These pics here are from around the time my female ocellaris lost her mate. Fish definitely have personalities because you could tell she was sad. After a little while I added a new male. In this last picture you can see how much the xenia spread that its starting to surround the mushrooms. If anyone is interested I could try taking more pics of the clowns later?
LavaToad's Xenia Forest
- Thread starter LavaToad
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- Rockville Centre, NY
awesome! what do you keep your parameters at?
I keep the temperature at 80 and the salinity at 1.025. The pH fluctuates but is usually at 8.0. Also I leave the lights on about 12 hours a day. I don't add anything special like iodine but I do a 25% water change every other week.
Thank you, yep it all came from a piece I got from Fishtown USA for about $20 on a rock about the size of a snapple bottle cap. I think I have some pics somewhere when I first put it in, I'll have to look.
I forgot to mention one piece of "equipment" I added. I went down to Autozone and picked up one of those weather resistant bright blue led strips they have and spliced it to an old 12V remington shaver charger I don't use anymore. It's a nice bright blue and actually causes the gsp and green button polyps to give off a green flourescence, unfortunately my camera is unable to pick up on the color. 3 of the leds blew out because there is a crack in the silicon in the area and some water got into it, though I'm not sure how. It works great but I don't trust it enough to leave it on if I am not in the room just to be safe. If I can figure out the settings on the camera for the picture to come out I'll post the blue light picture but for now here's some overhead shots ^_^
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- Location
- Kings Park, NY
Beautiful Tank! The thought of doing my 120 dedicated to GSP, Xenia, Shrooms and Rics has been with me since I started in the hobby. Your tank makes it hard to resist that temptation.
I was going to attempt a video of me filing the puffers teeth but its kind of hard to hold a camera and the fish and nail clipper and watch out for my new lionfish at the same time. I'm working on it though... In the meantime I have some pics of a bta and dwarf lion I added a little while ago
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