20L nano-reef in progress

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BIGgourami;2473410; said:
:cool: cool
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filled it today with live rock, a toadstool leather coral ($20!!! friggen cheap for a nice one! and $10!!!! for a pulsing xenia! i was like :eek: gimme gimme gimme!)

also got some fish today for it. daidama (spelling) basslet, green chromis, and some other fish... brain fart :y220d: ill post pics and the name tomm. but for now... its midnight and i want sleepy... ;)
 
ugggg..... my computer isnt registering my camera's memory card so until i get it figured out theres no pics of its new awesomness. and i found my xenia has slid all the way across its little rock its on and left a thin mass of itself covering the whole rock yesterday. and today that part is covered with tons of little new puds! im excited! my corals are growing in my less than one month old reef! yays!
 
puffcrusader696;2475034; said:
also got some fish today for it. daidama (spelling) basslet
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diadema?
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this guy?
 
Are you feeding your corals anything? Feather dusters are filter feeders & you need to dose the tank with DT's Phytoplankton at least 2x/week. Is your scooter eating prepared foods? They usually only eat live pods, which probably are going to be a big problem in a newly-established, smaller tasystem.
 
Pufferpunk;2556529; said:
Are you feeding your corals anything? Feather dusters are filter feeders & you need to dose the tank with DT's Phytoplankton at least 2x/week. Is your scooter eating prepared foods? They usually only eat live pods, which probably are going to be a big problem in a newly-established, smaller tasystem.
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yes im adding all the additives my corals need. i got a pack of 1000 copepods to live in the rock and i got more live rock in it now so the scooter blenny has plenty of food now. thanks for asking.
 
how long was it set up before you added stuff. if i were you i would have got all the rock first and waited about 3 weeks and then a fish waited a week or two and then corals one by one

but if it works out for you congrats
 
tylerperkins;2558148; said:
how long was it set up before you added stuff. if i were you i would have got all the rock first and waited about 3 weeks and then a fish waited a week or two and then corals one by one

but if it works out for you congrats
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lol this was an incredibly bad impulsive buy/idea. i went to the pet story adn bought $100 in corals and about 3 pounds of live rock and no fish. the tank was still half setup for my old puffers but was empty. i washed it out and added some water from my 55 gallon and shoved everything in with a coralife CF light and hoped for the best. now about a month and a half later everything is flourishing! after my bad idea i was like "oh jeeze this is gonna crash and burn and im gonna be out about $120!" but it worked and it looks really nice! about 10 lbs of live rock, 9 fish, 10 snails, a bunch more corals later it looks really nice and everything is growing!
 
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