Hi Guys, I set up a 12 gallon nano cube a month ago, I've kept salt tanks in the 60-80's, things were different back then, when I started you had to mix your own sea salts!
I won this nano tank in Raleigh at their workshop, a couple of the salt vendors gave me some Frags and salt, I set this tank up after the long drive back to Georgia, Went to the store the next day and got some well cured live rock. I really expected every thing to die, we'll other than a soft coral melting on day one this thing has thrived except a few of the bright colored zoas. It went throught the brown algae stage early on, then a little red slime, now I have some filamentous green and some red macros algae staring to grow, purple coraline is really spreading on the live rock, even rocks that were white in the beginning. I have 2 sps, 2 lps, 2 leathers, 5 small zoas colonies, mushrooms and a clown, 20 lbs live rock, copapods are multiplying like crazy. Lighting is CF 1000K and dual actinic, it's bright, standard flitration with overflow in the back, (sponge, carbon, matrix, bio balls and return with power head). Lots of flow in this tank. Now the hard and soft corals have visably grown alot, mushrooms are multiplying, one live rock that had a few green and brown zoas on it is now covered but the bright little zoes frags that I orginally got with the tank are all alive, but each colony has a few that just never open any more, They may show a little color at the tip, a few rays stick out, but they never expand like the rest of the colony, they all did for a month, but just this week they stopped opening, some are in a lot of current, others are in the slack behind the returns, all get very bright light. I change 30% of the water a week, sg is 1.022, and I add some calcium once a week into the sump. I feed the clown, but that's it for food. Suggestions? Ken
I won this nano tank in Raleigh at their workshop, a couple of the salt vendors gave me some Frags and salt, I set this tank up after the long drive back to Georgia, Went to the store the next day and got some well cured live rock. I really expected every thing to die, we'll other than a soft coral melting on day one this thing has thrived except a few of the bright colored zoas. It went throught the brown algae stage early on, then a little red slime, now I have some filamentous green and some red macros algae staring to grow, purple coraline is really spreading on the live rock, even rocks that were white in the beginning. I have 2 sps, 2 lps, 2 leathers, 5 small zoas colonies, mushrooms and a clown, 20 lbs live rock, copapods are multiplying like crazy. Lighting is CF 1000K and dual actinic, it's bright, standard flitration with overflow in the back, (sponge, carbon, matrix, bio balls and return with power head). Lots of flow in this tank. Now the hard and soft corals have visably grown alot, mushrooms are multiplying, one live rock that had a few green and brown zoas on it is now covered but the bright little zoes frags that I orginally got with the tank are all alive, but each colony has a few that just never open any more, They may show a little color at the tip, a few rays stick out, but they never expand like the rest of the colony, they all did for a month, but just this week they stopped opening, some are in a lot of current, others are in the slack behind the returns, all get very bright light. I change 30% of the water a week, sg is 1.022, and I add some calcium once a week into the sump. I feed the clown, but that's it for food. Suggestions? Ken
