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[Ori]

Here's my new fish! It's a tailspot blenny!

 

[ScottandAlisa]

I just got a tail spot blenny a few days ago too! Already showing personality, likes to perch on his rock and watch me anytime I get close to the tank. Hope you enjoy yours as much as Im enjoying mine!

 

[Ori]

The tailspot has settled in pretty good. I haven’t gotten him to take pellets yet,but he eats the algae so I’m not too worried about him getting enough to eat. I’m having a bit of an algae issue . Got a couple snails to help with it.. will the algae go away on its own or should I do something to get rid of it?

Now for the new additions! A yellow watchman goby and a tiger pistol shrimp . I haven’t seen the shrimp since I put it in, but it has dug many holes. The goby I see every once in a while, but I don’t think they’ve paired yet because I haven’t seen the shrimp.

I also added my first corals!! A mushroom and a zoa frag. They seem to have settled in pretty good. The zoa looks really cool under the blue light but my camera wouldn’t focus with it.

 

[Ori]

Update: the goby and shrimp have found each other! They’re super cute, the goby sits and watches while the shrimp works hard shoveling sand out of their burrow.

 

[Ori]

Aaaa its been so long since I’ve posted here! My tank is doing fine other than the fact that it is very covered in algae .

As for the fish, my blenny has become much more comfortable and is almost always out, but he still spits out pellets. The goby is a little less scared of me everyday. Both the shrimp are doing great to, the cleaner is a real crowd pleaser haha. When ever we have guests over he’s always a favourite. I added a emerald crab like... a week ago maybe? And I haven’t seen him in 4 or 5 days . Hope he’s ok.

The corals are doing just fine. I glued the zoa and coral glue is one of my new least favourite things. That was way harder than it should have been lol. Today I bought a beautiful rock covered in zoas!! It’s so gorgeous, and I got it for a really good price . My tanks an algae mess right now so no pics yet, but I’ll try to get some tomorrow when I clean it!

 

[Salty.Reefer]

Very nice! I’m looking into the 5g evo.

 

[Ori]

Thanks! I’m really loving my evo, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the 5 gallon if you get it!

 

[Joshua2598]

Cool tank. I saw a youtuber had birds nest in his evo 12 with stock lighting! Ofcourse he had to upgrade flow and a but still these lights are awesome. I'm able to grow frog spawn in mine

 

[Robert McCreary]

awesome i got the same tank! i've owned mine for about a year! i love your rock work and if i didnt already have 2 clownfish i would have gone with the tailspot blenny as well or a yasha goby and some other fish to help fight off pests like a sixline or something. awesome mushroom and zoas btw

 

[Ori]

Joshua2598- woah really? That’s awesome!! I’ve been playing it safe with softies so far but eventually I want to get a torch or a hammer .

Robert McCreary- Aww, thank you! I almost got clownfish but decided to get the tailspot and goby instead. Yasha gobies are so beautiful! I see why you would have got one

 

[Joshua2598]

Joshua2598- woah really? That’s awesome!! I’ve been playing it safe with softies so far but eventually I want to get a torch or a hammer .

Robert McCreary- Aww, thank you! I almost got clownfish but decided to get the tailspot and goby instead. Yasha gobies are so beautiful! I see why you would have got one

The tank is super cool. Go for the hammer or torch or any euphyillia. They do fine

 

[Ori]

Got a picture of the new zoas! My cleaner shrimp’s new favourite pastime is angering the zoas by poking them, so that’s why a lot of them are closed haha.

 

[Joshua2598]

Super pretty zoas. See a lil bit of algae down there though. Beef up the clean up crew haha

 

[Ori]

yeah, im gonna get a couple more snails next time I go to the fish store .

 

[Joshua2598]

Same here lol

 

[Ori]

Got some more coral! A nice Rasta colony with 20 heads or so and a 4 head golden hammer .On another note my cleaner shrimp has retired from cleaning to become a Professional Zoa Poker. Also I got a cool little striped brittle star hitch hiker on the zoas!! It’s nice to have a star fish again haha, I like them a lot.

My tank looks so nasty right now ;Yuck. Really can’t wait for the uglies to end. But I have good news, the emerald crab is alive!! As soon as he saw me he disappeared into the rock work. No wonder I thought he was dead.

 

[Joshua2598]

I want to see a full tank and coral pics!!

 

[Ori]

I want to see a full tank and coral pics!!

The picture didn’t catch it very well, but under the blue light the hammer is actually a nice gold colour!

 

[Joshua2598]

Honestly I'm jealous. Beautiful tank!

 

[Algaewarrior]

What is your light schedule? I would suggest more CUC. Snails and/or hermits.it also looks like you have a bunch of substrate. Maybe the pump is making dunes but I would take a little out every waterchange until you have an inch or two. Great start though. I like all of your choices so far.