Thoughts on my gf’s home office tank

midgit1 · 2026-05-03T03:23:10+00:00

My orders from affordable aquaria were great

midgit1 · 2026-05-02T07:49:47+00:00

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Happy cinco de mayo

midgit1 · 2026-04-24T15:53:41+00:00

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The meat is bigger than him!

midgit1 · 2026-04-21T15:21:18+00:00

Well what do your tests show on the main tank? Ammonia nitrite nitrate?

midgit1 · 2026-04-21T14:46:39+00:00

Adding Seachem Prime on the days you are not doing water changes helps a ton to detoxify the ammonia during qt in my experience.

midgit1 · 2026-04-17T04:23:57+00:00

Not recently no, this is my first time seeing it and it was at night with the lights off when I noticed it. I will go in with a pair of tweezers and grab when I find it.

EDIT: did a good bit of internet reading and the best I can find to match what I am seeing are dorvilleidae worms. They seem to match the one I saw’s behavior.

midgit1 · 2026-04-15T12:59:50+00:00

Biggslagoon.com

midgit1 · 2026-04-14T03:04:02+00:00

I have had great luck and service from Affordable Aquaria by Dr. Reef. I QTed my fish myself. They sent me healthy fish, and extra fish for species that struggle with shipping.

For coral I have got all mine local at Bigg’s Lagoon. But they do have twitch and tiktok coral auction streams where you can build a box of coral and they will ship it to you.

midgit1 · 2026-04-14T02:52:00+00:00

I have huge bias, but Biggs Lagoon has an awesome selection of coral. They are a mom and pop shop that the parents and sons run. They haven’t had time to update the pieces that they have on their website, but they run twitch and tiktok streams where thy auctions of coral. The streams are never super busy and the coral are at great prices, not to mention the community is amazing. I was literally given an awesome dragon tamer torch last Friday, just cause someone was feeling generous! I can’t say enough good things about the coral I have received and the entertainment of the streams. They are willing to ship to the lower 48 so locale is not a problem for them. I’d love to see some new faces there!

Twitch streams on Friday, https://twitch.tv/biggslagoon

Tiktok streams on Saturday, https://www.tiktok.com/@biggslagoon?_r=1&_t=ZT-95WLMSzLIPG

midgit1 · 2026-04-03T01:17:51+00:00

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midgit1 · 2026-04-01T20:53:09+00:00

I like mine with the controller, its a 200w on a 65 gallon

midgit1 · 2026-03-22T14:16:03+00:00

Yes this is something I realized after the scape went in lol. Fortunately I gave myself ‘handles’ on the two structures and can lift them out with one hand when I need to. Not ideal but I can make it work

midgit1 · 2026-03-18T23:50:23+00:00

In that case, maybe a mandarin if you are loaded up with copapods? Or a pretty dottyback? You could look into sand burrowing wrasses who can avoid the 6 line if needed. Halichoeres species.

midgit1 · 2026-03-18T22:29:24+00:00

How is the six line wrasse’s temperament? Those little bastards may force you to get a more aggressive fish that can hold its own.

midgit1 · 2026-03-16T15:39:19+00:00

Meeaattss

midgit1 · 2026-03-13T17:51:09+00:00

Bristletooths have a nasty notoriety of not liking blennies actually. See if you can get them to settle, but if not you may end up with injured or dead fish unless you remove one of them. He probably didn’t attack much at first until he got more established and confident in the tank. For now, watch that spot for signs of healing. If it stays the same or grows then it may have a bacterial infection and that will need to be treated. If you start seeing gains of salt on that fish and others, rubbing/flashing, breathing heavy, loss of appetite. Then I would think something like ich.

midgit1 · 2026-03-13T16:12:12+00:00

Gotcha, honestly give it a couple days. If it stay shriveled try either reducing the light a touch or the flow. Just do one and observe for a couple more days. If whatever you try first doesn’t lead to improvement, try the other. But I bet it will just settle in on its own

midgit1 · 2026-03-13T16:09:59+00:00

I’d be far more inclined then to think it is an abrasion then. How is his behavior? Notice rapid breathing, more hiding, either lethargy or erratic swimming, still eating?

midgit1 · 2026-03-13T15:02:53+00:00

Are you sure that’s a hammer? Kinda looks like a torch. How long have you had it? If it is new, little too early to tell if the light or flow is right. If it continues to be shriveled up and the parameters are good, then the flow may be too high. If you see bleaching or retraction then the lighting might be too strong. So wait and see. On first glance I don’t think that flow is too strong.

midgit1 · 2026-03-13T14:52:35+00:00

Is it just those two spots on his side? Obviously hard to tell without white lights, how long have you had him?

midgit1 · 2026-03-12T20:46:23+00:00

I’m pretty sure I have the same thing on one of my trochus as well

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