29g BioCube is coming Alive!

[Lessa99]

Tank has been running for about 3 1/2 weeks now, and I did start with Dr. Tim's one and only, which I think helped, but not sure I would recommend it again, as I think this is why I had the weird spike last week, but things have leveled off.

I'm still unsure of many things! I bought some frozen mysis and I don't know how to use it! And I have a finger leather and a hammer, but do not know how to feed them either! Do I get some sort of liquid supplement and use a baster?

And my wife again came home with fish from a LFS, this time a six line and another oscellaris! I am expecting an upcoming spike, but have now explicitly told her NO MORE FISH, and explained that any "soft" corals would be great! So Ill just have to keep up with the water changes I guess!

 

[Sniperhank]

If you have enough light you don't need to feed a leather or hammer corals. They get all the nutrients they need from light. As for feeding frozen mysis, I thaw a cube out in some tank water and drain it off. The water it is frozen in is loaded with nutrients that can lead to algae issues. Then simply feed little bits to your tank. Between my 2 tanks I use an entire cube, so you don't need much. Also, I only feed twice a week.

 

[Lessa99]

After viewing a ton of pictures on here, I am kind of unhappy with my aquascape! Should I attempt to remove my fish while I rearrange my rock, or just do it during a water change...? I don't want them to stress out too much!

 

[Nu-Nu the eel]

Dont remove the fish they would be super stressed... Lol just make sure you dont crush them!

 

[Horvy19]

I redid my aqua scape once while my fish and coral were in there, just go slow and be careful!

 

[Lessa99]

I Finally got some pictures!

I'll do my best to upload, but not sure this will work!

Any thoughts on how to improve are appreciated! This is the new aquascape by the way!

Full Tank Shots...

Mushrooms!

Green Button Polyps

Finger Leather

Tiny Hammer

 

[obscurereef]

Looks great. Really like the aquascape and corals. Why are those mushrooms a white/translucent color?

 

[Lessa99]

Not sure, I chose that rock at Petco because it had the traditional purplish colored mushrooms, but also the small white ones!

 

[Sniperhank]

The white ones are probably just bleached purple ones. Petco doesn't have lighting to support corals. I bought some hairy mushrooms from mine about a month or 2 ago right when they came in. They were in good shape, but once under my radions they just exploded in size.

 

[Lessa99]

Yeah, the leather and the mushroom and green buttons are from petco, it seems like they tend to thrive once I get them home, and they are so much cheaper than the LFS, so when they have some that look good, I will take a shot! They always have a bunch of different types of anemones, but I know my tank isn't ready for one of them, but they are amazing!

 

[Lessa99]

Hey Friends, I did a water change about 2 days ago and ever since then I have not seen the six line wrasse? So it has been about 2 days without a sighting! Is it a bad sign? Should I start tearing apart the rock work to find him?

 

[Beengirl]

Wrasses are known to bury themselves in the sand when stressed, sometimes for a couple days. He'll probably show up, unless you find him on the floor. They're jumpers too.

 

[Horvy19]

Look in chamber 1. My goby has jumped in there twice! Once he was in there for 3 days under the pump!

 

[Lessa99]

So I had to check and see, and I moved every rock in the tank and he is NOWHERE! What could this mean? Also not in any of the chambers, the lid is always on of course so he didn't jump out! What is going on Im freaked!

My other stock is

2x Oscellaris Clowns
1 Bengaii Cardinal
2 Emerald Crab
5 Hermit crabs
8 snails....

Help!