I hope so too! Even no death and slow growth is fine with me
Yup, made one with the bulk reef supply kit. Very easy. I'd be terrified of losing my wrasses otherwise, especially considering how well the red tail is doing.
Thanks!!
Of course notPulled the outside of my magnet back to happily see a healthy population of pods hanging out. Glad the pencil and red tail haven't completely decimated the population and still have prey to hunt down. But I'm likely getting a pretty sweet leopard wrasse (Macropharyngodon cyanoguttatus) and mandarin this weekend so I have another 2,000 pods on their way. Which makes me wonder: can you have too many pods...?
I used to have a whole bunch, but now not so much.
Thank you! I had heard about the the main return blowing sand all over which was one of my concerns when I got this tank. So I got the highest grade sand that was still safe for wrasses and that tall column to help deflect the flow. The way it is positioned now, it skims over the top of the rock. I'd say about half of the flow is diverted and half blows straight against the front glass. I still have a little bit of sand pooling directly in front, but not enough to see the bottom glass.
I haven't qt'd anything yet. Some of my livestock came from my previous tank and for others a qt process likely would have hurt more than helped (like the mandarin, red tail wrasse and leopard wrasse who wouldn't have had pods to pick at). I would have liked to qt the tangs but I wasn't set up for it yet. Luckily everyone is healthy so far (fingers crossed), but I'd prefer to qt in the future.
