Hey,
I'm bored so I thought I would introduce myself and my 5 gallon minibow that sits on my bookshelf in my dorm room. It's been up since Thanksgiving. My camera is not that great and my camera skills are even worse (but I got great numchuck skills :lol: ) so I'm sorry for the crappy pictures. Oh yeah and my brain, zoo's, gsp,shrooms and hammer all flouresce like crazy under my blue LED moon light but I can't get the camera to capture it! Any advice on this? It's a Canon S50 Powersh!t. Anyway, here you go:
Here's the specs:
I've got one small bag of chemipure in an aquaclear I use for water movement. Besides that for filtration I just use the live rock and sand. I do one to two gallon water changes every one to two weeks. Lighting is a corallife mini fixture with one 9 watt actinic and one 9 watt daylight PC bulb. I made a plexiglass cover that it rests on. I also just got an LED blue moon bulb that I think is pretty sweet. Tank inhabitants are one hector's goby (ridiculously hard to get a picture of but he's got a lot of personality and I like him), one porcelaine crab, one fire shrimp, 2 scarlet hermits, 3 astrea snails, 2 nassarious snails, a hammer coral, green stripe mushrooms, xenia, assorted zoo's, green star polyps, a moon coral (I don't think it's doing very well though
), a leather, and a ric. I feed part of a cube of frozen food every other day and 1/4 squirt of some phyto eveyr other day as well (at night).
I'd love to upgrade to a bigger tank like an aquapod or a nanocube or a tru vu or even something custom with some better light options to try my hand at SPS but like I said I live in a dorm and those are out of the question right now for various reasons.
Oh and I know I need to get around to taking those bristle worms out (you can see one in the porcelaine crab picture ).
Let me know if you would do something different, or if you would add anything. I think I'd like a sun coral in there and then maybe another tall branching coral to put in the back kind of next to the hammer (like a nepthya or maybe a dendro). But it's getting pretty crowded in there already. We'll see lol I'm sure I can make some room in that beezy.
Thanks for looking.
I'm bored so I thought I would introduce myself and my 5 gallon minibow that sits on my bookshelf in my dorm room. It's been up since Thanksgiving. My camera is not that great and my camera skills are even worse (but I got great numchuck skills :lol: ) so I'm sorry for the crappy pictures. Oh yeah and my brain, zoo's, gsp,shrooms and hammer all flouresce like crazy under my blue LED moon light but I can't get the camera to capture it! Any advice on this? It's a Canon S50 Powersh!t. Anyway, here you go:
Here's the specs:
I've got one small bag of chemipure in an aquaclear I use for water movement. Besides that for filtration I just use the live rock and sand. I do one to two gallon water changes every one to two weeks. Lighting is a corallife mini fixture with one 9 watt actinic and one 9 watt daylight PC bulb. I made a plexiglass cover that it rests on. I also just got an LED blue moon bulb that I think is pretty sweet. Tank inhabitants are one hector's goby (ridiculously hard to get a picture of but he's got a lot of personality and I like him), one porcelaine crab, one fire shrimp, 2 scarlet hermits, 3 astrea snails, 2 nassarious snails, a hammer coral, green stripe mushrooms, xenia, assorted zoo's, green star polyps, a moon coral (I don't think it's doing very well though
), a leather, and a ric. I feed part of a cube of frozen food every other day and 1/4 squirt of some phyto eveyr other day as well (at night).I'd love to upgrade to a bigger tank like an aquapod or a nanocube or a tru vu or even something custom with some better light options to try my hand at SPS but like I said I live in a dorm and those are out of the question right now for various reasons.
Oh and I know I need to get around to taking those bristle worms out (you can see one in the porcelaine crab picture ).
Let me know if you would do something different, or if you would add anything. I think I'd like a sun coral in there and then maybe another tall branching coral to put in the back kind of next to the hammer (like a nepthya or maybe a dendro). But it's getting pretty crowded in there already. We'll see lol I'm sure I can make some room in that beezy.
Thanks for looking.
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Again, sorry for the bad pictures...
