The basics,
I have successfully kept a 50 gal mixed reef set up for 3.5 years. I have recently started a new set up, 50gal tank with 30 gal refugium. This post is about the new tank. I started the tank cycling with ~6 lbs live rock, around 30-40 lbs homemade concrete rock(cured for months before adding) and live sand. I started the cycle January 6 and it finished cycling last week (at around 30 days).
I added a few hermits near the end of the cycle because I wanted something alive in the tank. After the cycle completed (3 days ago) I added 2 true perc clowns, a diamond goby and 5 coral frags. The diamond goby is happy, eatting well and has created 2 separate houses under larger rocks in my sand bed. The clowns have mostly kept to 2-3 semi secluded spots in the tank only exploring the tank a few times for less than an hour at a time. I have tried to feed them 2 types of brine shrimp, mysis shrimp and pellet food with no luck. To my knowledge they haven't eaten anything in 3 days and barley even seem interested when food is presant. I have never had a problem like this before.
My salinity is 1.025
Ammonia -0
Nitrites-0
Nitrates- ~ 20 ( doing extra water changes still as this got high during cycle)
Calcium 520+ (I know this is a bit high, actually my test kit doesn't go high enough to know level for certain...?)
No other test kits at this point.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what to do or why they would be acting this way?
Also my corals seem pretty unhappy and are staying shut for the most part. Could this be related? Any suggestions here?
Thanks for any help!!!
I have successfully kept a 50 gal mixed reef set up for 3.5 years. I have recently started a new set up, 50gal tank with 30 gal refugium. This post is about the new tank. I started the tank cycling with ~6 lbs live rock, around 30-40 lbs homemade concrete rock(cured for months before adding) and live sand. I started the cycle January 6 and it finished cycling last week (at around 30 days).
I added a few hermits near the end of the cycle because I wanted something alive in the tank. After the cycle completed (3 days ago) I added 2 true perc clowns, a diamond goby and 5 coral frags. The diamond goby is happy, eatting well and has created 2 separate houses under larger rocks in my sand bed. The clowns have mostly kept to 2-3 semi secluded spots in the tank only exploring the tank a few times for less than an hour at a time. I have tried to feed them 2 types of brine shrimp, mysis shrimp and pellet food with no luck. To my knowledge they haven't eaten anything in 3 days and barley even seem interested when food is presant. I have never had a problem like this before.
My salinity is 1.025
Ammonia -0
Nitrites-0
Nitrates- ~ 20 ( doing extra water changes still as this got high during cycle)
Calcium 520+ (I know this is a bit high, actually my test kit doesn't go high enough to know level for certain...?)
No other test kits at this point.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what to do or why they would be acting this way?
Also my corals seem pretty unhappy and are staying shut for the most part. Could this be related? Any suggestions here?
Thanks for any help!!!
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