My 65 Litre First attempt

[simonas]

Its not long set up and I;m really catching the marine bug. Kept fish for 19 years but this is the way forward for me now

Just bought a river reef 94 litre tonight so will swap every thing over somehow next week??? hadn;t thought of how to do tha ttill now!

anyway heres some pics, it has about 12 kg of live rock plus 2 clown fish, 2 red leg hermits, 2 turbo snails
plus I large and 1 small toadstool, xenia pulse frag, green zoas, riccordea florida, yellow star polyps, kenya tree and finger coral

when I added the kenya tree on live rock tonight spotted three tiny aspitasia damn and also three brittle starfish!!! should i leave them in or not?

The scaping was rushed in a cloudy tank ut I;m leaving it like this for now and may be change it at a later date or see how it gets on when corals grow and tank shows signs of maturing algae, coraline wise


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It looks more active now. I;d like to eventually add a lawnmower blenny, a shrimp another couple of hermits and I;m going to read into a sand sifting starfish although i doubt i could have one
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[stevieh]

welcome to reef coral nice and slow is the way to go

[marinemike]

yes don't go rushing as that way ends in disaster.why don't you get some acrylic rods for rock can make a world of difference to aquascape.,have a look at my pics in my album and you'll see what i mean.

[piglet]

Nice you have some lovely Rics there

Try to do it slowly

Have a look at our sponsors websites a lot of them will post corals if you see something you like :)

[Gal]

looking good nice clowns

[simonas]

thanks for the kind comments

the clowns are great although i have one bigger one and one weaker one, the weaker one is skinnier and breaths quite heavy, the stronger one looks perfect and behaves normally

no fish will be added tll a month after the clowns were added

[simonas]

well I;m loving my new tankand the fact its in the living room as enhancing the experience for me, I just find myself watching my tank instead
I can see the benefitsof the extra flow and lighting the likes of the toadstool looks so much happier!!

the sun coral is great thanks to Macca and has fed already

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[sailin_home]

some fantastic corals in there. i used to love my 3ft tank in the living room but bein greedy i wanted bigger, unfortunatly bigger also meant i had to move it into the dining room, i think at some point i might get a nano for my front room.

[Gaters]

The tank's looking great. Just 1 tip: your sun would be happier in a very low lght area, maybe under a rock ledge and it needs feeding meaty foods, so that every polyp gets a piece, once or twice a week.

[simonas]

The tank's looking great. Just 1 tip: your sun would be happier in a very low lght area, maybe under a rock ledge and it needs feeding meaty foods, so that every polyp gets a piece, once or twice a week.

cheers Gaters I'll give it a new home over the weekend may swap it with the ricordea and zoas
Its fed already tried my hardest to feed every polyps a couple of the smaller ones round the edges didn;t get a bit but for a first go I was impressed at what it took

[simonas]

placed the sun coral on the siubstrate about 2 hours ago and all the polyps have been out since it looks spot on!!

[cl0wn]

The tank's looking great. Just 1 tip: your sun would be happier in a very low lght area, maybe under a rock ledge and it needs feeding meaty foods, so that every polyp gets a piece, once or twice a week.

i thought placement was irrelevant, as they aren't photosynthetic, maybe that's why mine never has decent sized polyps despite feeding, may try moving mine.

[reefergeek]

i was told put in a dark area as well for them as they dont like direct bright light, like the nano keep the pics coming