December Tank Spotlight #7 is Chromis
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Chromis
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Thanks for the spotlight this month, and the many pearls of wisdom and humor I’ve enjoyed since becoming a BAR member two years ago.
Tank: 90g Red Sea Reefer 450, 60”Lx20”Wx22”H. Setup April 2018.
Lights: Two Kessil AP700 and two 48” T5 bulbs.
Filtration: Pukani rock, chaeto and a Skimz skimmer.
Clean-up crew:
-Trochus snails - about ten total. Not counting the zillion baby trochus snails.
-Emerald crabs: great for eating leftover fish food and algae in cracks that snails can’t reach. Also spawns frequently, which provides really great food for everything in the reef. Fear of a million baby crabs running all over my reef is one of the reasons why I use filter socks.
-One really big sea cucumber - this hitch-hiked in and I’m starting to worry it’s a ticking time bomb. I mean how long can they live? Without finding their way into an impeller? But the curious part of me has left it alone for 4 years...
-Scarlett leg and blue leg hermits (4 total) - because my husband likes them.
-Red tuxedo urchin.
-Lots of asterina starfish (as you can see), lots of nice tiny brittle stars, encrusting sponges, and a few bristle worms.
Fish:
yellow tang
2 oscillaris
six-line wrasse
firefish
6 chromises
Tank: 90g Red Sea Reefer 450, 60”Lx20”Wx22”H. Setup April 2018.
Lights: Two Kessil AP700 and two 48” T5 bulbs.
Filtration: Pukani rock, chaeto and a Skimz skimmer.
Clean-up crew:
-Trochus snails - about ten total. Not counting the zillion baby trochus snails.
-Emerald crabs: great for eating leftover fish food and algae in cracks that snails can’t reach. Also spawns frequently, which provides really great food for everything in the reef. Fear of a million baby crabs running all over my reef is one of the reasons why I use filter socks.
-One really big sea cucumber - this hitch-hiked in and I’m starting to worry it’s a ticking time bomb. I mean how long can they live? Without finding their way into an impeller? But the curious part of me has left it alone for 4 years...
-Scarlett leg and blue leg hermits (4 total) - because my husband likes them.
-Red tuxedo urchin.
-Lots of asterina starfish (as you can see), lots of nice tiny brittle stars, encrusting sponges, and a few bristle worms.
Fish:
yellow tang
2 oscillaris
six-line wrasse
firefish
6 chromises
Coral reefer
Past President
Still need to see this one sometime in person. Looks great!
They still have the restraining order against you?
Coral reefer
Past President
Those expire?
Oh! I forgot. You were convicted.
sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
Nice tank, btw do I see a micro frag experiment running in the bottom left corner of the first pic? (some encrusting monti I'm guessing, it's a little small for me to tell)
Chromis
Supporting Member
Yea, what happened was I had an encrusting monti that grew all over the rubble, and turns out to be difficult to frag with CaRx media embedded in the encrustment
so I sliced it up and spread it over tiles to make it easier to cut into nice frags.
Coral reefer
Past President
So when are you upgrading? Gonna be doing a lot of pruning and or rescaling in another 6months to a year the way everything looks to be growing!
Chromis
Supporting Member
My clownfish do too! Since I removed most stingy-things (anemones included) all they get is frogspawn coral. I added a couple octospawn but it’s not doing as well. Not sure what the trick is for octospawn.
