Here are some details about what I want to accomplish with this system.
Stats
-Fluval Spec with back chamber emptied out to serve as a giant refugium, everything else I will try to have remain stock . I will see if I can fit a Rio 90 into the pump chamber of the Spec. If so, I may try to upgrade the pump, if I'm not comfortable with the flow, but since I'm not using the sponge that comes with the Spec, I may get a lot more flow than usual.
-2.5lbs of cured Haitian LR from my 5.5g
-2lbs of livesand (finally got to use that stupid fiji pink I had purchased earlier.)
-10W heater in chamber 1
-10W submersible Halogen lamp in chamber two, refugium light. Grows chaeto very well in my Biocube and will help keep this tiny tank warm.
Planned stocking
- 2 tiny scarlet hermits
- a couple of dwarf ceriths
- limpets
- stomatella
- 1 pompom crab
- sexy shrimp
- Clown goby. I loved my panda goby, Lemmiwinks was special, but he was so small and it he so very difficult to try and find on a daily basis. I had him for a long time too, especially for a panda goby. Got him to eat. I don't know what, but I got him to eat. But no panda goby this time. I'm thinking either a green clown goby or a citron clown goby. I don't much like the yellow ones. The Green's fat, fat head is very appealing.
- dendrophyllia corals
- Balanophyllia corals
- some tubastraea, like a polyp or two, I got a cute butter yellow polyp that always extends.
- mushrooms & ric florida
- maybe some easy zoanthids, gsp, or palys for the tippity top of the tank.
- Most of the corals I can easily frag from my existing tanks, except mushrooms. But I know where I can get them for cheap.
Again, a very simple setup. The nps I've selected can go longer without target feeding and I may rig a daily feeder of cyclops ease (I never spell that right). But the above corals can go 2-3 days without any sort of feeding. I don't feel like killing myself right now. 50% water changes a week should be fine, especially if the refugium does it's job, which I think it will in spades. Lots of refugium space in proportion to tank size. I wanted a tank that could be very portable and one that I could potentially use either in my office in a new apartment or my office at work should I be hired as a full-time professor.
Ok, enough of me talking, here are some pictures... and video of the setup.
Haha, normally LR is not of this quality, but this is from an established tank. The quality of the coralline is stunning. A deep red variety grew in my 5.5g. I shall continue to cultivate it here.
A little bright red macro algae, Halymenia floridans. I hope this one stays. It's stunning.
Some videos. Already we had critters setting up shop. I again, bypassed a cycle by using cured LR from a mature system. In the videos, you'll see vermetids, a stomatella, a sort of filter-feeding clam or mussel, a bristleworm, and yes, an aiptasia.
http
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY3danvURGU
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftlye_5aan0
Picos tend to not last a long time. I'm really going to make an effort to ensure that this one survives long term. My 5.5g would still be running if I had turned the power heads on after target feeding. Haha, only one plug this time. I can keep track of one plug. LOL
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy following my progress with this little beauty. I'm happy to set it up. It's my first tank with my boyfriend. He loves looking at it.
L
Stats
-Fluval Spec with back chamber emptied out to serve as a giant refugium, everything else I will try to have remain stock . I will see if I can fit a Rio 90 into the pump chamber of the Spec. If so, I may try to upgrade the pump, if I'm not comfortable with the flow, but since I'm not using the sponge that comes with the Spec, I may get a lot more flow than usual.
-2.5lbs of cured Haitian LR from my 5.5g
-2lbs of livesand (finally got to use that stupid fiji pink I had purchased earlier.)
-10W heater in chamber 1
-10W submersible Halogen lamp in chamber two, refugium light. Grows chaeto very well in my Biocube and will help keep this tiny tank warm.
Planned stocking
- 2 tiny scarlet hermits
- a couple of dwarf ceriths
- limpets
- stomatella
- 1 pompom crab
- sexy shrimp
- Clown goby. I loved my panda goby, Lemmiwinks was special, but he was so small and it he so very difficult to try and find on a daily basis. I had him for a long time too, especially for a panda goby. Got him to eat. I don't know what, but I got him to eat. But no panda goby this time. I'm thinking either a green clown goby or a citron clown goby. I don't much like the yellow ones. The Green's fat, fat head is very appealing.
- dendrophyllia corals
- Balanophyllia corals
- some tubastraea, like a polyp or two, I got a cute butter yellow polyp that always extends.
- mushrooms & ric florida
- maybe some easy zoanthids, gsp, or palys for the tippity top of the tank.
- Most of the corals I can easily frag from my existing tanks, except mushrooms. But I know where I can get them for cheap.
Again, a very simple setup. The nps I've selected can go longer without target feeding and I may rig a daily feeder of cyclops ease (I never spell that right). But the above corals can go 2-3 days without any sort of feeding. I don't feel like killing myself right now. 50% water changes a week should be fine, especially if the refugium does it's job, which I think it will in spades. Lots of refugium space in proportion to tank size. I wanted a tank that could be very portable and one that I could potentially use either in my office in a new apartment or my office at work should I be hired as a full-time professor.
Ok, enough of me talking, here are some pictures... and video of the setup.
Haha, normally LR is not of this quality, but this is from an established tank. The quality of the coralline is stunning. A deep red variety grew in my 5.5g. I shall continue to cultivate it here.
A little bright red macro algae, Halymenia floridans. I hope this one stays. It's stunning.
Some videos. Already we had critters setting up shop. I again, bypassed a cycle by using cured LR from a mature system. In the videos, you'll see vermetids, a stomatella, a sort of filter-feeding clam or mussel, a bristleworm, and yes, an aiptasia.
http
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY3danvURGUhttp
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftlye_5aan0Picos tend to not last a long time. I'm really going to make an effort to ensure that this one survives long term. My 5.5g would still be running if I had turned the power heads on after target feeding. Haha, only one plug this time. I can keep track of one plug. LOL
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy following my progress with this little beauty. I'm happy to set it up. It's my first tank with my boyfriend. He loves looking at it.
L
I tend to convert people. 
