Tamberav Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 I know what they can eat, but what do you normally feed you mantis? Clam on a half shell and silversides soaked in selcon. She also gets live food randomly. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Clam on the half shell sounds fancy. Do you give her a little wine to go along with it Link to comment
got2envy Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 So awesome!! I have never kept a Mantis buy they are so cool. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 You should put the pink mantis in the little betta tank for a little while Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 What brand of clams do you use? hikari or ocean nutrition? Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 You should put the pink mantis in the little betta tank for a little while She got re-homed. They are kind of messy eaters, doubt a 0.5g would be enough even for a tiny mantis. What brand of clams do you use? hikari or ocean nutrition? Hikari They asked me if I had a puffer fish when I bought them... NOPE! I got something COOLER... a mantis shrimp... ohh yaa Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 She got re-homed. They are kind of messy eaters, doubt a 0.5g would be enough even for a tiny mantis. Hikari They asked me if I had a puffer fish when I bought them... NOPE! I got something COOLER... a mantis shrimp... ohh yaa Ya thats true. okay I was looking at the ocean nutrition, how are the hikari? Ivy is much cooler. Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 Ya thats true. okay I was looking at the ocean nutrition, how are the hikari? Ivy is much cooler. Not sure of the difference, I just soak it in selcon. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Okay. Buying my tank tomorrow Tamb Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 ivy closed her doors tonight, I always get nervous during a molt. Okay. Buying my tank tomorrow Tamb Did you get it? Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I did I have a nice image in my head of what the rock work will look like. I hope ivy does alright with her molt. Im sure she will since shes pretty tough Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 My skimmer is rated for 150-200g and I can't get consistent skim out of it. Too big I think, hard to get the foam into the cup. I think I am going to have to downgrade. For now I am putting a Tunze skimmer on this tank which is too small but probably better than the big skimmer which only skims sometimes. I am open to suggestions and experience with skimmers for in a sump. I estimate the water volume around 40 gallons??? Link to comment
Belac Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 So just run the big skimmer a few hours a day? Seems like a reasonable solution. Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 I thought about that but the skimmer is so huge that when turned off it floods and submerges my ATO float in the return chamber. Link to comment
Belac Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 ATO will still work when the skimmer kicks back on in a few hours. I used to run my ato on a timer where it would only work certain hours of the day. But then I needed the timer for something else so I stole it. Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 ATO will still work when the skimmer kicks back on in a few hours. I used to run my ato on a timer where it would only work certain hours of the day. But then I needed the timer for something else so I stole it. I'm going to put kalk in it, I lose a lot of water in a day in the summer. Not sure if dumping a gallon of kalk water in at once would be a good thing. I also thought about switching the skimmer with my other tank. Maybe take biopellets offline too. decisions decisions Link to comment
Belac Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Run the skimmer a few hours at a time? Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 18, 2014 Author Share Posted July 18, 2014 Ivy still hasn't come out but I can see her moving around in the burrow. Can anyone give me an idea why my birds-nests aren't thriving? They were growing like crazy at first but have stopped and I see some STN. The few acro's I have and monti's, green slimer, ect all seem fine. Most have started to encrust on the rock. The LPS have all put off new heads. What gives? I'll take some parameter tests to add shortly. Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 Temp: 78.5 Salinity: 1.026 Calcium: 400 dkH: 7.5 Mg: 1410 NO3: 10 ??? PO4: 0.02 The nitrate may not be accurate at all. I have never been able to read salifert's test kit. The colors look similar to me, maybe my eyes suck. Probably going to see if I can read the wheel on red sea's any better. I can't imagine nitrate being a problem with birdsnest though when there is more sensitive corals in the tank. I would think it would just brown out if Nitrate was too high. I am thinking it MIGHT be the angelfish. I am just not sure if he was picking which made it STN or if he is picking because it has STN and there is a little bit of microalgae on that spot now. I didn't see him pick at anything else and there juicy acans in there if he wanted to eat coral. So not completely convinced he is the problem Link to comment
Belac Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Do you have a tang? I have heard of one that developed a taste for birds nest and ate the colony out of existence. Link to comment
Tamberav Posted July 19, 2014 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 I do have a tang. Never seen him picking at it but I don't get much time to stare at the tank. Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Wish I knew more about sps to help. Link to comment
Belac Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Just keep an eye on it. Tangs tend to pick at food pretty regularly. So if he is the guy, it should be evident after a while. Link to comment
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