Freshly started ada 16g nano tank

cojo8888 · Aug 10, 2018

Back from 6 years break

I started little nano reef

Here's my current live stock :

2 clownfish

1 sixline wrasse

1 rock with green star polyph with ricordea coral

My dry goods :

Ada 16 g 60p

Live sand

Life rock (fake dry rock)

75w aqueon preset heater

Coralife marine skimmer hangon filter

450gph hydor powerhead

Hydor nano power head

Current USA 24" led light

Tester kit, water buffers etc.

NY_Caveman · Aug 10, 2018

Nice long tank. Welcome to the forum.

Katrina71 · Aug 10, 2018

Your scape looks great!

cojo8888 · Aug 10, 2018

Thank you guys! [emoji9]

Mordie101 · Aug 16, 2018

Following!

cojo8888 · Aug 20, 2018

Few more live stock..

I took tiny size juvenile klein's butterflyfish,
He ate all gsp but not touching ricordea corals.

I know butterflyfish should never kept in 16gal but he's less than inch, smaller than clown fish
Seems happy so far and healthy so I decided to keep for at least 4 months.

Also I have yellow watchman goby as well..

Now it's time to put more frags and that's it for live stock

Do you think bioload is way too overloaded?

I do 40% water change every 8 days 10% ~20%change for 4 days.

Sits Unafraid · Aug 20, 2018

Cool scape. Sometimes I regret not just keeping it simple with my life support like this.

cojo8888 · Aug 27, 2018

Sad and good news!

One little clown died [emoji21]
I checked my water parameters...
temperature, salinity..
Nothing was wrong..

He was eating little, not active compare to the big one.. that was only bad sign.

Also bigger clown was biting the small one to death when I got home. I separated with flow in container and then next day he died ..

I researched lot and seems like it was swim bladder disease..

Oh well

Good news is I added some xenia, and torch.

Green star polys are actually doing good now
(Thought Klein's butterflyfish ate the tips)

And everything seems ok

Hopefully I add some hammer coral and some zoanthid corals soon

cojo8888 · Aug 27, 2018

Oh and cheato algae also. I put in container with flow in lids hopefully they grow since I have more white lights now

cojo8888 · Nov 21, 2018

Lot of learning expierence for past 4 months. Dealing with pests like velvet, ich.. learned to be patient to wait until tank is ready for next steps etc.. sadly I will tear down this tank within 6 months. Was good learning expierence.

But good news is I'm going to upgrade the size of the tank with sump and with knowledge I gained and mistakes I made I think now I can do better job on new tank and since I have 2 tanks now I can qt everything enteres in my tank which is exciting

Anyway for now parameters are getting more stable and corals opens up good