socalnano24
Active Member
Ok, so last week I set up what I thought would be an easy copepod cultivation tank. By today I had a lifeless tank with dead phytofeast in it; and no visible signs of copepods.....
So I decided to take a more proactive approach to the new tank; such as turning it into a mini reef tank!
Went and bought a marineland hang on back biowheel 100, 10 lbs of karib sea live sand along with 4.5 lbs of fiji live rock as well as a 1/2 pound peice of purple cured premium fijian live rock to kind of boost the other pieces.
Here's what was left after cleaning up after the failed copepod tank; a little bit of chaeto and some sand from my 24.
Then the sand. Should be more than enough, but 10 lbs. was the smallest size they sold.
Pile o new live rock
hand picked
For lighting I'm using an old fixture I had with two new 10 watt 10K, actinic 50 50 PC bulbs.
Oh yeah and I did a 5 gallon water change on my 24 nano, to supply 90% of the water for this tank, so I shouldn't have to worry too much about a cycle I'm hoping!
Here it is starting to clear up a bit
and this is as good as its gonna be tonight:
So yeah, I don't know what the tank theme is going to be yet; So far I was thinking some possibilities like:
option 1neat combo); is the set up big enough?
a yasha goby and pistol shrimp
along with some sexy shrimps
and then have all varities of mushrooms
option 2micro coral and fish)
clown gobies (green and yellow varities) maybe like 3 of em
zoos
and a cleaner shrimp and sexy shrimps
option 3this would be a colorful one!)
a red a ndpurple firefish
some acans and ricordias
sexy shrimp and a flame shrimp
Anyways we'll see how the tank is looking towards the end of the week; hopefully I can get a clean up crew started by next weekend if the parameters are stable, since I used almost all mature water from my nano tank
As always tagalongs are more than welcome and any advice or opinions is appreciated!
So I decided to take a more proactive approach to the new tank; such as turning it into a mini reef tank!
Went and bought a marineland hang on back biowheel 100, 10 lbs of karib sea live sand along with 4.5 lbs of fiji live rock as well as a 1/2 pound peice of purple cured premium fijian live rock to kind of boost the other pieces.
Here's what was left after cleaning up after the failed copepod tank; a little bit of chaeto and some sand from my 24.
Then the sand. Should be more than enough, but 10 lbs. was the smallest size they sold.
Pile o new live rock
hand picked
For lighting I'm using an old fixture I had with two new 10 watt 10K, actinic 50 50 PC bulbs.
Oh yeah and I did a 5 gallon water change on my 24 nano, to supply 90% of the water for this tank, so I shouldn't have to worry too much about a cycle I'm hoping!
Here it is starting to clear up a bit
and this is as good as its gonna be tonight:
So yeah, I don't know what the tank theme is going to be yet; So far I was thinking some possibilities like:
option 1
neat combo); is the set up big enough?a yasha goby and pistol shrimp
along with some sexy shrimps
and then have all varities of mushrooms
option 2
micro coral and fish)clown gobies (green and yellow varities) maybe like 3 of em
zoos
and a cleaner shrimp and sexy shrimps
option 3
this would be a colorful one!)a red a ndpurple firefish
some acans and ricordias
sexy shrimp and a flame shrimp
Anyways we'll see how the tank is looking towards the end of the week; hopefully I can get a clean up crew started by next weekend if the parameters are stable, since I used almost all mature water from my nano tank
As always tagalongs are more than welcome and any advice or opinions is appreciated!
