So I started cycling a 20 L gallon tank for a saltwater environment 3 months and 2 weeks ago.
For the last six weeks now I have had a red maroon juvenile clownfish living in this tank. It seems to be ok for now.
My question is, that I recently fed it (say the other day or so) some mysis shrimp, to try to get it to eat frozen foods. It prefers flake food, and someone at a fish store said I should try to not feed it many flake food products (despite the fact that the ingredients in my flake food; seem very nutrious, and the company promotes their product as one that enhances the color of fish, as well as their immune systems for a healthy long life.
Anyway I am digressing.
I didn't think the mysis shrimp was live? However today (while feeding it some prime reef flake food), as it ate almost nothing of the mysis shrimp two days or so ago, I noticed it started to chase what I can only describe as a little white or transparent, almost looked like a worm of some kind.
I did a double take, and wasn't sure if I was just noticing a piece of mysis shrimp that it hadn't eaten the other day, but then I saw another one that looked exactly the same on a piece of live rock?
Now recently I had a small hydrozoid problem, that I know came from a piece of live rock that I bought from Fauna, 86st west side of manhattan.
Anyway I was told when I brought this issue up with them, that yes they only sell cured live rock, and that even cured, there is never a guarantee that some unwanted hitchhikers won't stay inside the rock.
So I am thinking is it possible that this white, semi-tranparent worm-like thing is another unwanted hitchhiker?
Or
2. Is it possible that some of the mysis shrimp (frozen food) that I fed my fish earlier, was still alive?
I also noticed that a part of my sandbed seems a bit... dirty I guess?
I tried using a gravel vac on my sand-bed and I have two (one manual) the other one battery operated. Both seemed to do... buttkiss
I am wondering then should I just let my small cleaner crew (which totals 9 right now) in this tank to just eventually clean the sand-bed or should I use some other type of measure.
Lastly my cleaner crew consists of. 1 bumblebee snail; 3 nassarus snails; 2 turbo snails; 1 marigita snail; 2 hermit crabs.
For the last six weeks now I have had a red maroon juvenile clownfish living in this tank. It seems to be ok for now.
My question is, that I recently fed it (say the other day or so) some mysis shrimp, to try to get it to eat frozen foods. It prefers flake food, and someone at a fish store said I should try to not feed it many flake food products (despite the fact that the ingredients in my flake food; seem very nutrious, and the company promotes their product as one that enhances the color of fish, as well as their immune systems for a healthy long life.
Anyway I am digressing.
I didn't think the mysis shrimp was live? However today (while feeding it some prime reef flake food), as it ate almost nothing of the mysis shrimp two days or so ago, I noticed it started to chase what I can only describe as a little white or transparent, almost looked like a worm of some kind.
I did a double take, and wasn't sure if I was just noticing a piece of mysis shrimp that it hadn't eaten the other day, but then I saw another one that looked exactly the same on a piece of live rock?
Now recently I had a small hydrozoid problem, that I know came from a piece of live rock that I bought from Fauna, 86st west side of manhattan.
Anyway I was told when I brought this issue up with them, that yes they only sell cured live rock, and that even cured, there is never a guarantee that some unwanted hitchhikers won't stay inside the rock.
So I am thinking is it possible that this white, semi-tranparent worm-like thing is another unwanted hitchhiker?
Or
2. Is it possible that some of the mysis shrimp (frozen food) that I fed my fish earlier, was still alive?
I also noticed that a part of my sandbed seems a bit... dirty I guess?
I tried using a gravel vac on my sand-bed and I have two (one manual) the other one battery operated. Both seemed to do... buttkiss
I am wondering then should I just let my small cleaner crew (which totals 9 right now) in this tank to just eventually clean the sand-bed or should I use some other type of measure.
Lastly my cleaner crew consists of. 1 bumblebee snail; 3 nassarus snails; 2 turbo snails; 1 marigita snail; 2 hermit crabs.
