Desi & Ketchup 4x2.5x2 tank

[Ketchup]

nicely shots and so many things to see.. i like the green wrasse, mine was third casualty this morning

what happened to it? Jumper?

[tian1974]

what happened to it? Jumper?

well, it was in betta box with a few other new additions, then on sunday morning it was floating dead So sad i lost my green and yellow/purpose wrasses.

[m12345y]

as far as i understand except may grow to abt 7-8 inches..

mine grow from 3cm to the length of your blue tang in just 10month and now is the gangster in my tank.

I had tried many times to catch it out, but it always outsmarts me...(and now i felt so guilty of killing him in the night in the sands)

[Solo77]

green wrasse can be aggressive when grow too big.....and the green will fald....hence u might want to reconsider if got a chance. Yellow wrasse, radiant, etc not that agressive. Personal experience. : )

[yikai]

well, it was in betta box with a few other new additions, then on sunday morning it was floating dead So sad i lost my green and yellow/purpose wrasses.

dont put sand wrasses into betta box.. it will stress them. they need sand to sleep in and feel secure when stressed.

[Ketchup]

well, i'll monitor and see how it goes.. at the moment the green wrasse is actually one of the smaller fishes in my tank so hopefully they won't go hostile when they grow...

This morning found our yellow watchman goby dead... not sure why, no sign of injury or anything...

[Ketchup]

one question.... our Powder Brown Tang in the QT seems to be not eating at all, so far fed him swaweed flakes, pellets and seaweed on clip but i hardly see him eat anything at all... we even add in a piece of liverock with a bit of algae hoping he would graze but nothing seems to work..

Any idea what else can we try? He seems healthy though... no sign of ich nor is he very agitated.... just swimming around and not eating.

[reaper78]

one question.... our Powder Brown Tang in the QT seems to be not eating at all, so far fed him swaweed flakes, pellets and seaweed on clip but i hardly see him eat anything at all... we even add in a piece of liverock with a bit of algae hoping he would graze but nothing seems to work..

Any idea what else can we try? He seems healthy though... no sign of ich nor is he very agitated.... just swimming around and not eating.

Hi Bro, what abt garlic? Kent extreme garlic? Just a suggestion though....used to haf a powder brown tang with the same problem....

[comycus]

where did you get your powder brown from? was he feeding on anything already? Would be good to feed him the same stuff he's been feeding on at the LFS.

They might take some time to adjust to your qt and start feeding. Soaking your seaweed in garlic is a good idea. Have you tried Henry's food?

[Ketchup]

where did you get your powder brown from? was he feeding on anything already? Would be good to feed him the same stuff he's been feeding on at the LFS.

They might take some time to adjust to your qt and start feeding. Soaking your seaweed in garlic is a good idea. Have you tried Henry's food?

Bought from CF.. did not check with Auntie on whats he's feeding on as he looks healthy enough...

I think he may have nipped at the pellets we thrown in as i don't see much on the bottom now.. Go home tonight and check again.

[wilsontantw]

Bought from CF.. did not check with Auntie on whats he's feeding on as he looks healthy enough...

I think he may have nipped at the pellets we thrown in as i don't see much on the bottom now.. Go home tonight and check again.

I usually start with some cyclopeeze + Henry's food and mixed in with some pellets. Gradually reduce Henry's and cyclopeeze.

My fish (even my cleaner wrasse!) are all on pellets, with weekend henry's treats. Pellets are on auto timer. Used to be 3x daily. Now reduced to 2.

Hope it helps.

[comycus]

Bought from CF.. did not check with Auntie on whats he's feeding on as he looks healthy enough...

I think he may have nipped at the pellets we thrown in as i don't see much on the bottom now.. Go home tonight and check again.

Unless you are buying hot fishes on shipment day, I suggest to always check if they are feeding first. A big, fat healthy fish can slowly waste away if "suay suay" just cannot be weaned to processed food. I have encountered this before and was v. depressing to see my fish grow skinnier by the day until up lorry, which took more than a month.

But it sounds like your powder blue is starting to recognise pellets as food. Tt's one of the advantages of a qt tank, they start picking on rocks / bb and learn to eat what you feed them. Don't give in to temptation and let him in earlier yeah?

[Ketchup]

Unless you are buying hot fishes on shipment day, I suggest to always check if they are feeding first. A big, fat healthy fish can slowly waste away if "suay suay" just cannot be weaned to processed food. I have encountered this before and was v. depressing to see my fish grow skinnier by the day until up lorry, which took more than a month.

But it sounds like your powder blue is starting to recognise pellets as food. Tt's one of the advantages of a qt tank, they start picking on rocks / bb and learn to eat what you feed them. Don't give in to temptation and let him in earlier yeah?

yeah... i always get too excited and never ask them to demo feeding! lol...

