new 120 help

BCreefmaker · 12/17/2007, 11:51 AM

i got a almost unbelievable deal on this 120G or something reef set up from some guy that was moving. thanks to the help already from you guys here on RC , the tank was taken down and to my house in record time, drilled the tank, and set it up without losing a single specimen. so i just wanted to give a big thanks for that. now i have fish that i don't know really to take care of because up untill now i have been mainly focused on nano aquariums. how much and often should i feed a yellow tank, a naso tang and a scribbled rabbit fish? they came with a bunch of real seaweed nori, the stuff that stinks like the ocean, and i have been giving them a little bit of that daily and 2 cubes of mysis and flake food.

Blown 346 · 12/17/2007, 11:58 AM

Keep the seaweed available all the time. I might do one cube each day. It is always best for the frozen foods to let them thaw before you feed. The frozen foods contain Phosphate, and when you that them out the less of a algae problem you can have.

I usually get a cup, take some water out of the maintank. Gte a cube of the frozen food and let it sit in the water in the cup. Once it is thawed, get your fish net and add just the food to the tank.

If the fish can eat the full cube of food in a 5 minute time you can add more. otherwise if there is food left after 5 minutes you overfed.

BCreefmaker · 12/17/2007, 02:47 PM

can corals move? there is this one coral that came with the tank that he said was sun polyps, but all i get when i search google is sun corals. and it seems to be quite mobile moving up to the top of the rockwork.

zooloo · 12/17/2007, 03:12 PM

sun polys is sun coral and no it wont move but it must be fed unlike someother corals..

BCreefmaker · 12/17/2007, 10:56 PM

no, the coral unidentified moves. i know what a sun coral is, and this is no sun coral. the guy i got it off called it sun polyps, but i thought only anemones could move around, not corals. they are moving up the rockwork to the stronger light. i was just wondering what they are.

12/17/2007, 11:51 AM	#1
BCreefmaker Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: B.C. Canada Posts: 1,129	new 120 help i got a almost unbelievable deal on this 120G or something reef set up from some guy that was moving. thanks to the help already from you guys here on RC , the tank was taken down and to my house in record time, drilled the tank, and set it up without losing a single specimen. so i just wanted to give a big thanks for that. now i have fish that i don't know really to take care of because up untill now i have been mainly focused on nano aquariums. how much and often should i feed a yellow tank, a naso tang and a scribbled rabbit fish? they came with a bunch of real seaweed nori, the stuff that stinks like the ocean, and i have been giving them a little bit of that daily and 2 cubes of mysis and flake food. __________________ To make apple pie from scratch, You must first create the universe.

12/17/2007, 02:47 PM	#3
BCreefmaker Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: B.C. Canada Posts: 1,129	can corals move? there is this one coral that came with the tank that he said was sun polyps, but all i get when i search google is sun corals. and it seems to be quite mobile moving up to the top of the rockwork. __________________ To make apple pie from scratch, You must first create the universe.

12/17/2007, 10:56 PM	#5
BCreefmaker Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: B.C. Canada Posts: 1,129	no, the coral unidentified moves. i know what a sun coral is, and this is no sun coral. the guy i got it off called it sun polyps, but i thought only anemones could move around, not corals. they are moving up the rockwork to the stronger light. i was just wondering what they are. __________________ To make apple pie from scratch, You must first create the universe.

12/17/2007, 11:58 AM	#2
Blown 346 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Rockford, Illinois Posts: 6,596	Keep the seaweed available all the time. I might do one cube each day. It is always best for the frozen foods to let them thaw before you feed. The frozen foods contain Phosphate, and when you that them out the less of a algae problem you can have. I usually get a cup, take some water out of the maintank. Gte a cube of the frozen food and let it sit in the water in the cup. Once it is thawed, get your fish net and add just the food to the tank. If the fish can eat the full cube of food in a 5 minute time you can add more. otherwise if there is food left after 5 minutes you overfed.

12/17/2007, 03:12 PM	#4
zooloo Moved On Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: stratford ct Posts: 148	sun polys is sun coral and no it wont move but it must be fed unlike someother corals..