10 gallon nano reef journal (pics)

[Newman]

I would really like to start my nano reef tank with some green striped shrooms like those! What do you feed them and how often? I'm also assuming they get the majority of their energy from the light...?

 

[unwritten law]

Majority from light but if they get some reef plankton, then that's it.

 

[Newman]

cool, thanks for the answer!

 

[waterguy1]

what are the requirements for that kenya tree coral that you've got in there? I'm setting up a 30 gal. reef and would like a couple of those in it.

 

[Fishmonger70]

Marine snow is good, as well as micro plankton.

 

[unwritten law]

it doesnt take much... decent lighting and more flow then less. some people say iodine and trace elements help

 

[Newman]

any updates on the tank? or is it in the take down process already?

 

[unwritten law]

no updates really... it looks the same more or less unless you look real close and notice the corals bigger.

This tank will be up for at least the summer but now money restrictions might make it impossible to go SW in the 46

 

[Newman]

thats too bad. hopefully things are growing in this tank.

 

[unwritten law]

 

[Newman]

looks like the shrooms are multiplying

 

[unwritten law]

nope.. not visibly... just look bigger in that picture.

 

[unwritten law]

Ever since I got the pistol shrimp, and they started to burrow I never see the goby or pistol anymore... My only concern is that the goby is not eating enough cause hes not around ever to feed. I do have a feeling the pistol is alive cause the constant amount of tunnels that appear but no actual sighting of each in about a week or two.

 

[Newman]

you might need to watch the tank for a few hours...lol
I hope the goby's all right. no idea what it would eat all this time other than amphipods (which may or may not be in abundance on your reef)

 

[unwritten law]

not so in abundance considering the other fish that eat them... and i am sitting in fornt of the tank a lot cause its next to my computer.. i would see him

 

[unwritten law]

I saw my goby quite a bit now, including right now cause they made a few new caves at the front of the tank... he looks healthy and fine.

 

[unwritten law]

so I know I need to update this thing... Ill get pictures up within a week or so but I just moved my tank for the second time since my last update. I moved it home for the summer and now its back with me at school. All 4 fish are alive but I have been loosing inverts pretty regularly. This last time i moved i found a crab, Ill make an ID thread but he was good size and eating well on my hermits, snails, and pistol shrimp....

After the first move i had to use some tap water, that with the addition of some sunlight and loosing 90% of my coraline in the move resulted in a hair algae break out. Which i hope to fix now that i just set it back up yesterday.

I am thinking about adding a regular HOB on this this just to get rid of excess debris and also so I can run some wort of PO4 remover if needed

 

[unwritten law]

So after looking at this thread I realized that my corals are not doing as well as they used to be... I lost a lot of them (zoas and GSP) to the hair algae...

Also I just changed my tank again to a 20L... put my old 65W 50/50 fixture on it we'll see how it works... Light is a lot lower but when I would just leave half of my old light (also would be 65... cause it was 130 total) all the corals would look and do fine. I have all the same fish... thinking about getting a cleaner shrimp but first I want to just get this tank up and running cause im sure I'm gonna run into a mini-cycle very quickly..... pics soon i hope

 

[Newman]

wait you have the same 3 fish in a 5gallon now? not cramped? o_o
pics would be great! since you last update I have taken the plunge into SW reefing too! I started with a 3 gallon and have a 10 gallon in addition to that now.

 

[kenny1tothe6]

I think he meant 20 gallon long like mine...lol