harticus5
New Member
Hello, everyone! I am very new to salt water tanks, and after many years of freshwater tanks, decided to switch to salt water. I am loving every second and being new decided to start with the Red Sea Max 250. I have some questions for anyone who is willing to assist. Very apprecciated!
So I am going on week 6, and while I know I somewhat rushed adding fish, and coral, all water paramaters were looking good, and everything seems to be growing good/and healty.
I went thru about a week of green hair algae around week 2,whic was annoying at first, and then as part of the tank cycle went away. Currently I have some red slime on the sand, which doesnt seem to go away fully, however is easily managed at Water changes/cleanings/Turbo snails.
Corals I have added are doing good, the button is growing exceptionally good. My 4 Osc. Clowns are lowing life and never leave my Mignificgant anemone, except for feedings.
Current tank has 4 osc clowns, 1 blue hippo tang (baby small about 1"),1 Flame angel, 1 yellow tang, 1 scopis tank, 6 Turbo snails, 2 large cleaner shrimp, 1 yellow tang, 1 magnificgant anemone, 1 long tenticale anemone, 1 bubble tip anemone. For the corals: Cany cane, sunflower, button, bi-color frogspon, and greens bird nest frag. 55lbs live rock
So everything was going great except.....I had a 2nd baby blue hippo (1")which swam his way past the skimmer, seriously injuring himself, and died within 24hrs, in QT. Also I had a kole tang, which died, which I could never get to eat anything ever. It would peck at rocks the whole 3 weeks I had him, and refuse to eat. I have algae sheets/brine shrimp cubes/garlic. i never saw the fish eat once, which I assumed was partially why he died. My last dose of horrible news is I had a baby 2" porcupine puffer, which ate the tail of my only blue hippo that I currently have left, so I had to return the puff........The good news is the hippo seems to be doing fine recovering for 2 weeks now. I feel horrible, and the blue hippo is my fav in tank.
My experience with Garlic has been terrible, If I add 1 drop to a frozen cube, and allow soak, and then add to the tank all my fish hate it completely, so I gave up using any garlic.
I have also bought a RO Filter, and have a DI add on the way (which I bought it all in one - all at once)
Also, I want to say I love the Red Sea Max 250, however this protein skimmer is crap, and the fine tune adjustments are really annoying. Also these bulbs run ridiculously hot. Not sure what the average person spends on there setup, I am currently at about 4k (tank, stand, fish, supplies, etc)
Here are my questions:
1) There are about 7 "baby snails"? crawling on the glass. i have no idea what these are. Baby TB snails or did they come from the live rock? They are extremly small, white/clear, and there main body kind of moves like a suction cup. Do I have baby snails already?..or what are these? (I attached a pic) Only appearred recently.
2) My anemones do eat, however this is an incredibile struggle,.....the cleaner shrimp are always stealing their food. Even if I try distracing them with there own food to eat. Apparrently my cleaner shrimp do not get stung by my anenomes. Also my anemones barely go after raw shrimp. Any ideas? I was thinking of trying out crap meat.
3) My setup is in my basement, and these hot bulbs started making my tank run at 81-83.5 during the day with the lights on (Mid-summer), and at night with blue moon LEDs runs around 80.5-81. I see many different opinions on idea water temp for different fish. Seems to me best is 79-80 all the time. Should I make the move for a chiller?
4) Add a UV sterilizer?
I realize my hippo will need a bigger tank one day. Thanks for any help!!!!!
Thank you to House of Tropicals Glen Burnie MD - Best fish store in MD! and That Fish Place in Landcaster PA!!!
So I am going on week 6, and while I know I somewhat rushed adding fish, and coral, all water paramaters were looking good, and everything seems to be growing good/and healty.
I went thru about a week of green hair algae around week 2,whic was annoying at first, and then as part of the tank cycle went away. Currently I have some red slime on the sand, which doesnt seem to go away fully, however is easily managed at Water changes/cleanings/Turbo snails.
Corals I have added are doing good, the button is growing exceptionally good. My 4 Osc. Clowns are lowing life and never leave my Mignificgant anemone, except for feedings.
Current tank has 4 osc clowns, 1 blue hippo tang (baby small about 1"),1 Flame angel, 1 yellow tang, 1 scopis tank, 6 Turbo snails, 2 large cleaner shrimp, 1 yellow tang, 1 magnificgant anemone, 1 long tenticale anemone, 1 bubble tip anemone. For the corals: Cany cane, sunflower, button, bi-color frogspon, and greens bird nest frag. 55lbs live rock
So everything was going great except.....I had a 2nd baby blue hippo (1")which swam his way past the skimmer, seriously injuring himself, and died within 24hrs, in QT. Also I had a kole tang, which died, which I could never get to eat anything ever. It would peck at rocks the whole 3 weeks I had him, and refuse to eat. I have algae sheets/brine shrimp cubes/garlic. i never saw the fish eat once, which I assumed was partially why he died. My last dose of horrible news is I had a baby 2" porcupine puffer, which ate the tail of my only blue hippo that I currently have left, so I had to return the puff........The good news is the hippo seems to be doing fine recovering for 2 weeks now. I feel horrible, and the blue hippo is my fav in tank.
My experience with Garlic has been terrible, If I add 1 drop to a frozen cube, and allow soak, and then add to the tank all my fish hate it completely, so I gave up using any garlic.
I have also bought a RO Filter, and have a DI add on the way (which I bought it all in one - all at once)
Also, I want to say I love the Red Sea Max 250, however this protein skimmer is crap, and the fine tune adjustments are really annoying. Also these bulbs run ridiculously hot. Not sure what the average person spends on there setup, I am currently at about 4k (tank, stand, fish, supplies, etc)
Here are my questions:
1) There are about 7 "baby snails"? crawling on the glass. i have no idea what these are. Baby TB snails or did they come from the live rock? They are extremly small, white/clear, and there main body kind of moves like a suction cup. Do I have baby snails already?..or what are these? (I attached a pic) Only appearred recently.
2) My anemones do eat, however this is an incredibile struggle,.....the cleaner shrimp are always stealing their food. Even if I try distracing them with there own food to eat. Apparrently my cleaner shrimp do not get stung by my anenomes. Also my anemones barely go after raw shrimp. Any ideas? I was thinking of trying out crap meat.
3) My setup is in my basement, and these hot bulbs started making my tank run at 81-83.5 during the day with the lights on (Mid-summer), and at night with blue moon LEDs runs around 80.5-81. I see many different opinions on idea water temp for different fish. Seems to me best is 79-80 all the time. Should I make the move for a chiller?
4) Add a UV sterilizer?
I realize my hippo will need a bigger tank one day. Thanks for any help!!!!!
Thank you to House of Tropicals Glen Burnie MD - Best fish store in MD! and That Fish Place in Landcaster PA!!!
