Bruinbball's 6g JBJ Nano Cube

[bruinbball]

Here's my first attempt at a saltwater tank. I'm learning new things about the hobby on a daily basis thanks to reading all of the posts. Some of my coral were even obtained from a few great members on here.

 

Tank: 6 gallon JBJ Nano Cube with upgraded LED lights and stock pumps

 

Corals: (listed in the order they were added to the tank)

GSP

Plating Hydnophora - Green Tongue Coral

Finger Leather

Pulsing Xenia (melting away)

Purple Mushroom

Orange Mushroom

Orange Zoas (Watermelon zoas?)

Radioactive Green Zoas

Daisy polyps (eaten by something)

Blastos

Galaxea

Pink Zoas (Horizon morphs)

Blue Zoas

Zoas with green center and yellow fringe

Toadstool leather

Hammer coral

Halymenia macroalgae

 

Macroalgae:

Pencil cap (dead)

Flame algae (byrothamnion triquetrum)

 

Inverts:

3 sexy shrimp, CUC (a ton of dwarf ceriths, florida ceriths, nassarius, nerites)

Scarlet hermit

 

Fish:

Ocellaris Clown

 

 

 

A few pics from my camera phone.

 

 

Here is my tank in late Sept or early Oct when it was cycling.

 

Original rock scape when I added my first corals in November

 

I'll add the most recent pic of my tank soon. (includes an Ocellaris Clown and more coral)

[bruinbball]

Here's the tank in late December with the addition of the Ocellaris Clown (and a torch coral that got stung by another coral and died). I need to buy a chisel and do a little rockscaping to improve the appearance. Right now, it just looks like three boulders in the tank.

 

[bruinbball]

My latest change. DIY LED retro in the hood. Will post an updated pic when the corals open up more.

 

Here's a link to the retro:

My DIY LEDs

 

[tennis20]

Did you tone down the flow at all in your tank?

[bruinbball]

Did you tone down the flow at all in your tank?

 

No, but I put in the splitter to divert the flow to different areas. That decreased the flow per outlet but the overall flow should be the same.

[bruinbball]

Lighting at about half strength.

 

[bruinbball]

My new ric frags

 

[banshee]

The rics look good! Are they opening up more for you today? I think it took 3-4 days before mine usually really start to expand. Your tank is making great progress!

[bruinbball]

The rics look good! Are they opening up more for you today? I think it took 3-4 days before mine usually really start to expand. Your tank is making great progress!

 

They're starting to open up more each day. The left two are opening faster, but the rainbow still looks healthy too. Thanks again!

[banshee]

I think the rainbow was smaller overall. I cut them off larger rics so they have a lot of growing ahead of them.

[bruinbball]

Updated tank shot

[bruinbball]

my new purple gorg courtesy of henningero. first pic is fresh out of the shipping box and the second is with the polyps extended

 

 

[acrab78]

Really looks nice! Great progress pictures... The corals are filling in nicely

[bruinbball]

Thanks. Had a minor setback in the last few days, due to a mini-cycle and my hammer coral getting stung, but hopefully everything will return back to normal soon.

[henningero]

The gorg looks great! I'm glad it survived my first attempt at shipping coral! Nice tank!