Pufferpunk
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I just lost my Mantis shrimp. I think it might have been due to the 11 hour blackout we had last week. I thought he was fine--no stressing or gulping at the surface, so I did nothing to maintain his tank. I was really busy with the heavier-stocked ones. He was the tank mate of a purple lobster in a 40g tank--just the 2 of them--so I figured it was way understocked. He started acting weird though, right after the electricity went on. Almost like he had brain damage. I found him dead 2 days later. So I have this square tank (25x25x18) with one purple lobster (I can move) and thousands of tulip anemones covering ever inch of rock & glass (except the front), along with about 100 lbs of really nice LR. The nems looked cool for a while. Fine for a mantis tank but I think I'd like to go in another direction. Not even sure if I want to keep the tank SW or go back to FW with it. The tank is a weird shape for a puffer. I love oddball fish but most of the oddballs require live foods & I really don't think I want to deal with that right now with all the tanks I have to keep up with.
I could just get another mantis (really love them!) but I'm really tired with how the tank looks with all those nems. If I was to get rid of the nems though, that would involve the long smelly process of cooking all that rock. I could do it outdoors in a garbage can with FW & just keep dumping it out every couple of days & refilling. It's gonna be really gross though!
Ideas???
I could just get another mantis (really love them!) but I'm really tired with how the tank looks with all those nems. If I was to get rid of the nems though, that would involve the long smelly process of cooking all that rock. I could do it outdoors in a garbage can with FW & just keep dumping it out every couple of days & refilling. It's gonna be really gross though!
Ideas???