[House of Laughter]

Riff, it's Jim /House

whao, there's that bristle worm -

Some people hate em, some people like em - I personally like em and have em in every tank (display and holding). JMO - up to you if you want to get him out - for sure you won't be able to keep a natural predator of them (wrasse) as the tank is too small.

Enjoy!

House

[jejton]

Nice start, welcome to the club. I had a nano at work for almost a year. They are fun but if you stock it past the bare minimum, you'll really have to keep up with the water changes, and if you upgrade the lighting, you'll have to be good with top-offs or use an ATO. Besides this great site, there's another one dedicated to nano's - www.nano-reef.com ( mods is that allowed, if not, just delete ) where you can get some good ideas. Many of the people there skip the use of a skimmer and rely on the LR and good waterflow ( you might want a PH in the tank to give better and random flow ) . In the back, alot of people just keep some lr rubble in one chamber and maybe some chaeto in another.

[riff]

Thanks for the tips. I know about the other forum, and I've been reading there as well as here. I'll leave the worm in the tank. I wouldn't want to try catching him anyway. I found a couple more things today:

This has been sitting in the same spot all day today. No idea what it is.


Some brown tentacles coming from under a rock:


And lastly, I believe an asterina star on the glass:

[aaron23]

hahah veryyyy cool thread and post of pictures. GREAT START!!! Buying that rock from HOF seems to have been very beneficial.. All of these hitchhikers are outstanding i remember when i use to stare at my tank for all of the little workers in my tank gosh it was fun

those brown worm things crawling are spaghetti worms they're great and very beneficial

[rookie07]

I had the sapphire aquatics skimmer also(I wasnt a huge fan)
You should get another powerhead for the display, I had a koralia. (I even upgraded the original pump in the rear chamber, doubled the GPH) thats what I did.
Some LR rubble in the rear chamber is a good idea. I would think cheato would die without alot of lighting(I mean hours not strength).

Make sure you buy extra shells when you eventuall buy hermits, I didnt do it for a while, and I kept putting it off, think of it in advance, and you can get some very nice shells.(Just a thought)

[riff]

A new day, more things and more questions!

I saw this star-like thing crawling on the sand yesterday.


And today I find an asterina star?? attached to a snail. Is he hurting the snail. Should I pick him off?


And I also found what I believe is a stomatella varia.

[reefman]

your setup looks good. not surprise with hof help.
the bristle that size may b a problem in the future n the ast. star can mutiply quick n infest the tank. do some research on the hitchhiker sticky here.