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Hello! Introductory Blog

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CaelCynndarr
, 04-19-2010 at 11:04 PM (2000 Views)
Hello, my name is Dylan but online i go by Cael.

I have a small reef system set up, a mere 20 gallons. It houses a wide variety of coral, fish, and invertebate.
It was setup in october of last year and was an upgrade from a ten gallon.
With loads of help and donations from teesquare it has come to be as it is today

The stock list includes:

FISH
Tomini Tang (youth under three inches with move out plan)
Pair Occ, Clowns
Yasha Hase goby
Green clown goby
Firefish
Scooter Blenny (prepared food trained)

CORAL
SOFTIES
Xenia (unsure of type not pulsing though)
various zoos and palys
st. Thomas bubble mushroom
hairy mushroom
kenya tree
GSP
Giant palys
Snake polyps

LPS
Acan lords
Duncans
Octopus Frogspawn
cynarina
Fungia plate
Lobo
Turbinaria Scroll
Green trumpet
Unidentified florida native coral

SPS
Rose millepora
Montipora digitata
Monti cap (orange and green)
random "blue" acro (it's brown but fresh growth is a nice lavender color)
lossietia
tricolor valida


CLAMS
One four inch teardrop maxima
One two inch green/brown maxima

The setup is running on a sump designed for a 55 gallon tank
using the stock skimmer and rubble replacing biotower
return is a maxijet 1200
pumps in tank include a koralia nano, 1 , sicce voyager 1 with revolving flow deflector
Lighting is a current nova extreme two bulb fixture with giesemann bulbs


Fairly current video below (the floor plan has changed for the tank since)


And pics of the clam (since the vid was before it came along)


THANKS!!!

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Updated 04-21-2010 at 07:32 PM by CaelCynndarr

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Comments

  1. melev's Avatar
    How do you like your little reef tank? You're keeping it bonsai-style, no doubt.

    What does your username mean?
  2. CaelCynndarr's Avatar
    I LOVE my tank!!
    My user is actually the name of a videogame character from the ninties.

    May I inquire about "bonsai style"?
  3. melev's Avatar
    Ah - sorry about that. I was thinking how you much prune your corals back frequently due to the limited space in your tank, like how one would prune a bonsai tree to stay pretty with its miniature scale. I had a 29g for seven years, and every inch counted.

    It must have been challenging to keep livestock alive in a 10g, since evaporation can really hit salinity hard if it isn't kept up with constantly.
  4. CaelCynndarr's Avatar
    I added water at least once a day. I never had many problems with it. Livestock in the ten was very limited, just the clowns and a clown goby back then.

    All the frags are young at the moment so I don't need to prune too much yet
    the xenia needs to be fragged soon but that's the only thing growing in monumental leaps.
  5. melev's Avatar
    Xenia can be a great tank barometer. My preference is Pompom Xenia, as it is prettier.
  6. CaelCynndarr's Avatar
    Well I got this for free at a local reef club meet
    I should get some pompom but the local propagator doesn't frag his too often
  7. CaelCynndarr's Avatar
    I just updated the video to a new one i took today!!