13.5 gallon macro softie nano

[Common Blevil]

Long story short - too much aggression (managed): gobies need time and energy to change sex and to get used to eachother. Idiots not eating (managed) - i now know how to hatch lots of brine shrimp. They were starving and looking like complete skeletons, but now slowly are fattening up. I love and hate them at the same time, hope they will start eating frozen food soon.

Hote for the future: do not get a supposedly mated but not mated wild pair of gobiodon if i want to have a life of not constantly feeding brine shrimp to little egg yolks.

 

[Common Blevil]

Long story short - too much aggression (managed): gobies need time and energy to change sex and to get used to eachother. Idiots not eating (managed) - i now know how to hatch lots of brine shrimp. They were starving and looking like complete skeletons, but now slowly are fattening up. I love and hate them at the same time, hope they will start eating frozen food soon.

The tank otherwise looking great. Sand is a bit dirty, but conch needs something to eat. I never cleaned the back wall so it helps with the nutrients and also feeds invertebrate herbivores.

 

[lil sumpin]

Looking good! Be careful w the gobies, they may bully each other to death regardless of whether you keep them well fed or not. I think you should get a tail spot blenny! They’re algae grazing omnivores. Whenever I see green film I’m always like should I scrub it off now… or wait till tomorrow.. and end up doing it once a week on water change days. There’s usually a bunch of pods feasting on it

 

[Common Blevil]

Looking good! Be careful w the gobies, they may bully each other to death regardless of whether you keep them well fed or not. I think you should get a tail spot blenny! They’re algae grazing omnivores. Whenever I see green film I’m always like should I scrub it off now… or wait till tomorrow.. and end up doing it once a week on water change days. There’s usually a bunch of pods feasting on it

About gobies... I am really considering trading one for coral after i fatten them up... And, considering that i hatch brine shrimp really quick and it seems to live in my tank for some time and pass the filtration i think they'll be good.

About the tailspot... That's the fish the tank was made for!) I will totally get it and hope will have enough biofilm to sustain it, if it will not eat right away.

Also, i will keep the biofilm until my algae and coral biomass is big enough. Maybe i will leave the film on the back completely, but I'm thinking about it.

 

[Common Blevil]

Natural sunlight and two idiots

 

[Common Blevil]

At last I've got the main fish - the tailspot blenny. It is a big male, and is now acclimating.
*no brain, no thoughts*

 

[lil sumpin]

I’m getting one soon too

 

[Common Blevil]

As for the other news, gobies started to eat a bit of frozen food. But only a little(egg yolk idiots...) I also hatch a lot of baby brine shrimp without the usage of air pumps and the gobies have constant supply of food(i removed sponges from Tidal, so bbs can circulate for a lot of time)

I'm planning to maybe try and release the second goby from the breeding box after i release ecsenius and see, if they will fight or not. If they will, i will put it in the box again and wait for a couple of weeks. If they still will fight i will sell one of the gobies.

From the coral and algae news, I've got xenia, and it is starting to feel well(it was scraped off the glass with a razor). Other corals feel good. Chaetomorpha and red dragon's breath halymenia are doing well, but the latter is not as bright as eas before, but still not growing. Is it because of too much light or too little nutriens?
Inverts are doing great.

 

[Common Blevil]

I also hatch a lot of baby brine shrimp without the usage of air pumps and the gobies have constant supply of food

That's how it looks. Want to point out that in such case there's no need to adding lot's of eggs, that's just waste of product

 

[Common Blevil]

I love how when blenny got out from the cave, my neighbour's music started playing. Epic introduction

 

[Common Blevil]

Another fun news, is that i found out that my tank(54 liters) is actually 14.3 gallons if converted l to g. So the title of the thread is incorrect

 

[Common Blevil]

Blenny is adorable. And not really scared of me, really outgoing. Eats frozen, live and eats stuff from the rocks.
Love it! A lot more then stupid gobies... Buuut if they stop being fastidious about food and pair up, instead of ripping eachother's a$$es apart on a daily basis, i will love them too
They stopped being too aggressive, but smaller one sometimes gets bullied. At least they stop fighting at feeding time...

A little advice: gobies seem to react a lot better, when frozen food is in the flow, especially really turbulent one. Only blenny reacts to food without flow. But when hang on the back and head of the internal filter are turned on... They look so funny... Just no thoughts... Only swim, only munch... And then they spew out half of all the frozen brine shrimp they caught, that is like 1.5 in total...

 

[Common Blevil]

I try to write about my experience as much as i can, so other people can learn from it.) Hope, that I'll help somebody)

 

[Common Blevil]

Blenny is perfect! Also a little update on the scape.

 

[lil sumpin]

Blenny is perfect! Also a little update on the scape.

That bristle worm photo bombed your blenny! Very cute looking fish, glad to hear he’s acclimating well.

 

[Common Blevil]

That bristle worm photo bombed your blenny!

It made the photo so much better, added this chaotic reef aesthetic!)

Very cute looking fish, glad to hear he’s acclimating well.

He is not also acclimating well, he is eating well, and gobies started eating frozen after i got the blenny. Also they fight a lot less. My only concern is strawberry conch. I'm not sure, if it gets enough food, even so i made light stronger again so more algae can grow on the sand.

 

[Common Blevil]

Today in the morning i found that glass wass full of blenny kisses) It's so cute! Also 4 days ago i bought caulerpa and it has acclimated well. I also found a bumblebee snail, it is always funny to find this lazy butt and know that it's still alive and thriving

 

[Common Blevil]

Strawberry conch does not eat ocean nutrition flakes but does eat hikari mini veggie wafers. I was worried that he is not getting enough food, now the problem is solved. Also, blenny loves to eat wafers from the tweezers... And sometimes bites me on the hand when i put my hand with tweezers in the tank but do not bring him food

 

[Common Blevil]

The cutest thing ever!

 

[Common Blevil]

Update: tank seems to be doing ok. I had disturbed the sandbed and nobody liked it for a few days, now everything is good. After that i will think twice before moving rocks)
I also experimented with different backgrounds, did not like any and now using the white sheet on which the black background was, and only because it shields excess light and hides wires and pots, so there's less distraction from the tank. All this stuff with backgrounds and sandbeds just made me realise that i want to leave tank as it is, and let it develop