My 30G Nano Reef Tank (Lots pics) - Page 11

anguswu · #**251** 04/12/2007, 03:01 AM

The second one is my old blasto. It lives in my tank over one year.

anguswu · #**252** 04/12/2007, 08:05 PM

The mushroom's growth. Same discosoma

This photo took at Feb, 4, 2007. Diameter about 0.5cm

Photo took at April, 11, 2007. Diameter about 1.5cm.

mwoneal · #**253** 04/12/2007, 08:26 PM

Anguswu, I have lurked on this thread for sometime, and just have to say what a great tank this is! Congrats on your success.

anguswu · #**254** 04/13/2007, 12:03 AM

Thanks Mark. This tank is fully stock. Some of the coral need to acclimate. Like an Indo micromussa that I did not post, still need time to propagate. I keep feed it cylcopeeze but seems very slow. Yesterday I tried shrimp, and it has great progress. Now I am planning new propagation tank. Hope they can have better environment to live.

m1enbo1 · #**255** 04/13/2007, 12:15 AM

i still cant believe the colors in your tank. keep the pictures coming

natep206 · #**256** 04/13/2007, 03:00 AM

i just looked through your pictures. your tank is beautiful and has come together perfectly. i'm going to follow this thread from now on.shoot me a PM i was wondering if you might be intrested in trading some corals?

thanks
nate

edwing206 · #**257** 04/13/2007, 03:08 AM

Trading would be difficult seeing as how he lives in taiwan.
If only he lived closer.

anguswu · #**258** 04/13/2007, 07:00 AM

Yup, Taiwan and Seattle are very far. Come to Taiwan.

anguswu · #**259** 04/13/2007, 05:09 PM

Discosoma sanctithomae

Discosoma

eva12 · #**260** 04/13/2007, 09:35 PM

that first picture is amazing! i've never seen mushrooms like that here. my yuma is still trying to run away from the rock that she is on. i think she is desperately trying to reproduce and is waiting for me to cut her feet so that she can start growing some babies! any tips on cutting the feet? I am not going to cut the mushroom itself, only the parts of the foot that are stretched out already

anguswu · #**261** 04/13/2007, 10:07 PM

I may cut rhodactis, dicosoma, and ricordea florida. I won't cut the yuma. Be gentle.

edwing206 · #**262** 04/14/2007, 12:55 AM

Those new pics are awesome.
I especially like the second one.

DitchPlains2 · #**263** 04/14/2007, 08:56 AM

I want to thank you for sharing your tank however, I have a few things I'm curious about.

Firstly, please explain more about your maintence and cleaning, water change routines, I understand you may not want to get into every detail, but this is a forum, and not just to share pics, but more improtantly to discuss methods and methodology to keeping these creatures. When you say you change your water

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2 to 3 times over 2 weeks

what exactly are you doing when you change your water? Siphoning detritus? Sand stirring? Do you change your water through your sump? Do you clean your sump? Any detailed pics of your skimmer? Secondly you aslo say your using zeolite? Which the stones? or the bacteria or both? Corlite ( what exactly is that?) Thirdly, having kept a 55g sps tank that I was overskimming, I have to ask why did you think you could keep 3 Angels a tang, a two spot wrasse, all in one 30g? I know this is a nano forum, but thats nearly impossible to tank harmony. I only ask because your coral husbandry is spot on, but your fish husbandry seems sketchy. I love the tank don't get me wrong but I know you have to be cleaning that thing often or do you find having such a large livestock of corals helps keep your water prisitine along with water changes? Please explain. thank you btw in advance.

imsocool5609 · #**264** 04/14/2007, 02:57 PM

Dude that is an awesome aquascape.

KUDA · #**265** 04/14/2007, 04:19 PM

I really like your tank!! The main reason is because you have a bunch of feather dusters and I love feather dusters!

anguswu · #**266** 04/14/2007, 07:05 PM

Well DitchPlains2, I try too explain more clearly. It is hard to take photo of my skimmer. It it behind my tank. I found the link from manufacturer http://www.aqua-macro.com/skimmer/sk...oduct-007b.htm .

I change 20 gallon salt water 2 or 3 times a week. That is mean I change water every 5 or 7 days. I directly syophon the water from main tank and dump the new salt water direct to the main tank slowly. Before I change water I measured the salinity both main tank and new water.

My fish list now is-
Flame angle
Poters angle
two spot wrasse
bicolor blenny
red scooter blenny
Orange spot goby

The regal did not make it to open its mouth and the tang left my tank to my friend's big tank.

I clean my sump every 3 or 4 months depending my time. The zeolite is Mr aqua's zeolite ammonium remover that I bought from LFS. I also use rowaphos. Those rowaphos and zeolite put in my sump. I belive the large quanity of live rock helped my tank. But sorry I did not weight them so I cannot give the exact number about my rocks.

Hope these imformations may help.

exigency · #**267** 04/14/2007, 07:22 PM

i love your pictures.

anguswu · #**268** 04/14/2007, 09:32 PM

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Originally posted by imsocool5609
Dude that is an awesome aquascape.

Thanks msocool5609, I did my best to do this aquascape in nano.

Quote:

Originally posted by KUDA
I really like your tank!! The main reason is because you have a bunch of feather dusters and I love feather dusters!

I like feather duster too. Some of the hard tube is still reproducing its duster or it may more beatiful.

Quote:

Originally posted by exigency
i love your pictures.

Thanks Exigency, I like my camera.

exigency · #**269** 04/14/2007, 09:48 PM

haha, i want my tank to grow up like yours, all i have is my 4.98g long right now. you should check out my thread, your d200s beats the heck out of my d70s

anguswu · #**270** 04/14/2007, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by exigency
haha, i want my tank to grow up like yours, all i have is my 4.98g long right now. you should check out my thread, your d200s beats the heck out of my d70s

Very small tank and very good set up. If there is nToTM under 10G, you shall join.

Joy_42 · #**271** 04/14/2007, 10:16 PM

Your tank has all of my favorite coral. I doubt I will be able to make my tank look this beautiful, but you have inspired me to try!

exigency · #**272** 04/14/2007, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by anguswu
Very small tank and very good set up. If there is nToTM under 10G, you shall join.

haha, i wish, i can't compete with all these others across the country and in the world. most people make my tank look empty.

wilson0204 · #**273** 04/15/2007, 12:22 AM

your tank is beautiful

m1enbo1 · #**274** 04/15/2007, 12:43 AM

i've never seen anything like the sanctithomae before, very nice

DitchPlains2 · #**275** 04/15/2007, 08:34 AM

anguswu: Thanks so much for the info!! I want to point out to fellow nano-reefers out there that you change:

20 gallons of water 2 or 3 times a week!! Changing water every 5 days of that volume is quite a lot.

In order to have such a pristine tank and such lovely inhabitants this is method. Not easily followed I suspect! That is why anguswu's tank is so prisitne, he has great dillgence and is very regimented in his maintence.

I sincerely, applaud his efforts and its obvious its working out very well.. but most of us won't do that amount of work consistently with stable water parameters each time. His tank is a testament to dillegence and follow through.

His tank reminds me of Anthony Calfo's minireef. In his reef he changed out nearly 100% of the water each time he did it. Again with outstanding results.

Water clarity and stable parameters is the always the key behind any great tank IMHO.

thanks and cheers!
David