I need some help

flower

flower

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I am ordering from SWF.com to arrive Tuesday....There are no little green stripe gobies available anywhere on the internet, and I can't wait for who knows how long...What from SWF can I put in my 30g tank with the seahorses to eat the extra food they waste?
I'm afraid they will be polluting the tank faster than water changes can keep up. Everything still looks healthy and I would like to keep it that way.
If and when the green stipes become available I can transfer whatever I have in the seahorse tank to the 90g reef to make room for them if need be.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I know there is a compatability chart...but I figure you guys know what will go best, and I want it from SWF so it's all on the same order. So a few things to keep in mind.

  • Must go in a 30g

  • Cool waters (72-75)

  • Seahorse compatable
    No diggers
    Reef safe
    Eats frozen mysis shrimp
 
flower

flower

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What about a yellow clown goby? Threat level 1 on the chart, eats mysis, they stay small...I don't know about the cooler temps.
Edit:
Temps say 72-78 so I should be good with a couple of these little guys. I have plenty of rock and coral for them to hide.
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Fireworms are the hands-down best animal for this task.
Cerith Snails, Sea cucumber, Mud Snails (often sold as Nassarius) can also help.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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yeah...buff up your cuc.....I like the fancy nass, and the sand conch swf sells....I got one, and I am getting more.....they are neat...and always eating
 
teresaq

teresaq

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but Bang, fireworm, brissleworms are not the best to have with horses. Being as they can be stung by them or snick at them and get the brissles in thier snouts.
Flower, I already told you a few things, lol
Peppermint shrimp, clown gobies, firefish gobies, there are several differant cardinal fish, scooter blenny, ora stripped blenny.
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Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///forum/thread/384608/i-need-some-help#post_3369781
Fireworms are the hands-down best animal for this task.
Cerith Snails, Sea cucumber, Mud Snails (often sold as Nassarius) can also help.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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YEAH...I have one pep in my horse tank...I ordered 3 more.....not sure if I should add all 3 or not though TERESA
 
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smartorl

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I also keep a few ghost shrimp as they are great scavengers and don't really get big enough to mess with anything. If I see one getting large, I net him out and move him to another tank.
All the gobies mentioned would be good.
I have an issue with blennys in a seahorse tank because they tend to be more aggressive and had a lawn mower attack one of mine with me watching once so I tend to stay away from them. Just my opinion.
 
teresaq

teresaq

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Quote:
Originally Posted by smartorl http:///forum/thread/384608/i-need-some-help#post_3369814
I also keep a few ghost shrimp as they are great scavengers and don't really get big enough to mess with anything. If I see one getting large, I net him out and move him to another tank.
All the gobies mentioned would be good.
I have an issue with blennys in a seahorse tank because they tend to be more aggressive and had a lawn mower attack one of mine with me watching once so I tend to stay away from them. Just my opinion.
Yes most blennys are a 2 on the compatibility chart and listed as bold in the info on this site, I only listed the ora stripped one because its listed as peacefull, and I have never seen one. lol
I would try it in my own tanks, with the option of moving it if need be.
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Quote:
Originally Posted by TeresaQ http:///forum/thread/384608/i-need-some-help#post_3369802
but Bang, fireworm, brissleworms are not the best to have with horses. Being as they can be stung by them or snick at them and get the brissles in thier snouts.
Flower, I already told you a few things, lol
Peppermint shrimp, clown gobies, firefish gobies, there are several differant cardinal fish, scooter blenny, ora stripped blenny.
Point taken on the Bristle Worms. I would think them part of their natural diet but I defer to your experience.
Wouldn't all of the animals you listed eat baby seahorses?
 
teresaq

teresaq

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Yup, thats why babies -at least the ones I am raising - are in a seperate tank - raised like bangii or clowns. lol
any fry left in the tank will be eatten by almost anything- even peppermint shrimp.
I have seen pic of horses with brissles in thier snouts and die from secondary infections. I try to keep them out of my tank. I know I have a few, but pick them out when I see them.
 
flower

flower

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LOL, boy this place is dead early in the morning..I went to the store and came back to all kinds of reply's.
SWF was out of Peppermint shrimp. I had three aiptasia so I will have to get some to keep them away.
T, I did forget what you had mentioned would be good...but I did order two yellow clown gobies, they are #1 on the chart so they should be okay. I wanted the green stripes but nobody has them.
I saw one brissle worm and couldn't get it..I hope my horses don't get stung before I find it again.
I want to get these plastic plants out, all they do is collect algae. In this 30g tank I have 65 snails, 25 nass, 20 cerith, and 20 nerite. LOL..the extra 5 may be a different snail...I don't remember but it's allot of snails for a 30g tank. All things considering, the tank looks pretty good. I just see the extra food floating and I know I am going to have issues if I don't do something.
Oh and all my horses (I believe anyway) are female and I don't intend for any babies.
I got two feather dusters and I also ordered some more corals, a tree leather, and a purple bluish colored finger leather and a neon Palua Nepthia tree, and a yellow ruffled leather. Depends on size at to what tank I will put them in. I ordered a new CUC for the 90g of 65 different snails as well. My cuc of hermits are about gone from old age. I didn't get any more hermits, and I'm replacing them with snails only.
 
teresaq

teresaq

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The clown gobies should help.
I have a mandrine and a baby clown in mine (would not suggest to anyone new) I will add another jaw fish later, I hate that I lost my other one
Too bad about the pepps, maybe they will get some in soon-get those aptasias out of that tank, they are worse then the brissle worms.
Now, I have to ask - how much are you feeding??? you should not have a lot of left over food.
T
 
flower

flower

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Quote:
Originally Posted by TeresaQ http:///forum/thread/384608/i-need-some-help#post_3369835
The clown gobies should help.
I have a mandrine and a baby clown in mine (would not suggest to anyone new) I will add another jaw fish later, I hate that I lost my other one
Too bad about the pepps, maybe they will get some in soon-get those aptasias out of that tank, they are worse then the brissle worms.
Now, I have to ask - how much are you feeding??? you should not have a lot of left over food.
T

I give the four of them one cube thawed out. They do graze for about an hour, they certainly don't eat everything in a minute or two like the fish in the 90g that's for sure. Miss Picky the largest, lives close to the dish...just in case she finds a tidbit I guess.
I put most of the food in the dish but they make some float from getting in the dish with the food and I have one that must be led to the dish. I squirt a little food and she follows, but there is always some that get away and float past her.
So some food is loose and then snails come out....I THINK they clean it up pretty good. I don't have any nitrate or ammonia readings on last test. I have water set for a change this weekend. I have the littlest hint of algae started on the plastic plants.
 
flower

flower

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Quote:
Originally Posted by TeresaQ http:///forum/thread/384608/i-need-some-help#post_3369842
you should be fine then. I always have some float around too.
T

Good to hear, I'm just a worrier by nature. The fish I ordered will help eat the floaters I'm sure, and I will feel better about it. I keep remembering how high the ammonia got with that one chunk of shrimp left in there when I cycled the tank, it just makes sense to me that any rotting mysis would wreak havok.
 
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