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Custom 15 Gallon Nano Reef Tank (update 12-09)

Posted on June 8, 2011 by admin| 50 Comments

Custom 15 gallon nano reef tank with 20 gallon sump/refugium. Compact fluorescent light by Current. Water flow powered by a Rio 2100 pump. Custom plumbing with the return flow being split into a “T” inside the overflow and then out directional arms on each side of the overflow box. A wide overflow grabs as much water surface-area as possible. Since the initial tank setup I’ve added a few new corals and gave away some fish to lower the bio load. The tank is very stable now with all water levels testing ideal on a consistent basis for a few months. A ten percent water change is performed about once a month. The drip top-off also doses Kent Turbo Calcium. Fish feeding includes a rotating mix of OSI Marine flake food and frozen brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, and formula two. Kent PhytoPlex and ZooPlex are also supplemented occasionally for the corals.

Eating a cube of brine shrimp 55 Gallon Aquarium 15 Fish Mostly African Cichlids Sand Fountain
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Kraylen’s Reef – Brine Dine – Nov 29th

Posted on June 6, 2011 by admin| 16 Comments

Video of my chalices and acans eating some live brine shrimp. Every once in a while I’ll pick up an oz and feed all the tanks with it. The fish get so fat they roll off the rocks they try to perch on. Shot of my new dragonette in the beginning. :) Enjoy and subscribe!

Pushing through metamorphis, these larvae are swimming around taking out brine shrimp and rotifers.
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Hey I want to get some new saltwater fish.?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I have a 40 gallon reef tank and I already have two small colonies of polyps and 2 small mushrooms on a rock and i will eventually get more corals, as you know corals are no fun without fish. I know some fish have to be put in before or after others or they will fight, I need to know the order I should put the fish from this list in. Blue Hamlet, Bi color Anthias (3 female, 1 male), Sunrise Dottyback, Copper banded butterfly fish, Fishers Angel fish, Potter’s Angel fish Multi barred Angel fish (couldn’t make up my mind so feel free to chose for me), mating pair Maroon clowns (preferably gold striped maroons), a mating pair of Scott’s Fairy Wrasse(female first then buy the mail), Midas Blenny and Radall”s shrimp Goby, maybe some cleaner shrimp and hermit crabs. If your wondering im going to put them in at least a week apart, and if you are wondering where im getting my money from, I work at the saltwater fish and garden store so i get good discounts. Help me if you can by giving me the order of which I should put them in. Thanks!

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Cleaning saltwater tank with a mandarin goby (dragonet)?

Posted on January 27, 2011 by admin| 5 Comments

I am starting up a reef tank and would eventually like to get a mandarin (in 6 plus months after much research). I am putting in crushed coral substrate and adding live rock.
I know these fish feed off of copepods (sometimes brine shrimp). I am wondering how you clean the substrate. If you vacuum the substrate, aren’t you vacuuming up the copepods – thus the mandarins food source? How does that work?
I am curious and cant figure it out.
Thank you.

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Brine shrimp???

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

can i hatch and raise brine shrimp straight out of my existing reef tank?

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