Givin this nano thing a shot

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GeoffSFAs10

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Hello all. newer so SW so bare with me.

Ive had the strongest urge to set up a smallesh SW tank for a quiet a while. after talking to my buddy about getting some of his supplies he offered to sell his 24AP for a pretty good deal so i bought that. built my own stand and set it up last night.

dont know what brand/kind of substrate it is, just a black and white sand. has i wanna say about 15-20 pounds of live rock from the feel of the bucket.

houses 2 ocellerais clowns, a firefish, 2 turbo snails, 3 scarlet leg hermits and i saw a small brissle star last night when we moved it.

anyway,i plan to try and keep it fairly simple. might add a scooter blenny or the naraus(sp*) snail for moving the substrate around to prevent compaction and possibly a 6 line wrasse. also wouldnt mind a peppermint shrimp or two but i dont want to push the livestock.

plan is to start with a couple of the lower light soft corals and mushrooms. gonna try some zoos, prolley star polyups and maybe if they stay small enough an elegans coral. not sure yet on that one.

i dont know a WHOLE lot about this reef thing yet. still getting my bearings. i think i know enough to get by for now. i do have soem b-ionic i need to read up on and start doseing with again. im used to freshwater planted tanks, i have 3 of them and i needed something else to spend time and way to much money on. haha. anyway, any thoughts of advise are welcome.

and here is a picture of it thus far..been mine for 12 hours now so its nothing much..

24G Aquapod picture
 
Yeah, I agree with reefmaker, not much live rock. If that is 15-20 lbs as you say then you have room for some more and would advise that you get more. A couple bigger pieces would work well to compliment the smaller pieces you have.

Oh yeah, and don't do an elegance coral.....they are hard to keep and should be left in the ocean. Other than that your plan looks pretty good :)
 
sounds good to me.

the rock was/is kinda live. haha. there is alittle growing on it but not to much. the tank was alittle on the niglected side. so i gotta play doctor with it for alittle while first. most it has growing on the rock is coralline algae in places. there are some mussels i also noticed that showed up. i also did find an aiptasia or two, to which hot water worked magic on. hehe. but all i can really say is i will try to update this as it goes on..
 
Your live sand looks just like the sand in my 10 gallon tank....it's Arag-Alive Indo-Pacific Black Sand, in case you wanted to know.
 
awesome. its always good to know whats in my tank. i like knowing it.

i was looking at the tank today and on the one piece of rock , there are tons of little tubes. well i fed the fish and when then food came down in that area, TONS of these little red what look to be feather dusters, came sprouting out. i will try and get a picture of them if you wish
 
thanks. today i added my first corals. a purple/green mushroom, fuzzy mushroom and a small colony of star polyups. also got nassacuis or whatever snails, and 2 peppermint shrimp. and got my geometric hawkfish on order. horray!
 
ok here are some pictures for your enjoyment. granted they are 2 days old and the colonies are small. planning on getting a little piece or two of coral once a week or as much as money permits. gonna go get a zoo frag soon here i think.

Full tank shot

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weather dusters??
 
hew stuff. the mushrooms didnt like being sat on the top of the tank, so they moved to the bottom. it makes em happy. the fuzzy shroom is big already, pretty cool. star polyups are enjoying there spot and new ones are starting to show up on the rock they are on. also got a new crazy looking mushroom today and a geometric hawkfish. hes sooo cool.

i know you like pictures, so here are a couple more for y'all

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hes tiny..maybe 3/4 of an inch. my shrimp dwarf him..no chance they are getting eaten

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crazy cool shroom

Panaroma of my basement
 
Those star polyps are awesome, i have a large colony now for 6 or more months once they get spread out it looks like green grass flowing in the current, very relaxing.

Aiptasia i found a miracle cure for em, i take a tube or syringe, and put some powdered alkaline buffer in the chamber, and let the crystals fall into its tentacles, they melt like a slug in salt. just a tiny bit does it. Never seen them come back.
 
Ryan - yes the stars are sweet. they are getting boig already. its exciting. and the peppermint shrimp cleared up all my aiptasia by the 2nd day. plus they are cool looking.

MMD- of course i'll show off my discus tank. its my baby. :D

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how do keep yuou discus so clean? how do you keep the algea in control? i am planning a tiny 10g planted tank no fish maybe 1 or neon tetra.
 
looks are deceiving. there is some algae in the tank but my crew seems to work well at keeping it clear. plus in the near future im going to add a UV sterilizer to it to help with the water, it has had a small algae bloom in it for several months now and isnt clearing up.

my main success i can call laziness. i hardly ever touch it. might do a glass scraping here and there but nothing more then that and topping it off. i have done more water changes on this tank though then my others since it was set up. maybe up to 5-6 since may.

the algae eaters i have in there are many. 6 otos, 1 rubberlipped pleco ( aka bulldog ), 1 twig cat and 1 siamease algae eater and some ghost shrimp....and at times the big discus. he gets bored and picks algae off the wood. hehe its a pig
 
well i know this is an old thread. not to much has happened to this tank other then some red slime baterica decided to show up about a week ago. so i started getting more regular on wc's and we'll see how that goes. my chunk of antellia i bought has gotten huge and the GSP are slowly starting to spread. the mushrooms are just kinda there really. so here is a blah picture for you. it needs some help , so maybe this winter i can turn things around.

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lookin good, if your looking into updating the look, frag your GSP and sell some of it back you LFS for credit to buy some more new corals. variety always makes any tank more interesting, personally i like the look of nearly overgrown tanks.
 
Looks like the tank just needs some more LR, Coral, and a few inverts ... time to frag w/e that coral is on the left. Get rid of that rubble rock on your substrate; makes it look cluttered. Use rubble rock to mount frags or put in refugium.
 
yes it does need more LR. and for some reason snails dont last too long in there. i had some nassauris snails, they really helped move the substarte around but both disappeared. and a bunch of my astrea are all gone. that is pretty upsetting as well as peppermint shrimp. they are started to lessen in numbers slowly over time. :/
 
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