New 24g Aquapod Starting Up

[MaryBebo]

Mary, are you getting the standard 72w PC lighting, or going with the 70w Metal Halide?

Rj , I am just getting the 72w PC lighting. There is a thread here in the nano cube about a man that has had wonderful success with the reg lighting. So this is the way I am going for now. So far I have spent about 327.00 shipping and all. and I think I will see how things go.

 

[rjwilson37]

I am planning on doing a 3-5g water change once a week, or maybe every week if it permits. I fed the Eel heavy in the 90g, to keep him from wanting to eat other inhabitants. I am going to feed him lightly in this setup and he will get use to it I am sure. I am thinking he was fed a lot and wanted a lot in the 90g, where here he will be fed a little and only want a little.

I was told a while back ago, to just feed him twice a week, that is all they need. I have also heard about them eating everything in the tank, which is why I fed mine regularly to keep him a nice little mixed reef inhabitant. Since this Nano is pretty much specifically for him, he should do fine with fewer feedings I am thinking.

 

[rjwilson37]

Ok, got my fish today and they are swimming about very happily. The Purple Pseudochromis is like any other one that darts in and out of the rock work and not out in the open much. You can see the Blue Velvet and Domino here in this picture, as well as a few zoanthids and a kenya tree. I put 8 small hermit crabs (4 red leg & 4 blue leg) in the tank to eat any extra food that is not eaten and do some cleanup on the LR and such.

I have the stock pump 290gph and the MJ900 230gph, this gives me 520gph pushing over 21 times my water volume for movement which is not to bad.

Are those two little buggers cute or what!

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Looks great RJ!!!

 

[rjwilson37]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6713588#post6713588 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AEALOVESHERGIRLS
Looks great RJ!!!

Thanks Amanda!

Here is a closer pic of them cropped from that picture. You can also see in this picture how damaged the Zoa's are from my Dori in the 90g, of which I hope they recover nicely.

 

[gwrulzmylife]

now how large will these get?

 

[Flipturn88]

Wow RJ! I'm impressed! :thumbsup: I bet your baby is glad to be home again!

I always think it's a good idea to have two reefs, if only for the purpose of having a "backup" tank in case something goes wrong with the other. You can also frag of all your zoas (and any other corals that can handle the PC light) and put them in this new tank just as a just-in-case measure...I must admit, I'm a little too good at finding excuses for setting up more and more tanks...


Since we are dealing with "aggressive nanos," here is the latest addition to my 25g nano:

An Octopus!

Here's the tank...kinda eerie looking, wouldn't you agree? He certainly needs a well-sealed lid as well.

The octopus' only tankmate is a brittle star; most other fish/crustaceans/mollusks would be lunch--he's already eaten 15 ghost shrimp!

 

[rjwilson37]

Very Cool Kayla, can he sting or bite you or anything like that.

 

[rjwilson37]

Here is a picture where you can see all fish, except the Eel who comes out mostly in the evening and at night in the moonlight.

 

[rjwilson37]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6716380#post6716380 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gwrulzmylife
now how large will these get?

If you mean the Snowflake Eel, he is 18" now and will get around 2 feet full grown.

 

[Flipturn88]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6716836#post6716836 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rjwilson37
Very Cool Kayla, can he sting or bite you or anything like that.

Octopi do have beaks, but they aren't prone to biting humans; they are very timid creatures. Although they can't "sting," they can eject an ink cloud that will pollute the tank, and some produce a neurotoxin in their saliva that is very potent, such as the Blue Ring, whose poison can be lethal to humans.

Also, I noticed you have a pretty thick sandbed. Do you plan to siphon the substrate when doing water changes? I would highly recommend it, but that's JMHO.

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

KAYLA!!! WOW!! HOLY MOLY!!!!! I can't believe you gaot an octopus. What are you going to feed it, what else is in the tank?

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

KAYLA!!! WOW!! HOLY MOLY!!!!! I can't believe you gaot an octopus. What are you going to feed it, what else is in the tank?

 

[Flipturn88]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6717532#post6717532 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AEALOVESHERGIRLS
KAYLA!!! WOW!! HOLY MOLY!!!!! I can't believe you gaot an octopus. What are you going to feed it, what else is in the tank?

Nothing else is in the tank, other than a brittle star. It's eating ghost shrimp and silversides.

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Kayla, I think it's cool, but they are kinda like having a parrot right. Aren't they super intellegent? Don't you need to stimulate them so they don't get bored? You should give him like a bottle with food hidden in it or something for him to do.

 

[vanmo92]

kool

 

[rjwilson37]

The bottles are childs play for them, they can open them pretty easily from what I have read and heard, but definately a cool experiment.

 

[rjwilson37]

The fish I purchased are so small in the Nano, it is hard to believe they can survive and do well away from there mommie's.

I got my Diatom algae yesterday, so I picked up 6 snails today... 4 Trochus and 2 turbo's. I did a 2 hour acclimation and they all seem to be doing well, the turbo's took right off and got to work.

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

WOW rj, 2 hour acclimation for some snails?????????

 

[rjwilson37]

My PH in the Nano is only like 8.0, and I know they don't like differences in PH especially from what I have been told. I just did a long acclimation because I need them to be healthy and working on my diatoms.