bosredsox92
steve
I have a question and I hope a couple of knowledgeable people can give me their opinions.
First I'd like to start off by saying I have been in the hobby for a while and have had many successful tanks in the past and currently have a beautiful 90 gallon mixed reef as well has the 40 gallon breeder which is what this question is about. Just so you don't think I'm an inexperienced hobbyist.
I set up a 40 gallon breeder with 20 lbs of live rock and a flow pot to put a breeding pair of ocellaris clownfish in. The tank cycled for 4 week and I also used some already established water from my reef tank to help get it going.
I wanna first give you a description of my tank so you can have the full picture.
The tank gallon is running with a aqueon model 3 sump with duel overflow box, 400gph return pump, and a couple small nano power heads I had laying around. The light is a odysea t5 256 watt light fixture. The parameters of the tank are as follows
Salinity 1.021
PH 8.1
Alk 180
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 15
Temp 79°
So now to my concern. i bought the already spawning pair of ocellaris clowns to be the only fish in the tank. (They came from a plain 10 gallon tank with nothing but a flowerpot.) When I added them they seemed to find 1 corner within a day and stayed there. Not often do they ever come out of the corner. Even to eat they will come out for a piece of food and swim back. And keep doing that a few times. I will notice the female occasionally swimming frantically up and down the glass nose first. I thought that this behavior would have only lasted for a little while maybe a week or 2 and then they would warm up to the tank and start breeding. But now it's been about 6 weeks now and they still down seem like they are comfortable in the tank. Why are they still acting like this. What could cause them to be not comfortable and what could I do to help them. I've tried moving power heads around and that does nothing.
I have the lights on a 10 hour cycle and them on a feeding schedule of 3 times a day pellets and flakes, and I've also Givin them live brine shrimp a couple times.
I have below a link to a YouTube video I uploaded of them and you can see how they stay together and how the female swims up and down the glass. It is 5 min long but I really wanted to give you and idea of how they act.
Any advice or criticism will be appreciated.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07JU88q0fSA
First I'd like to start off by saying I have been in the hobby for a while and have had many successful tanks in the past and currently have a beautiful 90 gallon mixed reef as well has the 40 gallon breeder which is what this question is about. Just so you don't think I'm an inexperienced hobbyist.
I set up a 40 gallon breeder with 20 lbs of live rock and a flow pot to put a breeding pair of ocellaris clownfish in. The tank cycled for 4 week and I also used some already established water from my reef tank to help get it going.
I wanna first give you a description of my tank so you can have the full picture.
The tank gallon is running with a aqueon model 3 sump with duel overflow box, 400gph return pump, and a couple small nano power heads I had laying around. The light is a odysea t5 256 watt light fixture. The parameters of the tank are as follows
Salinity 1.021
PH 8.1
Alk 180
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 15
Temp 79°
So now to my concern. i bought the already spawning pair of ocellaris clowns to be the only fish in the tank. (They came from a plain 10 gallon tank with nothing but a flowerpot.) When I added them they seemed to find 1 corner within a day and stayed there. Not often do they ever come out of the corner. Even to eat they will come out for a piece of food and swim back. And keep doing that a few times. I will notice the female occasionally swimming frantically up and down the glass nose first. I thought that this behavior would have only lasted for a little while maybe a week or 2 and then they would warm up to the tank and start breeding. But now it's been about 6 weeks now and they still down seem like they are comfortable in the tank. Why are they still acting like this. What could cause them to be not comfortable and what could I do to help them. I've tried moving power heads around and that does nothing.
I have the lights on a 10 hour cycle and them on a feeding schedule of 3 times a day pellets and flakes, and I've also Givin them live brine shrimp a couple times.
I have below a link to a YouTube video I uploaded of them and you can see how they stay together and how the female swims up and down the glass. It is 5 min long but I really wanted to give you and idea of how they act.
Any advice or criticism will be appreciated.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07JU88q0fSA
