Ro's Dragon Den

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My tank is a Nano in a 10 gal Aqueon "widescreen" with a basic 10 gal diy sump underneath (with probably the ugliest silicone job.) The widescreen is tall and wide compared to the average 10 gal, and has been a blast to set up. The tank is around 4 months old and was cycled with live rock. I've started adding a few pieces of dry rock to give the tank a little bit of a different look (photos will be added later of that once I finalize how I want it :) )


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Nice! What do you plan on adding in terms of livestock?
I know it doesn't look like I have any fish - I managed to get none of them in that shot - I have Two exquisite firefish, and a starry dragonet in there currently plus a cleanup crew, porcelain crab, and skunk shrimp - I'll take a few more photos tonight closer to feeding time since the fish decided they were camera shy in the above photo :) I've also got a few corals in qt awaiting transplant into the tank (small frags that will hopefully grow out nicely.

In the future I'd love another dragonet or some sort, but I'm not sure that I have the space in the tank for one.

Nice job. Thx for sharing.
Thanks! :)
 
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Finally had a chance to move photos over from my phone. These show the progression of the tank a bit, and I managed to get some fish photos too! :)
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Day one live rock and sump

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Don't mind the Macguyvered plumbing there - I've gone back in and fixed that with actual pipe connectors.

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Today (I haven't cleaned my glass after getting the shelf on the left set up yet) This is also under my new noopsyche lighting, so I'm still figuring out the best lighting schedule for my tank :)

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This was from Saturday after I dipped my coral show acquisitions - The frog spawn is now in my display after a second dip and washing showed no evidence of bad hitch hikers.

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And my porcelain crab, continuing to look like something off of the shelf of a mermaid's curio cabinet.
 
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Have you seeded the tank with pods? Does the dragonette eat frozen?
Tank looks good.
I seed once a month with 5260 pods from Algae barn, but before I added him, I had a healthy population of pods. He will take can o cyclops and baby brine, but gets finnicky about mysis. They're a little too big for him, so I think that's a big part of it. I feed a half a spoon of the can o cyclops to the entire tank in the morning, and at night, with half a cube of frozen mysis for the firefish/scavengers in my clean up crew, which seems to be just right for my tank right now.
 
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Full tank shot April 2020. It's already changed again since this was taken - the return plumbing is changed, and I knocked several of my rocks off chasing a rogue emerald crab that I caught eating polyps, and I've placed a few more corals.
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Update post rescue - I ended up ill for a few weeks, and unfortunately my partner just didn't realize that the return pump went out. I lost several corals sadly, but some stuff made it through

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Battling Bryopsis with fluconazole, after one day it's starting to look much better thankfully, so I'm excited to see the progression.
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Oops, Christmas had me decide to tank swap - more photos when I finish moving the rock over and things are less angry
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