- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
Hey everyone. New to the boards and i descided on saying hello and showing my tank. Pictures below =0)
I started the beginning of summer with a 55g cichlid tank. Had the tank lying around in the basement from a freshwater discus tank i had for about 2 years that was emptied after my move, and didn;t have the time to take care of properly (yes all the fish found good homes :cheers
Unfortunately, that was only the beginning of my addiction. I descided about 2 months ago to start a reef tank, which was what the cichlid tank was supposed to be in the first place but the weight of the cash i would have to drop to get one going in my 55 with no equipment prevented me from going that route. Anyways, i finally gave in and got myself a 24g nano because i had no room for another 50+g tank i was looking for, Along with the fear of my floor collapsing and my girlfriend already yelling that one fishtank was enough.
anyways the tank is up and running 5 weeks and a few days and doing great. all the levels are perfect (although something is eating my Calcium, it dropped from 430 to 390 these past few days since i started to add livestock).
amm and trites are at 0 trates at 10 or less
Temp 78
alk 3.5
phos 0
calc 390-410
Tank is jbj 24g with stock lighting i am goign to soon be upgrading, and running it skimmerless for now. Have the fussion skimmer which is a pos and requires too much work and placement daily to get working properly, and even when it does work properly i have millions of micro bubbles all over the tank.
anyways here are the pics! And sorry about the bad camera work. still trying to learn how to use it. Glass keeps messing with my zooms.
Here's one without the flash. yes i know i need better lights
My new flame coral!.... wait a sec.. think everything in this tank is new.. sigh
Sand or stone polyps, forgot what they are.
my red mushroom, which is probably the most its opened since it came into the tank. Can't find a spot with the perfect flow for him, little current flows by him and he closes up. Had him on the bottom and in crevices and everything but he doesn't want to open anymore than that. Its the best spot i found for him.
Yellow polyps with a growth of zoo's i picked up.
Anyways Everything in the tank is doing great except the mushroom, which i wish was doing better.
Oh and one more thing, i found this on a recent piece of LR i picked up and don;t know what it is. Its red and looks a little bit like fire coral i seen when i went snorkling in Puerto rico but alot more red. It was covered by a crust which is slowly coming off. and i have a pink piece of that on another rock. the pink piece turned white when i rubbed it by mistake but grew back to beeing pink a week or two after it was rubbed.
anyways goign to be adding some more coral soon, planning on a pulsing xenia once i find one small enough and some green star polyps if i can find a small enough mat of them.
tosiek
I started the beginning of summer with a 55g cichlid tank. Had the tank lying around in the basement from a freshwater discus tank i had for about 2 years that was emptied after my move, and didn;t have the time to take care of properly (yes all the fish found good homes :cheers
Unfortunately, that was only the beginning of my addiction. I descided about 2 months ago to start a reef tank, which was what the cichlid tank was supposed to be in the first place but the weight of the cash i would have to drop to get one going in my 55 with no equipment prevented me from going that route. Anyways, i finally gave in and got myself a 24g nano because i had no room for another 50+g tank i was looking for, Along with the fear of my floor collapsing and my girlfriend already yelling that one fishtank was enough.
anyways the tank is up and running 5 weeks and a few days and doing great. all the levels are perfect (although something is eating my Calcium, it dropped from 430 to 390 these past few days since i started to add livestock).
amm and trites are at 0 trates at 10 or less
Temp 78
alk 3.5
phos 0
calc 390-410
Tank is jbj 24g with stock lighting i am goign to soon be upgrading, and running it skimmerless for now. Have the fussion skimmer which is a pos and requires too much work and placement daily to get working properly, and even when it does work properly i have millions of micro bubbles all over the tank.
anyways here are the pics! And sorry about the bad camera work. still trying to learn how to use it. Glass keeps messing with my zooms.
Here's one without the flash. yes i know i need better lights
My new flame coral!.... wait a sec.. think everything in this tank is new.. sigh
Sand or stone polyps, forgot what they are.
my red mushroom, which is probably the most its opened since it came into the tank. Can't find a spot with the perfect flow for him, little current flows by him and he closes up. Had him on the bottom and in crevices and everything but he doesn't want to open anymore than that. Its the best spot i found for him.
Yellow polyps with a growth of zoo's i picked up.
Anyways Everything in the tank is doing great except the mushroom, which i wish was doing better.
Oh and one more thing, i found this on a recent piece of LR i picked up and don;t know what it is. Its red and looks a little bit like fire coral i seen when i went snorkling in Puerto rico but alot more red. It was covered by a crust which is slowly coming off. and i have a pink piece of that on another rock. the pink piece turned white when i rubbed it by mistake but grew back to beeing pink a week or two after it was rubbed.
anyways goign to be adding some more coral soon, planning on a pulsing xenia once i find one small enough and some green star polyps if i can find a small enough mat of them.
tosiek
