Hey guys,
I'm new to the saltwater world and could use some help with my new nano. I just recently bought all the stock of a 6 gal jbj nano which included 15 lbs of live rock, a blasto coral, waving hand coral, the remains of another frag, a couple nassarius snails, a couple hermits, asteria stars, ocellaris clown, and i've noticed a few bristle worms at night.
The plan was to put everything into a 10 gal setup with the 6 gallons of water that was originally in the 6 gal setup in combination with boxed "natural salt water" from the ocean (bought from lfs). The tank was setup and running for 4 years before I bought it and was told this would be safe to do..Whats your opinions on this?
Equipment: standard 10 gal, Coralife dual high output fixture with 10,000k daylight & actinic, Hydor Koralia nano 240 gph, Aqueon 300 gph circ. pump (recently added for +circ.), 50 watt heater, and hob filter rated for 20 gal. running Phosguard and floss.
Day 1: Setup and acclimation went great with no problems. Everyone seemed to be doing fine and all my parameters tested out with no problems.
Just waiting for it to clear up now.
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Day 3: Everything has seemed to clear up and all the stock looks great to the extent of my knowledge. All water parameters are in good range. My friend gave me a small coral so I acclimated it and added it in with the addition of a skunk shrimp. I'm not sure what the coral is though..maybe a member of the agariciidae family? Anyone have any ideas?
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Day 14: The tank seems to be doing just fine at this point. Everything is getting used to their feeding schedules now. I did a 20% water change and tested my parameters and they were all in range.
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Day 18: Today I added 2 new members, a pompom crab and a what I am told is a sebae anemone. I was told my clown and the anemone would not take to each other because they are from different oceans?
It only took a few hours for him to go exploring in it and he loves it. He finally gave the other coral a break.
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Day 21: Tonight I started noticing what I believe to be detritus building up. Its exposing some dead circulations areas that I didn't notice before. I noticed my ammonia jumped up to .2 ppm. I'm going to vaccum and do a 20% water change. I'm not sure if the detritus could be the cause of this or not, any feed back would be appreciated.
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I would just like any comments, opinions, tips, etc. Any feedback/criticism would be appreciated. Also if there is anything i've done wrong or any misleading information that i'm following please let me know, i'm here to learn and try to make the least amount of mistakes in the process. Any help you guys can give me would be great.
I'll keep this updated to document my process.
Thanks everyone!
I'm new to the saltwater world and could use some help with my new nano. I just recently bought all the stock of a 6 gal jbj nano which included 15 lbs of live rock, a blasto coral, waving hand coral, the remains of another frag, a couple nassarius snails, a couple hermits, asteria stars, ocellaris clown, and i've noticed a few bristle worms at night.
The plan was to put everything into a 10 gal setup with the 6 gallons of water that was originally in the 6 gal setup in combination with boxed "natural salt water" from the ocean (bought from lfs). The tank was setup and running for 4 years before I bought it and was told this would be safe to do..Whats your opinions on this?
Equipment: standard 10 gal, Coralife dual high output fixture with 10,000k daylight & actinic, Hydor Koralia nano 240 gph, Aqueon 300 gph circ. pump (recently added for +circ.), 50 watt heater, and hob filter rated for 20 gal. running Phosguard and floss.
Day 1: Setup and acclimation went great with no problems. Everyone seemed to be doing fine and all my parameters tested out with no problems.
Just waiting for it to clear up now.
View attachment 305762
Day 3: Everything has seemed to clear up and all the stock looks great to the extent of my knowledge. All water parameters are in good range. My friend gave me a small coral so I acclimated it and added it in with the addition of a skunk shrimp. I'm not sure what the coral is though..maybe a member of the agariciidae family? Anyone have any ideas?
View attachment 305763
Day 14: The tank seems to be doing just fine at this point. Everything is getting used to their feeding schedules now. I did a 20% water change and tested my parameters and they were all in range.
View attachment 305758
Day 18: Today I added 2 new members, a pompom crab and a what I am told is a sebae anemone. I was told my clown and the anemone would not take to each other because they are from different oceans?
It only took a few hours for him to go exploring in it and he loves it. He finally gave the other coral a break.
View attachment 305760
Day 21: Tonight I started noticing what I believe to be detritus building up. Its exposing some dead circulations areas that I didn't notice before. I noticed my ammonia jumped up to .2 ppm. I'm going to vaccum and do a 20% water change. I'm not sure if the detritus could be the cause of this or not, any feed back would be appreciated.
View attachment 305761
I would just like any comments, opinions, tips, etc. Any feedback/criticism would be appreciated. Also if there is anything i've done wrong or any misleading information that i'm following please let me know, i'm here to learn and try to make the least amount of mistakes in the process. Any help you guys can give me would be great.
I'll keep this updated to document my process.
Thanks everyone!
