penelty
07-16-2010, 05:21 AM
My little side project till the day I can enjoy a large tank again.
Took some dieing dendrophylia and a couple suncoral colonies, threw them in a biocube! And since there is such a high bioload going into this tank to prevent algae growth there are only 2 actinics on the tank. I have not cleaned the glass once since I started the tank 2 months ago and feed the tank 2 cubes of mysis a night. There are also some blue sea squirts hidden behind the suncorals and instead of algae growing on the glass instead there are tiny clear sea squirts and other hungry inverts across the whole thing. They do not obstruct view so until algae finially grows I am planning on not scraping them off.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0535.jpg
So far I have done 2x 20% water changes in 2 months and still no algae growth besides alittle hair that was on one suncoral rock which is very slow to grow. No grazing snails or hermits either.
For equipment there is a maxijet in the back and a nano koralia in the front. Only other thing in the tank is a biocube filter cartridge and stole live sponges out of sumps and put into the compartment in the back.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0536.jpg
Also to deal with the massive amount of waste that is expelled by the corals the following day, I have 5 Tonga Nassarius and 10 regular Nassarius snails so far to scavange the leftovers. It becomes quite a frenzy when the food is put in, all the corals are open and the snails are racing to grab a peice before its all gone. I do not spot or hand feed anything, once the food is thawed and rinsed I release it infront of the maxijet and it is all blown around the tank. The majority of the heads all get a peice and within a few moments both cubes are gone.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0538.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0541.jpg
Hope people like it so far after the 2 months and I welcome your input :)
Cheers
Ben
Took some dieing dendrophylia and a couple suncoral colonies, threw them in a biocube! And since there is such a high bioload going into this tank to prevent algae growth there are only 2 actinics on the tank. I have not cleaned the glass once since I started the tank 2 months ago and feed the tank 2 cubes of mysis a night. There are also some blue sea squirts hidden behind the suncorals and instead of algae growing on the glass instead there are tiny clear sea squirts and other hungry inverts across the whole thing. They do not obstruct view so until algae finially grows I am planning on not scraping them off.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0535.jpg
So far I have done 2x 20% water changes in 2 months and still no algae growth besides alittle hair that was on one suncoral rock which is very slow to grow. No grazing snails or hermits either.
For equipment there is a maxijet in the back and a nano koralia in the front. Only other thing in the tank is a biocube filter cartridge and stole live sponges out of sumps and put into the compartment in the back.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0536.jpg
Also to deal with the massive amount of waste that is expelled by the corals the following day, I have 5 Tonga Nassarius and 10 regular Nassarius snails so far to scavange the leftovers. It becomes quite a frenzy when the food is put in, all the corals are open and the snails are racing to grab a peice before its all gone. I do not spot or hand feed anything, once the food is thawed and rinsed I release it infront of the maxijet and it is all blown around the tank. The majority of the heads all get a peice and within a few moments both cubes are gone.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0538.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/snorklboy/IMG_0541.jpg
Hope people like it so far after the 2 months and I welcome your input :)
Cheers
Ben