Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

i'm loving my clean up crew right now. One of the inverts have been working away at my one rock that has the worst GHA and some areas which was once covered in GHA is now spotless! it's going away. I just got a hideous emeraled crab to eat the bubble algae

 

how true is that!!!! A lot of other things look better than the browns right now too : including... hmmm.... my high school football team ;D jk, give them some time, they'll come around. maybe.:-/ no they wont! ahh idk what to say about them other than what a mess... anyways, ya cleveland sucks. But hey, it makes vacation spots seem that much more heavenly, right?

 

can't find the crab in his tunnel, he must of flipped back over and went somewhere, i worry about not knowing where he is, hopefully he found some bubble algae

 

He will find it in time. Make sure your feeding your tank as little as possible to make your CUC work on the algae as opposed to eating food you serve.

 

i hope so. i think i will cut my feeding down even more. When all the bubble algae is gone, what do i feed him, i really dont want him to go after the coraline or anything else

 

I don't believe they eat coralline. They are scavengers just like hermits. You shouldn't have to feed it anything. I've found that feeding clowns once a week is plenty. It feels cruel, but they don't thin up much in a week.

 

i think the lowest that i'll go is 4, i think that would be to much of a drastic changre for them, from going from small amount every day to once or twice a week. But if fish are used to it like yours, doesn't seemm like a problem

 

IME, with clowns, 4 feedings a week is on the high side. I routinely feed them once a week. The nice thing about clowns is they'll eat anything... so if you don't feed them, they scavenge. And scavenging only helps the tank IMO.

Now that I have corals and I feed those a few times a week, the clowns get more than one feeding per week... but it's incidental.


I've tried emeralds before... I have no algae issues... emeralds survive a matter of weeks in my tank and starve. i quit keeping them.

I think you'll be able to keep an emerald fat and happy for quite some time.

 

how would the the helfrichi firefish do without being fed once every day.

lol i hope i'll keep my emerald fat and happy. I have no idea where he is, he keeps on leaving his tunnel so he better be getting the bubble algae

 

that i do not know.