Hey everyone, I'm Ryan, from the Chicago suburbs!
I'm a few months into my first reef tank, a 20 gallon standard tank that I built an internal filter for, turning it into a peninsula tank. I've been trying to build my corals slowly (as slowly as my patience will allow), and currently have two Zoa frags, a toadstool leather, an Acan, a GSP, and a mushroom of some sort (I think?). For livestock I've got an O. Clown and a Dottyback, and 5 snails and 5 hermit crabs.
I'm currently dealing with lots of green hair algae, and have started seeing spots of Coraline Algae on my dry rocks. I've been watching my parameters and doing more frequent water changes (at least 10% once per week, usually twice) and cut back my feeding, so I'm hoping the GHA will die down.
Back in college I had a FOWLR tank. I don't think there was much of a nano-reefing community back then (the wisdom of the day was "don't"), so I never ventured out to corals.
I'm hoping to add more corals (open to suggestions), and as I've been researching and checking out all of your great photos I've been second guessing my 'scape. I built it thinking I'd get lots of rock surface for corals, but realize now I've got no islands or sand surface for them. Do I need to open this up a bit more?
I'm glad to join the community, and welcome any suggestions!
I'm a few months into my first reef tank, a 20 gallon standard tank that I built an internal filter for, turning it into a peninsula tank. I've been trying to build my corals slowly (as slowly as my patience will allow), and currently have two Zoa frags, a toadstool leather, an Acan, a GSP, and a mushroom of some sort (I think?). For livestock I've got an O. Clown and a Dottyback, and 5 snails and 5 hermit crabs.
I'm currently dealing with lots of green hair algae, and have started seeing spots of Coraline Algae on my dry rocks. I've been watching my parameters and doing more frequent water changes (at least 10% once per week, usually twice) and cut back my feeding, so I'm hoping the GHA will die down.
Back in college I had a FOWLR tank. I don't think there was much of a nano-reefing community back then (the wisdom of the day was "don't"), so I never ventured out to corals.
I'm hoping to add more corals (open to suggestions), and as I've been researching and checking out all of your great photos I've been second guessing my 'scape. I built it thinking I'd get lots of rock surface for corals, but realize now I've got no islands or sand surface for them. Do I need to open this up a bit more?
I'm glad to join the community, and welcome any suggestions!
