This is my first time in the reefing hobby. During this pandemic I had a lot of extra time and since I was working from home I took the plunge and bought a Red Sea Max Nano to spruce up the home office.
I tried to read as much I could find and watched a lot of video's of other tanks.
It was really exciting when the tank got delivered.
Then came the aquascape, this was my first time doing this and I think it worked out fine, aside from it almost collapsing when putting it in the tank (this is why the dry scape looks a bit different as the when water was put in). Next time I will apply more epoxy or even build it in the tank.
Then came the part of filling it up with water. Man this took a while, don't know how you guys with larger tanks do that as I don't have that much buckets
Then came the cycling. I had some questions but thanks to help from this forum is worked out and then came the time to add some life to it. So I have something too look at. I picked up 2 small clownsfish at my LFS and acclimated them yesterday.
They are a nice pair, one slightly larger than the other and has been showing its dominance to him with little headbutt now and then. They seem to be sticking together most of the time and have made on corner their home and exploring the rest of the tank now and then.
Next I will be adding some CUC when there is some algae film popping up, some snails and maybe a cleaner or peppermint shrimp. I will be adding corals when I see my alk, phosphate, nitrate and other parameters for corals are stable for some time. If you have any tips on what coral for the clownfish to host, give them to me. I'm a little hesitant about adding a anemone cause I don't want it wandering all over my tank.
That it for now, I will update when I have some more to share.
Thanks for all the help on this forum and its great to be a part of this nice community, maybe one day I will be an expert like you guys.
I tried to read as much I could find and watched a lot of video's of other tanks.
It was really exciting when the tank got delivered.
Then came the aquascape, this was my first time doing this and I think it worked out fine, aside from it almost collapsing when putting it in the tank (this is why the dry scape looks a bit different as the when water was put in). Next time I will apply more epoxy or even build it in the tank.
Then came the part of filling it up with water. Man this took a while, don't know how you guys with larger tanks do that as I don't have that much buckets
Then came the cycling. I had some questions but thanks to help from this forum is worked out and then came the time to add some life to it. So I have something too look at. I picked up 2 small clownsfish at my LFS and acclimated them yesterday.
They are a nice pair, one slightly larger than the other and has been showing its dominance to him with little headbutt now and then. They seem to be sticking together most of the time and have made on corner their home and exploring the rest of the tank now and then.
Next I will be adding some CUC when there is some algae film popping up, some snails and maybe a cleaner or peppermint shrimp. I will be adding corals when I see my alk, phosphate, nitrate and other parameters for corals are stable for some time. If you have any tips on what coral for the clownfish to host, give them to me. I'm a little hesitant about adding a anemone cause I don't want it wandering all over my tank.
That it for now, I will update when I have some more to share.
Thanks for all the help on this forum and its great to be a part of this nice community, maybe one day I will be an expert like you guys.