24 Gallon Aquapod at 5 months

[kimbo39]

Ok, I posted these before, but now I will post them all in the same chain. Excuse the blurry pics.

Live rock - 20+ Lbs of Bali premium (from local LFS in Chitown)

Fish - Yashia Gobies, Purple Firefish, Redhead Goby, Tailspot Blenny, Hi fin Red Banded Gobies

Inverts - Scarlet reef hermits, Blood shrimp, Skunk cleaner shrimp, Tongan fighting conches, Derasea clam, various snails, Red serpentine star, Randall's pistol shrimp, Tiger pistol shrimp

Coral - Frogspawn, Pink Zoos Red/Pink Cynarina, Acan. Lords (large piece + frag), Blueberry Gorgonian, Orange plate coral, Purple photosynthetic sponge, Frilly mushroom branch rock, Striped mushroom rock, Pumping Xenia, Purple chalice, Psammacora frag, Pavona frag, Red musrooms, Neon green Star polyps, Ricordia mushrooms

 

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[Kennyboy1984]

Great tank! Is that blueberry gorgonian hard to take care of? I never see them anywhere for sale either. I want one!

 

[kimbo39]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7840555#post7840555 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kennyboy1984
Great tank! Is that blueberry gorgonian hard to take care of? I never see them anywhere for sale either. I want one!

You just have to be careful when you put it in your tank, ensuring it is not exposed to air. Once it's in your tank, you must feed the tank with supplements like bioplankton. The coral is not photosynthetic. Also, it must be placed in an area of relatively high flow.

I was lucky. My LFS had it on sale for $79, when it usually goes for $120+. It is rarely available; I just happened to visit the store when they had one. It's not as fragile as you would think, and if you take care of it, it will sprout new polyps.

 

[scubaD]

Is your top open. I had read that firfish are jumpers. I am wary of the carpet surfers.

 

[kimbo39]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7840726#post7840726 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by scubaD
Is your top open. I had read that firfish are jumpers. I am wary of the carpet surfers.

I have the model with the closed canopy that contains the dual actinic/daylight bulbs with moonlights.

 

[hgbarwick]

Nice tank but you have a lot of fish in their for a 24 gallon. You have 9? How are your params holding up? That is one heavy bio load.

 

[kimbo39]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7841322#post7841322 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hgbarwick
Nice tank but you have a lot of fish in their for a 24 gallon. You have 9? How are your params holding up? That is one heavy bio load.

I do weekly to bi-weekly 20% water changes. But, I also add this substance called bactervital after every water change. I can't be completely sure that it helps, but even with the ostensibly large bioload, my parameters read as follows (tested the water couple days ago):

Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Hardness/Alkalinity: 12 dKH
pH: 8.2
Salinty: 1.024
Calcium: 440

I have never had water parameter issues. I think the weekly water changes plus the bactervital are doing the trick.

 

[Kigs]

wow all the gobies look real nice together. it looks like you put a lot of thought into the tank

 

[kimbo39]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7841822#post7841822 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kigs
wow all the gobies look real nice together. it looks like you put a lot of thought into the tank

Thanx. For my tank, the live rock is the key. My LFS has such great stuff; provides a huge surface area for beneficial bacteria to thrive without taking up too much volume.

 

[Fishfreak218]

all those Yasha hase gobies look AWESOME.. for a while these got realy popular and every1 was ranting and raving over them... now i havnt seen them in a while.. the tank looks nice
gl
-josh

 

[kimbo39]

Anybody else use Bactervital?