Mandarin Goby in a 28g nanocube

oh well yeah exactly

 

Patience is key to succes.....i feel a signature coming on

 

well said.

 

I concur

 

so are you still going for the mandarin?

 

Eric has left the building

when he comes back to 8 pages, I am betting he will be impressed

enjoyable thread IMO , been interesting following it.

Steve

 

haha wow i leave for a couple of hours and come back and this is what i find! i wont even bother to reply to everyone, but thanks to anyone that posted i learned a few things and i think im going to go for it eventually... but not for another 6 months minimum. Thanks!

 

there not hard if your tank is ready for it dont know if your gonna have enough rock in there thoug h

 

I would like to thank the members of this thread who shared info in such a mature (and helpful) way. That's what being a 3Reefer is all about.

Heck, when I saw the title to the thread I thought to myself, "Well Great!!! I'm going to have to go into this thread and send PM's, edit posts, etc." Well, luckily I didn't have to do anything because you all self-moderated.

 

ok, let me clarify a bit here too, i want to be forthwright in what s going on, i wrote that late last night on my ipad and its not fun to do long blogs on it.

the phyto is more for the fire scallop i have, but hit hides so much, taget feeding is near impossible, so i just throw about 8ml in a day, all the fish go crazy over it, and the madarin will follow that stream in the water colum till it disapates.
then 8 ml of reef snow, my god, that is like fishy crack, they frenzy when it goes in.
every third day, 10ml of seachem reef additive for the corals

the daily feeding routine is, i have a container in the fridge, i put tank water in it, about 3 cups, i toss in, 4 cubes of brine, 4 cubes of cyclops, 4 cubes of reef cavier, this keeps it more readily on hand and thawed, that lasts a week, it keeps the kids from over feeding, 2 tablespoons of the chum in the morn 2 in the evening. suplement with some seaweed stuff hung on a clip in the morn.

the tank is a 75, about 75 lbs of live rock, shallow sand bed, 2 hob filters, one aquaclear 110 and a marine land bio wheel thing, hob skimmer, 18 all in one sterilizer, 2 coralia #2's, (i gots flow)

i use 10ml of vodka (stoli) a day, skimmer produces quite well

that goby is constantly pecking at the rocks, so i guess he's getting what he needs
like i said, had him awhile and he seems to be doing great
this tank is 4 months old, my water parameters are constantly in range
i do 10 gal water changes bi weekly with ro/di premix from a very reputable lfs
who uses a 3 part salt mix? not sure of the name, its liquid i believe, ill see him this weekend
and ask him, steves been doin it for 25+ years and has an amazing following, he has living room furniture in his store to hang and BS and coffe always on and a fridge with drinks, its like a sunday social club. lol

the fish are as follows:
pink spotted watchman gobi
2 clowns, a orange and a black
hippo tang
yellow tang
lawn mower blenny
long nosed hawkfish
2 chromis
purple flame pipe fish
6 line wrasse
1 pajama fish
mandarin goby

inverts:
arrow crab (by far the coolest crab around)
red banded shrimp
blood shrimp
green crab
green brittle star
blue linckia star
scarlet leg hermit
fire scallop

coral:
4 feather dusters
ceranthidae (purple worm anenomoe
candy coral
pagoda cup
gorgonian
ricordia
hairy mushroom
kenya tree
red sponge

heres a pic of gobezilla