EvilVOG
Community Member
Little introduction first... had saltwater tanks in the past but not real experienced in it. Mostly been a freshwater guy. I bred champion bettas for a while, and have a planted tank that's been up for a few years now.
My saltwater interest began like this; I saw a tank many years ago that i liked, however a shady salesmen sold me the wrong equipment so I never got close to that goal. Fast forward to last year I attempted to try again and was again misled by some sales person into the wrong equipment. I still have that last mistake running, more on that later.
The tank i've been wanting is simply this: clownfish with a host anemone as the centerpiece. everything else secondary.
So now i'm working toward that goal. I picked up a used 24g nano cube that came with a 28g pro series led hood. The previous owner had a rbta and clownfish in it before upgrading. Got the tank almost a month ago and started it running, lights on.
I set it up fuge-style... water goes in the overflow (i have the skimmer attachment) onto some filter floss, that is over one of the stock sponges. the middle section has a media rack that i put some cheato in, and the glass is scraped clear on the back to allow a nano-glo light to shine on it (reverse photoperiod). 3rd chamber has a 100w heater and a maxi jet 900.
to cycle I put down a bag of arga-alive sand, and a 6lb chunk of really purple rock. Also put my cleaning crew in, 4 snails, 5 hermit crabs.
It's been running for I lost track how long. Had a diatom bloom, and then an algae bloom.
Figured the Algae was a pretty good sign i was cycled, also was thinking i needed much more rock. Also had ordered some chemi-pure elite to put between my filter floss and sponge. Today was my first day off in a couple weeks so I ran across town and bought 35lbs of rock from a local guy that was getting out of the hobby (his tank was still up and running with fish and coral and everything - not a dead tank). Put the rock and the chemi-pure in, tried to brush the algae off the glass (didn't quite work- any ideas?) and then tested the water. 7.8 or 7.9 ph, 0 ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.
Not just holding out for confirmation that it's ok to relocate the stock from my running 3 gallon consisting of one clown goby, some rubble for the refugarium, and the random ampihipods that live in it's filter.
Also I have the following extra equipment if there is anything i can use:
extra glass tanks, 10-20g
extra heaters 5-150w
cans of brine shrimp eggs
lots of air pumps
My saltwater interest began like this; I saw a tank many years ago that i liked, however a shady salesmen sold me the wrong equipment so I never got close to that goal. Fast forward to last year I attempted to try again and was again misled by some sales person into the wrong equipment. I still have that last mistake running, more on that later.
The tank i've been wanting is simply this: clownfish with a host anemone as the centerpiece. everything else secondary.
So now i'm working toward that goal. I picked up a used 24g nano cube that came with a 28g pro series led hood. The previous owner had a rbta and clownfish in it before upgrading. Got the tank almost a month ago and started it running, lights on.
I set it up fuge-style... water goes in the overflow (i have the skimmer attachment) onto some filter floss, that is over one of the stock sponges. the middle section has a media rack that i put some cheato in, and the glass is scraped clear on the back to allow a nano-glo light to shine on it (reverse photoperiod). 3rd chamber has a 100w heater and a maxi jet 900.
to cycle I put down a bag of arga-alive sand, and a 6lb chunk of really purple rock. Also put my cleaning crew in, 4 snails, 5 hermit crabs.
It's been running for I lost track how long. Had a diatom bloom, and then an algae bloom.
Figured the Algae was a pretty good sign i was cycled, also was thinking i needed much more rock. Also had ordered some chemi-pure elite to put between my filter floss and sponge. Today was my first day off in a couple weeks so I ran across town and bought 35lbs of rock from a local guy that was getting out of the hobby (his tank was still up and running with fish and coral and everything - not a dead tank). Put the rock and the chemi-pure in, tried to brush the algae off the glass (didn't quite work- any ideas?) and then tested the water. 7.8 or 7.9 ph, 0 ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.
Not just holding out for confirmation that it's ok to relocate the stock from my running 3 gallon consisting of one clown goby, some rubble for the refugarium, and the random ampihipods that live in it's filter.
Also I have the following extra equipment if there is anything i can use:
extra glass tanks, 10-20g
extra heaters 5-150w
cans of brine shrimp eggs
lots of air pumps
