It all started with my first reef meet at the end of May a month after I've moved to Cape Town.
Needless to say within a week I had bought a second hand plug and play. Filled the tank and I'm ashamed to say tried to move it 1cm, needless to say we had a lovely crack all the way down the back panel.
Luckily I got a great quote from sams aquarium and had the tank filled with water and running again in a week and a half. Got some nice hitchickers from base rock I got from members and sponsors. Hitch hickers included some mushrooms, zoas and starfish.
After a month of dosing with special blend,using rock with lots of stuff on it and waiting a month I finally bought 3 snails and two hermits. Four days ago I got a peppermint shrimp and a pulsing xenia.
Here is my paranoia ,since I've gotten the xenia it hasn't opened up and extended like in the LFS? My mushrooms and zoas look great, I've even got a few small mushooms popping up.
I want the tank to be mainly about shrimps and tiny crabs, all the interesting goggas, and then after about a year hopefully a mandarin.
Corals wise I mainly want mushrooms, one or two leathers, polyps and zoas so nothing fancy at all.
My list of inhabitants to be
Clownfish
Pom pom crab
Banggai Cardinal
Porcelain crab
Purple Firefish
Cleaner Shrimp
Red Firefish
Glass Shrimp
Possum wrasse
Fire Shrimp
Mandarin
Peppermint Shrimp
Scooter blenny
Algae blenny
More details
It's a Juwel 180 with a sump that makes the total volume of around 200l.
1m x 400 x 500
Has a ts1 skimmer
A sunsun 300lph wavemaker
2x 200w heaters
Astro powerhead 1900lph in the sump
Then 2x 39w HO T5s , a blue and a white
And then I think my rock pieces are too big, not liking my scape so if anyone can offer some advice please.
Thinking of breaking the rocks into smaller pieces
Thanks everybody
Will post some pictures soon
Needless to say within a week I had bought a second hand plug and play. Filled the tank and I'm ashamed to say tried to move it 1cm, needless to say we had a lovely crack all the way down the back panel.
Luckily I got a great quote from sams aquarium and had the tank filled with water and running again in a week and a half. Got some nice hitchickers from base rock I got from members and sponsors. Hitch hickers included some mushrooms, zoas and starfish.
After a month of dosing with special blend,using rock with lots of stuff on it and waiting a month I finally bought 3 snails and two hermits. Four days ago I got a peppermint shrimp and a pulsing xenia.
Here is my paranoia ,since I've gotten the xenia it hasn't opened up and extended like in the LFS? My mushrooms and zoas look great, I've even got a few small mushooms popping up.
I want the tank to be mainly about shrimps and tiny crabs, all the interesting goggas, and then after about a year hopefully a mandarin.
Corals wise I mainly want mushrooms, one or two leathers, polyps and zoas so nothing fancy at all.
My list of inhabitants to be
Clownfish
Pom pom crab
Banggai Cardinal
Porcelain crab
Purple Firefish
Cleaner Shrimp
Red Firefish
Glass Shrimp
Possum wrasse
Fire Shrimp
Mandarin
Peppermint Shrimp
Scooter blenny
Algae blenny
More details
It's a Juwel 180 with a sump that makes the total volume of around 200l.
1m x 400 x 500
Has a ts1 skimmer
A sunsun 300lph wavemaker
2x 200w heaters
Astro powerhead 1900lph in the sump
Then 2x 39w HO T5s , a blue and a white
And then I think my rock pieces are too big, not liking my scape so if anyone can offer some advice please.
Thinking of breaking the rocks into smaller pieces
Thanks everybody
Will post some pictures soon
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