It's Powder Brown la... bro.. Powder Blue... must wait even longer

Ya.. hopefully he start eating la.. shd be quite hopeful as i think the pellets and food cannot dissappear elsewhere right? Tonight maybe check the pvc piping that i put in to stack up the rock for him to have some "privacy". Scarely, he sweep everything inside..

[Ketchup]

I usually start with some cyclopeeze + Henry's food and mixed in with some pellets. Gradually reduce Henry's and cyclopeeze.

My fish (even my cleaner wrasse!) are all on pellets, with weekend henry's treats. Pellets are on auto timer. Used to be 3x daily. Now reduced to 2.

Hope it helps.

Well, i think we will try everything lor... once he starts eating then i not so worried

[comycus]

yeah... i always get too excited and never ask them to demo feeding! lol...

It's Powder Brown la... bro.. Powder Blue... must wait even longer

Ya.. hopefully he start eating la.. shd be quite hopeful as i think the pellets and food cannot dissappear elsewhere right? Tonight maybe check the pvc piping that i put in to stack up the rock for him to have some "privacy". Scarely, he sweep everything inside..

haha oops I'm too excited thinking about powder blue... Hoping I can find a small healthy one in future to fit into my tank.

btw how is your qt tank setup? care to share?

[Ketchup]

haha oops I'm too excited thinking about powder blue... Hoping I can find a small healthy one in future to fit into my tank.

btw how is your qt tank setup? care to share?

Our QT? basically is our old 2 ft tank... size shd be 2X1.5X1 iirc... we fixed the old cheapo light from J**** that comes with the old 2 ft tank since it's fish only tank. We hook up a UV that is on 24/7 (i think is the 6w one? our main tank UV is the 24w iirc) and we are using our red sea prizm skimmer, also from our 2 ft tank.

We aim to keep the Powder Brown for a mth in the QT before putting in the main tank. Will do the same again if we get a Powder Blue...

If we can get both Powder Brown and Powder Blue, then the QT mainly will convert back to a small tank keeping some simple fishes... gobies/clownfishes i think.. or just decom lor.

[mitlancer]

Well, i think we will try everything lor... once he starts eating then i not so worried

if need to, come to my place, i pass u some Henry's Reef Gourmet to try... all ready packed in those small tablet boxes, one box per feed...

All my established fishes will snatch them from my fingers, new ones are already eating just after one day of fasting!!!!

[desideria]

hey all, thanks for the suggestions, I have tried the following

- soaking mysis with garlic guard and then squirt a bit in... he swam right through the rain of mysis...

- Dr Basseler's flakes also swim right by

- Ocean nutrition Form 1 Pellets swim right by...

- ignoring seaweed ( but didn't soak in garlic, will try that)

- tried henry's gourmet Advantage but without garlic guard also dun wan

so worried

I will try again tonight when I get home with henry's gourmet with garlic guard... and pray.. the food seems to be disappearing but I NEVER se ehim eat.... WHERE could it have gone!

Desi

oh and btw, our red sez prizm skimmer has a media basket and I put in some filter media as well... also using hyposalinity treatment.. right now the SG is actually quite high as we mixed water from our DT with freshly made salt water so it's 1.024 but I intend to reduce to 1.017 or something and leave the Powder brown for 30 days... if it survives.... /sigh

[[V]tEc]

if u wan a powder blue, sell off the powder brown.... else u have to get a powder blue that is very much bigger than ur powder brown....

[desideria]

if u wan a powder blue, sell off the powder brown.... else u have to get a powder blue that is very much bigger than ur powder brown....

I think ketchup will be more than happy to accomodate to that detail..

Desi

[[V]tEc]

I think ketchup will be more than happy to accomodate to that detail..

Desi

always remember, they r realli fierce tang.....added an angel juz now.....none of my tangs were interested except for my powder blue.....chasing him non stop.....my hybrid powder tang was also stressed by the powder blue until up lorry

[Ketchup]

always remember, they r realli fierce tang.....added an angel juz now.....none of my tangs were interested except for my powder blue.....chasing him non stop.....my hybrid powder tang was also stressed by the powder blue until up lorry

wah piangz... how big is your tank and teh PBT?

[[V]tEc]

wah piangz... how big is your tank and teh PBT?

tank is 4 2 2, n the powder blue abt 3"

[desideria]

tank is 4 2 2, n the powder blue abt 3"

It's only 3 inches and it's SO FIERCE?! WAH BIANGZ eh.... then I guess Ketchup would have to kiss goodbye his powder blue... until the NEXT tank .. hopefully...upgrade in a couple of years time....... and next time, it will be condenser chiller to prevent ANY chiller problem..

Desi.

[teebs]

It's only 3 inches and it's SO FIERCE?! WAH BIANGZ eh.... then I guess Ketchup would have to kiss goodbye his powder blue... until the NEXT tank .. hopefully...upgrade in a couple of years time....... and next time, it will be condenser chiller to prevent ANY chiller problem..

Desi.

Upgrade in couple of years huh? Thought you would say upgrade in a couple of days...