Coldwater tanks/room temperature tanks

[TheClown]

Has anyone else done this? My first room temperature reef tank is at around day 100 with no heater or chiller, only problem has been a diatom boom, it has 4 different species of anemone that I collected with a plankton net. I do want beadlets but can’t find any sellers of them in the US.

 

[tzabor10]

There is a certain standard way of keeping a reef tank. Most of us try our best to follow this method for success. If you want to stray from the norm, that is cool but very few people can help when things get tough. I would love to see your tank

 

[TheClown]

Has anyone else done this? My first room temperature reef tank is at around day 100 with no heater or chiller, only problem has been a diatom boom, it has 4 different species of anemone that I collected with a plankton net. I do want beadlets but can’t find any sellers of them in the US.

Here are some of the anemones I found while overturning a rock

 

[TheClown]

There is a certain standard way of keeping a reef tank. Most of us try our best to follow this method for success. If you want to stray from the norm, that is cool but very few people can help when things get tough. I would love to see your tank

This is it, is a 20 gallon tank

 

[tzabor10]

Very cool. What gave you that idea?

 

[TheClown]

Very cool. What gave you that idea?

it was to deal with high prices, I have a beach near my house so I went out and got some seawater and plankton and waited to see what took off

 

[TheClown]

Figured out this is a plumeose anemone!
Pretty rare deeper sea guys that get big.