I put the maxi minis up for sale to see what happens, there's some interest but I don't know if they'll sell, might just put the maxi minis in my 80g. I kinda got ideas for turning it into a reef (bought corals during boxing sales and no room to put them) so I'm leaning towards that route. Got talking to Doug and we both agree a tail spot blenny (even a tiny one) is to big for the tank. Thinking a barnacle blenny would work and if I can ever get one of my LFS to order in a Flaming prawn goby, that would be awesome to have one in there.

I would go for the mini reef as well girly. :biggrin:

my tail spot is really quite active so i'd have to agree. i'm not sure he'd be *as* active if there wasn't always a cat batting at the glass which he seems to love lol.

maybe a trio of trimmas?

I really like the mini reef idea.
I agree, a Tailspot is way too active for such a small tank. Mine was constantly going in my 8'. I like lastlights trio of Trimma's idea.

Ya I think a mini reef would be cooler to look at. I have a bunch of trimmas in my 34g cube so I think a barnacle blenny and a flaming prawn goby would be better.

On friday I had to take out all the rock in order to remove the maxi minis, here's a pic of the rock dumped back in

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...C_0033-1-1.jpg

After fiddling with the rock for a bit, I believe I got it back to the way it was. The water is a bit cloudy in this pic due to moving everything around, but it cleared up by the next day.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...C_0036-1-1.jpg

On Sat. I went to big als to buy a replacement pump for the tank. Needless to say the hydro pico 200 pumps suck! The 1st one lasted for 2 months before it died, and the last one I bought, lasted 3 months before it started to make funny sounds and started to die, cleaning it did not help, oddly made it worse :noidea:

New and much improved (so far) pump

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/43AD5469.jpg

I also went to Blue world and picked up a nassarius snail, rhodactis mushroom and small zoa frag. Then I went to Neal's (Marine Experience) and picked up 2 good sized zoa frags, a campfire monti frag and a florescent yellow/green monti.

Waiting for everything to settle in and open up, then I'll take and post pic's :biggrin:

Ta da mini reef (the start of it anyway :biggrin:)

FTS
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...o/DSC_0055.jpg

****ed off rhodactis mushroom, it is attached to a shell and I attached the shell to the rock- Blue world
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...o/DSC_0054.jpg

Multi colour zoa frag starting to open up- Marine Experience
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...o/DSC_0052.jpg

Zoa frag-Blue world
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...DSC_0049-1.jpg

Campfire monti frag- Marine Experience
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...o/DSC_0046.jpg

Cool florescent yellow/green monti- Marine Experience
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...o/DSC_0050.jpg

looking good girly , love the mini reef idea:)

maybe some rics and feather dusters??


ps...i have a small ultra red rock flower for you this guy is tiny but super cool ill bring it with me the next tme im up to ai for ya:)

Ya I was thinking I might add some rics and a feather duster. I ended up scraping the feather duster idea though as 1) there isn't really enough room in there for one and 2) it probably would not get enough filter food in a tiny tank.

Now that I've turned this tank into a reef I don't have room for the rock flower anemone, and after spending they money to turn it into a reef I'm broke :sad:

Very lovely. Can't wait to see it as it fills in. How fast will those corals grow?

amazingly you fit a cave and an overhang into your teeny tiny scape lol. looks great! hope you have a low profile scraper lol.

Thank-you, I can't wait for it to fill in either and I still want to add a bit more :mrgreen: not sure how fast they'll grow under the Eco pico led's but I imagine it'll be slowish.

Thanks Brett it's because I'm amazing that it worked out so well :lol: Actually it's more so cause I had amazing rock to choose from in Doug's sump :mrgreen: I use a small very low profile nanomag scraper which works very well, at that is when I remember to use it :lol:

Where are the fishies? You can't call yourself a fishaholic w/o any fish in your tank!

She sends them on return pump quests to the big tank

That must be a fun roller coaster ride for the fish :D

My guess is they are hiding or in qt thus far no worries but she has had it happen on another build thread

I likey the mini reef!! Corals look happy! :thumb: & grizz approved :biggrin:

I know right!?! :lol: I want to add a barnacle blenny (but of course no one has them in stock, they did a month ago but NOOOOOO not now :pout:) and I asked Steve to hunt down a flaming prawn goby (here's hoping as they are hard to find).

:lol:

:lol: I'll have to ask them how it was the next time one tries to take a ride into the sump (thankfully that hasn't happened in awhile) although my starfish went the other way and went upstream from my 80g to my 230g reef.

Close, but right now they are waiting to be ordered in for me. So yell at Steve (Red Coral) for me and tell him to get on it :razz:

In case people don't know

Barnacle blenny
https://bluezooaquatics.com/images/p...9708_F2_ps.jpg

Flaming prawn goby
http://www.aquacon.com/images/FlamingPrawnGoby3.jpg

Whoohooo :cheer2: Grizz approved, must be doing something right :mrgreen:

So I've had a busy week :mrgreen: Over the past 7 days I've bought/moved over some pretty zoas (made room in the tank for them :lol:) added a candy cane coral, added a barnacle blenny and a Pom Pom crab and finally (after buying it 3 months ago) I got brave enough to put my tiny bleeding apple scoly in. I also did a water change, cleaned the glass and the skimmer :biggrin: Going to add the prodi bio later tonight.

