JohnA26
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My wife and I recently acquired an established reef aquarium from a friend who needed to move away. It is a 13.5 gallon with amazing established coral and anemone, 1 clown fish (Fico) 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 sexy shrimp, 1 conch, 2 hermit crabs, 2 whelk (?) and 2 snails.
We have taken our friends lead and introduced ourselves and are setting up a relationship with the gentleman who owns and runs a local shop where he and now we are buying water, both salt and RO.
We do want to add more action in the form of fish and colorful would obviously be preferred. Any recommendations?
We took the advise of the shop owner and brought home a Royal Gramma, it found a cave in the LR and we barely saw it for several days, but at least peaking out and a quick swim, then from a Thursday through a weekend never saw any signs of it again. So I went and spoke to the shop owner, he truly believes it is hiding somewhere, (he's the expert not me) but I have never seen it eat and since that Thursday (3 weeks ago now) I have not seen it peek or anything. So I added a Pseudochromis diadema, found the same cave and hid a bit (this told me the gramma was not in there or it would have chased new guy out) but was our socializing with the clown and eating and circling the tank. (When I added him the cleaner shrimp jumped on him, I thought very strange) after a few days I noticed what looked like a bite on his side (or that he swam hard into rock and ripped his skin). Then that day he started hiding MUCH more, the next morning the shrimp was eating him like crazy. So I am sort of at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We have taken our friends lead and introduced ourselves and are setting up a relationship with the gentleman who owns and runs a local shop where he and now we are buying water, both salt and RO.
We do want to add more action in the form of fish and colorful would obviously be preferred. Any recommendations?
We took the advise of the shop owner and brought home a Royal Gramma, it found a cave in the LR and we barely saw it for several days, but at least peaking out and a quick swim, then from a Thursday through a weekend never saw any signs of it again. So I went and spoke to the shop owner, he truly believes it is hiding somewhere, (he's the expert not me) but I have never seen it eat and since that Thursday (3 weeks ago now) I have not seen it peek or anything. So I added a Pseudochromis diadema, found the same cave and hid a bit (this told me the gramma was not in there or it would have chased new guy out) but was our socializing with the clown and eating and circling the tank. (When I added him the cleaner shrimp jumped on him, I thought very strange) after a few days I noticed what looked like a bite on his side (or that he swam hard into rock and ripped his skin). Then that day he started hiding MUCH more, the next morning the shrimp was eating him like crazy. So I am sort of at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
