DCHarrington Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Hello everyone! I'm excited to finally post my very own tank thread! After lurking/reading for many months, I finally have a tank up and running. This is my first experience setting up a tank but so far it has been a lot of fun and I have had more successes than failures. I have learned that salt water tanks are like tattoos… you can’t have just one. I am already planning to set up a 120 tank once I get through with my 29. Any comments, advice, and/or constructive criticism is welcome. Below are the details of my setup. Tank: Coralife BioCube 29 BioCube Stand 20lbs of Sand 18lbs Dry Rock 12lbs Cured Fiji Live Rock from LFS Cluster of Barnacles Equipment: Stock Return Pump Stock Lights Cobalt Aquatics Neo-Therm Heater 100W Hydor Koralia Nano 565 Power Head Tunze Nano Osmolator 3152 ATO InTank Media Basket w/ Filter Floss, Purigen and Chemi-Pure Elite InTank Fuge Basket w/ Chaetomorpha and a DIY Hang on the back fuge light Fish: 3 x Barnacle Blennies RIP 3/9, 10 & 11/2015 Ocellaris Clownfish RIP 3/31/2015 Picasso Clownfish Coral: Purple Tip Frogspawn Duncan Yellow Polyps Brown Star Polyps Green Star Polyps Radioactive Dragon Eyes Zoanthid Colony Purple Passion Zoanthid Colony Purple Protopalythoa sp. Orange Zoanthid Colony Pulsating Xenia Green Helmet Fungia Plate Invertebrates: 1 x Emerald Crab 2 x Scarlet Reef Hermit Crab 2 x Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab 1 x Blood Red Fire Shrimp 1 x Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp 1 x Brittle Starfish 4 x Spiny Star Astraea Snails 3 x Nerite Snails 3 x Cerith Snails 1 x Dwarf Colored Feather Duster 1 x Giant Feather Duster Day 1 1/28/2015 FTS 1/29/2015 FTS 2/4/2015 FTS 2/14/2015 FTS 2/20/2015 FTS 2/21/2015 FTS 3/15/15 FTS 3/22/2015 FTS 3/29/2015 Link to comment
DCHarrington Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 My First Invertebrates 2 Scarlet Reef Hermit Crabs 2/7/2015 Scarlet Reef Hermit Crab First molt 2/25/2015 My First Fish 3 Barnacle Blennies 2/20/2015 RIP My first Coral Purple tip Frogspawn 2/14/2015 Giant Feather Duster 2/28/2015 Duncan Coral 3/15/2015 Radioactive Dragon Eyes Zoanthid Colony 3/17/15 Link to comment
Greshman Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Great pictures! I'm in the process of setting up my first BC29. You've got some nice looking corals. The Zoa's look fantastic. What type of camera are you using to take those pictures? By the way, sweet look with the aquascape. Those petrified clam shells are great. Another quick question: how do you have your ATO system configured? Is the sensor in chamber 3? What did you use as a reservoir? Link to comment
DCHarrington Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Thank you Greshman, I'm Just using my smartphone a MOTO X for the pictures. Yes the sensor and the return are in chamber 3 And I just used one of the water canisters I perched at my local fish store I drilled two small holes in the back of the handle for the power to the pump and the return hose Link to comment
DCHarrington Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Some new addition from the weekend Green Helmet Fungia Plate 3/28/2015 New Duncan 3/28/2015 Picasso Clownfish 3/28/2015 Ocellaris Clownfish 3/28/2015 FTS 3/29/2015 Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Beautiful clowns!!! Sorry to hear about your blennies Link to comment
DCHarrington Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Thank you Stellablue, Wow I really like your clowns!! Have they tried to host anything yet? I think my Ocellaris is start to host my new Duncan Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Wow, how cool! Nope, my guys haven't tried to host anything other than the glass thermometer in the back of the tank! Great photos! Link to comment
DCHarrington Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 That’s all he does now he just swims back and forth rubbing his face and body on the Duncan Link to comment
DCHarrington Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Yellow Polyps 3/31/2015 Orange Zoanthid Colony & Pulsing Xenia 3/31/2015 Purple Zoanthid Colony 3/31/2015 Link to comment
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