I spelled that correctly), damsel, royal gramma (KIA), ocellaris, lawnmower, mandarin, and our last addition was a powder blue tang....
We also had plenty of different species of snails and a couple hermit crabs..
Oh and we had a fire shrimp that lasted 12 hours before our crab ate him....and then wore him.
Then the extinction level event occurred. The first to go was the tang..everything else was dead within a week with the exception of the LTA, crab, snails, and hermit crabs. We really are not sure what caused this to happen since all of the tests came out fine.
Anyway! That's old news. We have rebuilt and we just bought our first tester fish over this past weekend to see if we can start adding fish back to the tank. We'll see how it goes =)
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