#nano reef

[chimaerabones]

what the heck! she is so cute!

fun fact: all green banded gobies are female at birth and only change gender to form breeding pairs

[letsgetsalty]

He uh. Twisted himself in half.

[fishproblem]

you heard it here first, kids. fishproblem’s going salty.

[throughttheshutter]

[paws-gills-and-polyps]

As requested by @letsgetsalty. Needs a little love still, going to move some more zoas over from the grow out. All the inverts except for Godzilla (cleaner shrimp) were hiding. He's probably going to go in the grow out, but he came from a tank that was infested with velvet so he's got to stay in the 4g for several months.

[horsesarecreatures]

I re-scaped my saltwater tank. I decided that the mismatched purple rock on the cave did in fact bother me. I kept the two more natural colored rocks and added more driftwood. I'm trying to imitate mangrove roots. Unfortunately when I went down the shore I forgot to go to the beach for more natural decor, which is a shame because there are few people there this time of year so I probably would have had dibs on some nice shells, rocks, and drfitwood. But oh well, it will still be there the next time.

Another reason I wanted to redo the hardscape is because I've ordered my first six corals (someone else got to those free corals I posted about a while ago before I did). Two of them are pulsing xenia and green-star polyps, which are very beautiful and colorful, but also very invasive. I think it's better to keep them on separate rocks that don't touch. It's easy enough to scrape them off of glass or sand, but not porous rock. If they each grow on the same stone or stones that touch they will eventually grow into each other and start to kill one another.

The red gracilaria algae is doing great. The fragments have about doubled in size. I can no longer contain all of it to just the front of the tank. I'm going to have to make room for the corals, though, so I'm going to try to sell about two thirds of it. Then when the rest of the fragments get larger I think I'm going to glue some to the back of the tank or the wood so it's not just drifting around loose.

I'm glad I have these tanks to keep me busy because I actually miss my classes.

[sapphicluxanna]

some people think it’s a lil weird that I have a saltwater reef tank but y’all should see how excited my clownfish get when they see me

[lagomorphoid]

recently moved, and set up the tanks together--everyone is settling in well. :)