Looking to get into coral

[Higgins335]

Woah. Is that bad. Or good.

 

[Gboy66]

Woah. Is that bad. Or good.

Woah as in nice purchase! Those are some good deals on the crabs snails and hermits. Not sure about the coral frags, as i havent looked into corals yet! Its going to look great though! Only thing i didnt get was that you bought 100 hermit shells. Thats because they will kill eachother for bigger shells, right?

 

[Higgins335]

I have bout 40 or so hermits in the tank and they are getting a little big for there shells and need to move up. If you ordered a hundred in their free shipping area you get free shipping on the entire order. Shipping from FL to UT overnight gets pretty costly so I try to get free shipping.

 

[Higgins335]

A hundred dollars worth in there free shipping area not 100 hermit crab shells.

 

[Gboy66]

I have bout 40 or so hermits in the tank and they are getting a little big for there shells and need to move up. If you ordered a hundred in their free shipping area you get free shipping on the entire order. Shipping from FL to UT overnight gets pretty costly so I try to get free shipping.

Ya that is a good idea! Also, question. I have heard hermits sortof die off after awhile...is this true for you? Do you always replenish them?

 

[Higgins335]

Mine have managed to stay alive for the most part. The only real losses in my tank were 3 clown fish who took on the power head till I got that taken care of and one emerald crab. Oh yea and a peppermint shrimp and a clown fish that the shrimp was my guess trying to eat.

 

[Gboy66]

Mine have managed to stay alive for the most part. The only real losses in my tank were 3 clown fish who took on the power head till I got that taken care of and one emerald crab. Oh yea and a peppermint shrimp and a clown fish that the shrimp was my guess trying to eat.

Take on the powerhead? 3 of them? Im sorry!!

 

[Higgins335]

Here are some pics of the tank and mushroom. Not very good taken with iPhone camera.

 

[BallinCrew10]

That hippo tang and emperor angel need much bigger tanks. Tang needs a 6' tank and the angel needs a 220. The angel will grow to be longer than your tank is wide.

 

[Higgins335]

Yeah I'm looking to upgrade tank shortly been looking on local classifieds. And Craigslist hoping to jump up to a 300 gal and use this for a qt tank. Was misdirected by lfs about the emperor angle when I was new to sw.

 

[BallinCrew10]

A 300 would be good. Seems like it'd be tough to find one on CL but I guess you could get lucky.

 

[Higgins335]

Thankfully the local classifieds here in salt lake have quite a few people selling tanks.

 

[Gboy66]

Regardless, looks really nice!!

 

[Higgins335]

Some photos on the new coral.

 

[xxStLxx]

What filtration are you running on your tank?

 

[Higgins335]

A marinland and Aquarian back of tank filters.

 

[xxStLxx]

Just wondering because from your pics your water looks either really green or a little murky. Is it the camera possibly? And I noticed what looks like algae blooms all over the tank. Do you use RODI water for top off and mixing salt?

 

[xxStLxx]

You also might want to invest in a skimmer now that your doing coral, helps keep the excess nutrients out of the water caused by fish and uneaten food. Just remember if you do to get a skimmer thats rated 50-100 gallons more than your current setup. Bigger is better in this case.

 

[Higgins335]

I think it's the camera on my iPhone I have the same problem when I FaceTime. I do not use rodi I have very clean water.