Corey's Aquaworld
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Hi everyone! I'm Corey and I love fish! I have 8 freshwater tanks (6 aquascaped, 2 hospital/growout) and this past memorial day weekend we picked up a 40 gallan Fluval cube that is setup for saltwater. Its en established tank, running for a handful of years. But it needs TLC, the previous owner had specified that it needed work, but I was ready!
We got it home and I tested the salinit and it was off the charts at over 1.032! I slowly brought it down to 1.025 in about 2.5 hours. Today I'm going to test the alkalinity, calcium, phostphates, as well as the standard ammonia/nitrite/nitrate.
The tank came with 2 percula clowns that look great, a damsel, and a coral beauty. We added a clean up crew of a few peppermint shrimp, hermit crabs, emerald crabs, and some kind of banded starfish. We also bought a green bubbletip anemone, which is the whole reason we bought the established tank, so we could add it right away.
We also got a Fluval 13.5 evo tank and set it up for 40 frags we bought that were on BOGO sale. That tank will be just frags and a pair of snowball or other cool white/black clownfish.
The 40 cube will get some corals and perhaps maybe a couple of other smaller fish. I know I'm not doing it the 100% correct way, but I feel like I'm rescuing this tank and these fish because the previous tenants of the house that the owner kept it in, did not maintain it and it doesn't seem like the owner did either.
Either way, I'm excited to have these two tanks, I had a saltwater tank back in 2004 but I was in the military and got orders for overseas so I got out of the hobby for a long time. May of 2021 my wife wanted a freshwater tank for her desk and in that moment the realization that I love to keep fish hit me like a ton of bricks, and now I've got 10 tanks in the house with an empty 90 gallon thats waiting to come inside lol.
We got it home and I tested the salinit and it was off the charts at over 1.032! I slowly brought it down to 1.025 in about 2.5 hours. Today I'm going to test the alkalinity, calcium, phostphates, as well as the standard ammonia/nitrite/nitrate.
The tank came with 2 percula clowns that look great, a damsel, and a coral beauty. We added a clean up crew of a few peppermint shrimp, hermit crabs, emerald crabs, and some kind of banded starfish. We also bought a green bubbletip anemone, which is the whole reason we bought the established tank, so we could add it right away.
We also got a Fluval 13.5 evo tank and set it up for 40 frags we bought that were on BOGO sale. That tank will be just frags and a pair of snowball or other cool white/black clownfish.
The 40 cube will get some corals and perhaps maybe a couple of other smaller fish. I know I'm not doing it the 100% correct way, but I feel like I'm rescuing this tank and these fish because the previous tenants of the house that the owner kept it in, did not maintain it and it doesn't seem like the owner did either.
Either way, I'm excited to have these two tanks, I had a saltwater tank back in 2004 but I was in the military and got orders for overseas so I got out of the hobby for a long time. May of 2021 my wife wanted a freshwater tank for her desk and in that moment the realization that I love to keep fish hit me like a ton of bricks, and now I've got 10 tanks in the house with an empty 90 gallon thats waiting to come inside lol.
