Cichlidrookie Fluval Spec V Build

[Cichlidrookie]

Anyone else have experience with this and their clownfish??

[PathOfDeception]

As per the picture it looks like he looking to get hosted by something. That something seems to be your powerhead. If he looks happy and eats well he will learn to make this tank his own. As you add new corals and fish you will notice a change in behaviour everytime.

Anyone else have experience with this and their clownfish??

[Cichlidrookie]

I did notice him sit on my Hollywood Stunner Chalice and the hammer coral. Hopefully he will host one. Thanks pathofdeception. Makes me feel better about the little guy.

[Cichlidrookie]

So my clownfish started swimming "normally" again. Good to see, but there is some aggression between the two. The black one seemed to be the dominating one.

 

Added a few more easy to care for corals. Here are some pics.

 

LA Lakers Zoas

 

Fruitloops Zoas (snail photo bomb)

 

Hollywood Stunner Chalise

 

Hammer (started with 2 heads looks like one is splitting and going to be 3 heads soon)

 

Here is a top pic, question: Are my Zoas MINI versions or are they always that small???

I have seen pictures of others and they look like the size of dimes but all 7 of mine is the size of a dime????

 

 

Thanks for viewing and please leave a comment or help answers my question.

[jcreefer]

Fruit loops are generally on the smaller side, but some of mine have gotten to a size slightly smaller than a dime. LA Lakers are considered "deep water" and are considered micro-zoas.

[Cichlidrookie]

Thanks JC.

 

So went to my LFS and saw this little guy hiding. Had to get him. Here he is acclimating, drip drip drip drip. Acclimated him for almost two hours.

 

 

Close up.

 

 

Hope he likes the tank, not sure how happy he will be without an anemone.

 

Anyone have experience with porcelain/anemone crabs without anemone??

[Hammerstone]

My clown sleeps that way and is that way when the lights go on. awhile after she's awake she does her up and down swimmy thing.

[Hammerstone]

My clown sleeps that way and is that way when the lights go on. awhile after she's awake she does her up and down swimmy thing.

by the way she was being hosted by hair algae and I ripped that out so now she's being hosted by the powerhead. I feel bad about removing her soft and luxurious hair algae. She would roll around in it and stay laying in it most of the day. The powerhead keeps her company at night.

[Cichlidrookie]

Very very sad news this morning. I went to check my tank and I saw my Percula Clown on the bottom. RIP Thor. Not quite sure what went wrong.

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He started swimming "normally" again and was eating everything I fed him, pellet and PE mysis. My other clown fish is doing fine. Not quite sure what happen. Maybe the black clown bullied him to death.

 

I have been doing weekly water changes and everything. The corals and porcelain anemone crab seem fine.

Will test the water later tonight and do another water change tomorrow.

 

Should I get another one?? Maybe I will wait a month or two before I get anything else.

Hoping to pick up a Reeflink and mp10wqd tomorrow.

 

Bye buddy

[HarryPotter]

Aww man sorry about Thor

 

Careful with that Hollywood Chalice. It has stingers at night which can reach 6" easily

[Cichlidrookie]

I have seen the stingers. Will they sting a clownfish?

 

What does a sting look like on a clownfish?

[HarryPotter]

I have seen the stingers. Will they sting a clownfish?

 

What does a sting look like on a clownfish?

 

No, they sting other corals only as far as I'm aware (+some googling). If anything a Clownfish can harm a chalice by biting its polyps.

[Hammerstone]

Sorry

[Cichlidrookie]

So last night before bed I took a closer inspection of my clown fish. I noticed that there were little white dots on it.

 

YIKES I THINK I GOT ICH.......boo

 

So stayed up for a couple more hours to research how to cure Ich and what it looks like.

My best solution is garlic infused food. Cannot set up a QT tank.

 

So this morning b4 any LFS stores open I took a piece of garlic and cut it. Put some of the liquid in a container and then added some SW and then added the food. Let it sit for a bit and then tried to feed it to him.

 

He did not like it.....he took a piece and spat it out. Now I have all this uneaten food in the tank FML.

Will try again with PE Mysis and hope it works.

I will also go to LFS later to pick up some garlic product.

Any recommendations?

 

Thanks

[Cichlidrookie]

Just got back from a 4 day vacation and everything is still alive........phew a sigh of relief.

I am going to keep trying to feed garlic to my clown but he looks better less white dots on him.

When I went to lfs to get garlic I picked up a few toys.....Reeflink and mp10wqd, I know overkill for a spec v but I m going to to upgrade eventually.

 

So question for anyone with an Vortech??

