my 11 months cheap 30g reef!!

[20reefer]

Well this tank is very simple and cheap, all the equipment are from chinesse companies with the exeption of of the aquaclear 30 power filter; the tank is very healthy and I dont know the reason of buying expensive equipment if they do the same thing. Well here are a few piks, later I will post a full tank shot because my sister have the camera well I hope you like it.

equipment:
-30g long perfecto tank
-3 power filter-2 $12 walmart filter dont even know teh branf and the aquaclear 30
-odyssea ps75 with gen-x 1500
-odyssea 192w pc

Live stock
-fishes- blue head wrasse, tomato clown, royal gramma and a juvenil parrot that came in some macro algae but it will be removed as soon as posibble and will be returned to the ocean
-corals- lots of zoos, ricordeas, sea fan, encrusting gorgonia, sea -whip brown paly
-inverts- blueleg and redleg hermits, nerite snails, astrea, 4 feather dusters, orange knobby star, caribbean brown linkia, red brittle star, harlequin serpeant star, carpet anemone, condy anemone and waratha anemone
-seagrasses and macro- caulerpa prolifera and mexicana and thallasia.

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[salty3]

That is a very nice looking tank. How do you like the skimmer? How long have you used it?

 

[salty3]

Do you get all your live stock by catching?

 

[20reefer]

salty3- thanks for the comment, well the skimmer works amazing with the stock pump but the impeller broke so I change it for the gen x and I could not be more happier. A skimmer including the new pump for $90 and works like one of $200 , my smile is big lol. No, the only was the parrot but it came as a hithiker but I will go soon to cath some caribbean dwarf wrasses those are amazing; all of my corals and inverts with the exeption of the ricordeas are collected by me.

 

[salty3]

WOW I wish I live close enogh to collect my own. I talk to someone else from puerto rico on another site, they also collect there own and have a amazing looking tank and animals. Good luck and keep up the great work.

 

[Jadams]

nice pics!!! Looks Awesome!

 

[shouldabenacowboy]

Looks good!!

SBC

 

[edwing206]

That tank looks very nice.

 

[20reefer]

Thanks all for the comments I really apreciate it, well full tanks shots coming tomorrow because I will go to the beach to collect some water to do a water change.

 

[RevHtree]

Very Nice!

 

[Slakker]

Your carpet anemone is pretty bleached...I don't think you've got enough light for him to survive long-term. Plus it's not a great idea to have three different anemones in a tank so small. Anemones compete will compete in "chemical warfare" in close quarters, especially those of a different species, and that can be bad for the health of not only the anemones, but of corals and fish as well. Your tank looks gorgeous, but it's not a great situation for the anemones.

 

[20reefer]

Slakker- thanks for the comment but the anemone is not bleached the flash make it look like that the anemone is light cream color with the tentacles lime green and the condy have been in the tank for 8 months it came very small and now is very big. I have been in this hobby for almost 5 years and in that time I have seen lots of bleached anemones and I know mine is healthy but thanks for the advise. I have keep anemones for more than two years alive but I sell it. Maybe I do not have the best lighting but suplementing the diet with meaty items maintain the anemone healthy, I have seen anemones even split under NO fluorecent supplementing their diets and the more important thing water quality; I use ocean water one week and the other prepared salt water.

 

[Slakker]

It certainly doesn't appear to be on death's door, but it looks like it could probably have a healthier population of zooxanthellae. IME anemones should have less translucent coloration than this guy, but he seems to be fully inflated and otherwise healthy.

Also, I think I misread your first post and thought you had said 92w PC rather than 192. Still, a T5 fixture might be something to look into, carpets seem to really enjoy a lot of light.

It's a gorgeous tank though, and I guess it goes to show that you don't really need to spend big bucks on the "top of the line" equipment to have a healthy system.

 

[20reefer]

Thanks Slakker, the anemone have only a week in the tank so it was in the lfs with a very dim light so that affect the health of the anemone but in a few weeks it will be completly ok. When I bought the condy it was really bleached but with trhe lighting abd feeding it recovers in less than a week.

 

[20reefer]

Here a full tank shot and my new fish an harlequin bass. I was thinking in take out the parrot because I was confused and tought it was a rainbow parrot and is a princess so it only grow in home aquariums like 6 inches and the colors are amazing.

Full tank shot

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Harlequin bass

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princess parrot of Julian Sprung caribbean biotope

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