72 Bow First SW Tank

[rage]

If you bought the cleaners and the clownfish, forget about the piece of shrimp to raise ammonia. You already have more ammonia than you need. You might want to take the measurements again.

[zerocool]

everything is the same, i need to do a water change to lower my nitrate but everything is the same. one of the clowns died but i think it was something with the fish and not the tank. the oter one is doing just fine and swims around happy, the other just stayed in the corner the whole time.

[zerocool]

bought another cleaner shrimp and today i am going to replace the dead clown and get some more snails. the wifey want a lobster and everything else in the fish store.

[Darbex]

So how is it going?

[zerocool]

so here are the updates. everything seems to be running as it is supposed to now. the clowns died but they had some parasites growing on them or something. i started having algae growths so i have my clean-up crew now consists of 2 emerald crabs, 15 margarita snails, 5 astrea snails, 1 turbo snail, 6 blue hermit crabs, 2 cleaner shrimp, and a lawnmower goby. just trying to get the tank to run by itself before i start adding a bunch of stuff, so hear are some pics of what i have going on.






this is the new lawnmower goby, he is still to shy to photo


the algae i want him to destroy


the new zoas

[myjohnson]

Slowly but surely the tank will be filled up!

Good job some far.

You should look into dealing with that algae.

[zerocool]

the rock started to grow algae but i think everthing i have put in there is taking care of that, now i just need to get the glass all the way around and the sand bed. thinking of getting a diamond goby this weekend. the next water change i will suck up the algae from the sand.

[Darbex]

Looks good

[zerocool]

ok now i added some more fish, i have a coral beauty, a clown, a lawnmower golby, a spotted mandarin, and some box looking fish with barbs that the wife had to have. ill take pics later to show everyone.

[myjohnson]

Please do!

I'm interested to know what that box fish is.

[madugo]

cow fish i assume?

[Darbex]

where are the pics man?

[zerocool]

here are the pics i promised....






don't know how this happen but im happy











cownose thorn back









the shrimp, they had off spring but i don't know what happened to them





lawnmower

[zerocool]

deleted this one