Pure Insanity! » Koralia http://intellidick.com/wordpress Life is hard, get a helmet. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:15:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 You can lead a fish to water… http://intellidick.com/wordpress/2007/06/16/you-can-lead-a-fish-to-water/ http://intellidick.com/wordpress/2007/06/16/you-can-lead-a-fish-to-water/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:29:59 +0000 ekrunch http://intellidick.com/wordpress/2007/06/16/you-can-lead-a-fish-to-water/ So, we got all excited, bought some more live rock and a second Hydor Koralia pump… we pulled the fish out along with all of the rock, moved the return into the center of the tank, and then split the live rock into two sections. We re-inserted the coral beauty and he acclimated to living on one side of the tank. We re-inserted the Royal Gramma on the other side of the tank… and he acclimated to living on the same side of the tank as the beauty does… so now I have two giant mountains of live rock, and both fish living on one side.

The moral of this story is, you can lead a fish to water… but you can’t make them live on opposite sides of the tank.

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  • More live rock to increase surface area, and this time it’s arranged so the fish have some neat little caves to play in.
  • 10 Astraea Snails for help with algae control / glass cleaning.
  • 3 Nassarius Snails for old food control, and they burrow in the sand and help clean that up.
  • 30 Blue Legged Hermit Crabs for algae control on the live rock and sand
  • 1 Emerald Crab… just because he’s cool and he eats algae too!
  • Hydor Koralia 600 gallon per hour pump to fix some circulation problems
  • 20% water change to get the nitrate levels down

I think i’ve officially jilted my fish for a while, but they’re slowly getting over it and the tank looks 10 times better than the first attempt. Check out the photos!

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