mseepman's 16" starfire nano

mseepman · #1 09-17-2008, 05:05 PM

Thanks Kevin,

I went to IPP in Kelowna and got a "pile" of acrylic for $10. They have pre-wrapped piles available in all kinds of thicknesses and it was a great deal. I also got the right stuff for putting it together and the right jigsaw blade for cutting it.

Pier Pressure · #2 09-17-2008, 06:19 PM

If you are worried about the hermits starving due to lack of algae, just throw in a small wafer so that they have something to chew on. Algae wafers are pretty cheap at the petstores. Nice tank, by the way.

mseepman · #3 09-17-2008, 06:51 PM

Thanks...I ended up putting in a coral that wasn't doing great in my main tank and it has a little algae on it's plug...so their feasting on it.

Wish I knew exactly what the "brown" algae that's forming on everything was and if there was a need to do something about it.

mseepman · #4 09-20-2008, 05:32 AM

So today, the local LFS brought in some really nice specimens for nanos so I couldn't help myself and got my first fish for the tank...a yellow clown goby. It's only about 3/4 of an inch long. I will post pictures tomorrow but after the initial fright, he seems happy.

fishytime · #5 09-20-2008, 03:42 PM

Yes pics please. Clown gobies is sooo cute.

mseepman · #6 09-23-2008, 01:00 AM

So today I added the Pistol Shrimp / goby pair that I had sitting at the LFS for the last 45 days. Needless to say, it was quite the job catching them in the display tank at the store.

Here's a short video of my pistol making himself a new home:

http://s485.photobucket.com/albums/r...stolShrimp.flv

Glad I put the rock in first and then the sand so I shouldn't be having any cave-ins.

Everyone else seems pretty happy in the tank. Here's the new little Clown Goby I added last week:

I am having a pretty good time with this little nano already.

mseepman · #7 09-25-2008, 11:17 PM

So I added my firs corals to the nano today. Been checking all the Params and they seem fine.

Heres a little too close FTS:

And here are the different frags:

I didn't get the picture but within 15 minutes we had decent polyp extension on the frags already, so that's a good sign.

I know that they look a little worn, but I got these from another local reefer and they had a bit of a rough intro to my main tank.

If anyone could tell me the type of algae on frag#3 that would be great. It's not regular hair algae because there was a little of that on a rock and my hermits cleaned it up within one day...while they won't touch this stuff at all.