silver97
Active Member
Hello!
Figured I should at least start a thread if I was going to be asking questions on here, so here goes nothing! I just hope this turns out to be as impressive as the other chronicles on here...
My tank:
It is a 40 gal reef tank, used all my graduation money and money i saved from working to get everything for it, and currently very happy with what its turned out like.
Its about 2 months old now, have only had a few major problems with towards the beginning of it but they are under control as of now.
The current inhabitants are a single oscellaris clownfish, I will be getting a 2nd one (probably a black oscellaris) within the next 2 weeks (hopefully). I also have 6 hermit crabs, 8 turbo snails and 2 big nerite snails. After the other clown i need to think, as size really matters here, to determine what other/how many other fish i can get.
Coral wise I have a mystery type of gorgonian (thought by my novice eyes to be a xenia) which has been growing well. Dont worry, I already have a thread on this that is trying to figure out everything out about it that i can so i can take care of it better.
I have some Radioactive Dragon eyed, blue eyed monster and eyes of Rah zoas, all seem to be living well, have not seen any multiplying from them, but then again have only had them for 2 weeks. I also have a single Lunar paly, started out as a frag of 5 polyps but the other 4 have died off, not necessarily my fault because 3 broke off in shipping and got crushed and another just shriveled up and disappeared. The single one is brown, and i dont think its supposed to be, but it hasnt died yet so ill leave it go and see how it does, not necessarily concerned about it. I plan on getting some REAL xenia and some star polyps because from what I've heard they are easy to keep and I love the way they both look.
Water parameters are normal, no ammonia or nitrites, nitrates are around 10. I try to keep my tank around 77 to 80 degrees f
As for equipment I have a hydor koralia 850 gph pump, works well enough circulating the water. For my filter I have a Fluval 306 canister filter, easy maintenance(mostly) every few weeks. My lights are some Orbit Marine LED's, I bought these because they were a good, powerful light that was programmable and were not ridiculously expensive. I also have a standard heater, nothing special about it. I do not run a skimmer or a sump on my tank, my LFS said it was a small enough tank that i didnt necessarily need either, they helped me decide what I needed to successfully set up the tank.
Thats most of the basic info, if you would like to know anything else about it, please just ask!
I will upload some up close up pics later in the week.
Figured I should at least start a thread if I was going to be asking questions on here, so here goes nothing! I just hope this turns out to be as impressive as the other chronicles on here...
My tank:
It is a 40 gal reef tank, used all my graduation money and money i saved from working to get everything for it, and currently very happy with what its turned out like.
Its about 2 months old now, have only had a few major problems with towards the beginning of it but they are under control as of now.
The current inhabitants are a single oscellaris clownfish, I will be getting a 2nd one (probably a black oscellaris) within the next 2 weeks (hopefully). I also have 6 hermit crabs, 8 turbo snails and 2 big nerite snails. After the other clown i need to think, as size really matters here, to determine what other/how many other fish i can get.
Coral wise I have a mystery type of gorgonian (thought by my novice eyes to be a xenia) which has been growing well. Dont worry, I already have a thread on this that is trying to figure out everything out about it that i can so i can take care of it better.
I have some Radioactive Dragon eyed, blue eyed monster and eyes of Rah zoas, all seem to be living well, have not seen any multiplying from them, but then again have only had them for 2 weeks. I also have a single Lunar paly, started out as a frag of 5 polyps but the other 4 have died off, not necessarily my fault because 3 broke off in shipping and got crushed and another just shriveled up and disappeared. The single one is brown, and i dont think its supposed to be, but it hasnt died yet so ill leave it go and see how it does, not necessarily concerned about it. I plan on getting some REAL xenia and some star polyps because from what I've heard they are easy to keep and I love the way they both look.
Water parameters are normal, no ammonia or nitrites, nitrates are around 10. I try to keep my tank around 77 to 80 degrees f
As for equipment I have a hydor koralia 850 gph pump, works well enough circulating the water. For my filter I have a Fluval 306 canister filter, easy maintenance(mostly) every few weeks. My lights are some Orbit Marine LED's, I bought these because they were a good, powerful light that was programmable and were not ridiculously expensive. I also have a standard heater, nothing special about it. I do not run a skimmer or a sump on my tank, my LFS said it was a small enough tank that i didnt necessarily need either, they helped me decide what I needed to successfully set up the tank.
Thats most of the basic info, if you would like to know anything else about it, please just ask!
I will upload some up close up pics later in the week.