Manderin goby

[Hallowhead]

Welp... Lifted all the rocks with some help tonight and shined a flash light with no luck. I can't even find a carcass. I have a tight mesh lid on the tank so it's not possible he jumped. I just assume my dottyback got to him, and clean up crew including 10,000,000 bristle worms.

 

[Hallowhead]

Figured idk how his entire body went missing until I saw this, this morning

Dead nassarrius snail getting houses

 

[blaxsun]

Geez you have a lot of worms...

 

[Hallowhead]

Geez you have a lot of worms...

Need to make a trap and get rid of them. It's disgusting.

I have to over feed to keep elevated nutrients but when I do my vermetid snails rapidly spread and I gain another 20 bristle worms

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sounds like fish was off to a stressful start and not enough acclimation time.
Float for 20 mins minimum and then acclimate 1-2 hours. I generally empty contents of bag into a clean dedicated bucket and then add a cup of water every 15 minutes 6-8 times (1.5-2 hrs) and then test salinity in bucket and compare it to tank salinity. If off, I continue to add a cup of water. Once close or equal, I use same cup to scoop fish, pour off water and release fish into display or QT tank

 

[Hallowhead]

Sounds like fish was off to a stressful start and not enough acclimation time.
Float for 20 mins minimum and then acclimate 1-2 hours. I generally empty contents of bag into a clean dedicated bucket and then add a cup of water every 15 minutes 6-8 times (1.5-2 hrs) and then test salinity in bucket and compare it to tank salinity. If off, I continue to add a cup of water. Once close or equal, I use same cup to scoop fish, pour off water and release fish into display or QT tank

I did 45 mins float than a good 30 minute drip acclimation.. the water definitely cooled off so maybe warmer water was a shock?

Do you heat the bucket ? Or

 

[gonzo620]

your acclimation was fine imo

 

[blaxsun]

I still can’t get over those worms (shudders...)

 

[Hallowhead]

They're replacing him - just need to bring water for a test

 

[gonzo620]

Make sure the new guy is actively hunting in the store . Not Huddle in a corner not moving around.

 

[Gtinnel]

I did 45 mins float than a good 30 minute drip acclimation.. the water definitely cooled off so maybe warmer water was a shock?

Do you heat the bucket ? Or

I've often wondered how other people handle this too. If you temp acclimate the fish and then put them in a bucket while drip acclimating the water cools off to room temp, which means why do the temp acclimation at all? Wouldn't be better to temp acclimate after getting the salinity to match?

I usually float the bag in the tank while adding tank water slowly to keep the temp the same. But often it's a pain making sure the bag doesn't fall into the tank, so I would prefer to drip acclimate into a bucket in the floor.

 

[blaxsun]

I think the temperature acclimation is to ensure the fish isn’t shocked from his transit to your tank, and then the drip is primarily for salinity. But yeah, I’ve also wondered about a 20-30 minute drip where the water does cool off a bit. It’s always worked well for me.

 

[Hallowhead]

Do y'all think an acclimation box is needed ?

Y'all shut lights for the entire process once added ?

 

[blaxsun]

Do y'all think an acclimation box is needed ?

Y'all shut lights for the entire process once added ?

No, I just use a bowl and drip after acclimating the bag in the tank. Yes, I dim by 50% for the first day.

 

[Gtinnel]

Do y'all think an acclimation box is needed ?

Y'all shut lights for the entire process once added ?

I don't personally use an acclimation box, but I also don't have anything in my tank that is overly aggressive.

I usually have my lights off while the fish floats in the bag and then once it is released into the tank and it can hide in the rockwork I turn them back on.

 

[Hallowhead]

LFS replaced mandarin and I picked up another harlequin shrimp.

This time floated them 30 minutes than transferred to plastic containers that were taped inside the tank so continued to keep temperature. I had lights off entire time room was dark. Dripped water for an hour at least.

Dumped them in - no one went after them as they were asleep. All seems well.

 

[Stain]

Dumped them in - no one went after them as they were asleep. All seems well.

Hopefully he sleeps in a cocoon mid water colum so your bristleworms dont boogeyman him in the middle of the night.

 

[Hallowhead]

Hopefully he sleeps in a cocoon mid water colum so your bristleworms dont boogeyman him in the middle of the night.

Shhhh I need to make a trap for them and bring that population way down

 

[NashobaTek]

All 3 of my mandrins are hard to find, I have a lot of hiding spots and rock in the tank.
It's been days and weeks in between sitings of the 3 I have.