thecouch
Community Member
just set up my new tank after renovating a house and merged my 9g nano and 2.5g pico .
while in the process of fully renovated our new house I won a 90cm/36 inch light from Aqua One Australian instragram site . I decided to merge my 2 small tanks into one new one . after setting up my little tanks I really starting liking Lagoon type tanks and found Aqua one has a decent price low profile tank that would suit the light . tank size is 90x28x28cm (36x11x11 inch) 18G/71L . while the light isnt that powerful i thought the low profile tank would suit and my other tanks were similar cheap set ups . I already had a wavemaker and decided to add a protein skimmer to new tank and found a bubble magnus qq1 hang on back filter that would work with my basic set up .
I started with some macro rocks and designed with cardboard for tank size
next I started cycle in a tub for 2 months with some Dr tims one and only and a shrimp
as soon as I had the Tv cabinet set up I set up the rock with the protein skimmer and a small pump I had . the protien skimmer has a sponge in the return area which I trimmed and put a couple layers of poly filter cut off a large square .
after a week the tank seemed pretty stabled so I added 20LB bag of caribsea oolite live sand . I really liked the look of no sand but what i wanted to add plus not much bio area I need the sand . once it had settled I moved a few corals and my damsel into to the tank . i put my little hang on filter from old pico to help with new set up ( i wanted the tank to be in a spot I could regularly see it after other ones were out the way in old house and had to stand in front to see what was going on . sorry about mess as still finding spots for everything else )
a bit after that I moved the rest of my stuff from my 9G tank . put a bag of ceramic noodles under filter return from old tank to help with new bioload . corals still settling in to different light and anemones hiding from light . (the pulsing xenia wasnt planned to be in tank but not sure on what else to with them at the moment ) . the other fish the pink barred goby/dartfish was lucky as he got lost in the mail and spent 120hrs in a bag but is doing great now
equipment
while in the process of fully renovated our new house I won a 90cm/36 inch light from Aqua One Australian instragram site . I decided to merge my 2 small tanks into one new one . after setting up my little tanks I really starting liking Lagoon type tanks and found Aqua one has a decent price low profile tank that would suit the light . tank size is 90x28x28cm (36x11x11 inch) 18G/71L . while the light isnt that powerful i thought the low profile tank would suit and my other tanks were similar cheap set ups . I already had a wavemaker and decided to add a protein skimmer to new tank and found a bubble magnus qq1 hang on back filter that would work with my basic set up .
I started with some macro rocks and designed with cardboard for tank size
next I started cycle in a tub for 2 months with some Dr tims one and only and a shrimp
as soon as I had the Tv cabinet set up I set up the rock with the protein skimmer and a small pump I had . the protien skimmer has a sponge in the return area which I trimmed and put a couple layers of poly filter cut off a large square .
after a week the tank seemed pretty stabled so I added 20LB bag of caribsea oolite live sand . I really liked the look of no sand but what i wanted to add plus not much bio area I need the sand . once it had settled I moved a few corals and my damsel into to the tank . i put my little hang on filter from old pico to help with new set up ( i wanted the tank to be in a spot I could regularly see it after other ones were out the way in old house and had to stand in front to see what was going on . sorry about mess as still finding spots for everything else )
a bit after that I moved the rest of my stuff from my 9G tank . put a bag of ceramic noodles under filter return from old tank to help with new bioload . corals still settling in to different light and anemones hiding from light . (the pulsing xenia wasnt planned to be in tank but not sure on what else to with them at the moment ) . the other fish the pink barred goby/dartfish was lucky as he got lost in the mail and spent 120hrs in a bag but is doing great now
equipment
- OptiClear Low Profile Rectangle 90cm aquarium
- magnus qq1 protein skimmer
- jebao sw2 wavemaker
- aqua one 50w heater
- Aqua One Strip Glo Marine 90cm Aquarium Led Ligh
- azure damsel
- pink barred zebra goby/dartfish
- 2 nassarius snails
- turbo snail
- trochus snail
- strombus snail
- peppermint shrimp
- 2 hammer corals
- 1 torch coral
- forest fire bta
- green bta
- 5 acan frags
- duncan coral
- pulsing xenia
- fungia coral
- toadstool leather (hasnt opened since moved )
