Hey everyone, here goes!
Fluval 13.5
Siice 1.0
Fluval PS2 Skimmer
Stock light and hood.
100w heater (aqueon I think? Already had it in the FW stuff.)
Plans are to get the media basket upgrade, ATO and the random flow heads for the pump but that’s pretty much it. I’ve seen a lot of peoples threads on these, most change the hood and light it seems but those who didn’t still have nice looking tanks so for now it stays.
Tanks been going almost 3 weeks, kicked it off with some marine food and Dr.Tims.
Salinity has been stable at 1.025 after tinkering initially. Every 2-3 days it takes 1/3cup FW.
Once ammonia was consistently 0 for days I tossed a blue leg hermit in there thinking he would snack on the pellets I was ghost feeding. I also got another piece of live rock from LFS as the initial few pieces had significant die off of the bristle worms so I thought maybe my bacteria died off and i wanted to get good diversity in my tank. To my surprise this new piece of rock came with man surprises. Some kind of crab appeared in the middle of the night, I haven’t ID him yet, he is sandy colored, spoon claws, roughly the size of a nickle? He’s also beat up and missing legs. There’s also a snail that’s appeared, he has a long stalk like eye and striped shell. I’m pretty sure I spotted a pod but the video sucks and it’s hard to see. Also got lots of new worms with the new rock. This was added 3 days ago.
I think I want to do a clown and a big center piece anemone but I’m still researching and deciding
Having tons of fun, learning a lot. I’m sure I’ll get my bumps and bruises but so far fingers crossed everything has went pretty smooth. Looking forward to everyone’s advice and feedback!
my Hermit is hiding I can barely see his shell poking out, the snail is pictured with random crab
Fluval 13.5
Siice 1.0
Fluval PS2 Skimmer
Stock light and hood.
100w heater (aqueon I think? Already had it in the FW stuff.)
Plans are to get the media basket upgrade, ATO and the random flow heads for the pump but that’s pretty much it. I’ve seen a lot of peoples threads on these, most change the hood and light it seems but those who didn’t still have nice looking tanks so for now it stays.
Tanks been going almost 3 weeks, kicked it off with some marine food and Dr.Tims.
Salinity has been stable at 1.025 after tinkering initially. Every 2-3 days it takes 1/3cup FW.
Once ammonia was consistently 0 for days I tossed a blue leg hermit in there thinking he would snack on the pellets I was ghost feeding. I also got another piece of live rock from LFS as the initial few pieces had significant die off of the bristle worms so I thought maybe my bacteria died off and i wanted to get good diversity in my tank. To my surprise this new piece of rock came with man surprises. Some kind of crab appeared in the middle of the night, I haven’t ID him yet, he is sandy colored, spoon claws, roughly the size of a nickle? He’s also beat up and missing legs. There’s also a snail that’s appeared, he has a long stalk like eye and striped shell. I’m pretty sure I spotted a pod but the video sucks and it’s hard to see. Also got lots of new worms with the new rock. This was added 3 days ago.
I think I want to do a clown and a big center piece anemone but I’m still researching and deciding
Having tons of fun, learning a lot. I’m sure I’ll get my bumps and bruises but so far fingers crossed everything has went pretty smooth. Looking forward to everyone’s advice and feedback!