steve's 5 gallon nano reef

update - day 16 - Diatoms are on the way out , which is good going IME, I am used to them hanging about a bit longer
snails still with me, as are the Zoanthid frags

1st water change ( sort of) this weekend , Ill take a gallon out and replace with a gallon from main tank during main tanks water change

Ill post some new pics tomorrow, as the new light unit is on and its a lot cleaner in the place now

Steve

 

Congrats on the set up.... looks great Steve!! Now you make me want to set up a small tank in addition to my new 110g ))

 

thank you Pelado, its 10 x smaller than anything I have kept SW before
so another new territory for me, its an enjoyable experience thus far

some new pictures day 17 am light only on for 10 mins or so before taking these images so not everything (including me) fully awake


FTS

the worker , now disguised in natural colour against natural coloured rock, rather than the brown on brown we had last week with the diatoms


small pair of toadstool leather frags from 5ft - not sure how long they will be in here, Ill move them to the 4ft eventually


and at the risk of finding myself in trouble - I fragged without recording Via images , one of my finger leather corals. cocktail stick, rubber band and new piece of flat coral skeleton . been 5 days since I fragged it and its doing very well IMO

Steve

 

Steve the tank is coming along very nicely and looking great. frags are looking healthy and nice . I have been out of town on business all week and expected to come back to a diatom bloom in the pico. Not the first sign of anything. No changes, so im still in limbo . I guess ill still wait awhile longer and see what happens.

 

thank you Yamaharider
this is the fastest they have arrived and receded for me, Im used to having 3 or 4 weeks wait and then the same amount of time for them to go

hopefully yours, if they arrive will also burn out in double quick time

Steve

 

gah i finally got zoanthids today in a trade!!! im finally not alone anymore!!!

 

Looking awesome....

 

Wonderful set up, sounds like it will be great when the zoanthids get multiplying.

 

good for you Gexx Ill be looking for the thread which I hope you started with them on?

thank you baugherb. as long as you dont have any intellectual property worries, as Im borrowing all your ideas.

Thank you 2 in 10 , yes Id really like almost full rock coverage of Zoanthids of different colours, plus the 2 feature corals, and maybe just maybe a small rock island of GSP in the middle of the sand bed, and a few cm from surrounding rocks.

 

Thank you 2 in 10 , yes Id really like almost full rock coverage of Zoanthids of different colours, plus the 2 feature corals, and maybe just maybe a small rock island of GSP in the middle of the sand bed, and a few cm from surrounding rocks.[/QUOTE]


That sounds real good.