**New Neo Nano Pics** Tank 5 days old
 

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Green Hairy Mushroom
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My New Bi colored eel blenny
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Looks good but do you realize you posted this in the freshwater section annnnnd you don't need to keep posting a new thread each time you'd like to share :wink:
I ALMOST bought this tank. Can't wait to see it established. Have you posted a FTS yet?

O sorry. did not realize that this was fresh water and what does FTS stand for?

The moderator's will move it to the proper location for you once they notice or if you just let them know.
FTS = Full Tank Shot

Oops, never mind, I see you've only posted once before in the pics section about your neo, my bad. :redface:

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I have this from a couple days ago.
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This is from the front of the tank.

haha thats fine how long have you had your tank ?

Looking good man! No more fish for a month though, take it slow. I'm sure a mod will change this to the correct place shortly.
Levi

Moved


It says your tank is 5 days old. Is that 5 days after the cycle or 5 days total?

J

The tank has been up for about a week and has established live sand/ rock from my tank. That being said flucker has been told 100 times now to slow down on the livestock, perhaps a few people from Canreef could explain to him the reason behind this :lol:?
Levi

The tank I have now is just a custom cube, not the neo but it has been up and running since May but like you I started with established rock, sand and some water from the other system I had running.

Please note that my Neo nano tank has live sand and live rock and live water that has been transfered from a well established 175 gallon salt water reef tank.

Snitch..

Yeah corals will do well if there in the same water you got them from.

You're still likely going to have a cycle of some kind. Things still die off during transfers.

People here will give you a hard time about going slow and taking your time and for good reason. They speak from experience and don't want to see another new hobbyist give up because the tank crashes after 2 weeks. That said EVERYONE wants to see you succeed and will answer any question you may have.

You sound like you are off to a great start but you do need to slow down. NO MORE ADDITIONS!

Test pH, ammonia, nitrate and nitrates every night for at least two weeks, preferably four so you know what kind of mini cycle you are going through because your tank will cycle to some regard, perhaps so small that your test kits won't pick it up. :lol: After 4 weeks of no nitrite and ammonia you can think about adding another species.

"The only thing that comes quickly is failure." <--- This should be on the banner ad rotation of this site. :)

on another note, i really like the tank very clean, how about some more pictures of it for me :biggrin::biggrin:

My tank has finally cycled there is algae covering my live rock, sand and glass. Over the past couple days it has bloomed into a wonderful world of the unknown. My Bi colored blenny is now named Blink and lives in his snail shell with his black eel head always sticking out. The algae is very light and can fall off with a touch, i can tell that my PH is changing although my coral are still doing great. I will post more photos tomorrow.

My snail just cummed everywhere is that normal?

That's one way of putting it :neutral:, if you mean did it release sperm/ egg into the water column then its a possibility. My snails do it when they get stressed out, btw your cycle will last longer than 4 days and what are your water parameters right now.

I did not see any eggs only a long line of white sperm. Parameters ?

Parameters = temperature, salinity, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, calcium, alk, magnesium, phosphate (don't think I missed anything). You really only need be concerned with the first five at this point.

So i am alittle scared and feal a bit hiprocritical, my snail is not moving and two of my zoos browned and closed up...... :(

My salt levels have randomly changed to 1.30, i have a fealing thats bad....

Have you been topping up with fresh water?

Yes i have been topping it off everyday with reverse osmosis water. Unfortantly If it does not start doing better in a couple days, I think i might need to turn this into a predator tank :(

No need to turn it into a predator tank.

Just SLOW DOWN, we told you from the beginning you were moving to quick and now you are starting to see the effects. Let the tank cycle, buy some test kits for Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate, and start testing.

Have to take it slow man :lol:, like I said every single tank has a cycle with a spike and some algae. Just sit back and enjoy the ride in a few months the tank will have a sweet mini reef system going!
Levi

I kinda want to turn it into a mantis shrimp tank. Would i still have to wait for my tank to cycle becasue i already have one fish, so when i put the mantis shrimp in he could just eat the blenny.

letting the tank cycle is the worst torture in this hobby but it is worth it in the end

but it's your tank and imo if you want a mantis tank, sell your blenny to someone of give it back to the LFS. please don't use it as food

Really???
Why would you want to let it eat the blenny? Turn it into a mantis tank fine but take the poor blenny out, And your still gonna have to let that tank properly cycle or your gonna have a dead mantis...

Have to agree, don't put the little guy through more torture. He's already stressed from the cycle no need to get him munched on by a mantis. Stop doing stuff, don't add anything and IMO and don't make it a mantis tank. You're going to want coral and then your going to want nano fish and then the mantis is going to have to go. Just stop changing your mind, come get some more liverock from my tank and take it slow!!!

I finally know i am going to make it into a clown fish tank so they will have babies and i will sell them.
Btw i would never do that to my blenny i was kidding...........

My clowns finally hosted in my new magnificent anemone :D
This is in my tank now,
Pics later.
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Condy Anemone 5in
Magnificent Anemone 9in (HUGE)!!
Sea Anemone 7in
GBTA 3in
RBTA 4in
GSP 5in covering rock still growing..
3 Pocillopora frags
2 Zoanthids frags
1 Frags full of algea
Green toadstool
Green hairy mushroom
7 Hermit crabs
4 Snails
2 Breeding Ocellaris Clown fish
1 Bi colored eel blenny
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I want to see the end results but...
 

I mean no offense to you Flucker, but what are you trying to accomplish with your tank here? Why are you posting this information wanting feedback from other reefer's and not paying any attention to their advice? What research have you done? What experience do you have with reef systems other than this potentialy beautiful tank?

If your reef system makes it through all of this, and I mean all of the coral and fish, I will be amazed and I will call that a once in a lifetime.

But yah, take some time and read through Canreef and do some research, you will find that everyone that has posted "TAKE IT EASY!" has a reason to say so. But yah, if you do pull off this tank going the way that you are going, then I look forward to the end result. But I will have a higher chance of seeing the end result of this reef system if you listen to some of the more experienced reefers.

Good Luck Flucker!

I used some solution that cyced my tank in two days about a month ago.

Oh, and what solution is that?

http://www.weissorganics.com/bacterboost.html
Look for yourself....

Oh dear god tell me you don't have a Ritteri in that tank? ( aka Magnificent)
Those are one of the hardest nems next to a gigantea that you can have and you have mixed it with a condy and some other sea anemone and some bubble tips?
You are gonna kill it.... Look at the fact that you have a BRAND new tank and you have piled it full of things that should be held off on untill at least the 3-6 month mark but you are mixing species of things that should NEVER be mixed in a small tank....
Have you read on what Magnificent anemones need?
You do not have enough light,flow, or room for that nem let alone a whole crap load worth of other anemones that you can't provide the right enviroment for except for maybe the bubble tips. I wish you would listen to what everyone has been telling you all along....SLOW DOWN and do some research...You are going to have some wicked fighting going on with all those anemones and they are gonna die one by one when they don't need to.

Please delete!!
 

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Ok, not to often do I see people using that stuff. I havent heard much about this product so I cant say much.

Do you have a test kit for your tank? Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, Ph, Alkalinity, Calcium test kits.

And do you use purple up? I find that works very well for jump starting the coraline growth, but watch your doses though, to much purple up well sky rocket you calcium levels so high that you will end up with enough algea to fill a five gallon bucket(seen it happen once on my buddy's tank, kinda funny to see but a major pai to fix)

And I noticed that you dont post to many questions on your forum here, do you have any questions at all or are you confident enough.