1357HA
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Hi to all. Been enjoying all of the great info of the forum.
So, I think that it’s a great idea having your own post.
For the past years I wanted a salt water aquarium and finally last Christmas decided to go for a oceanic biocube 14. I had a huge satisfaction with this hobby that I decided, at the beginning of May, to go for a RSM 130D. Now I have the biocube as a quarantine tank, great product by the way. Now I’m having some trouble with a mandarin that I rescued from a friend that was giving up on it. He is eating artemia, but my tank is so young that I don’t know if there are some copepods left after a month of having it in the tank. I have tried to feed cyclopezee, zooplex, pellets, flake food, caviar, raw shrimp and instant ocean Brine Shrimp, but no success yet. I tried also soaking all the foods in selcon. For the past 2 weeks I have been putting the food inside a glass bottle, he goes in the bottle but he takes a few bites a go out. He really skinny….any ideas….
Well, I got carried away with the mandarin project…
So, in the RSM 130d I have 2 clown fish, 1 blue damsel, 1 rock blenny, the green mandarin dragonet, 1 cleaner shrimp, like 10 hermit crabs (between blue an red legs), 5 turbo snails, 3 peppermint shrimps (because of some aptasia problem), 1 feather duster and 1 emerald crab. As for corals, by the way I really enjoy them, I have a open brain coral (It’s huge when the light on), 1 trumpet, 1 frogspawn, 1 ricordea, various purple mushrooms, 1 big soft leather toadstool and a colony of metallic green star polyps. In the aquarium arrangement I have like 45 pounds of live rock, 2 inches of sand with some crushed coral mixed, decided to place some piles of crushed corals (like 10 pounds) behind the rocks for the copepods to grow and all the stock equipment, no mods yet, but thinking of getting a via aqua reactor to place some phosphate sponge because I have green hairy algae. Also, I have placed Chemi Pure Elite were the carbon and ceramic media was (I followed some advices from this forum).
I will try to take some good shots of my tank and post them….
So, I think that it’s a great idea having your own post.
For the past years I wanted a salt water aquarium and finally last Christmas decided to go for a oceanic biocube 14. I had a huge satisfaction with this hobby that I decided, at the beginning of May, to go for a RSM 130D. Now I have the biocube as a quarantine tank, great product by the way. Now I’m having some trouble with a mandarin that I rescued from a friend that was giving up on it. He is eating artemia, but my tank is so young that I don’t know if there are some copepods left after a month of having it in the tank. I have tried to feed cyclopezee, zooplex, pellets, flake food, caviar, raw shrimp and instant ocean Brine Shrimp, but no success yet. I tried also soaking all the foods in selcon. For the past 2 weeks I have been putting the food inside a glass bottle, he goes in the bottle but he takes a few bites a go out. He really skinny….any ideas….
Well, I got carried away with the mandarin project…
So, in the RSM 130d I have 2 clown fish, 1 blue damsel, 1 rock blenny, the green mandarin dragonet, 1 cleaner shrimp, like 10 hermit crabs (between blue an red legs), 5 turbo snails, 3 peppermint shrimps (because of some aptasia problem), 1 feather duster and 1 emerald crab. As for corals, by the way I really enjoy them, I have a open brain coral (It’s huge when the light on), 1 trumpet, 1 frogspawn, 1 ricordea, various purple mushrooms, 1 big soft leather toadstool and a colony of metallic green star polyps. In the aquarium arrangement I have like 45 pounds of live rock, 2 inches of sand with some crushed coral mixed, decided to place some piles of crushed corals (like 10 pounds) behind the rocks for the copepods to grow and all the stock equipment, no mods yet, but thinking of getting a via aqua reactor to place some phosphate sponge because I have green hairy algae. Also, I have placed Chemi Pure Elite were the carbon and ceramic media was (I followed some advices from this forum).
I will try to take some good shots of my tank and post them….
. I think I will use it for my water changes (as Glenn) and get a good one for the RSM, any suggestions?