Blue's 120 Reef

[lbiminiblue]

Live rock and seeding live sand are in. Need to work with rockscape. I'm not super thrilled with it right now. But as you can see, I'm fiddling with the LED timers. The app takes some getting used to but I'm getting the hang of it.

 

[lbiminiblue]

parameters were holding up, so I added what little livestock I have. Currently 3 fish and two ricordeas. Frogspawn will be added later.


Question: my clowns were already hosting the frogspawn/xenias heavily. If I add a condy anemone before either of those corals, will they most likely take to it? I know with hosting, its all a definite maybe, but wanted to know.

 

[Squatch XXL]

I know with hosting, its all a definite maybe, but wanted to know.

Please try it and let us know. If I was to take a guess, if you add your anemone first and hold off a bit on the frogspawn etc they will begin their symbiotic relation. However nothing surprises me, and It wouldn't shock me if they refused it, or went back to their old steady. Id certainly say its a definite maybe.

 

[lbiminiblue]

got my corals back!

 

[lbiminiblue]

clowns remembered the frogspawn, are now making a potential nest for eggs beneath its tentacles.

 

[Squatch XXL]

clowns remembered the frogspawn

I am glad you got back to telling us the results. Did anemone-alone-time have any effect on them?

 

[lbiminiblue]

Well in quarantine, at first, they hosted the Xenias (they were in a 10 gallon while the tank was down) but the Xenia's melted away eventually.


Seems they forgot, but its been about 3 days since I added the frogspawn. Still not hosting it fully, and alternating time between the caves in the back and hovering over the tentacles.

 

[lbiminiblue]

Update.


I've added mangroves and other Macros to my refugium, along with some native fiddler crabs. I added a few native oysters also, but will keep an eye on them if they start to die.


I didn't really add the for filtering primarily, but more to simulate a Florida salt Marsh.


The fiddler crabs climb out of the fuge from time to time to get a breath of fresh air. Cool little guys.