Marty's 180g [My Elusive Shrimp]

Beautiful tang! I love the coloration on the top fin! He looks so happy with all the swimming room!

 

He's a madman right now. All over the tank.

 

My sump is close to town and I should be able to get it this afternoon. So excited!

Also, I ordered 9 black axle chromis and a sand sifting star from LiveAquaria. I was going to wait a week, but they have an awesome deal right now for small BAC's, $8.99 each!

They will arrive tomorrow and I will be setting up the QT again this morning.

 

I am shocked to log this morning that I have lost my pygmy angelfish (avatar). My sump was installed last night and I added roughly 40 gallons of LFS salt water to get the sump going. Everything went great all parameters checked out fine:

1.0255 sg
79*
0 ppm amm
.05 ppm trites
1.8 ppm trates
0 ppm phos
8.4 dKH
8.2 ph

Before I went to bed I saw him grazing on the rocks and he looked good.

EDIT: I should add that all other fish look normal and don't appear stressed.

 

oh no! I'm so sorry for your loss he looked so happy in the video swimming right along with the tang.

You've accomplished quite a lot getting the sump up and running so soon! Congrats!

 

Thanks.

My sand sifting star came today, acclimated and went right to burying himself. 9 black axil chromises also into QT today, params looking good and they are schooling and happy.

 

what differentiates the black axil on the chromis? They look very similar to blue/green reef chromis.

 

The are almost identical, but they appear to have black outline around their profile. A little sharper detail than the blue/greens.

 

very nice! They all look very healthy. They will love all that swimming room when they're out of QT.

 

Marty what else was in the tank with the Angel? I have found the Dwarfs to be very hardy.