Kinda's Large Tank Adventure (LTA)

[Kindanewtothis]

LFS received a YWG yesterday, I'm going there this morning.

 

It's going in the empty 10g. How long to you Qt your fishs?

[Kindanewtothis]

Got the YWG. It's really really tiny. Just arrived yesterday at the lfs. There was 5 of them. Took a bright one. It's acclimatizing right now.

[Jakesaw]

1 minute ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Got the YWG. It's really really tiny. Just arrived yesterday at the lfs. There was 5 of them. Took a bright one. It's acclimatizing right now.

Did you get to see him eat at the LFS? 

 

That's a MUST for me with any new fish purchase. 

 

Hope this guy is a Long Keeper for ya!

[Kindanewtothis]

5 minutes ago, Jakesaw said:

Did you get to see him eat at the LFS? 

 

That's a MUST for me with any new fish purchase. 

 

Hope this guy is a Long Keeper for ya!

No i did not see him eat 🤞

[Jakesaw]

9 minutes ago, Kindanewtothis said:

No i did not see him eat 🤞

Probably will be fine, 

 

But you can ask the LFS to feed the fish you want top buy in tank.  If they're eating - you can use the food they are already eating in the store to acclimate them to your tank.  If they won't eat, I would probably not buy that day.  

 

My Talbot Damsel still has a preference to pellets fed @ the LFS, but over time he's started eating flakes, and 2 x frozen options. 

[seabass]

Quarantine should be at least a month.

https://humble.fish/quarantine/

[Kindanewtothis]

[seabass]

Nice.  Good luck with the little fellow.

[Kindanewtothis]

Starting to have some GHA in the 50g. Except for my walls that turn brown every 3-4 days the tank is doing well I think.

[Kindanewtothis]

Doing good so far

[LazyFish]

Cute

 

[Kindanewtothis]

Pods culture is back on track, I even haversted the first bottle since the crash last night.

 

Only down side, I think I have now, or mostly, a monoculture of tisbe pods. It used to be half apocyclops panamensis which are much bigger and I'm told mandarins prefer it.

 

Thinking about ordering apocyclops to start a second culture to have both species.

[seabass]

Ultimately, most cultures will eventually become a monoculture.  If you want two different species of pods (or even two species of phyto), you should culture them separately.  Cultures that you buy which contain multiple species are usually cultured separately and then combined just prior to resale.

[Kindanewtothis]

YWG reacts to food but does not eat.

 

I tried a mix of frozen brine, mysis and flakes.

 

Would it eat pods? 

[Kindanewtothis]

Online shopping is too easy.

 

Wanted apocyclops pods... ended up buying it... amongs other things...

[Kindanewtothis]

Apocyclops culture is ready, once again I use a beta tank.

 

Waiting for the pods to start it.

[Kindanewtothis]

YWG eats!

 

It ate 4 brine shrimps. They have to pass really near it.

[Kindanewtothis]

Nitrate 4.32

Phosphate 0.29

 

Time for a water change.

[Jakesaw]

49 minutes ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Nitrate 4.32

Phosphate 0.29

 

Time for a water change.

Those number ratios look good from my understanding.  About my target.

[Kindanewtothis]

1 minute ago, Jakesaw said:

Those number ratios look good from my understanding.  About my target.

I'm only doing a small 5 gallons water change. It's overdue.

 

I now have GHA spots here and there

[Jakesaw]

4 minutes ago, Kindanewtothis said:

I'm only doing a small 5 gallons water change. It's overdue.

 

I now have GHA spots here and there

I cleared some GHA off my walls tonight too.  Razor blade and chased around the GHA with a siphon to get it into water change bucket.  My clown got a mouthful too. 

 

 

[Kindanewtothis]

On 12/19/2021 at 11:54 AM, Kindanewtothis said:

Online shopping is too easy.

 

Wanted apocyclops pods... ended up buying it... amongs other things...

Frozen food cannot be shipped with corals and heatpack.

 

They asked me what I wanted instead, I said surprise me...

 

We'll see

[M. Tournesol]

56 minutes ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Frozen food cannot be shipped with corals and heatpack.

 

They asked me what I wanted instead, I said surprise me...

 

We'll see

Yes, I was surprised to see frozen food, pods and corals on the same command. 

[Kindanewtothis]

2 minutes ago, M. Tournesol said:

Yes, I was surprised to see frozen food, pods and corals on the same command. 

I did not realized at the time that it could not be done.

[M. Tournesol]

Frozen foods are generally not sent with a refrigerant pack (too costly). To have the best result (and not receive unfrozen gooey food), you should buy a good amount of frozen foods at the same time. This is why all my frozen foods have been bought at a LFT (two gobies don't need 10 packs).