Tank Entry

I decided to test a new LFS that recently opened in the neighborhood, http://www.danisfish.com.br. The guys seem nice and knowledgeable, they have a good set of products for sale, and they are very close, which always helps. In fact, they're the closest LFS to my home.

So I hired them to do a one time tank maintenance, involving general cleanup of pumps, glass, scraping algae off rocks (only a small patch left), doing a partial water change and measuring water parameters. You might ...

One of my 5 Green Chromis was behaving strange for some 4 months, it stopped swimming with the others, was always hiding or swimming at the cube's corners and apparently wasn't eating anymore. It was the largest specimen, possibly the older fish.

Well, yesterday it died. Found it stuck sideways on one of my MP10s. When I was trying to remove it a peppermint shrimp came by and took it away, immediately starting to eat it.

Not much was left when I came back home... well, ...

Got some time to post, will continue my thought process from the last blog post.

I concluded a few things from my experience in these 2.5 years:

1. I should underfeed my fish. First because I probably have a tendency to overfeed, second because they don't get easy food in the wild. Come on, "real" fish have a hard life! They swim a lot, compete a lot for food and don't get that much prey every day.
2. I should finger feed my fish. A tank as small as mine (DT=180L/48G) doesn't

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It has been a while since I last posted, mostly due to lack of time due to work overload.

Which obviously meant I also had little time to take care of the tank, and it went backwards.

My 4 mithrax crabs gradually died (of age I believe), leaving me without valonia eaters, which isn't good. One of the mithrax crabs (the hardiest of them, last to die) apparently was of a different species and I caught him eating my zoa colony. Moved him to the sump a month ago, and I ...

June 25th was a very sad Saturday... I went with my kid to LFS2 to buy a plastic decoration for our QT, something that gave my exiled six-line wrasse better hiding options than the white PVC tubes I had in the QT. My kid chose a cute treasure chest with octopus, with several holes in some vases an in the chest. Would be perfect, good looking and great for hiding in.
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