Your current Fish tank Setups!

rebel rebel · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:12

Yeah, he was always in there around 4 years ago, his enthusiasm is unmatched in the industry, the guy can talk forever! I think he just does the installations now.

I'll go soon, probably on a Sunday when there's less traffic.

NoobCannon · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:16

Tried to take a pic of new corals but the iphone just hates my tank lights. Espically now ive upped the intensity.

Will have to try tomorrow when its not on its blueish evening cycle.

You decided what your gonna do with your tabk
@rebel rebel

rebel rebel · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:20

As of now I would start with a pair of clownfish and some Duncan LPS.

I would like to see if I can get them laying some eggs, and then in the future try to raise some babies.

But the SPS frags are so stunning there, that could easily change.

NoobCannon · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:25

No anemone?

If your gonna have a tank with a clown pair then a nem is a must imo.

rebel rebel · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:27

A carpet Anemone would be amazing but I've never felt confident enough to keep any Anemone.

NoobCannon · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:32

Not a carpet nem. Would never recomend one of those to anyone, mine ate about £100 of fish including both the clowns that were trying ro host it before i donated it back to the shop

Bubble tip is where its at

rebel rebel · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:50

****! Did you see it kill them? They are vicious beasts.

TBH I get kinda freaked out by things that move violently/suddenly, so nems have never been on my radar. I did once impulse buy a pink tube nem, which looked amazing, but throbbed in my hand when I put I put it in the tank. It creeped me out for about a month. I got a friend to move it once, poor sod had no idea.

I also don't particularly like big shrimps, I've only ever had sexy shrimp which were so tiny I was ok with them. And Peppermint ones when I needed them to take care of some aips. The cleaner shrimp are too big.

NoobCannon · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:53

I have a pic of it eating my clown fish

rebel rebel · 11 Jul 2019 at 20:57

Poor little guy never stood a chance! Was you warned this might happen?

NoobCannon · 11 Jul 2019 at 21:11

I knew they ate unhealthy fish or anything else they could catch but that one was just vicious, ate both clowns, any snails or hermets that came within reach, a goby and a fire fish

The only thing it didnt eat was the sexy shrimp that lived on it.

In comparission my bubbles have never eaten any fish, Old pic pre my tank being nuked by brook

rebel rebel · 11 Jul 2019 at 21:24

Yeah sexy shrimp are fearless.

That's a good picture, what clown is it?

NoobCannon · 11 Jul 2019 at 21:32

rebel rebel said:
Yeah sexy shrimp are fearless.

That's a good picture, what clown is it?

Tomato clown, she was massive before brook took her

rebel rebel · 11 Jul 2019 at 21:38

That was a terrible shame, wouldn't wanna go through that.

I like the Fiji Barberi and the yellow stripe maroons.

Spook187 · 12 Jul 2019 at 16:36

Would love a bubble tip but not while i work away a lot and come back to a crashed tank lol.

rebel rebel · 12 Jul 2019 at 17:42

Spook187 said:
Would love a bubble tip but not while i work away a lot and come back to a crashed tank lol.

Yeah the fact they can one day decide to go for a walk and end up getting stuck somewhere would worry me.

sneakysnail · 12 Jul 2019 at 20:40

sooo...... Auto feeders.

Any ideas for autofeeding fish that will only eat live food? Daphnia can be long living but how could i add them to a tank periodically?

It's only for 2 scarlet badis so doesn't have to be large amounts. should I just introduce large volumes to the tank and hope the fish dont pig out and snack periodically?

b0rn2sk8 · 12 Jul 2019 at 20:48

No such thing as far as I am aware. I wouldn't put additional food in the tank, the fish are likely to just eat it all.

I would be working on getting them off live and onto dry if I were you. There are very few freshwater fish that you can't get off live foods, it just takes a bit of work.

NoobCannon · 12 Jul 2019 at 21:44

sneakysnail said:
sooo...... Auto feeders.

Any ideas for autofeeding fish that will only eat live food? Daphnia can be long living but how could i add them to a tank periodically?

It's only for 2 scarlet badis so doesn't have to be large amounts. should I just introduce large volumes to the tank and hope the fish dont pig out and snack periodically?

Possibly use a dosing pump with the container upside down, that was you can leave them in the water and just feed as much as you like as often as you like.

Would take some fiddling about but ive seen it
Done with mysis shrimp in liquid (admitadly they were dead)

sneakysnail · 13 Jul 2019 at 01:57

NoobCannon said:
Possibly use a dosing pump with the container upside down, that was you can leave them in the water and just feed as much as you like as often as you like.

Would take some fiddling about but ive seen it
Done with mysis shrimp in liquid (admitadly they were dead)

An interesting idea and something to consider.

sneakysnail · 13 Jul 2019 at 02:08

b0rn2sk8 said:
No such thing as far as I am aware. I wouldn't put additional food in the tank, the fish are likely to just eat it all.

I would be working on getting them off live and onto dry if I were you. There are very few freshwater fish that you can't get off live foods, it just takes a bit of work.

That is in the grand plan and what i'm working on but my holiday is in 2months now and proress is slow. It's a shrimp tank mainly so the young shrimp can be eaten but that wont guarantee to feed the 2 fish if there's no shrimplets at the time.

detritus worms might come in handy and I'm trying to encourage as much life in the tank as possible, pest snails etc. I might buy some young shrimp that can be snacks. right now the fish only accept live and sometimes some frozen food. they're getting better at eating from a pipette i use but dry food from a feeder is a long journey ahead