So this is a project I've been wanting to do for quite a while now. After seeing inspirations such as: Tigahboy.h20 / Inland Reef / ms.mermaid / Inappropriate Reefer / and quite a few more, I've decided to step into the Macro World. I originally wanted to go with a UNS 90U (68gal) but im shifting focus to more freshwater projects, a new Jellyfish tank, a DSLR camera, and a Flashlight Fish tank, I decided to go with this old TopFin "Retreat" 5 that used to be in my Mom's classroom. As of writing this, I'm currently on day 4, and will be documenting my process on this thread.
Equipment:
•TopFin "Retreat" 5
•Oase Heatup 25watt
•Freshwater Planted light that comes with the tank (actually super powerful surprisingly for the price of the kit)
•Filter Floss in the back chamber
Hardscape
•5lb piece of Marco Rock
•10lbs of CaribSea AragAlive "Bahamas OOlite"
•Used Bio-Spira to cycle and pieces of frozen brine as food. Cycled in 3 days
Current Stocking:
•Chunks of TSA Dragons Breath Macro
Now the Macro was in my frag tank since my phosphates were quite high (0.16 although corals were thriving still at that range) and did its job too well. Basically it had no more nutrients to eat and started dying back.
After moving it into this tank and dosing ChaetoGro° its starting to get its deep red back and has new growth. There probably won't be any updates on here before Christmas unless I find something local or something drastic happens since I'm not risking ordering anything after I learned my last year with some super rare and expensive Freshwater fish.
Plans for this tank though are;
•Purple Cespitularia
•Various Photosynthetic and NPS Gorgs
•At least one more kind of macro
•A Yellow/White Crinoid Squat Lobster
•Pederson Cleaner or Caribbean Yucatan Shrimp
•An Electric Flame Scallop
•Various Feather Dusters
•A walking dendro
•A pair of Green Banded gobies
Hope everyone enjoys!
(Also, I just had a couple questions. 1. How do I turn of quotes from when replying? 2. How do you type in bold texts like people do for different categories in their builds? Thank you)
Equipment:
•TopFin "Retreat" 5
•Oase Heatup 25watt
•Freshwater Planted light that comes with the tank (actually super powerful surprisingly for the price of the kit)
•Filter Floss in the back chamber
Hardscape
•5lb piece of Marco Rock
•10lbs of CaribSea AragAlive "Bahamas OOlite"
•Used Bio-Spira to cycle and pieces of frozen brine as food. Cycled in 3 days
Current Stocking:
•Chunks of TSA Dragons Breath Macro
Now the Macro was in my frag tank since my phosphates were quite high (0.16 although corals were thriving still at that range) and did its job too well. Basically it had no more nutrients to eat and started dying back.
After moving it into this tank and dosing ChaetoGro° its starting to get its deep red back and has new growth. There probably won't be any updates on here before Christmas unless I find something local or something drastic happens since I'm not risking ordering anything after I learned my last year with some super rare and expensive Freshwater fish.
Plans for this tank though are;
•Purple Cespitularia
•Various Photosynthetic and NPS Gorgs
•At least one more kind of macro
•A Yellow/White Crinoid Squat Lobster
•Pederson Cleaner or Caribbean Yucatan Shrimp
•An Electric Flame Scallop
•Various Feather Dusters
•A walking dendro
•A pair of Green Banded gobies
Hope everyone enjoys!
(Also, I just had a couple questions. 1. How do I turn of quotes from when replying? 2. How do you type in bold texts like people do for different categories in their builds? Thank you)