coastalcoraline5181
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30 gal money pit but i love my money pit
currently building a 30gal reef with inverts, clowns, some extra residents, and lots and lots of coral. i dub myself the crazy coral lady, i honestly think i love them more than fish.
right now it's not much, i only got the tank up and running about 3 weeks ago. tank's fully cycled, i grabbed some water from my previous (healthy) dt and added some healthy bacteria to get everything going. current residents are 2 ocellaris clowns (introduced individually and ended up pairing), 1 fire fish, 1 snail (he's be getting more friends soon, gotta add more CUC this week), 1 blue/green sympodium and 1 blasto merletti. i have a duncan, 2 types of zoas, a favia and gsp coming in this week and i seriously cannot wait!
my tank isn't much right now, but i'm very excited for this journey of filling it up and making it into a beautiful reef for my beloved fishies and corals. thanks for following along!
PLEASE NOTE: in the pics of the clowns, it does look like somethings on them but i promise it's just air bubbles and weird angles plus it was feeding time. couldn't get a good pic. the smaller one may look a little skinny but this one's super young still and eats like crazy, i've only had it for about a week and a half so far and looks incredibly better than when i got it. the clowns are completely okay :)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 5:35pm
my new frags came in yesterday and are finally in the tank! i added a duncan, 2 zoas, a gsp, and a dragon soul prism favia (which is super new to me so if anyone has some good tips that'd be much appreciated)
i temp acclimated them, then did a coral dip before putting them in. only took about an hour for the magician's zoa to fully open, but the other zoa is a bit more stubborn and only has about 2 out of the 6 polyps semi opened right now. it may just take a couple days so i'll wait a bit before tampering with it and moving it around. the gsp is in full bloom (yay!), the duncans fully opened and happy, and the favias are happy in a nice little spot away from everyone else lol. attached is a pic of the duncan!
currently building a 30gal reef with inverts, clowns, some extra residents, and lots and lots of coral. i dub myself the crazy coral lady, i honestly think i love them more than fish.
right now it's not much, i only got the tank up and running about 3 weeks ago. tank's fully cycled, i grabbed some water from my previous (healthy) dt and added some healthy bacteria to get everything going. current residents are 2 ocellaris clowns (introduced individually and ended up pairing), 1 fire fish, 1 snail (he's be getting more friends soon, gotta add more CUC this week), 1 blue/green sympodium and 1 blasto merletti. i have a duncan, 2 types of zoas, a favia and gsp coming in this week and i seriously cannot wait!
my tank isn't much right now, but i'm very excited for this journey of filling it up and making it into a beautiful reef for my beloved fishies and corals. thanks for following along!
PLEASE NOTE: in the pics of the clowns, it does look like somethings on them but i promise it's just air bubbles and weird angles plus it was feeding time. couldn't get a good pic. the smaller one may look a little skinny but this one's super young still and eats like crazy, i've only had it for about a week and a half so far and looks incredibly better than when i got it. the clowns are completely okay :)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 5:35pm
my new frags came in yesterday and are finally in the tank! i added a duncan, 2 zoas, a gsp, and a dragon soul prism favia (which is super new to me so if anyone has some good tips that'd be much appreciated)
i temp acclimated them, then did a coral dip before putting them in. only took about an hour for the magician's zoa to fully open, but the other zoa is a bit more stubborn and only has about 2 out of the 6 polyps semi opened right now. it may just take a couple days so i'll wait a bit before tampering with it and moving it around. the gsp is in full bloom (yay!), the duncans fully opened and happy, and the favias are happy in a nice little spot away from everyone else lol. attached is a pic of the duncan!
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