Well, maybe not walk, but hopefully you all appreciate what I intend to document here.
I'm going to make an attempt at keeping a trio of Acanthurus tangs; a Goldrim, Powder Brown and Achilles in one of my three QT systems for the next month with the goal of graduating them to my main display by the new year.
My local fish store, where I've got all my current fish for my 220 gallon tank, ran a 20% discount off livestock for Black Friday and happened to have these fish available. The Goldrim and Powder Brown were and have been the more active of the three. The two posture and circle a bit throughout their tank these first 30 hours but neither of them are getting the upper hand and are not beating on each other. I suppose this makes sense as the two are very similar looking to each other.
Neither of them have gone after the Achilles, who seems to just want to mind it's own business, hanging out in the bottom middle of the tank.
This tank is being treated with .35 mg/l Cupramine at the moment so I believe I'm going to see a little appetite suppression early on while they get used to their new surroundings. As I see all three improve in their eating I'll slowly ramp up the copper level till I reach the target of .50 mg/l and hold it there for a month. They are all currently eating a little bit.
They'll have access to a variety of foods; Zoomed spirulina flakes, New Life Spectrum Optimum flakes, Rod's Original frozen, Hikari Spirulina Brine, Hikari Mysis, and some Nori (which I limit as it pollutes the water). I add Selcon where I can.
I'm really going to enjoy this journey.
I'm going to make an attempt at keeping a trio of Acanthurus tangs; a Goldrim, Powder Brown and Achilles in one of my three QT systems for the next month with the goal of graduating them to my main display by the new year.
My local fish store, where I've got all my current fish for my 220 gallon tank, ran a 20% discount off livestock for Black Friday and happened to have these fish available. The Goldrim and Powder Brown were and have been the more active of the three. The two posture and circle a bit throughout their tank these first 30 hours but neither of them are getting the upper hand and are not beating on each other. I suppose this makes sense as the two are very similar looking to each other.
Neither of them have gone after the Achilles, who seems to just want to mind it's own business, hanging out in the bottom middle of the tank.
This tank is being treated with .35 mg/l Cupramine at the moment so I believe I'm going to see a little appetite suppression early on while they get used to their new surroundings. As I see all three improve in their eating I'll slowly ramp up the copper level till I reach the target of .50 mg/l and hold it there for a month. They are all currently eating a little bit.
They'll have access to a variety of foods; Zoomed spirulina flakes, New Life Spectrum Optimum flakes, Rod's Original frozen, Hikari Spirulina Brine, Hikari Mysis, and some Nori (which I limit as it pollutes the water). I add Selcon where I can.
I'm really going to enjoy this journey.