squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 hey everyone this is my 10 gallon tank which i started 4 months ago its comming along slowly got a few coral in there already and seems to be going pretty smoothly... lemme know what you guys think of it and any suggestions you may have thanks Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 close up of the polyps on my toadstool Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 my emerald crab attacking the bubble algae Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 green spotted mandarin with clove polyps in background Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 some zoo and clove combo rock in my tank Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 stripped mushrooms rite now bout 1.5 in diameter Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 toadstool side view with pep shrimp in back Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 green chromis and firefish Link to comment
Acoustic Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Hi squidney540! First of all your Login name makes me laugh. It reminds me of bikini bottom. HeHe. Secondly I am really happy you joined because I can tell that you are pretty good with a camera...you just need to stay away from the lights off and using a flash thing. And lastly, Nice tank! Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 thanks acoustic appreciate the comments Link to comment
OneOfDaZZZ Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 nice looking tank! can we get some specs? Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 24, 2003 Author Share Posted December 24, 2003 Specs of my tank: ph 8.3 kh 8.8 sp grav 1.024 corals: clove polyps green xenia striped mushrooms toadstool leather brwn button polyps feather duster orange green zooanthids montiporia encrusting coral Living Creatures: 6 astrea snails 3 cerith snails 1 conch snail 6 blug legged hermits 3 red legged hermits couple of oysters in rocks green spotted mandarin (psychadelic) green chromis firefish peppermint shrimp skunk cleaner shrimp emerald crab lots of bristle worms haha as well as some tube worms i have yet to identify Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 24, 2003 Author Share Posted December 24, 2003 specs of tank 10 gallon rectangular stnd running eclipse dual florescent hood w built in filter just running plain old 18 in florescents one 10,000k and one actinic blue coralife bulbs pretty simple 25 lb live rock 15 lb sand and crushed coral Link to comment
casbarian Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 How is your dragonet doing foodwise? Does it take any prepared foods from you? Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 yea the dragonet eats all the coepipods or however u spell it and then i supplement with frozen brine shrimp he eats the brine til he is very fat haha he loves the stuff yea usually i jus feed the dragonet twice a week on the frozen brine otherwise he is eating coepipods all the rest of the week Link to comment
clowner13 Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 i am crazy about mandarins and i kind of gave up on the thought that they need so many copepods that a 10gallon just could not provide enough food. HOW DO YOU DO IT!?!?!?! did you have to train him in eating brine shrimp from when he/she was little or did he/she come to you loving brine shrimp...im so jealous. how much did this whole tank cost.... equipment, corals, fish, inverts?? Link to comment
wetworx101 Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 It looks to me that the mandarin isnt getting his fill. The food in the tank is no doubt depleted, and from the photo his stomach looks rather hollow. These fish are constant grazers. They need an almost constant food source. Those who keep them in captivity either rely on the live rock, and if that is not enough (something like 60 lbs LR per mandarin...and in a well established tank...9+months old), they may use supplimental feeding...but to keep up they need to feed them three times a day (constant grazing). I dont think this mandarin will last long. Sorry, but I dont. You would have to feed it at least twice a day. Doing this with frozen can be a big pollutant in such a small tank as well, so using live would be best. Oh, and adult brine are almost useless as far as nutrition goes, unless you dip them in something...so hatching live baby brine may be the best and only way. Sorry to rain on your parade, otherwise I like your tank alot...have fun, but if that mandarin gets any skinnier you should trade him to someone with a larger tank full of pods...cuz he'll need it at that point...taking him back to the store will only end up in his death cuz they usually dont have a good food supply for them there either. Just be glad the mandarin police havent seen this yet... Link to comment
cone9 Posted December 25, 2003 Share Posted December 25, 2003 Nice tank! I'm looking to do a 10 gal nano for my office - if I ever get around to it!! Gotta clean off my desk first. I do however, have to second wetworx101's comment on the mandarin. I had one in my 35 Hex for about a year - seemed to do great for quite a while. She also ate frozen brine, but with all the current never got a lot per feeding. Toward the last, she was getting skinny. I gave her to a friend with a 225 and she looks great now. After she was gone, the copapods and isopods came back in this tank in huge numbers while the fish had them depleted to where it was hard to find any - I had pod piles for them and 55# of LR. Unless you have a 40gal fuge, I really don't think you can expect long term success with a dragonet in a 10 gallon. You can have these fish for years if they have the right environment. Keep up the good work. Post more pics as it progresses. Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 clowner13- the whole set up cost me about $220 so far with everything including corals live rock etc Link to comment
squidney540 Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 the mandarin actually came from my friends 200gal reef tank so yea hehe i actually borrowed him from there because the coepepod population was so many that i couldnt see throught the glass clearly haha but as soon as my friends tank is back up and runnng i will be sending him back but as for now he has been doin fine in my 10 gallon and eats the frozen brine, flakefood, baby brine, etc pretty well Link to comment
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