So I thought I would start a tank blog on this forum to share pictures and progress of my tank.
The basics:
- 24 gallon Aquapod, started last march.
- Power compact lights (50/50 Daylight, 50/50 Actinics)
- Two MJ900 pumps in second chamber, one goes to a hydor roatating deflector, the other to a locline spray bar.
- Sapphire in-tank skimmer in the first chamber.
I had a bad tank crash about two months ago after I did some major re-arranging and kicked up lots of organic matter that zapped the oxygen. Lost all original fish, most of the inverts, and part of the corals. The tank has been nursed back to health, along with better tank keeping habits (i.e. using RO/ID water instead of Tap, skimmer, etc).
Since today I got a big shipment of corals in, I thought it would be a good point to start this blog. For those interested in the complete history of the tank, you can read it on my Nano-Reef.com tank page.
Back to the good stuff. Last weekend I got a Heliofungai long tentacle plate coral. It is awesome! And it is huge I love taking pictures of it. Today I got a shipment of corals from SeaCrop to re-stock my tank. They are a great company. The packaging was superb (like breaking into Fort Knox to open the box and Styrofoam), and the coral frags are a very generous size for the price.
So without further yakking, here are the pictures. All pictures taken under the tanks PC (daylight/actinic) lights, with no camera flash. Most of the pictures are taken 1-4 hours after the corals where acclimated and placed in the tank (gives credence to SeaCrop for them opening up so quickly). Click on any picture for a large one.
All the new goodies temperature acclimating.
Regular frogspawn.
Purple/pink frogspawn.
Green tipped torch.
Orange Bullseye Mushrooms.
Pipe Organ.
Green daisy polyps (these looked like they took the shipping the hardest).
Clove polyps (also slow to open).
More pics to come....