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NOTE: I CHANGED THE THREAD AND AM GOING TO INCLUDE MY 180 GALLON JOUNRAL ON HERE TOO
Hey all! This is my first post, so I am going to do a little intro before I get into the actual tank specs lol. My name is Kyle, I am currently 15 years old, and have been keeping reef tanks since I was 11. I have been to two of the members only BAR frags swaps and 1 of the mini swaps, and really enjoy it. I haven't really been on the forums though. I want to get more involved with the online community here
------------------------------------------- 28 Gallon Nano Cube ------------------------------------------
A bit of info about my 28 gallon:
I have kept orange spot filefish in it before, and had one going on 8 months (eating frozen foods) until it got some mysterious internal bacterial infection, causing it to "bloat." I later found out it wasn't air, but puss, which was pretty gross. The poor guy didn't make it. At the time he was in a tank with 3 seahorses. The very same day he died, 1 of the seahorses died for reasons I still don't know. I had the tank with just a clown goby, a pygmy perchlet, and 2 seahorses for a few months. Till one day, at the 6th avenue aquarium (Yes I sometimes go there), I found a spotted garden eel. I decided to take the huge risk and bought it, along with a lot of sand. I then piled up sand on one side, and the garden eel proceeded to live there for a few days. I knew this was not going to be enough, so over the next weekend I completely redid the tank, and added a lot more sand (this was while the eel was hiding in his little sand hill). Thankfully, nothing died, and it all went extremely well compared to last tank remodels. The new tank had a 5-6 inch sand bed in the front for the garden eel. A week after this, he still hasn't eaten, and I was worried and digging up everything about these guys I could on the internet. The main problem I had feeding him was the fact that he was so shy, and would hide as soon as I approached the tank. I can't feed him if he's not out lol. 3 days later, he finally starts to pick at some cyclopeeze (with me standing on the other side of the room). A week later, he is readily eating this. Another week, he is accepting mashed up brine and mysis. I was amazed at how well everything turned out. I mean, I impulse bought a garden eel, completely redid the whole tank while he was in it (hiding in his sand mound though lol) and he lived and is now doing great. A few weeks after he started eating, I had been calling around all the stores, and still no one has another garden eel. I finally found some at Aquatic collection. I bought the 2 they had, which were both very small (half the size of my current one) both went in, and the very next day they were out an about, eating. They weren't even all that scared of me. They had both settled in. 3 days later, my mom calls me down and says one of them just swam through the overflow and into the back of the tank. I go back in there and get it to swim back out through the overflow and into the tank. It decided it wanted to into the middle of the tank, where the sand was only 1-2 inches deep. After it burrowed down there, I never saw it again. I think something wasn't right, because they aren't supposed to swim around all that much lol. The remaining one of the 2 new eels did great, and ate like a pig. So now, I had 2 garden eels living together, eating a ton, and doing great. 2 weeks later, I stopped by Aquatic Collection again, and what do you know, they had 3 splended garden eels (first ones were spotted/hass garden eels) I picked up 2, and brought them home. A week later, (and a 5 paragraph essay) and you get to where I am now. Both splendid garden eels have not eaten yet, and are very shy. This is the most recent events of my 28 gallon nano (within a few months)
If you took the time to read that giant block of text, cool! I appreciate it lol. I thought I would give a current list of all my tank's inhabitants.
Fish:
Yellow Clown Goby
Geometric Pygmy Perchlet
2 H. Erectus seahorses
2 spotted garden eels (just as a note, I kind of have a thing for odd fish, weird fish, and "difficult to care for" fish)
2 splendid garden eels ( picture of mine when they first went in https://gyazo.com/2aa827bd48c3dfff1b6f481ddbf1df32 )
May sound like a lot for a small little 28 gallon, but so far everything is ok, and all the fish get along.
Coral:
Green nepthea
green toadstool
green star polyps
green trumpet coral
green rhodactus mushrooms
green clove polyps
Bird of paradise coral
Red montipora cap
pink palythoa (not sure what their name is)
war coral
blue clove polyps
sun coral
Orange-ish acan
Pulsing xenia
photosynthetic gonioporas
Inverts:
Nassarius snails
Red tuxedo urchin
Also I have a red macroalgae for hitching posts for the seahorses in there.
For equipment, the tank is running an eshopps HOB protien skimmer as the main filtration (no sump)
The lights are the 28 gallon intermediate LED's, with some added blue LEDs in there.
Here is a quick 1 minute youtube video of my garden eels feeding, and a quick overview of the tank. I also have a bit of a diatoms problem, if anyone has any suggestions for that feel free. I believe it is from heavy feeding, because I have to feed the seahorses mysis (too big for little garden eel mouths) and mashed up brine/mysis and plankton for the eels. Tell me what you think! All feedback is appreciated!
