Macron's 12g Nano Cube

[Macron]

Hello everyone, I've been working with my new college-friendly nano cube 12 for about 2 and 1/2 months now and thought I would share my tank with you. Hopefully I will be able to get some good advice and learn something by posting on this forum. Anyways, here is the tank:

System Specs:

- Tank: JBJ Nano Cube 12 DX
- Lighting: Stock PC bulbs
- Filtration: InTank media basket w/ Filter Floss and Chemi-Pure Elite
- Circulation: Maxijet 900 for return pump, Hydor Flo Rotating Deflector, Korallia Nano 240 gph.


Stocking:

Coral
- Blue Corallimorph
- Blue Ricordea
- Orange Ricordea
- Blue/Orange Ricordeas
- Orange Skirt Zoanthids
- Watermellon Zoanthids
- Orange Bam Bam Zoanthids
- Magician's Palythoas
- "Purple Death" Palythoas
- Blue Spotted Mushrooms
- Green Star Polyps
- Green Striped Mushroom
- Green Polyp Toadstool Leather


Fish and Inverts
- Black and White Ocellaris Clownfish
- Bicolor Blenny
- Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
- 6 Blue Leg Hermit Crabs
- 2 Margarita Snails
- 2 Cerith Snails
- 2 Nassarius Snails (don't know if they are still alive or not)

 

[Macron]

Also, what is a better method of posting pictures so that people do not have to click on attachments and can see the pictures on the main thread post?

 

[Macron]

Here we go figured it out:

 

[mbingha]

Looks good! I really like that rock work that you have going on.

 

[zx6r]

Love the aquascape and I'm looking forward to more pictures

 

[Macron]

More Pics (not the best quality, but I'm getting better)

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As of right now I am trying to experiment with feeding my corals. I have gone through 2 other tank set ups (A mantis shrimp tank and a normal reef, both in my old Aquapod 24) and never really gave my corals anything in terms of food. Hopefully I will see a difference in the growth rates and coloration of my corals.

I have some live phytoplankton that I sparingly use because I have heard that most corals do not consume it, but I have read that it benefits the microfauna. Other than that I have started feeding my rics and blue corallimorph some mysis shrimp that I had been given. I would like to try feeding everything with cyclops-eeze and see how that goes as the corals do not seem to react to the mysis shrimp that much. Maybe the mysis is too large of portions. When I can get my hands some, I would really like to get some live rotifers from UNCW.

 

[Macron]

Anyone have any suggestions on some corals for me to add to my list? At this point I've got everything that I was originally planning on getting, but it seems like there needs to be more in the middle region of the tank.

 

[Macron]

Quick update... Just received some new corals from Reefgardener.net. I will have pictures of them up as soon as they open up. My magicians palys have grown 3 new polyps already from the original 2. My bam bams have grown an additional polyp and my blue st. thomas shroom is getting huge. I also traded out my "purple death" palys for a condy cane frag, mainly because they were more of a dark brown-purple color than purple.

At this rate it will become a bubble tip:
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FTS as of 11/30/11:
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[Jab93]

Very Nice Tank, When I go to College Next Year, im do something similar to urs!!!

 

[Macron]

Very Nice Tank, When I go to College Next Year, im do something similar to urs!!!

Thanks, since I probably wont be living in the same place I am now the small size is crucial. Way easier to move than my old 24 gallon which is the reason I got rid of it in the first place.

On a side note I managed to mess up the date on the pictures...

 

[60G]

nice rock work love the tank.:thumbsup:

 

[nemesis7]

That's one of the most unique looking tanks I've seen. I think the the rock work is really great. Good work and keep the pics coming

 

[Macron]

New corals in:

Replacement Purple Death Palys, these are much more purple than the last ones:
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"Green Eyed Monster" Zoas:
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A free frag that has peach colored and pink colored zoas on it. I tried and tried to get a good picture but they all came out blurry and you can't really see the colors:
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New orange ricordea:
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Candy Cane - is splitting into 2 heads:
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And here are a bunch of random pictures I took.

Night time:
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Side view of ricordea section. I kinda botched the epoxy job when I mounted the new ricodea frag to the rock, hence why it looks strange right now:
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Blue Corallimorph eating:
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Thats it for now, gonna let everything grow out for a while before I give another FTS. The corals from Reefgardener.net looked exactly like they did in the pictures, and they hooked it up with a nice free frag. Definitely my new favorite site for ordering corals out of the 3 I've tried. Hopefully my hunger to buy more corals has been suppressed for a while..

 

[OKchris]

Looks good, really like that aquascaping