Tikis return to the hobby, 40B

[VacavilleFC]

Sinking crab pellets twice a week for the hermits. Until you have fish and are actively feeding them. With no alage or food going into tank hermits may turn on each other or the snails. Crab pellets are cheap and it doesn't take many. Once they hit the water the crabs will find them by smell.

It's what I do for my 210gallon that's currently fallow.

If you use them be sure not to feed to many and literally only like twice a week is enough.

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One small bag Will last several months. You certainly wouldn't run out before adding fish.

Available online, most lfs or petco- is where I grabbed mine.

ooh they're on sale at petco for $3.57

 

[MichaelB]

ooh they're on sale at petco for $3.57

Awesome. For snails I add sheet of seaweed once or twice a week on a magnetic nori holder (I see you have that already handled). If the holder is touching bottom of tank crabs will also eat it. So raise it a few inches if you want only the snails to get to it.

Until id have coral in the tank I'd keep the lights off. The cuc doesn't need them.

 

[VacavilleFC]

Awesome. For snails I add sheet of seaweed once or twice a week on a magnetic nori holder (I see you have that already handled). If the holder is touching bottom of tank crabs will also eat it. So raise it a few inches if you want only the snails to get to it.

Until id have coral in the tank I'd keep the lights off. The cuc doesn't need them.

I have 2 zoa frags already. I couldn't resist when I knew the cycle was getting close to finishing. some tiny blue hornets and some unnamed pink ones

 

[MichaelB]

I have 2 zoa frags already. I couldn't resist when I knew the cycle was getting close to finishing. some tiny blue hornets and some unnamed pink ones

Tanks don't need to be cycled for most coral.
Temp salinity flow and lighting for corals.

Corals help speed cycle up actually. Granted don't start with acroporas, nems or other delicate ones lol.

 

[PjFish]

Their is a gen 2 of Tommys looks almost identical but by a different supplier.. With probably under only 1/2 gallon a day evaporation don’t need anything strong..I used a kamoer ato with no issues for a few years on a 40B other then that use Tunze on larger tanks

 

[VacavilleFC]

I had to go on an emergency adventure today to rescue my CuC I ordered from reefcleaners, I accidently put the wrong zip code and it got stuck at a FedEx shipping center in rancho Cordova. had to make a bunch of calls this morning to confirm its location and then go pick them up. everyone seems to have made it and is acclimating now

 

[VacavilleFC]

I wanna thank everyone at the swap today for their generosity. it really makes getting back into to the hobby so much more fun.

pics incoming soon

 

[VacavilleFC]

hirsuta monti - unknown
DBTC king midas zoas - SJ701
candy canes - SJ701
forest fire monti - stevetem
Miami hurricane - mlang
splatter frammer- Finnaddict
Exosphere Zoa - Darkxerox
jack o lantern lepto - Finnaddict
pink birds nest - mlang
monti - kvnb86
Belladonna zoas - JCisthe1
rbta - bleepbloop
beachbum monti - invictus

 

[MichaelB]

It was brought to my attention that I mislabeled GMK zoas as Stratosphere zoas.

I'm honestly not certain if this was a single mistake on my part or if I got more mixed up.

I brought roughly 3/4 each of strats and gmks to the swap. If you got them from me and they were mislabeled shoot me a Pic of the label and the zoas you got. I would definitely be willing to give you the correct ones.

Again I'm not certain if this was a one time screw up or I mixed them all up when applying labels. Apologies in any case if you have one that I may have miss labeled.

Lesson learned for next time, only handle a single zoa at a time.

 

[VacavilleFC]

It was brought to my attention that I mislabeled GMK zoas as Stratosphere zoas.

I'm honestly not certain if this was a single mistake on my part or if I got more mixed up.

I brought roughly 3/4 each of strats and gmks to the swap. If you got them from me and they were mislabeled shoot me a Pic of the label and the zoas you got. I would definitely be willing to give you the correct ones.

Again I'm not certain if this was a one time screw up or I mixed them all up when applying labels. Apologies in any case if you have one that I may have miss labeled.

Lesson learned for next time, only handle a single zoa at a time.

I dont think I managed to get any of your swaps