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Livestock limitations - stock 24 nano-cube?
My stock nano-cube has been running for a few months and it is progressing nicely. It has zoa's, a few softies, a free birds nest frag, and an orange monti plating coral.
The monti seems to be doing well. The birds nest is so-so. It has some new growth, but the white on the tips is starting to progress down the branch. The birds nest was an experiment, but as I am looking for more and more corals I am curious what are the livestock limitations of a stock 24 gallon nanocube? (2x36W PC lights) What would you not put in a 24 nc? |
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i'd stick with softies, and zoas
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Crummy picture but here was my old stock nanocube
Softies: Cloves Toadstool Leather Xenia Kenya Tree Florida Ricordia Zoas LPS: Candycane Blasto Welsi Acans |
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that is a nice tank, what about your nanocube wih a sunpod?
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Those corals were all sold over time. Pictures of how it looks now are in my photobucket account, just click on the little red house to get there |
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collinadam that tank looks great! How did your acans respond to the light? Eventually I would like to get an australian import or two, but didn't want to spend $50-100 to have them die from poor lighting.
Did you put anything in the tank to have it whither away? |
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The acans are great under this light. With acans the best thing for them is feeding them mysis from a turkey baster.
The only thing I had that didn't do well was a Gorgonian. You can see a bit of it, the yellow branch on the left side. I didn't have enough light for that. Here's a picture of a Red Acan Lord, Red Blasto & Green/Orange Acan Echinatia I had under the stock lights, I kept them in the sandbed and it did great and kept it color. The pink favia lost it's color but a friend ended up with it and it ended up looking good. I was born and raised in Urabana, family still lives down there. Are you a townie also or did the U of I bring you there? |
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Again that is a nice tank. I'm glad to hear they respond well to this lighting.
Based on your experience I decided to purchase a couple frags from someone who is tearing down their tank. A few softies and even LPS. I'm very excited! The university brought me here. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and went to graduate school at Iowa (go Hawkeyes) for a few years and then moved here for graduate school. I'm liking the U of I and Urbana so far. Any advice for a newbie at UofI / UC? |
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La Bamba - Burritos as big as your head.
The best Pizza joint in town is on Neil, close to Neil & Kirby, can't think of the name. Jimmy Johns is always great and I can't believe how his buisness is expanding since he franchised. I worked at an A/V Store and he was a customer of ours, jerk would drive up in his red ferrari Best nightspot was Highdive when I was there (except when they booked Vanilla Ice's rock band for a gig that thankfully got cancelled). Turns into a ghostown when the students are away, not a lot to do in the area, that's why I moved away You'll have to get some pics of your new corals when they get settled. |
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Well the corals are not settled, but here is a pic of them in q.t.
There are: orange zoa's trumpet coral some LPS (brain?) and I believe those are hairy mushrooms, or some type of softy I already moved 2 softies into the tank. Sorry I don't know the names of anything besides the zoa's A closeup of the anem on the rock in the picture. Right under the softy you can see a black/white striped *something*. It looks like a slug, but moves much too quickly. Not sure on the I.D. yet. |
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