Coraljunkie's 54g Corner Reef

[Coraljunkie]

I scored a bonded pair of clowns today from a local store. Learned my lesson the hard way stop I've got them in a qt until June

 

[Coraljunkie]

The black coloration is still coming in but you get the idea

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

Gorgeous new clowns - Congrats !!!

 

[Pat24601]

Gorgeous new clowns - Congrats !!!

Ditto! Look great!

 

[Coraljunkie]

Here's a video of them, not sure why the male is swimming so low, is this normal?

 

[Pat24601]

Great clownfish! I think maybe they are swimming low just because it's a QT and they can't really find a better "spot". Looked like normal behavior to me, but I'm hardly going to claim to be an expert.

Of course, when I asked my LFS a similar question once they just shrugged and said "They are clowns. What do you expect?" Still not sure what they meant exactly.

 

[Coraljunkie]

Thank you all

 

[Oxylebius]

Clownfish tend to have odd behavior sometimes. I'd just wait and watch the smaller one for now.

The larger one is showing normal dominance behavior and the little one is being submissive, even laying over on its side from time to time. All normal behavior here.

Keep us posted.

 

[Coraljunkie]

Clownfish are doing great. They love to eat, they'll eat pretty much anything including my fingers whenever I put them into the tank. I picked up a healthy leopard wrasse juvenile last week. She's doing great and eats the sustainable aquatics hatchery pellets. This morning I started her on the Hikari mysis.

 

[Coraljunkie]

My display tank has been fallow for a while. I'm waiting 14 weeks just to be safe to make sure any and everything harmful dies off. Today I picked up some dry rock and changed my aquascape, also I moved all of my corals around. I'll take an FTS and post it tomorrow. I'm treating the new fish with seachem paraguard then I'll run prazi pro twice. After that I'll put a small hob filter in the qt tank monitor them until they move into the display tank.

 

[Coraljunkie]

Let me know which one you like better. The before aquascape or this new one

 

[Coraljunkie]

 

[Coraljunkie]

I made 3 islands which opened the tank up more and helped with better flow. It also gave me a bit more room for more sps

 

[DianaKay]

The tank looks pretty, I like the openness of it. And I hope you can pull it off without issues.
Honestly tho, It doesn't look like IMO that you have enough LR.
Keeping in mind, that LR is where your biological filtration lives.
Depending on your fish bioload, You may need MORE.
& do you want me to add your name to this reef thread? I'd be happy to do that & link it to your profile if so ?

 

[Coraljunkie]

Sure, thank you. I'm gonna keep the clownfish pair, leopard wrasse, and blue spotted jawfish. Is that too much?

 

[DianaKay]

Sure, thank you. I'm gonna keep the clownfish pair, leopard wrasse, and blue spotted jawfish. Is that too much?

Thread re-named & linked to Your ownership
Maybe if You are only going to keep 4 fish, You'll be good
Just be on the lookout for a beautiful hunk of LR as you are out at LFS because it certainly would be better to add another. Pods live in LR and you need lots of pods for that beautiful wrasse also.

 

[Coraljunkie]

Ok thank you. Maybe I'll put some rubble in the false overflow and a few good size pieces behind the rock in the middle

 

[Oxylebius]

I haven't used this, but I have read on other threads that this works really well. Extremely porous, so you can achieve a lot of biological filtration with them compared to most live rock. You may want to check it out: http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/marinepure-ceramic-biomedia-1-1-2-spheres.html
There is also a BRS video on it as well, the link is there under the product.

 

[Coraljunkie]

Thanks, I will check it out

 

[Coraljunkie]

Where do you think would be the best spot to place these? In the tank hidden behind the center rock? Or in the false overflow compartment? No light in the overflow section, not sure if that'll matter?