New Nano Tank Log

rustybee · #1 05-18-2021, 03:10 AM

Quick pic update on the tank. Shots from iPhone so pic quality no as great as it could be. Tank log is providing to be tougher than expected as edit only allowed within 15 mins of posting.

Fishes- ended up adding a pair of Lightning Maroon Clowns and what turns out to be an evil 6 line wrasse.

Blasto had an unfortunate overnight encounter with the Acan garden (suspect that snails knocked it from its spot). Turns out the Acan was the winner and the Blasto lost half of its polyp. Thought it was a goner but 3 weeks later it also almost regenerated from bare skeleton. Amazing.

Ended up with 2 areas for the Zoa garden and 2 areas for the SPS. Bare bottom works great for the Acan garden. Coralline algae showed up 3 weeks of start date. Going old school using Kalk top off evaporation. KH was initially a bit high in the 10-11 range before dropping and holding at 8-9KH was the tank started filling up with livestock.

Wretch · #2 05-19-2021, 03:41 AM

Looking good. Cant wait to see what else you go with it.

mseepman · #3 05-19-2021, 11:02 PM

It looks great. Surprised you are so deep into SPS with such a young tank. Just be careful and remember patience is your friend.

rustybee · #4 05-19-2021, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Wretch

Looking good. Cant wait to see what else you go with it.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by mseepman

It looks great. Surprised you are so deep into SPS with such a young tank. Just be careful and remember patience is your friend.

Agreed. I wont recommend this type of tank SPS heavy bioload for the inexperienced in a nano tank. But once the coraline algae started taking off I figure the conditions were close to ideal. Already getting some vertical growth and base encrusting from the earlier SPS introduction.

Carson. · #5 06-17-2021, 01:09 AM

Lol, I think your live rock is older than I am

Dash · #6 06-17-2021, 03:22 PM

Love mature live rock. I started as a total newbie with rock from a 12-year old tank that was shut down. No cycle and my tank just sprang to life. Best thing I ever bought.
It’s fun to hear the excitement in your posts. I wish my daughter would share in my hobby but I think she’s a little jealous of it haha.
I smell an upgrade in the not too distant future.