RVMcCarthy Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 Hey all. Just found these boards through a link on the WWM forums. Guess I'll introduce myself. I'm in Sacramento, CA. If anyone close has some coral frags I'll take 'em off your hands. I'm personally new to the hobby of reefkeeping, though my father has been doing it for 6 years now and I've been keeping freshwater all of my life. Of course, the natural beauty of the reef system drew me in, so here I am! I didn't realize my tank would be considered a nano-reef. I guess part of my introduction could be to describe my current set-up. 20 gallon long glass tank CPR BakPak2 skimmer with biobale staying in until I get my sump 2x 55 watt PC, 1 10k, 1 actinic blue 35ish or so lbs. of Fiji LR. 40lbs of fine aragonite LS Reef crystals salt 1 juvenile Premnas biculeatus, gold banded maroon clown 1 splittail dartfish (dunno latin toxonomy for it) 1 spotted mandarin (forgot latin toxonomy for it hehe) 2 blue-legged hermits, 3 unidentified but apparently friendly hermits (came with my blue legs) 8 snails, 2 are astrea, 1 is a turbo, and the other 5 were coined as "pyramid" snails... 1 sand star *edit* Forgot to add I have a common cleaner shrimp, Lysmata sp. as well. I wish I had gone with a larger setup, but when I bought this I thought it would be considered a small or mini-reef. I've got some corals and stuff growing, most of which is unidentified at this point. I've got a 20 gallon sump/refugium planned. Hopefully I'll have that added in a few weeks or so. At that point I will feel comfortable enough with water stability to add more sensitive inverts. I will probably remove the dart and mandarin and place them in a much larger tank and just get one more maroon clown. 2 fish should be a fair bioload, especially considering this clown can get rather large, as far as clowns go. Temperature stays a stead 74F-77F. 3 degree variation doesn't seem too bad. Any advice on the sump/refugium would be much appreciated, especially the plumbing part. Link to comment
Djm9288 Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 Welcome to Nano-reef!!!!!! Youre gonna love it here. Sounds like youve got a pretty good setup going! Pics are always welcome!!! daniel Link to comment
RVMcCarthy Posted December 7, 2002 Author Share Posted December 7, 2002 No digital camera yet, and the scanner sucks. However, a digital camera is on the wish-list for Christmas so... I wish I could get a bigger tank, especially since I'm fairly new, but I have to be able to move without a huge hassle, plus I can't afford a large apartment. The sump/refugium and tank alone are going to be a pain as it is, especially once I start stocking it with inverts. Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 Welcome to Nano-Reef.com RVMcCarthy! Link to comment
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