[youtube]gqQiRaK343s[/youtube]
if that didnt work, click link below
---------------------------------------------- 180 Gallon ---------------------------------------------------
My 180 gallon has been running for almost 3 years now, 1 year less than my 28. Its a mixed reef. I don't have a giant long story about it like my 28 gallon, not as much goes on in it lol.
List of current fish:
2 Bangai cardinal fish
1 firefish
2 ocelarris clown fish
1 blue tang
1 sailfin tang
3 pyramid butterflyfish (100% reef safe, at least IME)
1 flame angelfish
1 mandarin
1 female starry leopard wrasse
1 pintail fairy wrasse
1 exquisite fairy wrasse
1 pink margin fairy wrasse female
1 lubbocks multicolor wrasse
1 wrasse that I forgot the name of, its big, def a fairy wrasse, and looks like a male.
1 yellow clown goby
2 diamondback gobies
1 yellowhead jawfish
list of current coral:
Jack o lantern leptoseris
miami hurricane chalice
golden eye chalice
green trumpet coral
blue trumpet coral
green acropora, not sure what type. The guy at the store didn't even know what this one was lol. I got it a few years ago. picture: https://gyazo.com/f76c1731bf389be1c09f389a08a9645a
green acropora, not sure exactly what, knew the name once not anymore https://gyazo.com/d75b7a509a0e709d6f9a49b36df93a59
green acropora, again not sure what it is. https://gyazo.com/2b2d613c6101ce0b3eae20909b95020d
Red dragon acropora, at least I think, lol. Im not so good with my acros
tricolor acropora
Bird of paradise birdsnest
ponape birdsnest
purple birdsnest
green birdsnest
Golden torch
green torch
Golden Hammer
Green frogspawn
Rasta zoanthids
blue tubbs zoanthids
Radioactive green zoanthids
some red/pink zoanthids, not sure on name
brown-ish zoanthids with red center
green/gray zoanthid rock
War coral
red blasto with green center
Rainbow montipora
sunset montipora
orange montipora digitata
Red montipora cap
green monti cap
german blue montipora digitata
orange setosa
pulsing xenia
blue cyhpastrea with red polyps
Green maze coral
green favia
A lot of different types of mushrooms all over the tank. lol.
inverts:
nassarius snails
2 red tuxedo urchins
1 blue tuxedo urchin
2 longspine urchins
5 RBTA's (started as one, kept on splitting)
trochus snails
sand sifting starfish
youtube video of the tank:
blotched anthias https://gyazo.com/61ede25d53af54883ca562af6ba9c0b5
birdsnests https://gyazo.com/52556f58539b5dfbb17e7d0f8f353932
Hey all! This is my first post, so I am going to do a little intro before I get into the actual tank specs lol. My name is Kyle, I am currently 15 years old, and have been keeping reef tanks since I was 11. I have been to two of the members only BAR frags swaps and 1 of the mini swaps, and really enjoy it. I haven't really been on the forums though. I want to get more involved with the online community here
------------------------------------------- 28 Gallon Nano Cube ------------------------------------------
A bit of info about my 28 gallon:
I have kept orange spot filefish in it before, and had one going on 8 months (eating frozen foods) until it got some mysterious internal bacterial infection, causing it to "bloat." I later found out it wasn't air, but puss, which was pretty gross. The poor guy didn't make it. At the time he was in a tank with 3 seahorses. The very same day he died, 1 of the seahorses died for reasons I still don't know. I had the tank with just a clown goby, a pygmy perchlet, and 2 seahorses for a few months. Till one day, at the 6th avenue aquarium (Yes I sometimes go there), I found a spotted garden eel. I decided to take the huge risk and bought it, along with a lot of sand. I then piled up sand on one side, and the garden eel proceeded to live there for a few days. I knew this was not going to be enough, so over the next weekend I completely redid the tank, and added a lot more sand (this was while the eel was hiding in his little sand hill). Thankfully, nothing died, and it all went extremely well compared to last tank remodels. The new tank had a 5-6 inch sand bed in the front for the garden eel. A week after this, he still hasn't eaten, and I was worried and digging up everything about these guys I could on the internet. The main problem I had feeding him was the fact that he was so shy, and would hide as soon as I approached the tank. I can't feed him if he's not out lol. 3 days later, he finally starts to pick at some cyclopeeze (with me standing on the other side of the room). A week later, he is readily eating this. Another week, he is accepting mashed up brine and mysis. I was amazed at how well everything turned out. I mean, I impulse bought a garden eel, completely redid the whole tank while he was in it (hiding in his sand mound though lol) and he lived and is now doing great. A few weeks after he started eating, I had been calling around all the stores, and still no one has another garden eel. I finally found some at Aquatic collection. I bought the 2 they had, which were both very small (half the size of my current one) both went in, and the very next day they were out an about, eating. They weren't even all that scared of me. They had both settled in. 3 days later, my mom calls me down and says one of them just swam through the overflow and into the back of the tank. I go back in there and get it to swim back out through the overflow and into the tank. It decided it wanted to into the middle of the tank, where the sand was only 1-2 inches deep. After it burrowed down there, I never saw it again. I think something wasn't right, because they aren't supposed to swim around all that much lol. The remaining one of the 2 new eels did great, and ate like a pig. So now, I had 2 garden eels living together, eating a ton, and doing great. 2 weeks later, I stopped by Aquatic Collection again, and what do you know, they had 3 splended garden eels (first ones were spotted/hass garden eels) I picked up 2, and brought them home. A week later, (and a 5 paragraph essay) and you get to where I am now. Both splendid garden eels have not eaten yet, and are very shy. This is the most recent events of my 28 gallon nano (within a few months)
If you took the time to read that giant block of text, cool! I appreciate it lol. I thought I would give a current list of all my tank's inhabitants.
