Joshifer
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I’ve never come across this problem before. It’s possibly this lighting it’s a cheap 10k white and Acintics led. But anyway. Everything’s turning green. I have 2 astrea snails and 2 cerinth and they wasn’t even putting a dent. I went today and got a big turbo and some chemi pure blue. (This stuffs nice my water is like glass) I honestly don’t know what my phosphates are I don’t have a tester for that. Ammo and trites are 0 trates are under 20 I do my water changes every Sunday. I run this light about 8 hours all on and 2 hours just the blue.
im literally cleaning the glass everyday and my rocks are lime green.
livestock is one clown and a few inverts Fed pellets once a day not over feeding and a hammer coral and a GSP.
is their anything else I can do? I don’t think it’s coralline cus it’s a green powdery film on the glass I never tried scrubbing the rocks themselves. I wanted chaeto but I can’t seem to get my hands on any.
oh and I’m getting my rodi and salt water from reef escapes self serve stations.
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So I was using an aquaneat simple led light on my 5G. My hammer loved it. Today the thing sparked and blew up Idk I guess cus it’s too old. Bought it 2nd hand. Most of the leds were going out anyway.
my concern is; My tank won’t be in complete darkness during the day. Light comes in the room. It doesn’t get direct sunlight. But some light. I ordered a new light it won’t be here til Tuesday and it doesn’t have a dimmer or anything just on off or blues only. Am I gonna put that hammer coral into shock by turning it on full power? lol it’s a small tank I don’t have much room to play with when it comes to redirecting lights. And I’m not sure if a lamp dimmer from walmart/Home Depot will work on it.
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How would I go about buying a fish and cuc from you guys? Do I just call with a list of what I want and come by and give you my credit card?
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I’ve done two 100% water changes. It’s a loosing battle even dosing prime. The skeleton on my favorite hammer is white. Almost bleached, The rest will slowly die. I’m gonna rehome what’s left for free to save them
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Since the crash from the power outage Everything’s just going down hill. Waters very milky corals are pissed. Theirs dead pods everywhere im removing them the best I can. Snails and hermits are climbing to the top I guess for oxygen. I did a huge water changes for its size and nothing. I added a carbon filter pad. I pointed the power head completely up to the surface to make oxygen. I opened windows for fresh air.
Idk what else to do. Do I just wait it out? The way things look I’m expecting a total wipeout any day. And I need to leave to Florida next week :(
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3 hours ago, YHSublime said:
5 gallons isn't to small for a clown pair. I've got 22 gallons and I've never seen my fish go outside of a 5 gallon radius. I've kept clown pairs in 5 gallon tanks before as well, they rarely stray from "home base," in my case, anemones.
lol ya the mean one stays on top corner at the mag float. The smaller one stays on the opposite side trying to host the frogs and hammers getting used to they’re sting. Then she sees him and chases him. -
They were never meant to be in there long. They’ve only been in there less 2-3 weeks
ive successfully done it before a few times.
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It’s only a 5 gallon I’m in the process of getting a bigger tank. Their regular osc. The mean ones bigger than the beat up one. He even wiggles to show submission but she doesn’t seem to care.
I’ll call the fish store and see if they’ll take the mean one lol. I think they’re closed today.
I just checked she’s at the top of the tank and he’s hiding under my hammer lights are off.
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I’ve never had this problem. My clowns always got along. I bought these together they was fine but lately ones really beating the other up bad. Then their fine swimming together. Then she randomly chases him around violently I had to put the lid on cus he jumped trying to get away from her. His fins are all nippedThe other is not nipped. I am afraid she’s going to kill him. He’s eating fine. His fins regenerate in days then she nips them off again. He hides under the rock I turned the lights off so she can’t see him.
I don’t know do I rehome her or him it’s a matter of time before she kills him. She’s like really out for him. I don’t have another tank to seperate them. When the lights are off she seems to leave him alone. But I have a few coral so I can’t stay dark long. I never tried putting my hand in to see if she attacks my hand. But she’s a meanie. And it’s not when he comes to one side of the tank no she goes looking for him lol
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Lights are off I’ll get one tomorrow I hope it doesn’t die it’s so pretty.
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So I have a 4 headed Duncan and I noticed brown hair algae growing on the skeleton. So I tried brushing it off with a new toothbrush and it came off it’s skeleton base as soon as I put the brush to it. All 4 heads are still connected to eachother. It seems to be responding to light opening closing. Hermit walked over it it closed. Then opened again.
my question is. Will it die? Or will it grow a new skeleton. It’s pretty much just a 4 branched stem right now I moved it up onto the rock from the sand bed because theirs nothing supporting it but it’s stem body and it was rolling around in the sand from the flow.
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I got two trochus and two cerinth. The trochus are really going to town on the algae the cerinth aren’t coming out of their shells guess their adjusting. Thanks for the tips guys.
