Edit: Fish Plan! Thanks to all for the feedback/recos, I really appreciate it!
First aquarium from scratch! grew up with a 45g that I adored as a child, so my mom surprised me with an Evo 13.5 for my 26th birthday!
Tank/Equipment: Fluval Evo 13.5g, stock light & pump, hygger 1,600GPH wave maker, Fluval E100 heater
Substrate/Rock: CaribSea Fiji Pink Live Sand, ~13lbs dry rock
CUC Plan: ceriths, (possibly) a hermit, astraeas
Inverts Plan: cleaner shrimp, boxer crab, mime crab, some sort of (small) anemone
Fish Plan: Ocellaris or Percula clown, and one more that's TBD (sticking with 2 fish due to the tank size)
Macro/Coral Plan: red ogo, blue hypnea, Xenia, green star polyps, sinularia leather
First days photo attached. Gotta love the spooky “The Mist” vibes the settling sand is giving - appropriate for October! I will likely be rearranging the rock, I picked up a new dry shelf piece from a local store that I like a lot, hoping it will help give me the look I’m going for. I will be gluing/cementing/epoxy-ing everything together before any livestock goes in. Excited for the journey!
First aquarium from scratch! grew up with a 45g that I adored as a child, so my mom surprised me with an Evo 13.5 for my 26th birthday!
Tank/Equipment: Fluval Evo 13.5g, stock light & pump, hygger 1,600GPH wave maker, Fluval E100 heater
Substrate/Rock: CaribSea Fiji Pink Live Sand, ~13lbs dry rock
CUC Plan: ceriths, (possibly) a hermit, astraeas
Inverts Plan: cleaner shrimp, boxer crab, mime crab, some sort of (small) anemone
Fish Plan: Ocellaris or Percula clown, and one more that's TBD (sticking with 2 fish due to the tank size)
Macro/Coral Plan: red ogo, blue hypnea, Xenia, green star polyps, sinularia leather
First days photo attached. Gotta love the spooky “The Mist” vibes the settling sand is giving - appropriate for October! I will likely be rearranging the rock, I picked up a new dry shelf piece from a local store that I like a lot, hoping it will help give me the look I’m going for. I will be gluing/cementing/epoxy-ing everything together before any livestock goes in. Excited for the journey!
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