cortr
New Member
Just signed up, am new to the marine hobby but have kept freshwater tanks successfully in the past.
Since mid-August, I'm running a 48 gallon Mr Aqua rimless tank with a Tunze skimmer and filter, Ecotech powerhead (currently only one), and a Current LED bar for lighting.
Pretty fine sand bed, averages about an inch and a half deep. I'm not sure exactly how much rock I have in there - probably 30 pounds.
For livestock I have these fish:
- Ocellaris Clown
- Lawnmower Blenny - he's looking terminally skinny, abruptly, I've read this happens to these guys
- Purple Firefish
- Melanurus Wrasse
- Coral Beauty
- X-Small Tomini Tang
Inverts:
- two cleaner shrimp
- tuxedo urchin (such a neat animal)
- variegated urchin (honestly, even neater than the tuxedo)
- about six narcissus snails
- a couple hermit crabs (there were more, the wrasse has eliminated them - whoops)
Corals:
- Green Torch
- Frogspawn
- Paly
- Zoas (4)
- Ricordia Yuma
- Dendrophyllia
- Elegance
- Hammers (2)
- Aussie Plate (2)
- Favia (2)
I feel remarkably clueless about the hobby still, but other than one clown fish who jumped out of the tank on the night before thanksgiving, and the wrasse picking on the hermits and snails, it's largely been a success thus far. However, am currently fighting an outbreak of (I think) cyanobacteria and still yearning for that super clean, polished look.
I figure I'm at max capacity for fish but really want to pack the thing with corals and probably need more rock to facilitate that, somehow. I'm also unhappy with my lighting, I don't get that "pop" from the coral colors like you see in the shops. Honestly it's most pronounced when the daytime lights go down and the light timer starts to simulate moonlight with a lot more blues.
Since mid-August, I'm running a 48 gallon Mr Aqua rimless tank with a Tunze skimmer and filter, Ecotech powerhead (currently only one), and a Current LED bar for lighting.
Pretty fine sand bed, averages about an inch and a half deep. I'm not sure exactly how much rock I have in there - probably 30 pounds.
For livestock I have these fish:
- Ocellaris Clown
- Lawnmower Blenny - he's looking terminally skinny, abruptly, I've read this happens to these guys
- Purple Firefish
- Melanurus Wrasse
- Coral Beauty
- X-Small Tomini Tang
Inverts:
- two cleaner shrimp
- tuxedo urchin (such a neat animal)
- variegated urchin (honestly, even neater than the tuxedo)
- about six narcissus snails
- a couple hermit crabs (there were more, the wrasse has eliminated them - whoops)
Corals:
- Green Torch
- Frogspawn
- Paly
- Zoas (4)
- Ricordia Yuma
- Dendrophyllia
- Elegance
- Hammers (2)
- Aussie Plate (2)
- Favia (2)
I feel remarkably clueless about the hobby still, but other than one clown fish who jumped out of the tank on the night before thanksgiving, and the wrasse picking on the hermits and snails, it's largely been a success thus far. However, am currently fighting an outbreak of (I think) cyanobacteria and still yearning for that super clean, polished look.
I figure I'm at max capacity for fish but really want to pack the thing with corals and probably need more rock to facilitate that, somehow. I'm also unhappy with my lighting, I don't get that "pop" from the coral colors like you see in the shops. Honestly it's most pronounced when the daytime lights go down and the light timer starts to simulate moonlight with a lot more blues.
