Jonathan’s 32 fluval fun

[Jwylie2125]

Super excited to come across this group!

I grew up with a 50 gallon FOWLR, and dreamed of the day of owning my own tank. After months of debating and lease guidelines I ended up purchasing a 32.5 fluval flex aquarium. My tank has been up and running since the end January. Being in quarantine/wfh has given me a chance to keep a close eye my tank and ensure it’s health. My tank currently consists of:

Coral:
Purple pulsing Xenia
Red Mushroom
Frogspawn torch
ricordea
Zoas: Sonic Flare, Twizzler, Rastas, Bam Bams, and whamming watermelons
Pink Goni
2 flower anemones
Kenya tree
1 Duncan, started with one head - at 4 now
Acan
Green/yellow tip clove polyps

Fish and CUC:
2 Scarlet skunk Shrimps
2 Snowflake clowns
Algae blenny aka gramps
5 Nassarius snails
5 turbo snails
1 6 line wrasse
Stripe goby and Red Pistol shrimp
Emerald crab


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[evannn]

Welcome! Definitely like your stocking list! Share some photos!!

 

[Jwylie2125]

Forgot to mention I have A hammer torch, and some GSP growing on the back wall.


I’ve been debating getting a lens to do some justice to my tank but I’ll post what I have so far!

Does anyone else have a emerald crab that sleeps between your torches?!

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[Jwylie2125]

My hammer and frogspawn


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[evannn]

Looks good! Definitely get a camera filter!


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[Srt4eric]

Forgot to mention I have A hammer torch, and some GSP growing on the back wall.


I’ve been debating getting a lens to do some justice to my tank but I’ll post what I have so far!

Does anyone else have a emerald crab that sleeps between your torches?!

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I had an emerald crab that ate a bunch of my zoas... had is the key word.

 

[Srt4eric]

And welcome!!!

 

[Wlachnit]

Looks like a great first start...and welcome to BAR!

 

[Coral reefer]

Welcome. Just so you know, hammers, frogspawns, and torches are all different corals.

 

[Jwylie2125]

Welcome. Just so you know, hammers, frogspawns, and torches are all different corals.

Good call out! What I get for typing well past my bed time. No torches in the tank atm!


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[Jwylie2125]

Super excited to come across this group!

I grew up with a 50 gallon FOWLR, and dreamed of the day of owning my own tank. After months of debating and lease guidelines I ended up purchasing a 32.5 fluval flex aquarium. My tank has been up and running since the end January. Being in quarantine/wfh has given me a chance to keep a close eye my tank and ensure it’s health. My tank currently consists of:

Coral:
Purple pulsing Xenia
Red Mushroom
Frogspawn and hammer
ricordea
Zoas: Sonic Flare, Twizzler, Rastas, Bam Bams, and whamming watermelons
Pink Goni
2 flower anemones
Kenya tree
Duncan, started with one head now growing three more
Acan
Green/yellow tip clove polyps

Fish and CUC:
2 Scarlet skunk Shrimps
2 Snowflake clowns
Algae blenny aka gramps
5 Nassarius snails
5 turbo snails
1 6 line wrasse
Stripe goby and Red Pistol shrimp
Emerald crab


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[evannn]

How are the stock lights working for you?

 

[BleepBloopMunchMunch]

Looks good! I always liked the look of the Flex, I have a 15 gallon one that's currently got freshwater shrimp but saw they had expanded the line to these bigger ones too. Definitely a cool tank, stoked to see this one grow

 

[Jwylie2125]

How are the stock lights working for you?

So far the stock lights have been great, they seem to satisfy all my coral! As well as the free app they use is super simple.

 

[Jwylie2125]

Looks good! I always liked the look of the Flex, I have a 15 gallon one that's currently got freshwater shrimp but saw they had expanded the line to these bigger ones too. Definitely a cool tank, stoked to see this one grow

I have debated starting a super similar set up, what has your experience been?

 

[BleepBloopMunchMunch]

I have debated starting a super similar set up, what has your experience been?

With freshwater shrimp?

 

[Jwylie2125]

With freshwater shrimp?

Yeah I was looking into/debating a freshwater nano, dedicated to shrimp alone.

 

[BleepBloopMunchMunch]

I can definitely recommend it, my shrimp tank is the lowest maintenance tank I own, I don't do anything to it except top it off rarely, drop an algae wafer in maybe 1x-2x a week, and about once a month add some minerals. I just have red cherry shrimp, started with 10 ended up with more than I could count, happy to give you some if you start a tank. I will say in my experience they do best in a tank that has been running for about 6 months and then dropping the shrimp in. I forget where but I heard someone describe shrimp as needing a "seasoned" aquarium and that seems to ring true. But yeah welcome to have some and try it out.

 

[Jwylie2125]

Added some new coral to the tank, and did some rearranging. A few more zoa and I think I am done..... My back wall GSP decided to take a 2 week vacation and is finally opening up again.

Starting to see some coralline algae really take hold. Everyone in the tank is looking happy and healthy!