humble tank..

[foocha]

jus wana share some pics of my tank..

its gone through 3 rescapes... alot of wet floors... alot of back pains.....

tank is a 4x2x2.

running a 1262 as return...

a atman 500l/h to feed chiller and 2nd return

heliea 1/2 hp chiller set on 26 deg.c

beckett 32 " skimmer on rio 20

custom cr

2 X 150w mh running 7hrs a day

actinic blue running when i wana on it

70% of rocks are fake rocks bought from GO..pretty good..

heres a fts.... havin a bit of algae bloom hehe

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the super ex but super beautiful red gonio... love corals that sway.....

this mayb cheap and relatively colorless but its one of my fav corals due to the pulsing movement.....

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red speckled prata...

was told that most reefers prefer the solid color pratas... i like them with dots !!!

love the tiny white tips....

here another fts from side angle...

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currently the livestock in the tank are as follows

2 X maroon clowns

1 X neon goby

1 X fire goby

1X yellow wrasse

4 X cleaner shrimp

1 X box shrimp

4 X sexy shrimp

2 X red starfish

1 X pink striped brittle starfish

am intending to get the following livestock very soon

1 X yellow tang

1 X purple tang

1 X blue tang

2 X ocelleris clown

2 X black clown

2 X mandarin

1 X firegoby ( to pair up! )

1 X powder blue tang

1 X long nose hawkfish

any reefers that have my wishlist for sale pls pm me !!!!!!!

equipment wise intend to get a fr to run rowa.... po4 is not gettin good....

thats all for now... time for work....to sustain my hobby

[foocha]

i would just like to add that although i know maroon clowns when big do silly things like knocking corals off....my 2 maroons are still small so havent encountered that..

but im sure when that day comes.. it will be a very tough decision to give them away....

THEY EAT FROM MY HAND @!!@!@!!@ how cute is that... ive put my hands in soooooooooooooo much that they've gotten use to it already....

now whenever i put my hand in.. they think its got food and swim lazily towards my fingers....adorable...

will definitely try to get apic of this though it will be hard...standing on ladder.. one hand in tank.. body bend over.. other hand with camera remaining steady....

will most prob keep them no matter what.. even if they knock XXX corals over..... :P

[ambystoma82]

hey bro a word of advise i tink ur algae is gonna b disastrous if one of the many bunches of algae fly n land on your rocks its very diff to pluck them out..

mayb u wan to put the algae if remover else where?

add more kalwaser n calcium to your tank to perk the purple algae grow

its easier to pluck out the green algae when grown on purple algae.

do u intend to keep any glass cleaners inverts or fish?

i tink your wishlist currently all availble in spore lehz..

if nt in lfs den some reefer breeder hse lolx..

[ambystoma82]

if u dun want your centre clam to get stuck with algae i suggest u shift the spot..

unless u intend to do weeding?

[albinosage]

i know maroon clowns when big do silly things like knocking corals off....

Hahaha! One of my maroon clowns fought with a newly introduced leather coral - and lost.

Nice tank by the way, the GO live rocks are very nice and realistic, should have considered them when I was setting up. I treated my rocks with CO2 for 3 weeks and QT for further 3 weeks cos I hate crabs and worms! You're using black sand? How come there's traces of white sand here and there?

[yikai]

Hahaha! One of my maroon clowns fought with a newly introduced leather coral - and lost.

Nice tank by the way, the GO live rocks are very nice and realistic, should have considered them when I was setting up. I treated my rocks with CO2 for 3 weeks and QT for further 3 weeks cos I hate crabs and worms! You're using black sand? How come there's traces of white sand here and there?

how did ur maroon lose to the leather?

i think some detrisus and bits of liverock "dust" settled on the black sand and made it whitish?

[albinosage]

how did ur maroon lose to the leather?

Entire rock scape tumbled on her, scared the sh!t out of it and it darted away into a corner to hide. Traumatised haha.

