Jacobus' Glass Box

[jervismun]

so what is a good guide that my fish is ready for the main tank ? my bt is feeding ... but i feel the lack of hiding spaces is stressing it out .. my sailfin isnt feeding yet .. i haven been home for a day and im not sure of the condition now..

I heard a Q period of 2 weeks is good... regardless if feeding or not...

[w3ish3ng]

2 weeks? if you really wanna Q, make it 4 weeks. by then you really can see is it really healthy or not.

[jervismun]

2 weeks? if you really wanna Q, make it 4 weeks. by then you really can see is it really healthy or not.

You heard the expert... 4 weeks... so you can only buy 1 fish every 4 weeks... actually that should be the way

[jacobus]

haha ... 4 weeks !? good idea actually ... so broke now ... best if i Q the fish longer .. haha .. would doing water change for the q tank stress the fish ?

my sailfin is still not feeding ... neither is my red clown goby .. blue tang is ok ... but he is picky... eat and spit ..

love my macro skimmer ...

[w3ish3ng]

how big is your qtank? water change will be good. but dont alarm the fish. do it slowly.

[jacobus]

umm ... its 1 ft tank .. very small ..

[w3ish3ng]

take do change maybe 2-3 cup of water per week?

[jacobus]

ok noted .. thanks for the info bro!

[jervismun]

Emm... I sense update

[jacobus]

?? how u know ??

update .. got a unique tomato clown from IWARNA ... i noe im not supposed to get fishes just yet ... but i couldnt help it .. its the first time i saw a tomato with 2 stripes and i had to get it ... i always thought that the advert on animal planet with the 2 striped tomato and red anemone was fake ... lol looks like i was wrong ..

bad news is that my QT tank got wiped out by itch overnight ...

my sailfin was found kissing the pump intake and my blue tang was dead the next morning .... spots all over them ... no scratching noticed. was puzzled untill i saw my red clown goby .. terminal stages of itch. spots on gills... thought that it may have been the culprit since he is always hiding ... i never really looked at him much ... (sad thing is that he was begining to feed ... )

noted that the 2 stripe tomato was not put into the QT as i did not want to risk infection

the QT is still up coz the clown goby is still fighting the itch... i did a water change but did not FW dip the clown goby as i fear that it would not be able to handle the stress ... dunno what to do with it ....

so darn demoralised right now ... dun think i will try tangs ready ... they just dont seem fated for me ... mebbe small tangs are destined to be in the sea instead of my tank..

the only saving grace to keep me going now is my gorgeous little clown ..

LS will be put on hold for the moment as i will focus on modifying my t5-NO set to HO. although right now all my corals are happy with the current lighting .. but will mod it for the better well being of my LS.

after which i might invest in a FR to reduce the phos level which is giving a lot of problems .. but all this is dependant on whether i can get a part time job ( im holidaying now .. anyone hiring part-timers ?? )

[jacobus]

no new LS ... just some pics .. was quite out of it lately ... almost gave up on one occassion ... but yep .. im staying in this hobby ... haha..

MONSTER GONIO EATING MY CHROMIS !

[WaNeR]

ewwww, is it a death or live chromis?

[jacobus]

security gaurd..

[jacobus]

ewwww, is it a death or live chromis?

haha .. its alive ... just happens to turn when i took the photo .. haha turned out to be an interesting shot ... haha ... my ummm can someone help me ID this clown ?

closest i got was oman anemonefish

[big_ben102000]

very pretty fish will the black colour spread ?

[jervismun]

can someone help me ID this clown ? closest i got was oman anemonefish

Bro I think that fish is simply known as Tomato Anemonefish

[jacobus]

lol .. but dont tomatoes usually have 1 stripe ? haha ... tomato or oman ... still a lovely fellow .. dunno if the black will spread .. hopefully not ..

[big_ben102000]

haha maybe u got a cross between and maroon and tomato

[colinsoon]

watever fish you got, you got a very very nice specimen!

[m203]

nice tomato clown bro.....fyi the white line will disappear when it grow bigger coz i have one abt nearly a yr the white line is gone....

[jervismun]

nice tomato clown bro.....fyi the white line will disappear when it grow bigger coz i have one abt nearly a yr the white line is gone....

That explains the whole confusion...

[jacobus]

ah ... icic .. thanks for the clarification ..

[jacobus]

new addition !

[KennethK]

Candy hogfish! The filefish might nip at corals, beware of it.

[jacobus]

had to rescape due to my evil sixline bullying my bimaculatus ..

this is the old scape ...

this is the new .. i think the old one nicer ..