What is a good setting for it?

There are so many modes.

 

Thanks

Will update with pics tomorrow, still trying to find a red filter for camera.

[Cichlidrookie]

Still no red filter but here are some iPhone 4s pictures with a little editing in photobucket.

 

Octospawn

 

GSP trying to grow on my bare bottom tank to make it look like a field of grass

 

My new favourite RBTA and Porcelin Crab

 

FTS from dining room

 

FTS from kitchen

 

Hope you enjoyed the pics.

Quick question what is growing on my walls. Looks like snail shells.

Will they become snails eventually or are they just pest snails??

[Cichlidrookie]

So more bad news. My other clown died, not sure what it was?? The water parameters are fine and he was eating well. I did notice long stringy white poo from him so maybe it was a paresite?? Not too sure just found him stuck to my mp10 in the morning. Boo. Think I am going to wait a while and make sure my system is clear of what ever there was in it before adding other fish.

 

My Porcelin crab and corals seem to be doing fine. Everything looks good and I am getting some growth from my hammer and frogspawn. I picked up a few more corals. Here are some pics.

 

Ricordea Yuma

 

 

Still no red filter man those are hard to find......guess I will just have to order one online.

 

Acan

 

 

Purple Duncan

 

 

New FTS, took out big rock and cut it to make it smaller.

 

 

 

Going on vacation soon so not going to add anything soon. Hopefully I can get a couple of sexy shrimp after my vacation.

Thanks for looking.

[Cichlidrookie]

So look into my tank today and my RBTA had two Porcelin Crabs, what the heck!!! Well then I remembered that shrimp and crabs molt.

 

Here is a pic.

 

 

Looks like a dead one but it is not. Lucky it was not hiding I would have thought he was dead. Might add another crab they are so cool the way they hang out in and on the anemone.

 

Does anyone have two in the same tank?

Will they share the anemone?

How do you sex them?

 

Thanks

[Cichlidrookie]

So I went on a vacation for 3 weeks and have been slacking with updating this thread.

Everything survived well not everything my plate coral bleached more and I am not sure if it is dead or not. Will try to feed it my PE Mysis and see if it takes.

 

I also got a new frag and it is doing really well. Will try to post pics up this weekend to show everyone the progress the tank is taking.

[Cichlidrookie]

So did not get a chance to get a FTS but did get some quick pics of coral.

 

Here is my GSP and it grew quite a lot.

 

Here is my purple duncan, I think it grew a little.

 

And here is my newest coral. Octospawn.

 

Do you think my plate coral is bleaching?? In the first pic you can still see its feelers, not too sure but there is no colour to it.

[Cichlidrookie]

Picked up a POM POM Crab this weekend, seems to be doing fine in the tank. He only comes out at night and I get to see him once in a while.

 

Have not taken pics lately but everything is doing fine. Corals are growing, My acan started with 2 heads it has 6 heads now. My euphyllia corals are okay, they seem to go through good and bad days, My hammer will have all 3 head fully open one day and the next only 1 head open. The Octospawn and Frogspawn are both okay but I feel like they could open more.

 

My CUC are reproducing I now have a couple of baby snails, my hermit crabs are getting bigger and bigger. Don't know what they are going to move into because all the other shells are smaller in the tank.

 

Thinking of trying to add clown fish again but scared that they will only die. Will think about it this weekend.

[Cichlidrookie]

Here is an update.

 

Sorry for the bad pictures.

 

 

 

[Cichlidrookie]

Sorry for not updating lately....combo of laziness and busyness.

The little nano is doing great. Got a few new corals and all doing well.

Hollywood Stunned did not do so well, I think I placed it in the wrong place and it did not like the flow. It bleached......

New additions:

Pom Pom Crab, have not seen in a while since I added the GSP.
2 ORA Ocellaris Clowns from Canada Corals. Both were doing great until once decided to make the LEAP of faith. Guess I need a mesh screen.
Rock Flower Anemone
Flame Anemone

Corals:

red monti
purple monti
forest fire digi
octospawn
duncan

acans

yumas

GSP

and now some pictures. (all taken with iphone 4s getto)

FTS with blues on.



FTS with whites on and my baby in back.



Flame BTA



Rock Flower Anemone



Acans



SPS



Octospawns



GSP



Hope you enjoyed.
Thanks for reading.
Comments welcome.

 

[erinwillett]

Really liking the green grass look! Pretty cool

[Cichlidrookie]

Thanks the grass look was what I was going for.

 

This GSP is growing fast. It has already spread onto my rock. Not like the last piece I had which is a different colour green and slow growing.