21st Birthday Present

fenrir

fenrir

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Hey got my 21st birthday present early yesterday, and it's been running since yesterday. It was a sweet deal at my lfs 3 gallon Tom Deco Kit, with ls 4 lbs of lr, 4 gallons of Nutri seawater and $30 worth of frags when my tank finishes cycling, all for $109! Had a couple of questions, how long does a tank this size take to cylce? And what do you think I should do with it?
Also the Nutri seawater is pretty nie but it comes in a salinity of 1.027
SO I ahd to mix it with some RO to drop it down.

 
fenrir

fenrir

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Thanks! I as either thinking about putting a fire shrimp or two sexys(that is if I can find them), and then lots of rics. What kind of corals could I put in here? I know the lights are ok but since there isn't much water it's passing though I was wondering if I could get any nicer stuff.
 
halostalker

halostalker

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wow pretty cool i might get this just so i can have something on my desk where i do school work=P so 150 for a full set up, tank light sand rock and fragz that would be great and pretty cheap.
 
fenrir

fenrir

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You have any pics of your tank yet azul? Found two coral hitchhikers this afternoon. They are some kind of Zoa any ideas?

There hard to see but they have a bright green center.
 
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azul1994

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Sorry, no pics as of now. Just set it up this past friday. Not very exciting, just a lone piece of LR. When it matures i'll try to get some pics up.
 
fenrir

fenrir

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Thats cool, it will be interesting how our tanks will turn out since they were started around the same time.
 
fenrir

fenrir

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Is it necessary to feed them or are they mostly photosynthetic? Also just got back from my lfs and was able to score a highfin shrimpgoby and some kind of shrimp thats paired with it for $30. There both super tiny and I am picking them up once my tank cycles.
 
mushroomss

mushroomss

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by feeding them i get mine to spawn 1-2 sometimes 3 heads a week.The choice is yours.And all corals you can buy are photosynthetic except sun corals and a select few others
 
fenrir

fenrir

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ok thanks, I was sure most corals were like that but I wanted to make sure they weren't special or something. Anyways I will post pics once I get my shrimp and shrimp goby in.
 
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azul1994

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Fenrir,
I have one question, I was wondering what heater your using, because the one i bought is a piece of junk and can only get the tank up to 70 degrees.
Thanks
 
fenrir

fenrir

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Hey Azul,
I am using a marineland mini heater, it's slim and all black. It's preset to 78' and so far it's keeping it dean on. Got it at a certain pet store for $30
 
fenrir

fenrir

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Well I just got back from my local reef farm and bought a really cool Duncan coral frag. He fragged it from his own tank when he found out I was starting my deco. He's giving me two polyps for $30!
I'm so stoked this is going to be my first "nice" coral!
 
fenrir

fenrir

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Heres an update on my Deco. My cycle finished pretty darn fast using some of my own tank water/LR/LS. Amonia spiked and now I'm down to:
Amonia:0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate: >2
PH:8.4
Salinity:1.024
So I went to the lfs and picked up a nice rock of Rics for $30 and two small zebra hermits to start chowing down on brown algea. I figured it was ok to add the rics because the Zoas that hitch hiked on my lr is already splitting lol.
I will still wait until next week to pick up my goby and pistol shrimp to mkae sure my cycles is actualy complete.
Here is a pic and I also added a video to maybe see if the image quality is any better. My camera is showing it's age so I apolagize.

And the Video of the whole tank.
http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...t=DSCN1345.flv
 
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