ken1977
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I'm cycling/mixing salt water tonight, I should have set up by tomorrow. I was going to get some water from my lfs but I decided not too. I'll post some pics.
Lucas's 20g nano
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I'm cycling/mixing salt water tonight, I should have set up by tomorrow. I was going to get some water from my lfs but I decided not too. I'll post some pics.
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Dang that is a bummer, I like pretty much all of the clown fish but the tomato clown fish stuck out to me as the coolest. Maybe a designer snowflake would be cool. I did not know that about chromis! I will have to change up my fish plan. Do you any advice on fish plan for nano?
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Dang that is a bummer, I like pretty much all of the clown fish but the tomato clown fish stuck out to me as the coolest. Maybe a designer snowflake would be cool. I did not know that about chromis! I will have to change up my fish plan. Do you any advice on fish plan for nano?
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How did salt mixing go? I brought pre made salt water from LFS. You have it set up yet?
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How did salt mixing go? I brought pre made salt water from LFS. You have it set up yet?
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Looks great! Thats a choice on sand. Are you going to replace the return pump? if that is next to your bed it will be noisy
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Here she is... Nice iPhone light
Looks great! Thats a choice on sand. Are you going to replace the return pump? if that is next to your bed it will be noisy
ken1977
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Yes it's already getting on my nerve, I will order the Sicce Syncra first thing tomorrow morning. I will probably return my life rock from Carib Sea as well, the pieces are just to darn big for this tank. Take a look at the picture below, my other three pieces are useless to me as they just don't fit.
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I have mine in my room as well. It is across my room but loud enough to where it bugs me sometimes. Is that Sicce Syncra suppose to be nice, this is my first rodeo with salt water aquariums. I need a nice quiet return pump.
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I have mine in my room as well. It is across my room but loud enough to where it bugs me sometimes. Is that Sicce Syncra suppose to be nice, this is my first rodeo with salt water aquariums. I need a nice quiet return pump.
Start of week 4 notes
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So this is my first update of being 19 years old and also from the new laptop I got for my birthday! So today I visited North Canton in Ohio. I went there to find Ocean Rift aquarium store. The moment I walked into the store I knew this would be where I would do all of my tank purchases from now on. This place was super cool and very clean. The owner was extremely friendly and was an awesome guy. This place had some of the coolest display tanks I've ever seen. Alright onto my tank. Tomorrow I will be doing a water change. I cleaned the inside and outside of my tank tonight. My blue chromis and cleaner shrimp seem to be doing amazing. I am still in the hunt for some trochus and nassarius snails. I am also looking for somewhere to trade in my peppermint shrimp and two Astraea snails. I might be turning in one of my Mexican turbo snails just based off of some info ive gotten from here. Tomorrow marks the big challenge. I leave for vacation tomorrow and I will not be home until june 9th afternoon. I have a friend that has some knowledge of aquariums. He will be feeding my tank once in morning and once at night. My aquamaxx nemolight will also be coming in next Wednesday. fingers crossed everything will be perfect when I get back if so I will be getting a clownfish and maybe a kenya tree frag a few days after getting back. Please keep up with the advice and opinions. The information you guys are giving me is awesome. Please feel free to ask any questions!
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So this is my first update of being 19 years old and also from the new laptop I got for my birthday! So today I visited North Canton in Ohio. I went there to find Ocean Rift aquarium store. The moment I walked into the store I knew this would be where I would do all of my tank purchases from now on. This place was super cool and very clean. The owner was extremely friendly and was an awesome guy. This place had some of the coolest display tanks I've ever seen. Alright onto my tank. Tomorrow I will be doing a water change. I cleaned the inside and outside of my tank tonight. My blue chromis and cleaner shrimp seem to be doing amazing. I am still in the hunt for some trochus and nassarius snails. I am also looking for somewhere to trade in my peppermint shrimp and two Astraea snails. I might be turning in one of my Mexican turbo snails just based off of some info ive gotten from here. Tomorrow marks the big challenge. I leave for vacation tomorrow and I will not be home until june 9th afternoon. I have a friend that has some knowledge of aquariums. He will be feeding my tank once in morning and once at night. My aquamaxx nemolight will also be coming in next Wednesday. fingers crossed everything will be perfect when I get back if so I will be getting a clownfish and maybe a kenya tree frag a few days after getting back. Please keep up with the advice and opinions. The information you guys are giving me is awesome. Please feel free to ask any questions!
glalex
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Personally I wouldn't recommend you to put a Kenya tree or xenia. They are good corals for beginners but they will not stop growing and reproducing. When I got into the hobby I had ordered a xenia frag, within a couple of months it had invated and spread all over my fish tank. Since then I call them "weeds" lol. But that's just my opinion.
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Thanks for the input on the kenya tree. The aquarium store had a lot of it so it must be like a "weed." He had a lot of cool frogspawn and torch corals. I'm looking into getting one of those instead of a kenya tree
Kenya trees don't grow as prolifically or as problematically as xenia. Xenia are tough becasue they walk around the tank when expanding, and even when you cut them, the part you cut and any flesh left on the rock will grow back to full pieces.
Kenya trees grow slower, and when you pull the pieces from the rock, they don't leave any flesh behind, and are easy to keep track of becasue they don't walk. They only become problematic and drop new offspring when they're huge. I used to have one the size of a basketball when fully inflated, and it would drop new pieces every few days, but they were easy to corral into a frag box and sell.
Still a fun easy coral to get started with, and much more tolerant than LPS.
Kenya trees grow slower, and when you pull the pieces from the rock, they don't leave any flesh behind, and are easy to keep track of becasue they don't walk. They only become problematic and drop new offspring when they're huge. I used to have one the size of a basketball when fully inflated, and it would drop new pieces every few days, but they were easy to corral into a frag box and sell.
Still a fun easy coral to get started with, and much more tolerant than LPS.
ken1977
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I have heard great things about it but never heard one in action. I made some update to my rock.
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That actually sounds really fun haha, I will most likely get a kenya frag and a torch frag. I think I am getting a clownfish as well.
New rock set up looks awesome! as soon as get the money I am ordering the sicce syntra
ken1977
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Marine depot has them in stock right now. They don't have many left but I'm sure they will get more if they sell out again.