[foocha]

if u dun want your centre clam to get stuck with algae i suggest u shift the spot..

unless u intend to do weeding?

thnx for the head up... did not know that this green algae sticks to stuff.... bought it from iwarna cos wanted some flowy greens in tank....

will either reposition things or remove altogether.....

in any case is it harmful to the clams or other corals if they are surrounded by this green algae??

[foocha]

hey bro a word of advise i tink ur algae is gonna b disastrous if one of the many bunches of algae fly n land on your rocks its very diff to pluck them out..

mayb u wan to put the algae if remover else where?

add more kalwaser n calcium to your tank to perk the purple algae grow

its easier to pluck out the green algae when grown on purple algae.

do u intend to keep any glass cleaners inverts or fish?

i tink your wishlist currently all availble in spore lehz..

if nt in lfs den some reefer breeder hse lolx..

tank still relatively new so coralline not yet in full motion... am running cr and dosing kalk every week to maintain calcium level.. but i dun keep that many sps...so should not be depleted so fast right?

i just bought some turbo snails...5 to be exact.. will monitor to see if they can handle the job.. if cant them more snails and definitely a FR.

my wish list is simple.. but previous experience in keeping tangs very horrible hence really want to buy matured fish from bros online..... dun wana kill anymore fish.....

[foocha]

Hahaha! One of my maroon clowns fought with a newly introduced leather coral - and lost.

Nice tank by the way, the GO live rocks are very nice and realistic, should have considered them when I was setting up. I treated my rocks with CO2 for 3 weeks and QT for further 3 weeks cos I hate crabs and worms! You're using black sand? How come there's traces of white sand here and there?

1st layer of sandbed is original white sand... i evened it out, placed live rocks, filled back portion with coral chips.

front portion i covered with about 1 " black sand....

however.. when water was delivered, they messed up sandbed.. sob.... it was too diff to redo the whole sandscape so i let it be....... tank when havent filled with water was really beautiful... black base would have really brought out colors of corals....oh well..

so far my maroon still good boy.. no messing with corals... but displaying some very interesting behaviours..

the bigger maroon will rush towards the smaller one.... only to stop right in front of small maroon..

small maroon will then frantically flap fins and 'kiss' ( mouth at the gills and nibble !!! ) big maroon.. very cute... happens at least dozen times day...... wonder what it means....

[yikai]

1st layer of sandbed is original white sand... i evened it out, placed live rocks, filled back portion with coral chips.

front portion i covered with about 1 " black sand....

however.. when water was delivered, they messed up sandbed.. sob.... it was too diff to redo the whole sandscape so i let it be....... tank when havent filled with water was really beautiful... black base would have really brought out colors of corals....oh well..

so far my maroon still good boy.. no messing with corals... but displaying some very interesting behaviours..

the bigger maroon will rush towards the smaller one.... only to stop right in front of small maroon..

small maroon will then frantically flap fins and 'kiss' ( mouth at the gills and nibble !!! ) big maroon.. very cute... happens at least dozen times day...... wonder what it means....

they are probably showing signs of aggression... fishes dont "kiss" each other out of love haha. probably establishing dominance.

[albinosage]

they are probably showing signs of aggression... fishes dont "kiss" each other out of love haha. probably establishing dominance.

Haha probably, yeah. But once they establish their dominance one way or another, and pair up, they are very loyal towards each other and fiercely territorial towards others.

[yikai]

probbaly one of them in changing into the dominant female and showing who's boss. my clowns got along fine until one day they just went bersek and starteed killing one another. when u say they bite each other = kissing, then mine were probably having s#@ lol. they really tore each other to bits until i had to separate them. but soon after they were fine. probably going tru a phase.

i wont be suprised when urs actually pair up for good. then it will be double trouble. they may choose a territory as "their own nesting area" and anything that goes by will be aggressively chased away. maroons are terrors.