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I keep it clean by keeping my bioload very low. I stick to interesting inverts--fish will put you on the fast track to algae kingdom. I have a candy striped shrimp, porcelain crab, 3 ceriths and about 6 hermits.

 

Most of what I clean is by the base of the sandbed on the glass, and copepods all over my glass.

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very nice build. Great looking tank so far. I like the porcelain crabs as well. but with all your maxis you should totally get some sexy shrimp. i got a pair and they right away took to hosting my maxi.

 

also i think the surface skimmer is an eyesore. your lily pipes looked pretty slick. i used to get a bunch of surface scum and ran the paper towel every morning for some time. but i found (in my case) that good water movement near the surface resolved that problem. haven't had surface scum for weeks.

 

i find having just coral in the tank a bit boring. i like to see a few fish in there interacting with the environment. algae hasn't really been an issue.

 

i like what you did with the lights. i ordered and then cancelled on the AI nanos partly because i didn't think i could come up with something like you did. the mount it comes with was a deal breaker.

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I don't mind the surface skimmer coz I had good surface agitation--still had surface scum. I prefer having no surface scum so it doesn't bother me in the least bit. Plus, the overflow is going to be where my ATO return will be located.

 

I also had sexy shrimp and I don't like them, I don't like feeding my tank so I prefer to keep things out of there that require feedings. I give my candy striped shrimp and porcelain a piece of small freeze dried krill each one a week and that's it. Sexies will pick on corals if they don't get regular feedings and with a low bioload I don't even have to clean my glass, just a matter of preference. I've had tanks with fishes and more bioload, I've gotten that out of my system. Plus, I have 5+ Maxi Mini anemones...which are small-fish death traps...

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I go back and forth on fish/no fish in a nano. I have had sexy shrimp and yes they do go after corals. The big one kept eating the tips of the torch...they had to go. Plus IMO SS are boring. I do love anemone shrimps. They are one of the most interesting inverts out there. Sadly it had to go as well. Was great for a larder nem but would irritate the minis to the point that they would stay closed all the time.

 

I think, for the new setup, I will start with coral/invert only. After saving I'll add a pair of premium snowflake clowns and 1 other. Maybe small goby.

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fish will put you on the fast track to algae kingdom.

 

This is so true! I've been feeding my tank more to accomodate the GBGs and I can see faster growth with my algae.

 

I love sexy shrimp. But unless you feed them regularly, they are best left to a maxi mini/mini mini pico, only. Something I'd love to do at some point.

 

That St. Thomas red mushroom is gorgeous! I'm looking forward to watching it mature in your tank :)

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The best part about having a small tank = using my countertop water distiller for top offs 1 gallon at a time. Yayuh.

That's great! I can only get my TDS down to 20 with my under-the-sink RO system. No DI on it. How's the red St. Thomas shroom doing?

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Moved it, looked like it wanted to move so I moved it off to the side with less light. Seems to be staying there so far but not completely yet still...part of its foot still isn't mounted so I think it's still trying to figure out if it likes it there or not :).

It's also colored up quite nicely.
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My sympodium however is being weird--ever since I got it, I noticed that some polyps were brown. Now the blue polyps doesn't open as much...but I think the blue polyps tend to open at night (???) more often than not. Not too sure what's going on with them, I'm just lettin' em roll how they roll.

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So now that I've watched my sympodium a bit more...the brown polyps have grown out to be more noticeable. They look like clove polyps...and they've successfully slowly started to suffocate my sympodium.

I fragged them off the rock (leaving the rock out to dry) and placed the sympodiums on a plug--hope they make it and hope I got those pesky clove polyps off of them. They are still angry:
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The Pink Nebulas have taken off...I recently fragged these last month too and gave some to a friend.

THEN
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NOW (their base has colored up a bit more nicely)
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No I don't feed the tank really Sometimes I'll put in a drop of Oyster Feast but that's about it...and I give my pistol shrimp a small piece of freeze dried krill to take away to his lair.

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Oh yes the lair. I remember it well. Damn thing would hoard loose corals and I'd get a quick nitrate spike when they would die. 3 ricordia and some zoas lost their lives. Maybe they were against the 1st amendment.

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Rock's dry as all hell after staying out for 2 days--you think those clove polyps are still alive? Everything's crusty on it...including the coralline that was once there. It's only a small nub of a rock...?

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Nice tank, btw how many gallons is the ada-60? :D

 

Thanks, roughly 8 gallons I believe.

 

 

St. Thomas looking great!

 

He has stayed put too but I noticed when it was curled up and sleeping today that he had a little nip on its side. Not sure if he's sick or if a hermit injured him....looks fine though.

 

Got a package in the mail today...my two beauties came on a rock--was a very quick removal and put them in conch shells. The blue's a beauty, it's a fluorescent blue and the hot pink one's still rolling in his shell trying to figure out which side's up:

 

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Can anyone ID this for me--no idea what it is...very small, few millimeters, yellow, looks like a slug with a small feather like crown and doesn't seem to move much at all:

 

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