Lesely
Reefing newb
Tank is moving onto 4 months old now, we are very happy with how its going, algae has gone, parameters are stable and good.
Very happy with randy's recipe so far.
But what missing in this picture, hmmm, no fish, a very bored cleaner wrasse and a 5cm blue tang loving all the space. Oh and of course our two dragons & clowns.
We had the existing gang of 3 from the old tank - Lipstick tang 2 x yellow tangs that thought this new tank was their domain. We tried to add 2 separate powder blues & flame angel, only to witness them being harassed and beaten to the point that they all died,one within days and 2 within weeks of being in the tank.
It was actually to the point were we almost sold up and gave up, because we do care a lot about our fish and respect these beautiful creatures a lot, here we were with a great 7 foot tank and 3 fish.
So we started to plan, by reading and researching, we came to the decision that the gang of 3 had to go, sold them to a great guy with a lovely tank, with much larger fish than these 3 (all went together). Of course with visitation and photo rights. And they are doing very well.
We found a great LFS interstate that worked hard with us to compile a list of fish we wanted. They started gathering them all about 7 weeks ago, they are being added to a lesley & steve tank (at the lfs) in order of aggression, being QT for us, and fed up ready for the flight to us in SA.
We have received videos and photos of the fish, they are all eating, all healthy & most importantly getting along and are all juveniles.
We were supposed to get them a fortnight ago but the LFS was starting to experience a little aggression from one of the fish, so he wanted to put him in time out for a week and then back into our tank.
He is now back in and settled nicely, with all signs of aggression gone.
We will be receiving our order this coming Thursday,
We are so excited, there will be no more fish additions after this.
So crossing fingers the flight doesn't stress them all out too much and they love their new home.
Very happy with randy's recipe so far.
But what missing in this picture, hmmm, no fish, a very bored cleaner wrasse and a 5cm blue tang loving all the space. Oh and of course our two dragons & clowns.
We had the existing gang of 3 from the old tank - Lipstick tang 2 x yellow tangs that thought this new tank was their domain. We tried to add 2 separate powder blues & flame angel, only to witness them being harassed and beaten to the point that they all died,one within days and 2 within weeks of being in the tank.
It was actually to the point were we almost sold up and gave up, because we do care a lot about our fish and respect these beautiful creatures a lot, here we were with a great 7 foot tank and 3 fish.
So we started to plan, by reading and researching, we came to the decision that the gang of 3 had to go, sold them to a great guy with a lovely tank, with much larger fish than these 3 (all went together). Of course with visitation and photo rights. And they are doing very well.
We found a great LFS interstate that worked hard with us to compile a list of fish we wanted. They started gathering them all about 7 weeks ago, they are being added to a lesley & steve tank (at the lfs) in order of aggression, being QT for us, and fed up ready for the flight to us in SA.
We have received videos and photos of the fish, they are all eating, all healthy & most importantly getting along and are all juveniles.
We were supposed to get them a fortnight ago but the LFS was starting to experience a little aggression from one of the fish, so he wanted to put him in time out for a week and then back into our tank.
He is now back in and settled nicely, with all signs of aggression gone.
We will be receiving our order this coming Thursday,
We are so excited, there will be no more fish additions after this.
So crossing fingers the flight doesn't stress them all out too much and they love their new home.
