Alec's 40gal breeder chronicles!

Thanks! I think he's a little sickly.. He was in a tank with a buncha other fish when I bought him. Just seems a little lethargic.. I know wrasse are supposed to be pretty active. I'm gunna keep my eye on him, and do a lil treatment if need be!

 

Just realized it's my tanks 3 month birthday today.. So happy birthday to it! haha. Crazy how much I've learned in 3 months. I was clueless going into this, thanks with all yalls help on 3reef I really feel like I know a lot. At least I know what I'm doing now lol. Seems like longer than 3 months.. I can't wait to see it in 6!

 

Woo woo happy birthday tank!! Its amazingly pretty for three months!

 

Thanks!

On another note.. My cleaner shrimp is driving me NUTS. I really don't know how so many people take it lol. He's always messing around with something.. Whether its my BTA, mushrooms, walking over other corals, or stealing food from my LPS.. He's been jacking with my favorite mushroom lately, and I'm about at my breaking point.. I think he's gunna be donated to the LFS this week lol. Catching him shouldn't be too much of a problem. I could probably do it with my hand lol. He jumps on my hand and "cleans" me everytime I put my hand in the tank. We'll see though.. I haven't made my final decision yet, I just think my corals and nem will do much better w/ out him walking over them all the time.

 

ugh so annoying. get a fire shrimp way cooler, and mine just hangs in his cave all day.. I didn't really have that problem, but if he's buggin them who knows. its up to you I guess! I wish I saw my fire shrimp more! he's always in hiding.. its depressing.

 

Lol it sounds like you have a lot of hider's in your tank star. My cleaner is definitely front and center most of the day. But he just irks me. Bother my shrooms much longer just isn't gunna fly, I can tell you that haha. So he better change his tune pretty quick!

 

I do haha lol, hopefully he will knock it off. put him in the sump for a time out!

 

Hey guys. I have a quick question for any of you guru's out there. I'm having a little green hair algae.. Well it's not green actually, but more of a brown color. It grows on the back of the tank, at least that's where it's thickest bc I don't really clean the back glass off. Is this typical or out of the ordinary? I've thought I may be feeding too much, with the algae feeding off excess nutrients. But I don't feel like I feed THAT much.. I feed my clowns a few pellets around noon when the lights come on, but only like 4 each, and they eat everything. Then at night I feed about a 1/3 cube of a mysis/bloodworm mix. I have a pretty good sized CUC too, so I'm pretty confident everything gets eaten.. So is it still possible of excess nutrients? Also, I thought about my lighting, I turn on my lights around 12 or 1230, and run an actinic and blue plus for an hour. Then I'll turn on my daylights until around 1030-1100 at night and keep the actinics on for another hr, until I flip on the moonlights till I go to bed. My tank is a few days passed 3 months old, so it's still pretty new for a tank.. I'd appreciate any help! Thanks guys.

 

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Lol well I'll post a separate thread on that. Got a few new pics thoughhh. First, a little orange mushroom I found on a rock the other day. It's super small right now, but I'll look sweet once it's bigger. Second, some emerald palys I picked up the other day from my LFS for like 5 bucks or something. Then, my mushroom garden to be (hopefully). My big blue one there is finally coming around, and of course the pink on the right, an blue w/ orange rim toward the bottom, and a red w/ blue dots. Although that one hasn't really came around yet. I added it like a wk ago, so I'm sure it'll look better In wk or 2. I'm not too worried about. I really hope the garden does well though! Sorry the colors look crappy, they look much better in person