Re-Setup OLDDD 12g

[nissan577]

i want pics!!!!

 

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I have PICTURES!!!!
excuse the ghetto-ness of the way i installed the led's, i really could no think of another way to put them in without cutting the top...
and here is my new tiny bangaii,,,,eating marine cuisine already so she should be good to go!!!

 

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WAHOO... i went to the LFS today and got a cleaner shrimp.....ANDDDDDD
a chili coral (yeah i know not the greatest thing but atleast it RED), a single green little mushroom, and a teeny tiny toadstool PICS to come!!!

 

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Pics!!!!

 

[nissan577]

amazing!!!!

i love it!!!!

 

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Im glad atleast you do nobody else seems to pay attention

(other than my husband, i can put 1 freaking mushroom in and he notices,, good but badddd)

 

[nissan577]

that is bad!!!! lets see if Lois comes here with Henry

 

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okay, well now my cleaner shrimp is MIA.... seriusly i must have something eating these things in this tank, a freaking 12g tank and i cant find a fish and 3 shrimps???? IM GOING CRAZY!!!!!! Ive checked in the back and everything...

 

[bender77]

Your tank is looking really good. I'm having shrimp problems as well, except my peppermint shrimp has aquired a taste for snail. I have seen he come out and grab 3 snails that were cruising the sand or eating and flip them over and start chowing down.

 

[nissan577]

you lost a fish and 3 shrimps????

 

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yeah, and not a trace of ammonia or phos??? and i dont have ANY crabs in the tank, and only 4 snails, the bangaii, the shrimpgoby and 1 sexy shrimp???
missing- watchman goby, pistol shrimp, cleaner chrimp and 1 sexy shrimp... ITS CRAZY!!!

 

[nissan577]

and they are no were to be found???? maybe the bristle got to them

 

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i dont even have any big bristle worms, i took them all out when i did the switch, lol there are only tiny ones.... i am going to look with my steller flashlight tonight or tommarrow night and see what i can see.....

 

[nissan577]

goodluck

 

[spanko]

Shrimp are very susceptible to shock from acclimation. Are they dying fairly quickly and how are you acclimating them? Also looks like the tank was set up around the 28th of December so not up a month yet even. I would wonder since you used the sand from the 150 if you have stirred up some nastiness in the sand and have created a small ammonia - nitrite - nitrate spike. Shrimp are very sensitive creatures.

 

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I always stirred my sand in my 150 50% every week, and it was stirred before i put it in the new tank....no nitrite, nitrate, phos or ammonia at all, and i still have 1 sexy shrimp?
the pistol shrimp may not have acclimated well same with the cleaner they were good for the first day then i didnt see them again....the other sexy shrimp was good for about 3 days and then he dissapeared....and then the watchman goby was good for 5-7 days and then no more??
I watched the tank with my red flashlight for about an hour last night,,, nothing....a few smallllll bristleworms, but nothing to be worried about,,,
checked my overflow and all nothing.....

 

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also,,, i did order some new bulbs last night..... 32watt dual daylight and 32watt dual 10K and actinic....hopefully i will have enough light for some lps then

 

[spanko]

Yup, well still a relatively new set up so to speak. If there were any spikes at all you may have missed them but who knows at this point. I would let it sit for a while without any new additions just to let it mellow a bit.
The lighting will certainly be sufficient for LPS in this tank.

 

[runn3rb3an]

Nice tank. R those the r2 moonlights??

 

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the second picture in the group is just the leds, i have 2 white and 2 blue,, thats why i think if you got all 4 blue or just the set of 2 blue they would work good for moonlights...