Christopher Marks Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 How's the nano reef doing this summer @William? 🙂 Quote Link to comment
William Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Sorry for the lack of updates, summer is always cruise control time for the aquarium (did my first water change since may yesterday) everything is doing well except for the filefish (sucked into vortech after a feeding). I went ahead and bought myself an early birthday present. Im actually on vacation right now, current view: 4 Quote Link to comment
William Posted September 25, 2018 Author Share Posted September 25, 2018 He arrived today along with some Red cherry shrimp for my freshwater nano. 4 Quote Link to comment
William Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 More pics of the EEL 6 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 5, 2018 Author Share Posted October 5, 2018 So I have had him for 10 days and he has yet to accept any type of food. He is very active in the aquarium. So far I have tried (PE mysis, silversides, krill). I will try scallops tmro Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 23 minutes ago, William said: So I have had him for 10 days and he has yet to accept any type of food. He is very active in the aquarium. So far I have tried (PE mysis, silversides, krill). I will try scallops tmro Try some live ghost shrimp just to get him eating or a couple feeder guppies. Then try some frozen again. Usually they can't resist live food. Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 6, 2018 Author Share Posted October 6, 2018 Just realized my flame angel has a spot of ich 🤬 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 Decided to take some top down views while doing a water change today. 5 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 1 hour ago, William said: Decided to take some top down views while doing a water change today. The pics are gourgeous. You have such a diversity of coral and fish. I have always liked predators. Is the eel eating yet? Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 10 hours ago, vlangel said: The pics are gourgeous. You have such a diversity of coral and fish. I have always liked predators. Is the eel eating yet? Thank you, and I think he is eating, but I have never seen him eat. He is not “hunting” as much as he was before. Two days ago I left a piece of squid next to his main burrow and it was gone 15 min later. I’m pretty happy with how the aquarium has matured. I like the variety of Coral species that have been able to thrive together. 2 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 9, 2018 Author Share Posted October 9, 2018 So as far as stocking is concerned I think I’m pretty much at my max. I had a live aquaria order come in today with a Biota Aptasia eating filefish, Lg Skunk cleaner shrimp, 3 emerald crabs (my snapping shrimp ends up eating them if they get too close to his burrow, so I have to replace them), couple of ORA sps frags, and a black beta for my freshwater pick tank. I also added a UV sterilizer to the saltwater tank. I don’t plan to run it all the time but if I have an ich outbreak I’ll turn it on. It’s 36w, so should be large enough to take out parasites. The spot that I thought was ich on the flame angel is now gone. 1 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 12, 2018 Author Share Posted October 12, 2018 I finally saw the Eel eat today, he happily took a piece of chopped squid. 4 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Some updated tank shots.... everything is looking good, except that my birds nest have browned out for some reason 3 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Here is a Video I made today 3 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Amazing as always @William! Glad to hear your new dwarf eel is doing well and taking food, I was curious how it was going. Such a neat addition! 2 Quote Link to comment
uwdanno Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Very cool. Following Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 9 hours ago, Christopher Marks said: Amazing as always @William! Glad to hear your new dwarf eel is doing well and taking food, I was curious how it was going. Such a neat addition! 9 hours ago, uwdanno said: Very cool. Following Thanks and yea after a few weeks of not accepting anything he has decided to be a pig. 2 1 Quote Link to comment
jack1978 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Your tank has really developed well, looks beautiful! Does the eel always have his head poking out? Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 10 hours ago, jack1978 said: Your tank has really developed well, looks beautiful! Does the eel always have his head poking out? Thank you, and generally yes. He will swim around the tank at night and in the morning. He will also swim mostly out of his cave when he is hungry and sees me (the food god) 1 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 I have found that my planted pico aquarium has been much harder and more time consuming than my reef. #learningcurve 2 Quote Link to comment
William Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 If only i had a larger aquarium ... I hope Liveaquaria still has these then I upgrade to a RSR 250 Quote Link to comment
Yamato Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Hey William, wondering if you put anything in the plumbing compartment in the tank. It’s a bit of dead space, other than mangroves, anything else go in there. Was thinking of putting in heater but not a lot of water movement. Quote Link to comment
William Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 On 11/3/2018 at 12:10 AM, Yamato said: Hey William, wondering if you put anything in the plumbing compartment in the tank. It’s a bit of dead space, other than mangroves, anything else go in there. Was thinking of putting in heater but not a lot of water movement. Which part? Quote Link to comment
Yamato Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 On 11/5/2018 at 1:15 AM, William said: Which part? The part of the tank where the plumbing goes down to the sump. The rectangular black bit behind the display tank. Quote Link to comment
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