My 3 Ft Tank After 3 Months

[Melvyn Tan]

My 3 Ft Tank - Suffered quite heavy casualty in the beginning now its stabilised.

[that was niceeeee]

nice tank.. wish could ahve a tank like yours put in 2 not so common lionfish inside n a foxface which i bought from a fellow reefer quite big he kept it for 1 year hehe

[ryz]

Nice! I like ur hood and cabinet too... what lighting u using? ur copperband feeding well?

[typrobin]

hey bro, seems like u are using canister filter?? looks good man....

[Melvyn Tan]

Another Closer pic of the items in the tank.

[Melvyn Tan]

Yeah, using Canister filtration (2 in fact) no Skimmers (don't believe in it except H&S, then again a tank my size - dun think i need it)

Yes my Copperband is feeding very well - infact it is one of the earlier introduction and even outlived my Clown Trigger.

[ryz]

using t5s?

[Melvyn Tan]

Using eheim 2215 & 2213.

My Livestock consists of : -

1 Copperband

1 6-line Wrasse

1 Tomato clown

1 Ocellaris Clown

1 True Percula

1 Fire Clown

1 Yellow Striped Maroon

1 Bi-coloured Blenny

1 Bi-coloured Pseudochromis (Dotty Back)

1 Pacific Blue Tang

1 Orange Shoulder Tang

1 Seahorse

[Melvyn Tan]

Another Pic

[Melvyn Tan]

Another View

[Melvyn Tan]

Same View Different Fish Swimming

[Melvyn Tan]

A closer view

[Melvyn Tan]

Hi all, please feel free to comment and all suggestions for improvement greatly welcomed.

[nsyahron]

Very clean tank. I like the look. But just too many fish (tang, dory) in such a small space to be comfortable IMO.

[RAV-65]

Wow!

so many clowns, do they fight?

Vincent Ho

[patrick123]

Is your copperband attacking your invertibrates and tubeworm?

[ReDDeviLs]

is the seahorse able to feed?i lost mine to a situation like that with much lesser lifestock!

hope urs is doing well!

[Melvyn Tan]

Yes at times the copperband pick on the feather duster(s) - now it appears to leave them alone.

Yes the tank a little small for so many fishes - may be transfering some out to another (new) tank.

Yes quite alot of clowns - they do clown around with each other, but not to the extend of fighting.

Yes the Seahorse is feeding daily about average 15 mysis shrimp + some brine shrimp and of course copepods and amphipods in the tank (hope they are enough).

[Melvyn Tan]

Tank Consists also of : -

1 Sand Star

1 Red Sea Star

1 Banded Boxer Shrimp

1 "Magnificent" shrimp (as told by the LFS - think its most likely a Reef Lob)

2 Halloween Hermit

2 Blue legged Hermit

4 Turbo Snails

Tank Systems : -

2 Canisters (2213+2215) Eheim with one surface skimmer

Undergravel Filteration

Powerhead (Hagen 802)

Air-con? My home aircon seems to be ok ... hehhehehe

Perhaps may need some advice on how the chillers work to benefit the mini reef and fishes - anyone?

[Melvyn Tan]

Closer-up view of shrimp + Halloween Shrimp in the background

[Melvyn Tan]

A previous view

[Melvyn Tan]

Tried a few times to introduce Cleaner Shrimp - but failed, anyone care to share how it can be successful ?

[FuEl]

Check the specific gravity. Sudden changes can lead to the shrimp dying. Always acclimatize newly introduced shrimp by slowly adding your tank water into the bag until specific gravity is stabilised before introducing the shrimp.

[trader_best]

hi brother...your surface skimmer wat brand?

[Melvyn Tan]

Surface Skimmer (its not a skimmer skimmer) is eheim.

For the shrimp - tried adding tank water bit by bit over a period of 1 hr before putting the shrimp into the tank - survived for about 6 hrs before dying - hahhaha. My coral Banded however did not die (strange).