QuentinSaltwater
Community Member
Hello, this is my first saltwater tank, it has been running since January, since then I got a trumpet coral and gsp, they were doing well until i went on holiday and they died. After holiday, I lost my cleanup crew but all my fish and tuxedo urchin and nassarius made it. Everything that died were my corals, 2 trochus snails, 3 red legged hermit crabs, and one candy cane pistol shrimp who was paired to my YWG.
Photos of my corals:
This is my tank now:
The fish I have are one ocellaris clownfish and one yellow watchman goby. I'm worried about my yellow watchman goby because he doesn't eat much, he's my oldest fish, and has been with me since almost the start of the tank. He used to eat aggressively straight from the turkey baster before, but then I had a tank crash and he has been much more shy, I don't often see him eat, every now and then I can see him eat the pellets from the sand. But he doesn't come and get them when they are falling. I'm not sure if he's eating them when I'm not around, however at night I do see him swimming around searching for food. For my fish I tend to feed around 5 pellets each once or twice a day, and frozen mysis shrimp sometimes. Do you think I should feed more?
Would you say his belly in sunken in?
As I lost my cleanup crew, should I replace them, because I have a tuxedo urchin already, who is quite the monster, he eats a lot. But he hasn't been keeping up as much lately because when I came back from my holiday I found turf algae on the rocks, but very small and short amounts. He also is moving much slower. I might get more snails, what snails do you recommend? I have some green algae and brown algae.
Does anyone know what this is? I have lots of spiorbid snails in my sump, and I'm not sure if this strong stuff is from them, or something else.
Thanks.
Photos of my corals:
This is my tank now:
The fish I have are one ocellaris clownfish and one yellow watchman goby. I'm worried about my yellow watchman goby because he doesn't eat much, he's my oldest fish, and has been with me since almost the start of the tank. He used to eat aggressively straight from the turkey baster before, but then I had a tank crash and he has been much more shy, I don't often see him eat, every now and then I can see him eat the pellets from the sand. But he doesn't come and get them when they are falling. I'm not sure if he's eating them when I'm not around, however at night I do see him swimming around searching for food. For my fish I tend to feed around 5 pellets each once or twice a day, and frozen mysis shrimp sometimes. Do you think I should feed more?
Would you say his belly in sunken in?
As I lost my cleanup crew, should I replace them, because I have a tuxedo urchin already, who is quite the monster, he eats a lot. But he hasn't been keeping up as much lately because when I came back from my holiday I found turf algae on the rocks, but very small and short amounts. He also is moving much slower. I might get more snails, what snails do you recommend? I have some green algae and brown algae.
Does anyone know what this is? I have lots of spiorbid snails in my sump, and I'm not sure if this strong stuff is from them, or something else.
Thanks.
