Bread’s Nuvo 20 Dropoff

[less than bread]

Got another mushroom and zoa. Not sure if the mushroom has a cool name but it’s super bright neon green which I like.

The zoa is awesome looking. The guy at the LFS said it’s a Firecracker Zoa but after doing some research, I think it looks more like a Ring of Fire Zoa.

[Christopher Marks]

How are all the new corals setting in @less than bread? Torch corals feeling less harassed by the clownfish?

[less than bread]

11 minutes ago, Christopher Marks said:

How are all the new corals setting in @less than bread? Torch corals feeling less harassed by the clownfish?

For the most part it's been good. One of the three torches looks like it has died. Not sure why it did when the others right next to it are fine, didn't see any pests on it or anything. The clown has settled down now. At first she was really rough with the torches, but now she's much calmer and it looks like it will be a great relationship.

 

I did have some SPS (acro, monti cap, monti digi, and birdsnest) but they all have died. I'll probably wait a while, get things more stable and try again with those. I'm just loving watching the corals that are settled start to thrive and I think I'm leaving the "ugly" stage. Had a bunch of gha, sea lettuce, and bubble algae and all are slowly dying back

[less than bread]

Something pretty interesting is happening with my clownfish. As I have observed them I was thinking this could happen and now it finally is.

 

So somewhat of a story: I originally bought 2 juvenile ocellaris clownfish back in June 2021. One was slightly bigger than the other and she soon became the dominant one in the tank. A couple months went by like this until the smaller one died in an unfortunate siphoning accident... so for a couple more months, the larger one was alone. Then I introduced a new clownfish that is not a standard ocellaris, I can't remember what it is (it's more yellow that fades to black a couple white strips and a white dot). Anyway, I got it because it looked cool and more importantly, was slightly smaller than the existing clown. I wanted to ensure the existing clown remained the larger, dominant one of the tank. Which is exactly how it went. The bigger, existing clown chased the new guy around and then he finally submitted. Life was good.

 

Fast forward and couple more months: I notice the newer clown is starting to grow fast, so much so that he was nearly the same size as the existing clown. Now as more time has gone on, the new clown has become noticeably bigger which got me thinking that a change in hierarchy was coming. Sure enough, just today, the roles have switched. The newer now bigger clown is chasing the other around and has taken over their favorite torch garden. I will keep monitoring and providing updates as the revolution develops.

[less than bread]

So pumped! Won a 2-headed indo gold torch in a raffle at my LFS. Just added it to my little frag rack to get comfortable. Pics will come when it's flowing!

[less than bread]

Here it is: phone camera sucks but it is a beauty

 

[less than bread]

Got the photo lens kit from Saltwater Aquarium. Will do more playing around with them but definitely much better photos.

[less than bread]

So I finally figured out the type of clownfish Davy Jones is. I believe she is a Spotcinctus Clownfish

[less than bread]

Added a six line wrasse today. So far things have actually gone pretty well. Davy Jones (see above) has pretty much asserted dominance and has drawn a line around her favorite torch garden. The wrasse has staked a claim further up in the tank in a nice cave it can swim in, out, and around.

[less than bread]

So I've been trying to figure out something I could use my extra tank for (besides collecting rainwater on my patio) and I've decided to try my hand at raising brine shrimp to adulthood. The overall process seems very simple and inexpensive but successfully getting them to adulthood and keeping them alive appears to sometimes be a challenge, which I enjoy. It's something I hope my kids will think is cool, and even though apparently adult brine shrimp don't have much nutritional value, I think my fish would still enjoy going after something live along with their normal flakes and frozen food

[less than bread]

Going to try my hand at splitting and fragging my Forest Fire Mushrooms this week. I know mushrooms are pretty good at fragging themselves but I want to move them to another location in the tank and possibly see what a trade in/selling value is

[less than bread]

Night time tank shot. Room to grow

[less than bread]

So unfortunately need some guidance on running a coral-only tank. My fish are all gone except for one that I will probably have to euthanize soon due to what I think is ich. I still have meat eating inverts so I will feed a bit of fish food to them each day and I target feed reef roids each week. I have been doing 20% water changes every week though now I’m sure that need will decrease, I’m just not sure how much. I’ll probably go down to 10% each week and see how my levels look. After the last fish is gone (hoping for a miracle, but you know…), I’ll go 3 months without fish and then start over again

[less than bread]

Been gone for a while. Lost all my fish in May and then over the last couple months many of my corals started going downhill. I just think the sudden loss of all the fish threw things out of whack. Any way, I did a bit of a cleaning, rescaped and just got 2 new snowflake clownfish today! Hope things go better this time around.

[debbeach13]

The new fish look good.

[less than bread]

16 hours ago, debbeach13 said:

The new fish look good.

Yeah I decided to go a little fancy and these two were chasing each other around in the tank at the store so I knew they’d be good together.

[less than bread]

It’s been a bit but I’ve been laying low and not doing much in the last few months. Letting the new fish get settled. These 2 are absolutely vicious. Any time I come near the tank they come right up to the glass and just stare at me. Then when I enter the tank, they both immediately attack my hand. They never fight with each other though so they must have figured it out at the store

 

Anyway, big thing today is I got them a small bubble tip nem. This is my first one besides rock flowers and so far it looks happy and it ate as well. It was sold to me as a rainbow but I think it’s actually a rose bubble tip

 

[Nano_Addict]

Looking great! I really love some of the aquascapes that can be made with these drop off tanks.

[less than bread]

On 1/5/2023 at 7:00 PM, Nano_Addict said:

Looking great! I really love some of the aquascapes that can be made with these drop off tanks.

Definitely a cool design. Allows you to do a lot vertically.

[less than bread]

Mostly just working on the zoa garden right now. I have a couple other frags that are trying to survive after the mass extinction event that occurred a while back. Want to see which ones actually make it before I plan the rest of the scape. But here’s a full picture. Clownfish are happy and active (aka they love to bite me)

[Tamberav]

Great looking tank! Nice to see someone running one of these drop offs. I picked a used one up recently. Trying to get some inspiration. 

[ml86743]

Love this concept tank.  New clowns look great too!  Following along.

[less than bread]

Raising the next generation

[less than bread]

Added this one today. Caught my eye at the store and I was like “what the heck is this coral?” Me and my fish store worker buddy figured it out together… anyone wanna venture a guess??

[less than bread]

New backlighting!