13.5 gallon macro softie nano

[Common Blevil]

Bet, he would eat a zoa and kill himself

Sometimes i get a particle of filter floss in the tank and this idiot tries to devour it with more passion he eats normal food. He will either die from a blockage or somehow jump out through the cover plexiglass...

 

[Common Blevil]

Blenny had a tumor a few months, in the last week he got 2 more and has an eye infection. He is impossible to get out of the tank, still active but feeds less. It will be sad to lose him... Other fish and inverts are ok and in good health, so it is totally not food/water params. Can be either a parasite or a bodily disorder. I do not quarantine fish because i have no place to and I'm a broke student. Also i will sell my clown goby to larger system and will get larger fish. Probably instead of tailspot and goby i will get bicolor and chrysiptera damsel/clownfish. I had enough of nano fish bullcrap... I want something that will eat anything and poop for my algae. If i will feel that fish fill cramped i will remove them, but i think 1 clown, 1 bicolor and 1 wheeleri is ok for ≈15 gallon tank.

Thought about waiting for segmented blenny(salarias fasciatus) but considering that they are more active than bicolor, come 1 inch long scrawnies with bellies that look like U instead of O , do not eat and half of them probably dies im the lfs on the first week, i don't want them. On the other hand, a lot of other salarias blennies survive, and ecsenius like bicolor and midas are unkillable and live months or even years in the shop. One of such residents is a cute fat bicolor that lives in the shop for about half a year. I may buy him, because he is cute, greets me every time, and i had great success buying surviver fish from the lfs (my wheelers red banded goby is big and fat, eats everything) I will maybe create a thread and ask people what they think about my thoughts on new fish.

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

I think the solution is ok i guess, try getting a little more colour and NORMAL true peculiers cause they stay small, enough that u can get a anemone in that tank and get the to breed

 

[Common Blevil]

I think the solution is ok i guess, try getting a little more colour and NORMAL true peculiers cause they stay small, enough that u can get a anemone in that tank and get the to breed

I probably won't get a pair, because 15 gallons is a small enough volume for them to start killing everything that moves in "their" territory. I like my blennies and gobies more then every damselfish, including clowns, and clown get big. Though, i might try breeding clowns in the future, but not in this tank.

 

[Common Blevil]

Tank update:

1.1 I've gone full psycho and done a rescape. Mainly moved all rocks closer to the back glass, made more arches and crevises for fish to feel secure. And WOW, now my spotlight actually lights the whole tank, because rocks and coral do not shadow anything! Who would've thought that having rocks closer to the front will be a bad idea. So now my cheap chinese LED was moved behind the tank, to give it more volume and give illusion of illumination from sunlight, when true sun has already set. Also I've swapped some xenia for a sarc frag, which has fallen from the rock at night and was found fully extended by me in the morning.

1.2 Goby seems to enjoy his new cave with additional free of charge grotto. Also i found a place in which my pom pom lives. He also genocided a few aptasias because his original anemones died.


2. My tailspot got better, but he is still not in his best shape. I rehomed him in 300 l tank, for very cheap, i hope he will either get well, or at least die in a bigger tank. I think tailspots in the wild do not swim further away from their crevice that a 300 l tank (80 g) can provide, so he will get "wild but better" experience . Not that i tortured him, but he will have "reef of a lifetime". Tomorrow i will rehome my clown goby to a fellow hobbyist whom i know for some time. Also +- 300 l tank with lots of softies and half dead acropora.



3. Today i got my bicolor blenny, and he is such a cutie! Already examines the whole tank, eats algae and hides in his shell! Also he ate dry foods in the shop. I already like him more than my 2 tailspots. God i don't know if I'll ever get one again... One jumped out through the fricking plexiglass cover, another decided that he is a laboratory rat bred to have tumours. They are very cute and have this derpy "unhappy scientist" faces, but I'm literally traumatized because of my luck, or might i say, lack of luck with them. Back to the bicolor, he seems to have an interesting behaviour, much more like that of a typical blenny, rather than of something constantly swimming(midas/ tailspot/fang blennies). Reminds me of the good times when i was studying online and making a black sea biotope tank with incognito blennies...

3.1 My tip for acclimating blennies and adding them to the tank is to use some kind of hiding spot for them to hide in during the process, and then put them in the new tank while they are inside the object. Gives them a base they feel comfortable to be in, so they become much more bold and outgoing. I think it will go with quarantining as well, just give them a shell or amphora and put it in the tank while transferring. Less stress - more fun for you and the fish.

4. I'm planning to add a cleaner shrimp to the tank. Not sure about torturing a clown. I don't like them that much. On the other hand, if i had a really small starry/segmented lawnmower, I'd keep it before it grows out. These fish seem much more similar to the typical blennies in their behaviour and looks. But from what i see, bicolor may be ideal. And to think i thought they were boring and interesting, because lacked color/patterns/facial ornaments...



5. TRY NUMBER 93747383 OF ADDING A WAVEMAKER TO HAVE A LOT OF FLOW. I have this weird fetish of trying to recreate what i saw while snorkeling and catching blennies in black sea, and that's the reason i have sunlight in my tank and my constant attempts to add flow. Xenia should not mind but I'll see. Also i changed temperature to 27 degrees Celsius (80.5 Fahrenheit), because it will get to that in the summer or in the winter. Dino did not seem to like it. Cyano is proliferating, but keeps from coral and algae(mostly). Maybe flow and warm water will spell doom for it.

 

[Common Blevil]

Got a cleaner shrimp today, really cute and outgoing. Already went to clean my finger after 2 hours of being in the tank.

 

[Common Blevil]

The tank probably looks beter then ever. Cyano is cringe but I don't mind it until it grows on something alive, and it doesn't.
Fish uses all the crevises and caves i made.