dferrari13 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Hey what's up...been in the hobby for over 18 years at freshwater and about 6 years at saltwater... .I just recently started my 7th tank and it's a 5.5 gallon pico reef.....this tank was left over from when I had originally tried to dabble into saltwater about 6 years ago (this tank quickly got upgraded to my 5 year old 10 gallon reef tank which can also be found on this site). Its located on top of my mini fridge in my man cave....and so far its up and running pretty well for about 6 months now. (3 month cycle, 3 month added inhabitants) So here's an equipment list.... -50w cobalt northern heater -Smart micro ATO -Aqua Clear 30 filled with purigen/chemipure blue nano/filter sponge -Noname Micro pump as powerhead -Innovative Marine Skye Light -Custom acrylic top -Nano Flipper algae scrubber -8lbs. Of Carib Sea "life rock" -10lbs. Of Carib Sea live sand Tank Inhabitants: -4 red legged hermits -2 blue legged hermits -Blue yellow tailed damsel -Green Clown Goby -Skunk cleaner shrimp -Duncan -Rasta Zoa -Bam Bam Zoa - Purple stylophora -Seriatopora Hystrix -Jack o lantern lepto 1 Quote Link to comment
RedCrow Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Love the scape. It looks very natural 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted May 14, 2020 Author Share Posted May 14, 2020 New corals coming in tomorrow, pics to come Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Yes! Another tank cause you can't ever have too many 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Going thru some growing pains.....aka new tank syndrome.....got some waste away gel tabs and they seem to be working.....lost a bunch of corals and it doesn't look pretty yet but here's a FTS 2 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 Terrible outbreak of dinos....been battling for months. Grabbed a UV filter...added Dr.Tims Wate Away, im trying to feed more to add nitrates and trying to do alot of manual removal of the Dinos. 2 Quote Link to comment
Daniel92481 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Don’t give up man!👍🏼 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 On 7/2/2020 at 9:21 AM, dferrari13 said: That hermit is truly adorable. Quick question about your GCG - did he ever nip at your seriatopora? Thinking of adding one to my pico, but I'm not sure if it'll nip at my SPS's polyps. 🤔 2 Quote Link to comment
RedCrow Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 I’m just coming out of a long dinos battle too. I fostered cyano growth so that the dinos would be out-competed, then from that point forward it was the comparatively way battle against cyano lol 2 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 On 10/2/2020 at 10:31 PM, Snow_Phoenix said: That hermit is truly adorable. Quick question about your GCG - did he ever nip at your seriatopora? Thinking of adding one to my pico, but I'm not sure if it'll nip at my SPS's polyps. 🤔 Nope....ive never seen him nip at anything 1 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 I think I finally broke free frome the cyano bacteria thanks to chemiclean 2 Quote Link to comment
dferrari13 Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 This tank is coming back to life after a cyano outbreak. Glad I finally tried chemiclean. Quote Link to comment
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