Goku333
New Member
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2023
- Messages
- 14
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- Location
- Falls Church, VA
- What state or country do you live in
- Virginia
Hello! I hope your day is going well.
As I now call it: Tiny Overgrowth Cove, or “TOC” is a fluval evo V build that I have had for a little over a year now. I started it at the end of my senior year in high school and I have just finished my first year of college across the country. At first, I tried to maintain it. And oh boy was I overconfident.
2023:
Now:
In the history of this tank, a firefish goby, a clownfish, Three different duncan-like LPS’ (who’s skeletons are on display), a rock flower anemone, a kenya tree, two crabs (porcelain and emerald) and my sweet late black cardinalfish, have ALL died. What I have left is the quaint but majestic beauty of the resilient few.
I have finally come home after many months at college to see that despite its ghost-town esque nature, the time was not wasted. The mushroom has nearly tripled in size. I can see the GSP has slowly crawled up towards the light in hopes to bloom like it had in its prime.
This completely new green fauna has appeared seemingly out of nothing. My snails seem to be doing good.
My question for you is:
What can I do going forward?
Are there any unique inverts or especially hardy coral that would spread inside this close-to-zero maintenance tank? I would like to continue growing things on top of what once was, creating a self-sustaining environment, but with the setup I currently have, I’m not sure what would and wouldn’t work. I’m going to be leaving again for college at the end of the summer so I just want to leave something with the highest potential to survive and thrive.
All the best,
Caleb
P.S.
My zoanthids are in crisis. What were once healthy are now slowly withering away. It is what it is. This tank is the wild west.
As I now call it: Tiny Overgrowth Cove, or “TOC” is a fluval evo V build that I have had for a little over a year now. I started it at the end of my senior year in high school and I have just finished my first year of college across the country. At first, I tried to maintain it. And oh boy was I overconfident.
2023:
Now:
In the history of this tank, a firefish goby, a clownfish, Three different duncan-like LPS’ (who’s skeletons are on display), a rock flower anemone, a kenya tree, two crabs (porcelain and emerald) and my sweet late black cardinalfish, have ALL died. What I have left is the quaint but majestic beauty of the resilient few.
I have finally come home after many months at college to see that despite its ghost-town esque nature, the time was not wasted. The mushroom has nearly tripled in size. I can see the GSP has slowly crawled up towards the light in hopes to bloom like it had in its prime.
This completely new green fauna has appeared seemingly out of nothing. My snails seem to be doing good.
My question for you is:
What can I do going forward?
Are there any unique inverts or especially hardy coral that would spread inside this close-to-zero maintenance tank? I would like to continue growing things on top of what once was, creating a self-sustaining environment, but with the setup I currently have, I’m not sure what would and wouldn’t work. I’m going to be leaving again for college at the end of the summer so I just want to leave something with the highest potential to survive and thrive.
All the best,
Caleb
P.S.
My zoanthids are in crisis. What were once healthy are now slowly withering away. It is what it is. This tank is the wild west.
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