Reef Tank Journal 2ftX1ftX1ft

[TFMANIAC]

After a year of fiddling with my FOWLR tank (it's still going strong that tank), my hands got a little itchy and decided to set this small tank in my room.

It is a 2ft by 1ft by 1ft tank

with T5 3 blue 1 white tubes...

an overflow systen with a sump of the same size.

I'm still fiddling with the return pipe. That's why it looks a litte odd there. As for the water flow, I'm trying to keep it very low to cater for the coral that hate high turbulence.

I just added the live rock and sand. Did up the rockscape to my liking, making sure I have ample space for the corals I intend to get.

Cycling has commenced with bits of supermarket prawn. I'm giving it a full 30 days so it's the 20th of April when I'll add any form of livestock.

The liverock did come with a few neat hitch-hikers. A few mushrooms and some zoas.

There'll be mostly inverts in this tank and perhaps a pair of fish. Nothing more.

Likely candidates for the fish would be:

Orchid Dottybacks

Gobies

Any reccomendations from the experienced here? All and any help is welcome.

I'm also leaning towards the prospect of have a Green Star Polyp lawn. Any pointers there would also be awesome.

Here is the picture I took an hour ago.

Any suggestions or comments guys?

[hotsoup]

u using 3 blue + 1 white tube?? Does it look too blue ?

[Ketchup]

Such a small setup, best choice of fish will be clown fish... hardy and active and nice to look at

Of course, if you are rich and willing to invest... candy basslet at RB still available LOL

[TFMANIAC]

I don't really want to keep any clownfish bro.. I'm definitely not rich either. hehehe

April 20th... Only then can I go shopping for corals.

[TFMANIAC]

nope doesnt look too blue at all... it's perfect for my viewing though.

[jackywongto]

Maybe spend a bit more effort to look for nicely shaped rocks. Then scape a bit more caves and plateaus. Better for water flow and easier to place corals too. Look for small frags of corals for nano sized tanks

[TFMANIAC]

yeah will be heading down to reborn soon to look for some nicer LR. still cycling for now.. Noticed that there's some hitch-hicker Zoas. will take some pics soon.

[onizukaa]

dipped the rocks inside coral rx

[jackywongto]

dipped the rocks inside coral rx

Yah. please dip your LR purchased. you may want to dip longer too.

My previous LR purchase from RB about 4yrs back had 3 mantis.

1 big 2 small

[teebs]

dipped the rocks inside coral rx

The Coral RX spokesman strikes again...

[TFMANIAC]

4 years ago? ok will keep that in mind. I've not had problems with RB's Liverock though