tkh
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So, while I have yet to post my 90g build up, I figured I would finally start a build thread at least. This is expected to be a coral quarantine, along with some permanent residents. There will be no fish in here, at least, not until it just turns into a reef tank and I have a new Coral QT!
The Build: 30g Cube, drilled, with a small on-the-back overflow area, with a built-in media rack. It's all quite nice actually! It's also Keith (Gonebad)'s old cube setup! I forget the return pump, as well as the make of the heater, but it works well, and looks great.
Lighting: K2-Viper Metal Halide. I like the color, but have no idea what kind of bulb is actually in there. It's also crazy bright...
Filtration: ~30lbs of live rock, Filter Floss, Carbon. (Hope to add Chemipure and Purigen once I order it.)
Flow: Currently just the return. I am waiting for a certain Turtle who's name begins with 'J'.
So far it has been up, roughly a week, although it has spent a lot longer up and running at Keith's, and the sand / rock / 50% of the water was used, so that, along with a bottle of Tim's (just in case) helped it cycle rather quickly and it is already undergoing a mini-algae bloom.
Now for pictures!
(Bad iPhone pictures, but I never got around to taking nice ones with the SLR, so oh well)
Day 1 (The water is a bit cloudy, everything was still settling)
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As for stocking, as I've mentioned it is purely coral for now. Much of this coral will end up in my 90g DT. Some of course, will not. I am not sure what will end up where yet, but I will certainly have plenty of frags and a month of staring at it all to figure it out. I would like to add some nice invertebrates however! I am also considering some rock flowers! Perhaps some anemone shrimp? I'm not really sure what will go in there... in fact...
Help me stock it! What are your suggestions for cool (reef safe) inverts to keep? No harlequins please, I just couldn't go through cutting an arm off a start every week... I have some vague ideas, but would rather hear some of your ideas first!
The Build: 30g Cube, drilled, with a small on-the-back overflow area, with a built-in media rack. It's all quite nice actually! It's also Keith (Gonebad)'s old cube setup! I forget the return pump, as well as the make of the heater, but it works well, and looks great.
Lighting: K2-Viper Metal Halide. I like the color, but have no idea what kind of bulb is actually in there. It's also crazy bright...
Filtration: ~30lbs of live rock, Filter Floss, Carbon. (Hope to add Chemipure and Purigen once I order it.)
Flow: Currently just the return. I am waiting for a certain Turtle who's name begins with 'J'.
So far it has been up, roughly a week, although it has spent a lot longer up and running at Keith's, and the sand / rock / 50% of the water was used, so that, along with a bottle of Tim's (just in case) helped it cycle rather quickly and it is already undergoing a mini-algae bloom.
Now for pictures!
(Bad iPhone pictures, but I never got around to taking nice ones with the SLR, so oh well)
Day 1 (The water is a bit cloudy, everything was still settling)
View attachment 16218View attachment 16219
As for stocking, as I've mentioned it is purely coral for now. Much of this coral will end up in my 90g DT. Some of course, will not. I am not sure what will end up where yet, but I will certainly have plenty of frags and a month of staring at it all to figure it out. I would like to add some nice invertebrates however! I am also considering some rock flowers! Perhaps some anemone shrimp? I'm not really sure what will go in there... in fact...
Help me stock it! What are your suggestions for cool (reef safe) inverts to keep? No harlequins please, I just couldn't go through cutting an arm off a start every week... I have some vague ideas, but would rather hear some of your ideas first!
I do plan on having some sps, at least while it passes through on quarantine, but really I'm not too sure. I think I may pull a piece of sps from my DT and throw it in here because for whatever reason it doesn't put out its polyps anymore. It did have the tips bleach at one point, but it has recovered from that, but still no polyps... Otherwise it seems to be healthy, or at least alive, and it has been this way for some time now. Maybe it will like the nano more?
It's so cute! .. and menacing! Cthulu would be proud!
Well, I had another beautiful marbled starfish in the tank.... 'had' being the key word. A few days after the first starfish disappeared it too went "missing"... Mind you, this is before I had realized the octopus anemone was snacking on starfish.....
At first I thought it was somewhat amusing (only in the sense that I love my anemone, and maybe it's sadistic tendencies are rubbing off on me), as I noticed a few snails would get too close to its tentacles, get stung, and they slowly wander off in a very confused manner, slow, even for a snail. Well, I came home today and noticed that not only has it been stinging snails, I think it has been eating them!!! It has accumulated a pile of snail shells (dead or alive, not really sure), and saw it spit 3 shells out at the same time.... At first I figured somehow the snails had wandered in, as I have seen them do with my rock anemones, but I think the snails were simply spit out (alive) by the rock 'nems... I don't think that's the case with my kraken-child! :faint2:
