I've been hanging around this site since November '12 and joined the site in January so I guess I should introduce myself. Hello all, my name is Michelle. I have always wanted to have a saltwater tank and almost bought one about 8 years ago but, we ended up being more "responsible" with the money we had for it. Late last year a friend at work got a tiny biocube for his desk and the obsession took hold of me with both fins (yes, I'm aware I'm a dork). In December I bought a used 29 Oceanic Biocube. I love it! I have a hammer frogspawn and toadstool (?), galaxea, a small clown, a four stripe, two emerald crabs, snails and hermit crabs. I had a domino damsel too.Then I thought I needed a quarantine tank. I thought a 180-200 gallon tank would be a good size, lol. Suddenly the 29 was going to be the quarantine tank.
I let a few people know I was looking for a large tank and got a great offer early February. A 180 glass full setup stocked. It has 2 yellow tangs, a purple tang, 3 green chromas, a clown fish, a large lion fish, a large snowflake eel, 2 small blueish grey fish with yellow tails (?), a wrasse, 3 shrimp, snails, crabs, 3 sand sifting starfish, long tentacle anemone, mushrooms and a few corals.
A couple weeks in with the 180 I had a huge breakout of aiptasia, i got 2 medium file fish. I knew my new tank was an aggressive tank but didn't think the file fish would be eaten because they look so spikey and unappetizing... I was wrong. I then tried 2 peppermint shrimp. I should have known by the way the lion fish was looking at the bag while acclamation. Didn't last 5 minutes. :( I then found 2 large file fish, one is still alive the other one got hurt when the fish guy caught him and he didn't get better. There still are a few hard to reach aiptasia (some in the overflow going to the sump, don't know how to get them) but most are gone.
A couple weeks after that ciano bacteria reared its lovely head. Sherri bought a railway goby for me, she thought it was large enough to be safe, but it wasn't. I didn't even get to see it.
Now I'm dealing with green hair algae. I've been really watching my feeding and trying not to over feed. The lion fish and eel get so hungry I'm afraid they might eat another tank mate. I think I've decided to sale them or trade them in if I can. I removed one of my big live rocks to dry it out and kill the GHA, it is the one that has it the worst.
Well that's where I am right now. I really appreciate all the knowledge shared on this site. I hope someday to have gorgeous tanks like all of you. I plan to surround myself with all of you hoping some of your skill rubs off on me. Thanks for reading, see you soon.
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