My Brackish Journal

[Lhutch]

Square 1:After About A month of just waiting to cycle and thinking,plz add comments Thankyou
40gal
55gal Filter
Crushed Coral Substrate,mixed with sand
20 Watt Sun Bulb Thing
VisiTherm Stealth Heater 55 gal
I bought sizes bigger because i figure theres always room to upgrade

Cloudy Agua(Sry about the mess its temporary)

I washed the coral substrate and the sand quite good to

Finally After A Little While It Started To Clear up

Time To Start Building:

I got Soaked And stirred thing up in the water after trying and trying to get the airstone under the coral substrate,it finally cooperated.

The Plants are 1x Java Fern, 1x Somesort of sword(dontworry ill take it out when things get real salty)


Putting More Stuff in

excuse my cloudyness


When Things Unclouded Time To Test and Tweak:

0 Ammonia
0 Nitrites
40 Nitrates
ph 8.0
Salt 1.002

there in order as followed above


A Presentable Tank:

Fish Time:
2xAustralian Desert Gobies 1 male 1 female
(adding 2 f8's Momentarilly Along with 2xFlounders)

Male

Female

I personally Think there both pretty fun fish

Conclusion: Momentarily check back for more pictures and other stuff,please feel free to add comments

oya Powerhead Yes/no? i hear good things i hear bad things

 

[paul_219]

Very nice tank journal.

 

[CAC]

Are you changing the substrate and decor before the flounders go in?
As it is now there isnt really enough room for them to swim, they need alot of floorspace, and they will not like the gravel one bit...Esp when its quite coarse and rough like that. I think you should swapout the gravel for sand and you may want to re-arrange the decor abit to allow more swimming room, allthough it isnt too clear from photos so there might be enough.

 

[Matty P]

Yep I agree, defo not enough swimming space in there at the moment. Also the gravel should be changed.

 

[Lhutch]

currently removing the crushcoral, my sand is play sand mixed with argonite, 45% Play sand,45%argonite,10%sprinkled with crush coral, more pics on the way just sit tight

 

[Lhutch]

sandy bottom


ready for puffs and flounders gradually gonna upgrade stuff


suggestions?

 

[slakey]

wow nice tank... how many figure 8 pufferfish are you going to have? considering they are only little pufferfish

 

[Lhutch]

Got the puffs, now that i look at the receit, they gave me 2 flounders for free acidently, SWEET!

they are pacing up the glass a little bit so i added some more plants

the flounder-'s

How Do i Stop the puffers from pacing around?

Also I put some freezed brine shrimp and the puffs wouldnt eat it, what should i do? just wait and keep variety in foods, i got krill,clams,shrimp,earthworms

How long should i wait to feed them snails, i have like 40 snails in a 20gal breeding


other pics

 

[slakey]

firstly calm down... the puffers will need to get used to the new tank, and then after they've explored their new life offer then some sort of food, I'd suggest a 2-3 hours... or when the next feeding time is for the entire tank.