Endevor
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Attached are pictures (Sorry for some of the poor quality) of my current tank.
It's currently stable and all my levels seem pretty good. I check them almost every day mostly because I know I'm right at or have exceeded my bioload.
Fish:
Yellow finned blue damsel
2x ocellaris clownfish
Six-Line Wrasse
Lawnmower Blenney
Scooter Blenney
Emerald Crab
Sally Crab
couple margarita snails
couple red/blue legged crabs
Everyone's getting along and have selected their spots in the tanks, but the damsel is starting to get aggressive toward the clowns even though he's smaller. I'm leaning to returning him, in fact as I type, I'm deciding to do so tonight, so pretend he's not there anymore.
My next concern would be the lawnmower blenney. He's roughly 2.5in right now and I know they will grow to be 5, so I may end up having to sell him when he get's bigger. Until then, he can eat the algae growing on my top LR. It also appears a curly-que anemone has hitchhiked on the LR I bought recently. I don't know how long he'll last considering I really don't have adequate lighting, but that's not too major of an issue.
Next step I have is to construct a refugium underneath to ease the bioload a bit as well as add natural foods like cylop-eeze. Add some live argonite, LR, and some Cheato and Razor. Also get some proper powerheads for better current flow. It would also allow for me to move my filtration system downstairs so there's not a huge skimmer hanging off the front of my tank.
Step after that would be a RapidLED lighting system with an arduino controller so I can program some cool effects like sunsets/sunrises as well as prepare for coral.
All in all, it's doing very good despite all the negative talk I got when I started wanting to build a nano-marine tank from other fish owners =D
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly welcomed! Thanks to those who have assisted in any previous questions I had!
It's currently stable and all my levels seem pretty good. I check them almost every day mostly because I know I'm right at or have exceeded my bioload.
Fish:
Yellow finned blue damsel
2x ocellaris clownfish
Six-Line Wrasse
Lawnmower Blenney
Scooter Blenney
Emerald Crab
Sally Crab
couple margarita snails
couple red/blue legged crabs
Everyone's getting along and have selected their spots in the tanks, but the damsel is starting to get aggressive toward the clowns even though he's smaller. I'm leaning to returning him, in fact as I type, I'm deciding to do so tonight, so pretend he's not there anymore.
My next concern would be the lawnmower blenney. He's roughly 2.5in right now and I know they will grow to be 5, so I may end up having to sell him when he get's bigger. Until then, he can eat the algae growing on my top LR. It also appears a curly-que anemone has hitchhiked on the LR I bought recently. I don't know how long he'll last considering I really don't have adequate lighting, but that's not too major of an issue.
Next step I have is to construct a refugium underneath to ease the bioload a bit as well as add natural foods like cylop-eeze. Add some live argonite, LR, and some Cheato and Razor. Also get some proper powerheads for better current flow. It would also allow for me to move my filtration system downstairs so there's not a huge skimmer hanging off the front of my tank.
Step after that would be a RapidLED lighting system with an arduino controller so I can program some cool effects like sunsets/sunrises as well as prepare for coral.
All in all, it's doing very good despite all the negative talk I got when I started wanting to build a nano-marine tank from other fish owners =D
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly welcomed! Thanks to those who have assisted in any previous questions I had!
