Tank Journal Archive

[ethana123]

alright well on thursday 4/4/13 i bought a pre existing nano that had an anemone for $200 they claimed they spent $3500 on it which must have been on livestock they killer otherwise they got ripped. its a 40cm nano cube with an 80mm back compartment running the width of the tank that has bio balls sponge and a return pump. after slowly changing 70 litres and rinsing the sponges a lot i got the nitrates down to about 10ppm i had to remove around 2 inches of sand as they had a sand bed that was around 3 inches deep. it has no skimmer because when they bought it the pet shop told them that anemones like dirty water so i will have a new skimmer in a couple of weeks. they only had two t8 bulbs over the tank so i have replaced that with one of the reef secret nano lights i had that wasn't being used and i will slowly be changing the bio balls to rock rubble i am planning to change the first sponge section to a little macro area and will change the sponge around the return pump to a light mesh, change the sand from the normal white sand to the black sand and i will be getting an ato a chiller and maybe a better light a little bit further down the line


fts from the front

a top down shot

right hand side with the torch i put in yesterday

a close up of the anemone it seems a lot happier under the new light but i don't know anything about anemones lol

 

[Noro]

That's a good looking BTA, hopefully it doesn't stay wedged in there forever.

What skimmer are you planning to use for the back compartment? Maybe a Tunze 9002 might fit?

 

[ethana123]

i had a look before and the nem has started to move a little so it will be interesting to see where he ends up ... instead of getting one that would fit in the back i thought it would be easier to get a hang on back skimmer so i decided on an octopus module 400 which is rated up to 350 litres

 

[ethana123]

soo after putting the anemone into my 3ft than giving the nem away a couple weeks after because i dont believe it was doing to well in my tank. so i decided to restart this tank. i pulled everything out, cleaned the whole tank, got rid of the sand and threw out the bio-balls and foam than pulled the back compartment out (i'm still deciding if i will leave it out or not) anyway i got some live rock delivered yesterday from reefsecrets yesterday and i have it sitting in the tank with a dodgy filter for water circulation and a heater. the plan is to get a better heater and an mp10 and maybe a new light and to do a proper scape tomorrow

 

[ethana123]

okay so here is the scape that i settled on i plan on changing sides for the pillars and the flat rock at the front i'm going to have as a zoa rock

 

[reeftank]

hey nice setup youve got there

 

[ethana123]

hey nice setup youve got there

Thanks i would have liked to build the rocks up a bot higher but oh well ... Also I had a little hitch hiker I think it might be a Nem at first I thought it was a ric or something but it attaches within like 10 seconds of touching anything anyway I put it in my 3 foot tank so it doesnt die

 

[leodb89]

does it detach and attach itself places? does it look to have a mouth? is it sticky to touch?

to me it doesnt look like a nem looks like a ric to me

 

[ethana123]

it was floating round in my nano so i scooped it with my hand and within about 5 seconds it had sorta attached to my hand but since it attached to the frag plug it hasn't moved but i remember noticing it when i bought the live rock a week ago but than it disappeared thats why i scooped it up to see what it was lol but if its a ric i've never seen one as bright green as it

 

[chimaera]

My guess is Majano Anemone, which I think are kinda cool but most people kill like aiptasia as they spread easily and sting.

 

[ethana123]

yep that looks like it lol i never even thought of that! didn't realise they were that pretty lol

 

[ethana123]

okay so here is the scape the plan is #1 will have these gold and red zoas #2 will either be a nice piece of green sinularia or some rics #3 will be the orangey yellow zoas (eagle eyes i think ?) #4 will be rhodactis #5 will be the green zoas than for the rest of the scape i don't know and i will either go bare bottom and grow star polyps on the bottom or put black sand in. the photos attached are of corals that are going in

 

[chimaera]

Nice bonsai scape ;)

Are you keeping the rock behind it too? Would look awesome without it I think .,. just the bonsai structure.

 

[ethana123]

yeah there are a few rocks up the back that are left over lol was just to lazy to pull the rocks out last night will do that sooner or later haha

 

[ethana123]

okay so its been cycling for 5 and a half weeks than i put some sand in on monday and all tests have been good so i put some corals in yesterday and today will be changing the water every couple days for a while just in case .. i really like the look of the sand

 

[chimaera]

Nice scape! Once those zip ties are covered and those rics grow full size, will look great :D

 

[ethana123]

yeah i cut a couple of the loos zip ties off that were on there just for peace of mind for when i was moving the rocks around now i just need a proper wave maker a skimmer that will fit in the back or a hob skimmer and maybe a filter with floss or carbon in the back compartments

 

[holly]

I feel like you purchased a 'renovators dream' (dream? nightmare?) tank, good on you for accepting the challenge! Looks great :)

 

[ethana123]

haha yeah wasn't quite what i expected but its starting to take shape ... does anyone know what this is ? i have two growing out of/just underneath a sarcophyton i bought a couple weeks ago

 

[ethana123]

okay think it might be a dendronephthya ?