- Location
- Bridgewater, NJ
After some convincing, I finally joined up on this great site! My tank has been up for about a month now so I am still pretty new to all this. Here are the details: 30g "Shin Mao" all in one tank, 150w Metal Halide, whatever skimmer came with the tank, 3 stage filter running chaeto, sponges and carbon, 40+ lbs live rock, 20lbs sand. I think thats it for the tank, the denizens are: 3 Sexy Shrimp, 1 baby TR Occelaris, 1 McCosker's Flasher Wrasse, 1 Bi-Color Blenny, 1 Tailspot Blenny, and 1 Mandarin Dragonet. Corals are a few Zoas, 4 heads of Hammer (2 green, 2 pink), 2 heads of Frogspawn, 1 Red Digi, 1 big green Mushroom, a small Blue Mushroom rock with a few Shrooms on it, teal Palys and 1 Yellow Polyp hitchhiker. I have a frag rack in there too holding a few corals for my roommates tank until it gets going. Also a CUC with Hermits, snails, a Sand Sifter Star and a Fighting Conch.
I plan on taking out the sponges in the filter section and replacing them with some filter floss that I can just throw away every week. I think I am pretty much done stocking fish-wise but there will always be more coral on its way. I am also in the middle of bringing my lighting period down. I was running it for 12 hours a day and have been told that I should bring it down around 8 so I am taking a 1/2 hour out a day. Hopefully that will help rid me of my green algae that my snails don't seem to want to eat.
My fish:
These are the newest corals that we won/were given at our local reef club meeting this past weekend. The zoa was bought from OGII this Sunday too. Supposedly an Orange Bam Bam that needs to color up a little.
Well, thats it for now. Let me know what you guys think.
I plan on taking out the sponges in the filter section and replacing them with some filter floss that I can just throw away every week. I think I am pretty much done stocking fish-wise but there will always be more coral on its way. I am also in the middle of bringing my lighting period down. I was running it for 12 hours a day and have been told that I should bring it down around 8 so I am taking a 1/2 hour out a day. Hopefully that will help rid me of my green algae that my snails don't seem to want to eat.
My fish:
These are the newest corals that we won/were given at our local reef club meeting this past weekend. The zoa was bought from OGII this Sunday too. Supposedly an Orange Bam Bam that needs to color up a little.
Well, thats it for now. Let me know what you guys think.
. Well, they haven't opened up much yet. It was a bit of an ordeal getting them in tonight but I am sure that they will be open and happy in the AM.
