3.5 gallon long pico

[1epauletteshark]

My most recent (and incredibly successful) time I’ve used Zipties/Tiewraps was when I attached a piece of plating monti onto my water outlet to cover it up when looking at the tank top down.
It’s already encrusted onto the outlet and is now growing out
I need a better photo but here it is.
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Nice! I’m going to get some more coral soon because the GSP is happy and when I do I’ll stick it on the live rock I put on the back.

 

[1epauletteshark]

@i cant think any coral suggestions for this tank? I really like the GSP and I might get some xenia but I haven’t found any yet.

 

[1epauletteshark]

@i cant think any coral suggestions for this tank? I really like the GSP and I might get some xenia but I haven’t found any yet.

Easy coral*

 

[shcrimps]

Too expensive . The sexy shrimp are 2$, bumble bee shrimp 3.5$, the clown are 1.5$ each and the Pictus 8$ but a Yasha is about 20$ all USD

how are you getting those shrimp that cheap!?

 

[1epauletteshark]

how are you getting those shrimp that cheap!?

Here in Indonesia everything Reef related (other than overseas products) are cheaper
I’m genuinely scared to back to Australia because of prices

 

[1epauletteshark]

Eggs arrived and now we wait for hatching. Will my yellow clown goby eat them?

 

[1epauletteshark]

@i cant think @Tired I have an idea. I ended up picking up one of the small blue stripe pipefish for my nano because of this new DIY hatchery so I know I can feed it but should I slowly "dose" the tank with the BBS once they hatch at about a rate of around 1/10 drops per second?

 

[Tired]

You might have some trouble doing that without getting too much of the nasty hatchery water into the tank. If you transferred the BBS over to clean water, then slowly dripped those in, that could be good.

Remember that it takes a day for the eggs to hatch, and that you have to periodically dump out the hatchery and replenish it with new water and eggs, meaning you'll have frequent pauses in your supply of shrimp unless you run 2 hatcheries at a time.

 

[i cant think]

@i cant think any coral suggestions for this tank? I really like the GSP and I might get some xenia but I haven’t found any yet.

I would say try some Monti but it’s still rather new. Hm…maybe try a small leather if your nano has room when it grows?
Or if you can find it, try some red Xenia.

 

[1epauletteshark]

I would say try some Monti but it’s still rather new. Hm…maybe try a small leather if your nano has room when it grows?
Or if you can find it, try some red Xenia.

I'll take a look around and see what I can find. I currently have my eye on an orange ricordea, a rhodactic green purple mushroom, another little GSP frag of a different area and a zoa candy apple colony of four. I have just added a multi coral frag to it because my sexy shrimp were DESTROYING it in my nano, ill try to get a nice photo once they have opened.

@i cant think @Jay Hemdal @Tired
The spots on Nico have disappeared, it has been two days and there are none on my clown goby, as I wasn't even sure in the first place if it was Ich, am I in the clear or does it take longer for the spots to come back?

 

[i cant think]

I'll take a look around and see what I can find. I currently have my eye on an orange ricordea, a rhodactic green purple mushroom, another little GSP frag of a different area and a zoa candy apple colony of four. I have just added a multi coral frag to it because my sexy shrimp were DESTROYING it in my nano, I’ll try to get a nice photo once they have opened.

Absolutely get some candy apple Zoas!
An orange Ricordea will grow and get huge, my mothers are 6-8” in diameter when fully out.

 

[Sailaway]

Most of the ‘bad’ worms are actually good - Spaghetti worms and Bristleworms are the two most people say are bad but are really good

I love my bristleworm!

 

[shcrimps]

Here in Indonesia everything Reef related (other than overseas products) are cheaper
I’m genuinely scared to back to Australia because of prices

sheesh where i am in the united states
sexy shrimp are 15$ each and bumblebee shrimp are $30-40$ each

 

[Sailaway]

sheesh where i am in the united states
sexy shrimp are 15$ each and bumblebee shrimp are $30-40$ each

Prices are outrageous here. Neon gobies less than an inch long are 30 dollars at my LFS. My mocha clowns were 55 each.

 

[1epauletteshark]

sheesh where i am in the united states
sexy shrimp are 15$ each and bumblebee shrimp are $30-40$ each

Yeah my rule of thumb can be applied here, if you are really lucky you can get sexy shrimp for 1.5$ but they are never in stock so I got mine for around 2$ I think, and my bumble bee was 4$.

 

[1epauletteshark]

Absolutely get some candy apple Zoas!
An orange Ricordea will grow and get huge, my mothers are 6-8” in diameter when fully out.

Woah! Alright I think I'll take that off the list.

 

[1epauletteshark]

@i cant think @Jay Hemdal @Tired

The yellow clown goby is really sickly and has a bunch of these yellow dots that actually bulge out of his skin. This is really disturbing and he is not doing well at all. This doesn’t seem like Ich to me and no more spots on Nico but I don’t know much about disease.

 

[Sailaway]

@i cant think @Jay Hemdal @Tired
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The yellow clown goby is really sickly and has a bunch of these yellow dots that actually bulge out of his skin. This is really disturbing and he is not doing well at all. This doesn’t seem like Ich to me and no more spots on Nico but I don’t know much about disease.

I’m thinking mucus plugs. My sharknose goby had these the first week and a half in the tank. They disappeared after that. I think they are pretty common in smaller gobies. If you want to rule out flukes you could do a freshwater dip (RODI) but they do look like mucus plugs. Let me see if I have a picture of my goby with them.

 

[1epauletteshark]

I’m thinking mucus plugs. My sharknose goby had these the first week and a half in the tank. They disappeared after that. I think they are pretty common in smaller gobies. If you want to rule out flukes you could do a freshwater dip (RODI) but they do look like mucus plugs. Let me see if I have a picture of my goby with them.

I have never heard of that and a quick google search didn't help. I would love to see photos as this makes me feel much better.

 

[Sailaway]

I have never heard of that and a quick google search didn't help. I would love to see photos as this makes me feel much better.

Do they stick out like this?