- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
This really should have been called "Catching engineer gobi"
I have been trying to get this engineer gobi out of my tank being he grew too large and ate all of my small fish so I built a couple of traps and caught almost all of my fish except the gobi I wanted.
I built a new trap today, put it in the tank and said
"what the hell" I don't have anything to do for a couple of hours, so I removed all the rocks, caught the gobi and stirred up the gravel.
It was time to aquascape and when I get in the mood I drag out the three diatom filters and see which ones are still working.
Two out of three isn't bad. I went through five of these things.
I don't know how you people have reef tanks with out one.
Anyway, I have been wanting to try something for a while so tonight seemed like a good time. I cut some old rocks to give them a flat side and I attached a flat plastic bast to them that will sit under the gravel to give it stability. These somewhat long thin rocks are the base for all the large heavy pieces of rock. Out of the 150lbs or so of rock, very little of it is touching the gravel.
My rocks are very large some weighing about 5 lbs and a foot long because I collected them myself in the Caribbean and Hawaii.
The rest I built out of cement covered PVC pipe.
For some reason I always have a five gallon bucket filled with rock left over that does not seem to fit. I still have five gallons from the last time I did this.
After I put the rock back I noticed I lost a gorgonian, it isn't dead, I just can't find it. I probably burried it while the tank was cloudy. I also heard a noise coming from the bucket with the extra rocks. I emptied it to find an algae bleeny. This fish was also forgotten the last time I removed the rock and it was in a bucket of water and rock in my workshop with no heater, food or circulation for a few weeks. You can't kill this fish.
The aquascaping is very drastic and I will take a picture when the water clears. I still have two diatoms running on it.
I have been trying to get this engineer gobi out of my tank being he grew too large and ate all of my small fish so I built a couple of traps and caught almost all of my fish except the gobi I wanted.
I built a new trap today, put it in the tank and said
"what the hell" I don't have anything to do for a couple of hours, so I removed all the rocks, caught the gobi and stirred up the gravel.
It was time to aquascape and when I get in the mood I drag out the three diatom filters and see which ones are still working.
Two out of three isn't bad. I went through five of these things.
I don't know how you people have reef tanks with out one.
Anyway, I have been wanting to try something for a while so tonight seemed like a good time. I cut some old rocks to give them a flat side and I attached a flat plastic bast to them that will sit under the gravel to give it stability. These somewhat long thin rocks are the base for all the large heavy pieces of rock. Out of the 150lbs or so of rock, very little of it is touching the gravel.
My rocks are very large some weighing about 5 lbs and a foot long because I collected them myself in the Caribbean and Hawaii.
The rest I built out of cement covered PVC pipe.
For some reason I always have a five gallon bucket filled with rock left over that does not seem to fit. I still have five gallons from the last time I did this.
After I put the rock back I noticed I lost a gorgonian, it isn't dead, I just can't find it. I probably burried it while the tank was cloudy. I also heard a noise coming from the bucket with the extra rocks. I emptied it to find an algae bleeny. This fish was also forgotten the last time I removed the rock and it was in a bucket of water and rock in my workshop with no heater, food or circulation for a few weeks. You can't kill this fish.
The aquascaping is very drastic and I will take a picture when the water clears. I still have two diatoms running on it.
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aquascaping looks very nicely done
