Hermit Life Exspectancy
What is the life expectancy of a hermit? Is it different for different species?
What is the life expectancy of a hermit? Is it different for different species?
My Boyu Orca MT30
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Update time before my honeymoon next week...
First the newest arrivals... Got them almost a month ago...
Green and orange zoas...
Xenia... (twice the size that it was when I got it)...
And purple zoas too but they're hidden behind the xenia... Also got three purple shrooms...
The the usual suspects... Shelley...
Phoebe...
and Dirkie...
The "Local" visitor (eats hake like it's never going to see food again...)...
Green Star Polyps (yes, the ones that STUNG me)...
Buttons (also eat hake like there's no tomorrow)...
Red shroom (hake)...
Torch (you guessed it... eats hake and is splitting AGAIN)...
Frogspawn (yes, eats hake too)...
brown zoas (only my zoas do NOT eat hake [but the do eat pellets])...
Inmates right now:
1 x Sand sifter goby
1 x Clown
1 x Cleaner shrimp
1 x Cushion star (local)
1 x Nassarius snail
1 x Variegated topshell (local)
2 x Brittle stars (local)
3 x Peanut worms
3 x Purple shrooms
2 x Red shrooms
1 x Torch
1 x Frogspawn
2 x Xenia
1 x Colony Button Polyps
1 x Colony Brown Zoas
1 x Colony Purple Zoas
1 x Colony Orange/Green zoas
1 x Colony GSP
I finally got all the testing kits so I can proudly report all parameters stable and have been that way for quite a while...
I do a weekly 5l water change with NSW and a weekly filter floss change during water change. Feed flakes, pellets and LOTS of hake...
Anyway, that's me for now... Sorry about the dirty glass and bad pics (lazy)... Just wanted to update before my honeymoon...
First the newest arrivals... Got them almost a month ago...
Green and orange zoas...
Xenia... (twice the size that it was when I got it)...
And purple zoas too but they're hidden behind the xenia... Also got three purple shrooms...
The the usual suspects... Shelley...
Phoebe...
and Dirkie...
The "Local" visitor (eats hake like it's never going to see food again...)...
Green Star Polyps (yes, the ones that STUNG me)...
Buttons (also eat hake like there's no tomorrow)...
Red shroom (hake)...
Torch (you guessed it... eats hake and is splitting AGAIN)...
Frogspawn (yes, eats hake too)...
brown zoas (only my zoas do NOT eat hake [but the do eat pellets])...
Inmates right now:
1 x Sand sifter goby
1 x Clown
1 x Cleaner shrimp
1 x Cushion star (local)
1 x Nassarius snail
1 x Variegated topshell (local)
2 x Brittle stars (local)
3 x Peanut worms
3 x Purple shrooms
2 x Red shrooms
1 x Torch
1 x Frogspawn
2 x Xenia
1 x Colony Button Polyps
1 x Colony Brown Zoas
1 x Colony Purple Zoas
1 x Colony Orange/Green zoas
1 x Colony GSP
I finally got all the testing kits so I can proudly report all parameters stable and have been that way for quite a while...
I do a weekly 5l water change with NSW and a weekly filter floss change during water change. Feed flakes, pellets and LOTS of hake...
Anyway, that's me for now... Sorry about the dirty glass and bad pics (lazy)... Just wanted to update before my honeymoon...
Oh yes, the sought after FTS...
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very cool looking nano.very well done there mate.
Thanks @Charl_Stanhope ... I think I'm done stocking for now... People that see the tank say they cannot believe the amount of life it is sustaining... I must say, I'm surprised myself that the params stay stable with all this LS in such a small space... And to think I wanted a skimmer... 
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Shamefaced crab
Shelley dropped a shell again last night... She does it every nine days like clockwork...
This is an amazing little tank.
How is it going
How is it going
Is this tank still going?