30 gallon nem tank

[ramona]

Beautiful tank, what do you feed the nems? look awsome!

 

[reef lover]

Thankd!! I dont feed the btas directly the clowns do....i feed the rfs whatever im feeding the tank...mysis,brine or other meaty foods.

 

[Katrina71]

Curious if you give them aminos too?

 

[reef lover]

Nope...nothing special...heres a new guy on the block...

 

[reef lover]

A lil update on the nem tank....shes now upgraded to a 50 gal cube!! Now i got room for more!

Here she is fresh off the truck!

Herbie over flow! Love it so quiet cant even hear it running!

Now i know my plumbings not a nice as most of your guys..but it works
And i still need to do some cord organization but ill get there...

And here she is with everyone moved over...still got a couple angry nems..but its hard to aquascape when theyre already attatched... im sure theyll come around...

Thanks for looking! And if you got colors that i dont have feel free to pm me...

 

[reef lover]

And heres a better shot of the dt since its blurry on the other pic when you zoom in...

 

[ramona]

Awesome!
May I ask what was the size of the nem prior tank and the maintanance details? Any dosing required?

 

[reef lover]

The old tank was a 28 gallon with a 10 gal diy sump. And no dosing just biweekly water changes. Only 2 clowns and a blenny so not much bioload ...

 

[SteveEreef]

Very nice tank. I see you added macro algae to this sump vs the prior. Planning on a bigger bioload?

 

[reef lover]

Very nice tank. I see you added macro algae to this sump vs the prior. Planning on a bigger bioload?

Good eye..
Not planning much more for fish i want a thriving pod population for a captive bred mandarin...the walls are covered in pods and i have 2 cultures going to sustain the population if the fuge isnt enough...my 120 is full of wrasses so no mandarin in there...lol

 

[Captain Quint]

Absolutely beautiful.

 

[reef lover]

Absolutely beautiful.

Thank you!!

 

[reef lover]

Couple top down shots!!

 

[ramona]

Beautiful nems!
Have a few questions: what salt do you use? parameters? light schedule?

 

[reef lover]

I use esv bionic...i know its a little pricey...but worth it. No residue left in mixing can, can have it ready in an hour, and can adjust my alk and calc to match the tank. I honestly dont test dose or automate this tank at all...i save that foe the 120... i do biweekly wc with my water mixed to 1.025 ,alk 160ppm and calc 424 ppm. I have 1 hydra 26hd over the tank running as follows...

This tanks a lil bigger and deeper so depending on how things look i may raise my cw and uv up a bit in the near future.

 

[ramona]

Thanks reef lover. I also use esv salt in a 6 month old 9 gal cube (and 10 gal sump) with only 3 RFA, 3 mushrooms, 2 smal zoas frag and 1 torch, not fish yet as trying to learn the reefing steps; looks ok, but not any growth; I just couldn't figure out yet how the kessil works. Your simple maintenence routine looks atractive.

 

[reef lover]

As long as there's no sticks or clams to suck down your components its a very easy low maintenance approach. Now the 120s a whole nother story..

 

[reef lover]

Got a couple new additions for the tank hanging in qt!

 

[Why-Me]

Nice build. Lovely nems they look healthy. How are you liking that 50G cube?
Cute new fish, when do they get to go into the DT?

 

[reef lover]

I love the cube!! Very sleek and clean . The black back ground makes the corals pop!!
And if they show no other signs of disease theyll.be in after 2 weeks of prazi. I just hope they are indeed a pair and one dont kill the other!!