Jenny's 5g nano reef

[Jenny_rs]

Nice little nano! Love the aquascape!

Thank you

 

[Jenny_rs]

So I've noticed more and more of these little brown things on the rocks and the back of the tank, they move around and seem harmless but does anyone have any idea on what they are?

 

[Tateopotatoe]

They're a type of flatworm. Not especially good or bad, just kind of there. Good for biodiversity! Very similar to astrea stars that don't eat corals.

 

[Jenny_rs]

They're a type of flatworm. Not especially good or bad, just kind of there. Good for biodiversity! Very similar to astrea stars that don't eat corals.

Thanks that helps a lot [emoji5] I've started to see a lot of different copepods and such blooming with no real predators in the tank that I've been debating on adding another larger snail or small fish to the mix

 

[Tateopotatoe]

Thanks that helps a lot [emoji5] I've started to see a lot of different copepods and such blooming with no real predators in the tank that I've been debating on adding another larger snail or small fish to the mix

Small fish are great! Would definitely recommend on of the small gobies. (Neon, clown, etc.)

 

[Jenny_rs]

Small fish are great! Would definitely recommend on of the small gobies. (Neon, clown, etc.)

Thanks, I've been looking for a neon goby but no one has any at the moment.

 

[Jenny_rs]

So yesterday I managed to get my hand on a few more coral frags. Added to my nano reef was a rhodactis mushroom, some paly's and a very small colony of green star polyps. Does anyone have thoughts on placement? They are currently hanging out at the bottom of the tank as they acclimate to my lighting.

 

[meir]

Try clownfish if u want but get them as small as u can I'm running the same system and I've got a mated pair of clowns and they're doing great Ik what ppl say abt it being to small and all but once they start hosting they don't swim around as much

 

[meir]

 

[meir]

Currently I have two clowns 4 heads of polyathoas 1 toadstool leather one shrimp 3 hermits 3 snails a spaghetti worm and some amphipods

 

[Jenny_rs]

Currently I have two clowns 4 heads of polyathoas 1 toadstool leather one shrimp 3 hermits 3 snails a spaghetti worm and some amphipods

Yea I got grilled on another site for having a clown, unfortunately he died after a bacterial bloom I had last year but he spent most of his time in the top right corner of the tank so I don't understand some people.

 

[meir]

Don't listen to the hate for every one clown that dies from prob something other than tank size a note hundred live happily in small aquariums especially ones that host an anemone or something else cuz u gotta remember that once they host they stay around the host to protect it

 

[meir]

Well unfortunately for me I left for the weekend dw I made sure someone fed the tank but when I got back things weren't doing well first my Astrea snail died then my toadstool leather was half rotten and my cbs was dead so I fragged my TLC into two pieces and threw the rotten part out and hopefully it'll live

 

[meir]

 

[Tateopotatoe]

Sorry to hear

 

[meir]

Sorry to hear

Yup and the thing is that it wasn't like my perimeters spiked or anything it was just weird

 

[Jenny_rs]

Yup and the thing is that it wasn't like my perimeters spiked or anything it was just weird

Yea sorry to hear, something similar happened to me when I went away to Punta cana for a week, my dad over fed my tank and I had a mini cycle start. That's why I don't have any fish, so I'm not adding to my nitrates.

 

[meir]

Yea sorry to hear, something similar happened to me when I went away to ***** cana for a week, my dad over fed my tank and I had a mini cycle start. That's why I don't have any fish, so I'm not adding to my nitrates.

Nothing to do it was fed as I directed it was just idk I'm scared tho see I'm going on a vaca July for a month and idk what to do with my tank