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4lti7ude's Zoa Nano Tank Journal (From the Start)
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http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...REEF/icon4.gif Thread Update! :question: Question :fadein: Website Link This journal starts just like most fish fanatics I started with Fresh water aquariums March 2009 as a random hobby. I never really pictured me in the future becoming ADDICTED to fish, but look where we are now... Here's some of my fresh water tanks I had in the past. First tank 10 Gallon my roommate gave to me. The Ex picked all the decorations inside... :neutral: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...47_1870979.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...65_1054862.jpg Bought a 20 Gallon the next week. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...66_6131882.jpg 20 Gallon Before getting switched to a more Natural Look.... So I thought at the time :lol: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9_1660633_.jpg Started leaning towards more natural looking tanks... Re did 20 Gallon http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...079_277550.jpg Cichlid 10G tank http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9_1904278_.jpg This is how my planted tank is presently. 2x Nutrafin CO2 Fed Marine land Magnum 220 Filter Fluval E100 Heater ZooMed Power Head 15W T8 Running 10 Hours 28W T8 Running 12 Hours Tetra Silent 20G Air Pump Running 9Hours @Night SeaChem Flourish Tabs SeaChem Flourite Substrate Mixed SeaChem Flourish Daily SeaChem Flourish Iron Daily http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...F/DSC01746.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...F/DSC01745.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...REEF/icon4.gifOnly planning to get new lights, and Power head then the tank is finished aside from random plants here and there. Nothing to major for now. The Cherry shrimp are breeding like crazy and the tank is full sustaining now. I don't need to do anything but top off the water and clip plants sometimes. |
Wow. Very nice tanks. Great job.
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Great Pic's, now it's time to try salt
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IS that a ten gallon african cichlid tank?
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hmm so where are the salt water tanks? |
Lol the one 10 with the white sand is a Cichlid tank, and my first one was a Barb Tank.
Ill be uploading my salt water tank pictures tomrrow afternoon :mrgreen: |
cool. yah i have a couple of 10 gallon FW tanks kicking around too. I keep them around because they are amazingly cheap! Cant wait to see what you do with your first SW tank.
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Sadly its not fully updated yet... But here's my salt water tank in its past building up stages. |
The old 10Gallon was then switched to a salt water tank.
I came into this with only a bit of knowledge so forgive my mistakes. Random information but as you can see I never really ever waited for a tank to cycle before. I'm just to excited to get fish and always seem to find ways around making my tank have to start fresh... Maybe I'm just lucky. 10 Gallon Tank 50 Gallon Aqua Clear Filter Life Glow T8 Marine Glow T8 Hydor 100W Heater 10 Gallon Air Pump w/ Read Sea Wood Air Stone (I wanted it cause it was Red Sea :redface:) Full Ice Cream Bucket of Live Crushed Coral Substrate from a friends tank. 12.77 Pounds of Live Rock from Pisces Pet Emporium http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0000.jpg !!PROBLEM!! Rock is LITTERD with Aiptasia Anemone (aiptasia pallida) I was so excited when I thought I had a bunch of free anemones... I never read the thread on where to get rock before I did... Seems like many people warned of this. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0001.jpg New Rock from a friend! Live Sand from his set up tank Hydor Koralia 1 from Golds Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab (clibanarius tricolor), Gorilla Crab (gorilla gorilla cancer), Spotted Mushroom (actinodiscus sp.), Super Man Mushroom (actinodiscus sp.), TONS of colorful Brittle Sea Star, and some other random Hitch Hikers... So far all good ones tho. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0004.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0005.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0006.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0007.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0008.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0010.jpg Could this be Sponge...? Black and Yellow stuff http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uarium0009.jpg !!DONT BOY THIS!! At this point I was using a $22.00 Oceanic BioCube Mini Hydrometer which I also picked up from Pisces Pet Emporium http://akamai.f3images.com/IMD/600/O.../OA36014_1.jpg I borrowed a Refractometer and when the Oceanic Hydrometer read OFF the charts was the salt really at 1.025. Bought a Refractometer off a friend now and threw that piece of garbage out. Found a Bristle Worm in my Rock!! Thanks to the CanReef members for helping me figure out what it was. Follow up on thread :fadein:http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=63622 This is my Drawing of it because my camera sucks... http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...m/DSC01711.jpg |
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