Waiting for the zoas to open so I can take/share some pic's :biggrin:

Somehow I don't think this is helping the zoas to open :twised: (on the plus side its a pretty good pic for it being taken with my iPhone)

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps7f8e1313.jpg

Make sure its not feasting on those zoas ;)

Mine used to feast on zoas. Possibly because I didn't keep them well fed.

:eek: Never thought they would eat zoas! Just thought he was walking on them or maybe cleaning algae or pods off them, I will freak if they eat them :sad: Note to self feed more often and give frozen more often.

Are you sure your sexy shrimp were eating zoas? Kinda freaking out now as I've never heard of such a thing.

I can't comment on the ones you have but mine were. Upon searching, I found out that if not fed atleast once each day, they will much on corals, particularly zoas.

Here's a good read on them:
http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/15121...shrimp-thread/

Here's a quote:
Maybe its a hit or miss too :)

Here's another reading:

http://www.reefcentral.org/forums/sh...php?p=20530160

Trying to provide with proves since I have a reputation that I rush to "conclusions" based on very limited statistics ;)

Thank-you for all the info, it was more of a case of not wanting to believe you then not believing you.

It makes sense it would just really suck after spending hundreds of dollars on zoas just to have them eaten :evil:

I wasn't feeding them regularly, just once in awhile every 2-3 days. Now that I have a barnacle blenny in there and know about the shrimp, the tank will be fed everyday and mostly mysis with once in awhile pellets. Hopefully that will keep my zoas safe! If not, there will be some sexy shrimp available in the buy/sell section :twised:

Well I caught the zoa munching buggers aka sexy shrimp and moved them into my 34g. I also bought more zoa frags :eek: Everything is puttied into place and I'm just waiting for things to open/recover so I can take pics :biggrin:

In the meantime here's a pic I took last week (from my cell) of the red hornet zoas, kinda blurry but the barnacle blenny in the background behind them is in focus.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps0ef48cc9.jpg

haha the look on the blennys face is classic lol someones got the zoa fever bad i see eh;PPPP

Yep, evil zoas!

I have 2 different Miami vice zoas, Rastas, frankenberries, sun gods, red hornets, pink zippers, blue ones with greeny/yellow skirt (eye of rah?) dull purple/brown centre with semi bright orange skirt (EZs?), very bright orange skirt with purple yellow centre, and pink/yellow/purple ones.

EZs or X-men maybe not sure what the others are and I have some green ones and watermelons I forgot to add.

The face on that blenny is classic lol too funny!

Thanks, here's a few more of him. He likes to hide behind the red hornet zoas frag plug and (oddly enough) will scoop sand in his mouth and spit it out.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps7b1b7f01.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps06c5cf79.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psdb65c52e.jpg

Here is pic's of my pom pom crab

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps0d9bfc82.jpg

This one was taken just before the sexy shrimp got evicted :lol:

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...pse79928e4.jpg

Your blennie looks like he's on crack LOL

hahaha he looks too happy!

looks great, i love the tiny things too....they are some of my favorite things.

another fish that would do marvelous in your nano is the mexican red cap goby. Super awesome, small 2-3" max and really active scootin' around the rocks. I have one in my 75 and i love her. Looking for and finding her is very entertaining. And it being a goby, she would stand up for her self against the grumpy barnacle blennies. also have you thought of adding a couple more barnacle blennies to your single guy? they are pretty entertaining in a group, they naturally live in small groups in close proximity to each other.
But then again i also second the trimma suggestion....red spot trimmas or eviotas!

One last thing, IMO and experience at progressive reef (RIP ProReef) maxi mini anenomes are not clown fish friendly, not fish friendly at all. We would wonder why our baby clown fish numbers was going down with no bodies, no evidence of jumpers, no sump surfers and then i saw it with my own eyes...maxi mini's eating baby clowns.

Cheers Ronnie

His eyes are supposed to be red, I swear the tons of putty used has nothing to do with it :lol:

The red cap gobies are cool but get a bit to big for a 2.5g. I also love trimmas but I have several already (including a red spot) in my 34g cube. Barnacle blennies are cool to watch in groups but they do fight amongst themselves and the tank is on the small side for a group of them. I do plan on adding a flaming prawn goby but I am having trouble tracking one down.

I know clownfish don't host maxi minis but I had figured it would be ok to keep them together. Unfortunately I learned the hard way that they aren't compatible (at all) when one of the maxi minis stung and killed the baby clownfish I had :sad: Which is why I ended up selling the maxi minis and turning the tank into a reef instead. I admit I really like how it looks now, however wallet prefers the way it was :lol:

Started taking pics last night but for some odd reason the settings I had on my camera changed and I had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get it back the way it was so the colour would show properly. I had started to figure it out when the battery started to die! So here's 2 FTS that are sort of close to the right colour, it's kinda in-between to two colours.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psf278e606.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...ps3ef59cf5.jpg

I've been busy cleaning this week as my friend is coming from Ontario for a visit but here is a bit of a closer pic of the bottom left side of the tank. Also happy to report that all the zoas are open and doing well since the sexy shrimp removal.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...psa5814126.jpg

looking great miss laurie loving the zoers;)

Thanks :biggrin: I have to say I really like the way the tank looks now. I'll try to take and post more close up pic's of all the zoas next week. Also have to say it's amazing how much coral one can stuff into a very tiny tank when they try hard enough! :lol: