KING OF THE REEF
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Well since my 24 gallon aquapod thread was hijacked I am ogin gto begin my 15 gallon thread. All pictures will be updated regularly. A of right now, I will be posting the pics tomorrow afternon around 4pm est.
OK onto my tank.
This tank is just a basic 15 long but the back has been painted blue. I have a canopy with 150 watts of VHO lighting on it, and 15 watts of t-5 actininc and 2 moonlights. I will be adding another 15watt t-5 within the month (once funds come in again) to better provide for the suplementation. I have a CPR aquafuge running, however, i am using carbon, and a filter pad instead of runnng it as a fuge. I am trying to keep it as low budget as possible.
STOCKING LIST:
Fish:
2 False Perculas
1 green chromis (im adding 2 more next week when i go to the beach to catch them) they are local to me so i might as well catch them.
1 local gobie/blenny, im not sure what he is but will post a pic anyways
1 yellow watchman gobie
Inverts:
20 reef hermits, mixed between blue legs, scarlets, green legs (never had aproblem with them eating corals), and the ones with the large grey claw with tiger stripes on their legs.
1 red fire shrimp, cleans everything i put into the tank, corals, fish, crabs, snails, you name it he cleans it
25 small reef safe snails, mixed species
2 small brittle stars, but the are hundreds more i guess as these came as hitchhickers on the rock)
1 soon to be fighting conch (saturday)
Corals:
Many different zoanthids frags and colonys
Blastomussa welsi and the other kind
a candy cane coral
ricordea yumas
regular mushrooms
dying brain coral (dont know what is wrong with it)
xenia
sinularia leather
toadstool leather
soon to be kenya tree leather (saturday)
Lighting Cycle:
in the morning, the actinics turn on around 7am (half an hour before i get up)
then around 7:30 am the vho's turn on and stay on until about 6pm (4 hours after i get home)
around 9 pm (when i useually go to bed), the actinics go off and the moon lights are the only light going into the tank
ill have pics up tomorrow sometime around 4pmish est so be looking. please only post if have some constructive criticism or wish to ask a question. my other thread or blog was hijack with photos of other peoples tanks, and specs about theirs. this is something iwant ot have going for others to learn and gain insight from, also for me to learn from my mistakes. thanks for looking and look for the pics tmmrw
OK onto my tank.
This tank is just a basic 15 long but the back has been painted blue. I have a canopy with 150 watts of VHO lighting on it, and 15 watts of t-5 actininc and 2 moonlights. I will be adding another 15watt t-5 within the month (once funds come in again) to better provide for the suplementation. I have a CPR aquafuge running, however, i am using carbon, and a filter pad instead of runnng it as a fuge. I am trying to keep it as low budget as possible.
STOCKING LIST:
Fish:
2 False Perculas
1 green chromis (im adding 2 more next week when i go to the beach to catch them) they are local to me so i might as well catch them.
1 local gobie/blenny, im not sure what he is but will post a pic anyways
1 yellow watchman gobie
Inverts:
20 reef hermits, mixed between blue legs, scarlets, green legs (never had aproblem with them eating corals), and the ones with the large grey claw with tiger stripes on their legs.
1 red fire shrimp, cleans everything i put into the tank, corals, fish, crabs, snails, you name it he cleans it
25 small reef safe snails, mixed species
2 small brittle stars, but the are hundreds more i guess as these came as hitchhickers on the rock)
1 soon to be fighting conch (saturday)
Corals:
Many different zoanthids frags and colonys
Blastomussa welsi and the other kind
a candy cane coral
ricordea yumas
regular mushrooms
dying brain coral (dont know what is wrong with it)
xenia
sinularia leather
toadstool leather
soon to be kenya tree leather (saturday)
Lighting Cycle:
in the morning, the actinics turn on around 7am (half an hour before i get up)
then around 7:30 am the vho's turn on and stay on until about 6pm (4 hours after i get home)
around 9 pm (when i useually go to bed), the actinics go off and the moon lights are the only light going into the tank
ill have pics up tomorrow sometime around 4pmish est so be looking. please only post if have some constructive criticism or wish to ask a question. my other thread or blog was hijack with photos of other peoples tanks, and specs about theirs. this is something iwant ot have going for others to learn and gain insight from, also for me to learn from my mistakes. thanks for looking and look for the pics tmmrw
!!! um for your 10 gallon, only keep a few small fish, maybe a gobie, and a pair of true percs, false percs, or a small sixline wraase and a firefish. but nothing more than that. um, i would put small zoos, shrooms, and maybe a few acros in there if you have the lighting for them. good luck