Fish:
Yellow Clown Goby
Geometric Pygmy Perchlet
2 H. Erectus seahorses
2 spotted garden eels (just as a note, I kind of have a thing for odd fish, weird fish, and "difficult to care for" fish)
2 splendid garden eels ( picture of mine when they first went in https://gyazo.com/2aa827bd48c3dfff1b6f481ddbf1df32 )
May sound like a lot for a small little 28 gallon, but so far everything is ok, and all the fish get along.
Coral:
Green nepthea
green toadstool
green star polyps
green trumpet coral
green rhodactus mushrooms
green clove polyps
Bird of paradise coral
Red montipora cap
pink palythoa (not sure what their name is)
war coral
blue clove polyps
sun coral
Orange-ish acan
Pulsing xenia
photosynthetic gonioporas
Inverts:
Nassarius snails
Red tuxedo urchin
Also I have a red macroalgae for hitching posts for the seahorses in there.
For equipment, the tank is running an eshopps HOB protien skimmer as the main filtration (no sump)
The lights are the 28 gallon intermediate LED's, with some added blue LEDs in there.
Here is a quick 1 minute youtube video of my garden eels feeding, and a quick overview of the tank. I also have a bit of a diatoms problem, if anyone has any suggestions for that feel free. I believe it is from heavy feeding, because I have to feed the seahorses mysis (too big for little garden eel mouths) and mashed up brine/mysis and plankton for the eels. Tell me what you think! All feedback is appreciated!
[youtube]gqQiRaK343s[/youtube]
if that didnt work, click link below
---------------------------------------------- 180 Gallon ---------------------------------------------------
My 180 gallon has been running for almost 3 years now, 1 year less than my 28. Its a mixed reef. I don't have a giant long story about it like my 28 gallon, not as much goes on in it lol.
List of current fish:
2 Bangai cardinal fish
1 firefish
2 ocelarris clown fish
1 blue tang
1 sailfin tang
3 pyramid butterflyfish (100% reef safe, at least IME)
1 flame angelfish
1 mandarin
1 female starry leopard wrasse
1 pintail fairy wrasse
1 exquisite fairy wrasse
1 pink margin fairy wrasse female
1 lubbocks multicolor wrasse
1 wrasse that I forgot the name of, its big, def a fairy wrasse, and looks like a male.
1 yellow clown goby
2 diamondback gobies
1 yellowhead jawfish
list of current coral:
Jack o lantern leptoseris
miami hurricane chalice
golden eye chalice
green trumpet coral
blue trumpet coral
green acropora, not sure what type. The guy at the store didn't even know what this one was lol. I got it a few years ago. picture: https://gyazo.com/f76c1731bf389be1c09f389a08a9645a
green acropora, not sure exactly what, knew the name once not anymore https://gyazo.com/d75b7a509a0e709d6f9a49b36df93a59
green acropora, again not sure what it is. https://gyazo.com/2b2d613c6101ce0b3eae20909b95020d
Red dragon acropora, at least I think, lol. Im not so good with my acros
tricolor acropora
Bird of paradise birdsnest
ponape birdsnest
purple birdsnest
green birdsnest
Golden torch
green torch
Golden Hammer
Green frogspawn
Rasta zoanthids
blue tubbs zoanthids
Radioactive green zoanthids
some red/pink zoanthids, not sure on name
brown-ish zoanthids with red center
green/gray zoanthid rock
War coral
red blasto with green center
Rainbow montipora
sunset montipora
orange montipora digitata
Red montipora cap
green monti cap
german blue montipora digitata
orange setosa
pulsing xenia
blue cyhpastrea with red polyps
Green maze coral
green favia
A lot of different types of mushrooms all over the tank. lol.
inverts:
nassarius snails
2 red tuxedo urchins
1 blue tuxedo urchin
2 longspine urchins
5 RBTA's (started as one, kept on splitting)
trochus snails
sand sifting starfish
youtube video of the tank:
birdsnests https://gyazo.com/52556f58539b5dfbb17e7d0f8f353932
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