Reef Casa Studio 12 Mixed Reef

[OfficeReefer]

What out of balance could cause an outbreak like this?

See the following latest from BRS 3:40

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

If you are able to keep a pico like this thriving like it is now.... I would recommend a bigger tank to house all your inhabitants. This way you can get some utilitarian fish (natural predators) that can keep these pests in check. You are more than ready. Great job on a beautiful pico tank!

 

[reaper93]

See the following latest from BRS 3:40

Thanks! I'll check it out

 

[reaper93]

If you are able to keep a pico like this thriving like it is now.... I would recommend a bigger tank to house all your inhabitants. This way you can get some utilitarian fish (natural predators) that can keep these pests in check. You are more than ready. Great job on a beautiful pico tank!

Thanks so much! I would love to get a bigger tank...just the cost and space is an issue! I would love to have a tank with a real sump in the future

 

[Casket_Case]

Thanks so much! I would love to get a bigger tank...just the cost and space is an issue! I would love to have a tank with a real sump in the future

I thought I'd love that too lmbo I was wrong

 

[reaper93]

I thought I'd love that too lmbo I was wrong

Why's that?

 

[coraldreams]

Hi guys!

This is the my first dive into a saltwater tank that I got as a Christmas gift last January

I took it slow and just started getting corals in September... and since then I have a slight addiction! Hoping to document my journey and pick the brains of people on the forum.

Equipment
Tank: Fluval Evo V
Lighting: AI Prime HD with gooseneck
Filtration: InTank Media Basket with Filter Floss, stock biomedia, and a bag of carbon
Return Pump: Cobalt Aquatics Mini MJ-606
Heater: Hygger 50w Mini
Controller - Inkbird Temperature Controller
ATO - Water bottle ATO

Stocking
Hi-Fin Red Banded Goby
Pistol Shrimp
2 Astrea Snails
1 Spiny Star Astrea Snail
1 Emerald Crab

Corals
Eagle Eye, Orange Oxide, Sunny D, Scrambled Egg, Utter Chaos, Fruit Loops Zoas
Two green hammers, a blue hammer, and a gold hammer
Various mushrooms
Blastomusa
Various Acans
Monti Cap
Bubblegum Montipora Digitata

Here are some pics now!



My newest additions are from Reefapalooza NY which include the Fruit Loops, Digi, three acan frags, and two mushrooms

You are crushing it I'm just getting started and would love to have this kind of success

 

[Casket_Case]

Why's that?

It was so friggin annoying with water levels and keeping suction plus added so much water and meant bigger water changes

 

[reaper93]

You are crushing it I'm just getting started and would love to have this kind of success

Thanks so much!

 

[reaper93]

On another note, I haven't seen my goby in a while now...hope he's still alive

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

is there a lid on your tank? I hope he didn't jump out.

 

[reaper93]

is there a lid on your tank? I hope he didn't jump out.

There is not but I have literally never seen him go above like the lower third of the tank so I highly doubt that he jumped...only reason I don't have a lid is because the AI light mount makes the stock lid not fit

 

[Casket_Case]

There is not but I have literally never seen him go above like the lower third of the tank so I highly doubt that he jumped...only reason I don't have a lid is because the AI light mount makes the stock lid not fit

Hey some fish people put in and never see… he might still be there! Maybe lift up your rock work and see… just obv don’t squish him

 

[reaper93]

Hey some fish people put in and never see… he might still be there! Maybe lift up your rock work and see… just obv don’t squish him

I'd do that but I some corals wedged into the rocks that took an annoying amount of finesse to get to stay where I wanted it. They used to be on the other main rock structure which was easy to lift up but have since moved to the back wall

 

[reaper93]

Yes, it's my normal build thread... just pass the part where I went from the ten to the twenty and stopped hobby then went to five

Awesome. Definitely checking it out

 

[Casket_Case]

Would you guys rather buy from Algae Barn or Atlantic Biotechnology?

 

[reaper93]

Would you guys rather buy from Algae Barn or Atlantic Biotechnology?

Never heard of Atlantic Biotechnology before

 

[Casket_Case]

Never heard of Atlantic Biotechnology before

Oh my gosh that was supposed to go on a private message not on this thread I’m sorry

 

[reaper93]

Oh my gosh that was supposed to go on a private message not on this thread I’m sorry

Yeah I was a little confused...seemed slightly random

 

[reaper93]

Wow...just after I post how I was getting worried Mr. Goby pops up for the first time in over a week during feeding time...happy he is still here