20G Nano Reef

KeremAltinbasak · Jan 7, 2025

Thanks.
Yes, I can't wait to see that image too. Maybe I can even add a sweet little Okinawa if I can find it haha. But lately I haven't been able to find many people selling phosphoric green starpolip. I couldn't get it because it was too far from my city. As soon as I can find it, I will buy it and paste it on.

Blue tang was very pleasant. It wasn't pictured, but it was probably behind the rock at that time. I'll try some close-up poses in the evening, I'm not very good at this, but I'll share haha.

KeremAltinbasak · Jan 12, 2025

Hello everyone;
A little uptade for tank. My little poor guy bicolor blenny is dead for no reason.
Friday evening everythink was ok. He eat food, plays in new home. After one day when i wake up and check tank. I did find him on the sand and cleaner shrimp eat hims flesh.

Im very sorry. I loved him very much. Anyway in the tank everythink is ok. In saturday i did the waterchange, cleaning windows and change the carbon. After this i did test the water in sunday. Nitrate again a little high.

Nitrate: 25 between 50
Phosphate : 0,04
KH: 10
Salinity : 1025
Ph:7,9
Temp: 25,1c

A video from my little reef;

Sinkers · Jan 13, 2025

7 fish in 20G is too much that's probably why nitrates are so high. Maybe a damsel killed the blenny? A bit too crowded.

With that many fish maybe need two water changes per week.

KeremAltinbasak · Jan 13, 2025

Yes, being crowded is a factor in high nitrate levels, but there seems to be another problem and I can't solve it. We will wait and see.

I follow damsels, they are just so tough on each other but since they are little devils anything can happen :)

Sinkers said:
7 fish in 20G is too much that's probably why nitrates are so high. Maybe a damsel killed the blenny? A bit too crowded.

With that many fish maybe need two water changes per week.

Sinkers · Jan 13, 2025

KeremAltinbasak said:
Yes, being crowded is a factor in high nitrate levels, but there seems to be another problem and I can't solve it. We will wait and see.

I follow damsels, they are just so tough on each other but since they are little devils anything can happen :)

Any dead snails you can't find? Could be increasing ammonia then converting to nitrates maybe?

Could test for ammonia see what happens.

KeremAltinbasak · Jan 13, 2025

Sinkers said:
Any dead snails you can't find? Could be increasing ammonia then converting to nitrates maybe?

Could test for ammonia see what happens.

2 conch 2 turbos 1 Nassarius all alive. Tank is very new and maybe the cycle not yet complete.

Sinkers · Jan 13, 2025

KeremAltinbasak said:
2 conch 2 turbos 1 Nassarius all alive. Tank is very new and maybe the cycle not yet complete.

Should have no ammonia though. Maybe check to be sure

Nano_Tuners · Jan 13, 2025

Sinkers said:
7 fish in 20G is too much that's probably why nitrates are so high. Maybe a damsel killed the blenny? A bit too crowded.

With that many fish maybe need two water changes per week.

+1. Bennys can be especially sensitive to ammonia.

I would narrow that 20g down to 2/3 fish and rehome the rest. A key to long term nano success is understocking and a light bio load

KeremAltinbasak · Jan 13, 2025

Yes, I agree with you all. I made a little mistake by adding too much fish at the beginning. But right now I can't catch any of them. Maybe she can remove the clowns, but my little daughter loves them too, Of course, as you can guess, she calls them Nemo and feeds them every evening. They have gotten used to being handled and are eating from my daughter's hand. So it will probably continue like this for a while. I don't think I would add anything, except coral, of course.

Sinkers · Jan 13, 2025

KeremAltinbasak said:
Yes, I agree with you all. I made a little mistake by adding too much fish at the beginning. But right now I can't catch any of them. Maybe she can remove the clowns, but my little daughter loves them too, Of course, as you can guess, she calls them Nemo and feeds them every evening. They have gotten used to being handled and are eating from my daughter's hand. So it will probably continue like this for a while. I don't think I would add anything, except coral, of course.

Yeh the blue tang will need to go eventually anyway so it may as well be the first one to remove. Keep the clowns.

KeremAltinbasak · Jan 13, 2025

I notice it's already starting to grow. I think it looks like we will be parting ways with him in a few months :)

Sinkers said:
Yeh the blue tang will need to go eventually anyway so it may as well be the first one to remove. Keep the clowns.

KeremAltinbasak · Jan 21, 2025

It's been a while since I updated.
Everything goes on routinely in the tank. Only my nitrate still shows high between 25-50. I couldn't find a solution, I guess it doesn't drop due to excess load. But since everything seems normal, I don't mind.

KeremAltinbasak · Feb 4, 2025

Hello everyone

Everything is fine in the aquarium. My test results look good too. My nitrates started to drop to normal levels. Phosphate remained the same. Ph stable, temperature stable, salinity stable. KH is hovering a bit high. It didn't fall between 10-11, but since the corals are fun, I don't worry too much.

My favorite coral is elegance now, it is very enjoyable to watch.

Ben's Pico Reefing · Feb 7, 2025

KeremAltinbasak said:
Hello everyone

Everything is fine in the aquarium. My test results look good too. My nitrates started to drop to normal levels. Phosphate remained the same. Ph stable, temperature stable, salinity stable. KH is hovering a bit high. It didn't fall between 10-11, but since the corals are fun, I don't worry too much.

My favorite coral is elegance now, it is very enjoyable to watch.

Love elegance corals myself. Really nice.

bangcamaro · Feb 9, 2025

Tank looks incredible man! been a while since ive followed up but it looks fantastic! Love your coral selection thus far as well! tons of greens which really pop!

Hav eyou been gluing your corals to the rock or you kinda place them and let them settle into it themselves?

KeremAltinbasak · Feb 11, 2025

bangcamaro said:
Tank looks incredible man! been a while since ive followed up but it looks fantastic! Love your coral selection thus far as well! tons of greens which really pop!

Hav eyou been gluing your corals to the rock or you kinda place them and let them settle into it themselves?

First of all, thank you very much for your comment. I hope you get better ones.

Yes, I gluing it. Actually, I was trying to squeeze them into the holes at first, but they were falling out regularly. They are shrimp, wrasse, turbo, they always knock over because they touch them. I glue it, I prefer fast-drying gel adhesive as adhesive. I peel it off and apply it to the part where I will stick it. Since it is a gel when I put it in water, it does not disintegrate immediately, so it sticks when I hold it on the place I want to stick for 5-10 seconds and done :)

KeremAltinbasak · Feb 20, 2025

Update :)

Yes, hello everyone. I haven't been paying much attention to the aquarium lately, but I never miss its classic maintenance. 2.5ml All for Reef dosing continues every day, 10% water change continues every Saturday, bacterial culture addition continues. I continue to change the fiber every day, and I razor all the windows every 2-3 days. I last took a test on Sunday and my nitrate levels were slightly elevated again. I cannot solve the nitrate problem, but the general situation is good.

I'm asking because this has never happened to me, but has anyone lost a shrimp in their aquarium? My fire shrimp disappeared in one day and is nowhere to be found. He was lying behind the rock at night, in his usual place, when I was watching the other day's evening, I noticed that he was nowhere to be seen. Neither dead nor alive are anywhere. Under rocks, under coral, engines, sump are nowhere. It's a very interesting situation.

Also, for the last few days, I noticed that one of my green torch's heads were turning low, and when I examined it closely, I saw something like this, I am sending the video. Does anyone know what this is? It seems like it's preventing it from opening. Something is living in and out of that white structure, but I have no idea what it is.