New Nano Tall build

[pr_diver]

So currently It's stocked with a small bit of live rock from another tank that I'm currently breaking down to stock with a few upside down jellies.

No real plans for this tank as this is why I'm posting for any suggestions. Total size is 15 gallons. Only concrete plan is picking up a Clown fish or two this weekend from my lfs delivery guy. Sundays plan is to go pull some rock I've had sitting in the coral lagoon in our backyard here on the island for the last 8 months and build the rock upwards.

Currently there is 3 hermits crabs, dropped one of our wart anemones in their about 5 mins ago, 2 snails and live rock.

 

[pr_diver]

Little tank update over the weekend. Stacked my rocks on how I think I'm gonna keep them for awhile.

Things are looking good, I'll let her go for 10-14 days. And then time to add some fish!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Tank is looking great so far!!

 

[pr_diver]

So I hear the dreadful click of a pest last night. Went on the hunt, what I found is a Caribbean pistol shrimp. She had eggs, ;( which now makes me feel a tad upset. I used the hot water method in a syringe to scare her out. But I crushed her to hard when I caught her with the tweezers. A few minutes later I hear the dreaded click again. It had a mate which makes me feel bad for him. Question is do I try to remove him or leave him? It doesn't bug me just don't want issues down the line with stocking the tank. I only went on the hunt because Mantis Shrimp are a real thing here, lol.

Here our some pictures of her.
The first picture you can see the eggs after I shook it a bit.

Pictures of the claw and the shrimp:

 

[pr_diver]

Decided to rescape last night at midnight. I think it looks much cleaner and appeasing. Nice cave rock and a good swim thru arch.

 

[pr_diver]

Added 1 Flurry Clownfish, and 2 Blue/Yellow Damsels 2 peppermint shrimp and a Pulsing Xenia. And to top it off I only payed $85 total for everything.

 

[pr_diver]

Tank is getting over the ugly phase finally.

 

[Nano_Man]

Your tank looks good will be following your journey.

 

[pr_diver]

Thanks m8 alot of rearranging and what not till I was happy parameters are stable. Got a decent list of Corals to add, Hammer, GSP, a blasto, BTA. Still gotta get a goby and a cleaner shrimp and a second Clown fish to pair with Luna are Flurry Clownfish. Looking at getting a black and white one. Don't know all the names of the designers. Pretty happy with this tank so far!

 

[pr_diver]

These guys are super happy with new lighting

 

[pr_diver]

So this is our backyard we're we aquaculture anything we bring into the house and some frags we cut and pulled today, some brain, favia and zoas.

My wife out there seeding new patches.

One side is a hotel next to us and the rest is ours, the fort in the background on the hill covered in vines is from 1540 older than the US.

 

[Nano_Man]

Lovely place to live

 

[pr_diver]

It really is paradise, best decision I ever made was moving my family back to Puerto Rico we're we are from. My kids have benefited from it immensely.

 

[Nano_Man]

Keep up the posts Thanks

 

[pr_diver]

Super p'ed off! Mom comes to the island today so figured I'd mass clean all the tanks including the 150g. Everything was going well till our female dog in heat got out of her kennel. So I ran outside forgot about pumping out the 15g tall and took out 60% of the water.

Matched salinity, temp ect. But ended up losing my Pulsing Xenia, chalking it up to sucking out all the nutes. My phosphates and Nitrate levels were spot on. Within 4 hours it started closing up, woke up this morning to it melted. Put it in the QT/Copepod breeding tank, little to late I'm thinking but will leave it there for awhile.

 

[Nano_Man]

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully things will sort them selves out.

 

[pr_diver]

On the plus side the 150 is clean!

 

[Nano_Man]

On the plus side the 150 is clean!

Pictures look great

 

[pr_diver]

Just placed an order for pickup tomorrow for the nano tall. Gonna replace the Xenia and add 3 more frags.

 

[pr_diver]

So we are fully stocked, things will probably be moved into our bigger tank this summer.

2x designer clowns
1x Blue/yellow fin damsel
1x Smith pink damsel
1x Watchman
1x Diamond
2 Peppermint Shrimp
1x Turbo
1x Asterea