A Home For Oysters and Odd Couples

[BrittaniPearl]

Welcome to my Nano in 90 entry!
While I was planning on just picking up a basic 10 gal, the dollar per gallon sale had me leaving with a 29 gallon tank :)
Equipment Specs:
Tank-Plain old 29 long glass
Dividers-from undergravel filter DIY
Filter-Whisper EX 30 HOB with chemipure elite
Skimmer-Coralife Biocube 29
Powerhead-Jebao WP-10
Lighting-6 bulb 144 watt T5HO fixture with LED moonlights


Current Livestock-
5 Turkey Wing Oysters (2 affectionately named Ron Weasley and Blackbeard)
2 Nerite snails
2 baby blue-legged hermits
1 Astraea turbo snail
1 Tuxedo Urchin (of doom!)
1 Maroon Clown
1 Snowflake Clown
Planned additions-Mandarin, Starry Blenny, Randall's Goby/Tiger Shrimp Pair

Corals-
Many hidden cups
2 Caribbean Rose corals (may not recover as they came bleached white, but including just in case)
2 Cladocora arbuscula
2 Siderastrea
A variety of macro
and last but not least...
1 Lonely Zoa Polyp (which is supposed to be a temporary addition so it can recover from Warp's rock garden, but now the clowns want to host it :faint:

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Tank is ready! Doing a custom AIO build, pics of the divider below. Made it with a 29 gal undergravel filter kit. It will have a fuge compartment and a front compartment for any non-reef safe hitch hikers :) Water going in Thursday night, live rock from Dale at FloridaLiveRock getting overnighted to arrive on Friday, live black sand to be added after aquascaping. Trying for a soft cycle to keep all the goodies alive :) Ordered a Jebao WP-10, new test kit, and chemipure elite today for the big start as well! First fish picked out as well, an orange stripe prawn goby with tiger snapping shrimp. Also thinking a mixed clown pair, likely platinum and a black morph of some kind ^_^

 

[Ryan2428]

Following want pics lol

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Following!

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Lights are in! 144 watt T5 HO with LED moonlights, and separate timers for each color bulb and the leds :) love them!

 

[Pete polyp]

I have the same fixture over my 29 and I like it a whole bunch. I think you will be very happy.

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Awesome :) Glad someone else has experience with it
Jebao WP-10 came in today, along with test kit and chemipure elite. Got the tank partitions siliconed in and lights installed ^_^

 

[Ryan2428]

Still following lol

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Thanks :P enjoy the ride of craziness that is my tanks

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

I'll be tagging along!! :)

 

[fishroomlady]

you sound like you definitely know what you're doing! Looking forward to your progress! have you thought about sexy shrimp and maxi mini nem? that would pop on black sand I think

 

[BrittaniPearl]

I like to just assume I have no idea what I'm doing and double check everything with the experts on sites like this :P I would love some sexy shrimp (that red would look great! thanks for the idea!) and a nem, but I'm trying to wait to see how I can maintain my water quality before I pick livestock, especially needy ones like nems :) I know for sure I want a Randall's goby and Tiger shrimp, but beyond that still up in the air!

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Warp has decided to set up offerings hoping for some awesome hitchhikers on today's live rock shipment :P

 

[BrittaniPearl]

My rock is gorgeous!

 

[Pete polyp]

Holy smokes that rock has some life on it!

 

[BrittaniPearl]

More rock pics

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Day 2 test results! Ammonia between 1 and 2, nitrite 1, nitrates 5 :) first very mobile hitch hiker as well, a snail!

 

[fishroomlady]

beautiful rock!

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Thank you :)
Did a 30% water change today and got a skimmer hooked up! Just adding some fun pics of one of the other clams and a very happy hidden cup coral with all its tentacles out and wavy

 

[BrittaniPearl]

Some more rock pics today! Ammonia is up to 4, doing a 14 gal water change tomorrow afternoon. All the cup corals are out and happy, clams still all responsive :) Took pics of all the anemones and some of the more colorful rocks today!