Dueling nanos.

[spazizz]

2/21/2020

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First tank is 20g. It’s all lps and soft coral. Both tanks are meant to be ULM. 

Fish stock-

True percula 

Five Two green banded gobies

Green dragonette

Orange molly

 

Corals-

ORA Neon green sinularia 

Duncans

Purple tip hammer

Splatter Yellow green hammer

Gold hammer 

Green hammer

Pink and purple frogspawn 

Green marbled tip frogspawn 

Rainbow red lords

Blue rim lords 

Green and purple Micromussa Amakusensis

Green pipe/star polyps

Blue anthelia?

Green polyp toadstool

Green devils hand leather

Pink devils hand leather

Rainbow gold cristata 

Red/blue white/yellow Lobopyhillia

Neon green nephthea 

Zoas

 

 

 

 

Cristata- lost some color in qt

 

History

2016 Back when it was just standard 10g. 

 

20g

This was before I was forced to change the aqua scape because I broke the rocks accidentally during a wc. All mushrooms have been removed from the tank, they always detached and grew where I didn’t want to grow, often covering up zoas. 

 

10g ULM Mushroom dominated BB 

This tank I plan on growing zoas on cutting board agronite tiles bb and maybe the back wall. 

Fish stock-

Two Pink Skunk Clownfish 

 

Corals-

Superman rhodactis

Green rhodactis

Blue green rhodactis

Jawbreaker disco

Florida ricordea- green, orange, pink/orange/blue/white, orange/blue 

Blue dot purple disco

Pink devils hand

Green devils hand 

Rainbow yuma

ORA Lemon lime yuma

Zoas

Rastas

Many unnamed ones

 

Inverts-

Two Rose bta

Two porcelain anemone crabs

Scarlet hermit crab

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[spazizz]

Some corals I want for the tanks are-

Yellow/green/orange cristata 

Maybe og bounce

some more bright zoas

Green lords 

 

I’m in no rush to get any of these though but if I see that cristata at the right price I won’t be able to click buy fast enough. 

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The hammers are so fluffy. 

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The 10g is doing great. The 20g is covered in algae so I’m slowly switching to bare bottom then maybe a thin layer of sand once it’s taken care of. 

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20g update pic

[A.m.P]

What a gorgeous tank, love the scape too, sad I missed this.

[debbeach13]

That 20 looks sweet. Long time no update!

[spazizz]

27 minutes ago, debbeach13 said:

That 20 looks sweet. Long time no update!

I was battling dinos than cyano. So the tank was looking like a mess for awhile. 

[spazizz]

Gold hammer is fantastic.

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New corals set up in quarantine. The most exciting one is the Fiji yellow toadstool. 

 

Also ordered this online, I’m hoping it looks as green irl. 
 

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New quarantine tank

[A.m.P]

Yellow leathers can be hard to find, such a cool coral.

[spazizz]

1 hour ago, A.m.P said:

Yellow leathers can be hard to find, such a cool coral.

Yes they are, sadly the first one I got melted. I have a Aussie one now which appears to be hardier so far.

[spazizz]

I haven’t been satisfied with my nano in awhile, I usually like a minimal type bommie aquascape but I don’t know what I like any more. The tank is a euphyllia and leather dominated tank with some zoas and other lps here and there, half of my corals are in another tank right now. Some goals for the tank are to have soft ball sized coral colonys. I’ll post some pics of some possible aquascapes with some commentary, let me know what you think.

Aquascape 1 - This is the first aquascape, bommie style. This is my least favorite one, it has the least amount of surface area and hiding places for my fish.

Same aquascape with extra rock.

 

No middle rock, my micro lords instead.

 

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Aquascape 2 - There’s room behind the rock structures to put some leathers on the bottom of the tank.

 

Angle 2

 

Aquascape 3 - This is like the classic rock walls I use to see and do when I first start reefing. It has the most hiding spots for my fish. It feels a little cramped with rock but also has the most reef like look and feel to me. As corals grow rock may have to be removed.

 

Angle 2

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Aquascape 4 - There is some room behind the hammers to fit some leather corals to grow in the negative space. I struggled to find spots for some coral with this scape though. 

 

Angle 2

 

Aquascape 5 - This is how the tank currently looks. It’s aquascape 2 with an extra rock, I’d ultimately put a yellow toadstool on that rock. There is room behind all the rocks to put taller leather on the bottom.

 

Angle 2

 

 

[A.m.P]

2 and 5 are my favorites as well, nice balance.