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Ok I never had this problem before idk. I’m not using tap water. I turned off the blues to show how green this thing is and I don’t wanna take it out and scrub it because it’s “Alive” now it’s made of crushed coral I don’t wanna kill my BB.
I need to go get those snails just my stores are closed when I’m free. And I refuse to buy from petco their tanks are full of that red slime.
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Actually I’m in the process of getting a new tank once one of the members sells everything out of it. If it doesn’t have a lid I’d appreciate you making me those end pieces. I’ll let you know. Thanks again.
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Idk just another wierd clown thing. I was just curious what does it mean lol
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1 minute ago, Origami said:
Waiting to hear if anybody knows. A quick search on "clownfish blowing bubbles" yields a handful of hits that, like your post, thus far has remained unanswered.
yeah I googled it nobody knew they were all like “you don’t have enough flow” or “they can’t breathe” -
So this is new I’ve never seen this before. One of my clowns is making bubbles then pushing them into a corner at the top. When the other clown comes near I assume “she” pushes him away.
she’ll literally make a row of bubbles then push them to the side stacking them neatly. Then the flow pops them all and she’ll do it all over again.
their mouths are closed they aren’t gasping or anything.
boredom? Lol I know beta’s do this I never seen it from a clown.
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Thanks all. Sorry I forgot to sub to this so I wasn’t alerted of replies.
i found that metal mesh and it’s rust proof at Lowe’s but I was trying to figure out how to keep it on. Those little corner pieces would be perfect. As of right now I cut some holes in the lid that came with it and I only use it at night so I don’t have to worry about them jumping while I’m workikg or sleeping. I hate how it looks.
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Also before I get yelled at 2 clowns in a 5 I’m in the Process of looking for a bigger tank. They’ll only be in here a few months at most.
I kinda want something huge because I have the space for it finally. Like furniture grade. but at the same time I don’t wanna deal with the big water changes I’m used to nanos. A gallon a week and everything’s happy lol
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Actually I managed to get some pics.
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Okay so I got my clowns today. That hypo thing I was worried about they actually raise the salinity as they come to the end of the qt/med/hypo period . Saved me the hassle and worry.
so their swimming around exploring. I noticed under white light alone it can’t be seen but When I turn on the blue light. one of them the very edge of his fin. I don’t remember the name the ones in the middle. Anyway that transparent edge part their seems to be a white speck. It can’t be Ich they were just in copper and hypo and I got them directly from QT before they were placed with the other fish in display. Plus they only been in my tank for 2 hours it won’t show up that fast if I have ich i pray I don’t.
Lymphocystis? don’t think it’s sand he’s been swimming around even hit the power head stream a few times.
now their just swimming around looking for somewhere to Host. I hope it isn’t anything serious.
the lady did they this pair was fighting with the others and only seem to tolerate each other and had to be separated. So I got them since they tolerate each other.
maybe it’s a healing fin from a fight? I’m trying to get a pic but their all over the place Once they settle down I’ll get a pic. -
So tomorrow the clowns at reef escape should be done getting their medicine QT’s and should be ready to Go. My tank has been running 32 days now. Every time I did a ammonia test it processed within hours.
I’m not sure during the medicating qt if their also in hypo. I’ve read online doing long Acclimation drips does permanent damage to the fish’s gills and organs and stresses them out bad. I’m not sure how to go about acclimating from hypo to 1.025-ish. What is everyone’s thoughts on going from hypo to 1.025 on a juvi clown?
that’s if they hypo I have to ask when I go tomorrow. Or maybe it’s just copper and normal salinity. I know they run their tanks at 1.025 because I buy their water. It’s cheaper and easier on me.
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3 minutes ago, AlanM said:
ceriths are neat. They can flip over and go back down into the sand during the day. I've always liked astrea snails, but they can't flip over, like you say. The hermits don't like the shell shape, so they always left them alone in my tank. Nerites initially hang out at the water line, but eventually go everywhere. All of them work ok. You'll always get some agressive hermits going after a snail or two, but you can always add more snails. No biggie.
Ok so astrea is the one I don’t want lol.
I’ll get a big fat hermit maybe a scarlet. and a few nerites.. Tank isn’t big so I can’t over load it with critters they’ll starve lol. Thanks also do you think 5-10 nitrates are okay for a skunk cleaner shrimp? -
So I need a copy made of my lid but gated for light/air and to prevent fish from jumping.
I’ll pay for the filament used. Doesn’t have to be fancy just usable.
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hey long time no see hope you and yours are safe and well. Actually this tanks been running since august. And ran fallow for many months. Just inverts.
but anyway I did a Few big water changes and that chemi pure blue is doing a good job. The rock works slowly turning a pale green instead of bright like green. so it’s dying off.