Fishoholic's 2012 nano contest entry

[fishoholic]

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.

[The Grizz]

I would go for the mini reef as well girly.

[lastlight]

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?

[noirsphynx]

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.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by lastlight

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?

Originally Posted by noirsphynx

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.

[fishoholic]

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



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.

[fishoholic]

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

New and much improved (so far) pump



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

[fishoholic]

Ta da mini reef (the start of it anyway )

FTS


****ed off rhodactis mushroom, it is attached to a shell and I attached the shell to the rock- Blue world


Multi colour zoa frag starting to open up- Marine Experience


Zoa frag-Blue world


Campfire monti frag- Marine Experience


Cool florescent yellow/green monti- Marine Experience

[reefwars]

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

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by reefwars

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