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Hi @fiddlesticks. Nice setup!
I have the same tank. And yes, gobies are rather on the shy side. We have a yellow watchman and is very camera shy.
I just upgrade to the Icecap 2K gyre. Love it so far. Would you mind sharing your settings? For the moment I have the pump set to a max of 50%. Running the random pattern from 8am - 8pm. Have you run into any gotcha's with the 2K?
Feel free to check out my build thread. Looks like my tank has been running a little longer.
Thanks!
Thanks for the compliments and the advice on the gramma! I am hoping that if I add something semi-aggressive last, that it will be less likely to decide the entire tank is their domain. I had similar concerns with something like an orchid dottyback, but hopefully if I give the more peaceful fish a chance to set up shop first, a Gramma or dottyback would mind their manners a little better.Things looks like they are progressing nicely! Regarding the Gramma, they are beautiful fish. However, i've heard its a coin flip on what you'll end up with. Some are skiddish and spend mos of their times in the rock. While others are insanely territorial and will dominate their areas of the tank. My son was the reason we got the tank and he wanted the gramma so it was the first fish we put in. Well, to put it nicely the gramma is a jerk. He is constantly charging my female clown causing her to start the submissive shake. The male doesn't really care and dodges the gramma. It doesnt happen all day and the gramma doesn't actually bite them from what i can tell. The gramma hasn't gone after my YWG, which is smaller by about 2 inches and is significantly quicker. I wont remove the gramma until it becomes a significant issue, which it has not to this point.
And yes, hermits are murder hobos! (Really like that name). I dropped a few small nassarius in and they immediately killed them and left their shells sitting. There is a large number of larger empty shells sitting around they just werent interested in apparently. I currently have one hermit that is living in a bumblebee snail shell. I kind of regret going the hermit route and not going with solely snails!
Thank you!Welcome to R2R, tank looks great!!!
That's interesting. Based on my (very limited) observations, it seemed like random tended to just fluctuate a few percent around a set point, so it wasn't quite doing what I thought it would. I liked it better than constant for the day routines, but I'll have to play around with the square wave next.Thanks @fiddlesticks.
I like the schedule. I was actually thinking about implementing something similar. It's good to see what has worked on a similar tank.
I was reading a different thread where Jeff from Coralview was talking about his settings. They found 'random' to not be quite random enough, which is my thoughts. And he uses the square wave instead. Link here
Like you I will probably go a little (lot) overboard when setting up test scenarios.
Thank you so much for all of the wonderful info you contribute to this site. If I hadn't found your threads on how to really get to the bottom of extreme algae issues like the one I had, I would probably hit the 1 year mark and be contemplating whether it was worth it to keep going, or to sell off my surviving inhabitants, and call it quits. I'll be honest, I was terrified of tearing everything down to deep-clean, but your posts gave me the needed kick in the pants to get going! Time and again I read that if I didn't address the root of the problem, no amount of tank treatments would fix it, but I'm stubborn, and had to try all the other things first. ;ShamefullyembarrasedI can not thank you earnestly enough for updating the life journey of that tank
you commanded it you absolutely did. you can feel that pull away from direct intervention, its engrained in us somehow to be hands off, but the strange thing about reef tank cpr is it will keep the reef alive until we get lucky or aligned in such a way as to need no more pumps. through the tradeoff of water, export and a jack ton of rinsing we simply buy more months to search for the ideal
reefing used to be about riding the 1st wave only, to the crash, and the baddest around were those who prevented the initial crash first go
I can not reach that bar with my pico, it must be rip cleaned to live.
Maritza the vase reef needs no rip cleaning to run 8 years carrying the densest coral loading ive ever seen in a pico, kudos there as well.
it is not ideal to have to rip clean tanks, but thankfully its an option to simply crack the whip and the hardest part is just being willing. You absolutely took the reef and had a talk with it and then it straightened up. I identify with that.