Nick's 2Ft Nano Tank

[nicholas_yeo]

another pic

[DeepBlue]

Found another nudibranch crawling on my tank..... similar to the last one except this one was yellow. The previous one was KIA when he try 'diving' into my sump....

Took a pretty clear snapshot of it as it was crawling on the glass. Can even see its translucent body.

Didnt know if it is 'dangerous' yet, no idea as well where did it pops out from. Looks like I have to make sure I dip my corals next time on my purchase

that is the famous zoos chomper...

[nicholas_yeo]

thanks for the info, deepblue...

I open another topic on this... now on operation 'cleansing' to get rids of the darn critters....

hope my zoos survive

[yiling]

very nice and well planned tank

3 cheers

[rapalla]

Very clean & nice, keep it up bro... Happy Reefing!

[gothia]

your tank looks fantastic after the addition of YT, Osc Clown & Suncoral!

2 thumbs up!

[nicholas_yeo]

thanks guys. Now comes the difficult part.... need to control feeding.... I am beginning to notice algae start blooming due to organic load.

My yellow tang and percula clowns are particularly hungry.... they ate everything I put in there.... I fed them 4 times yesterday and the YT was chomping everything including brine shrimp.....

Now will try to stablise the tank b4 I try to add any live stocks. Maybe only extra cleaning crews like shrimps and light sally foot crabs.

Finally, my percula clowns got so fond of the jewel that they are disturbing it so much that the jewel is no longer opening fully. Will this affect the jewel in the long run??? I dun plan to keep any anemone coz I afraid it will get shredder by the seio pump. any idea should I distract the clowns or do something else....

[rapalla]

LOL.... cute!

[nicken]

Found another nudibranch crawling on my tank..... similar to the last one except this one was yellow. The previous one was KIA when he try 'diving' into my sump....

Took a pretty clear snapshot of it as it was crawling on the glass. Can even see its translucent body.

Didnt know if it is 'dangerous' yet, no idea as well where did it pops out from. Looks like I have to make sure I dip my corals next time on my purchase

bro think you better dip ur Zoos. they come out frm ur Zoo, it happen tome once too. ended up i had to clear all my zoos away.

[LoReNsIa]

hey bro.. place ur anemone in a med current area and feed it well and it wont shift it place tt much once it stuck to tt place.. btw ur tank is nice.. hahax..

[Cardinal Tetra]

You have a very nice and well planned tank.

[FuEl]

Try a plate aka heliofungia to replace the goniopora. Once the clowns have taken to the plate coral, place the goniopora back.

[nicholas_yeo]

thanks guys, I will try. But I never heard that clown fish will take to a plate coral....

[nicholas_yeo]

Add the following livestocks over the past 2 wks

Decided no additional fish till parameter stablize. But I increase the cleaning crews to help on the daily maintenance.

Inverts

1) Sally lightfoot crab

2) Fire Shrimp

3) Emperor Shrimp

4) 'Pon Pon' Crab (dunno what is it, can't ID this pc - got it from Aquamarin)

Corals

1) Blue Sponge

2) Coco worm (Red)

3) Green Polyp zoo

4) Hairy Mushroom

[nicholas_yeo]

Bought a purple with green tip plate coral from reborn.... Has been for a couple of days now. The current was alittle too strong for the tentacles to fully extend... but I got no place with low current to place this little bugger....

Still, the clown fish ignore it and still spend all their time cuddling the jewel...

[nicholas_yeo]

Here the 'Pon pon' crab as called by Aquamarin. I called it cliffhanger coz it was always doing some stunts and waving his claws to and fro. Very funny fellow...

[nicholas_yeo]

Got this Emperor shrimp from Paris Ris. Very odd looking with a duck like bill. Very unusual species. Couldn't take a pic of the bugger b4 it ran into hiding... got a pic from the web instead.

[nicholas_yeo]

The sand is getting 'dirty' now after the bioload goes up with all the feeding to keep the fish happy.

Currently nitrite is 0.3 mg/l. Working on getting it down, anyone got good ideas let me know.

[yooyoo99]

one of the fellow reefer, kamiru, has 2 true prec making the jewel as their home. perhaps you would like to refer to his tread in the nano tank. it has been like that for a few months and the jewel is still doing very well...

[aStRoBo|]

pon pon crab.. is it also known as anemone crab?

[nicholas_yeo]

hi Astrobo, I dun think so. I saw the anemone crab at Sealife... looks diff in its pattern.

Kokhui has just open another thread with the same problem as mine. I was worry that hosting the clown fish will affect the jewel growth or health rate.... still monitoring it if it shrink but so far so good.

[veliferium]

for the sand,get sand sifters

[kamiru]

one of the fellow reefer, kamiru, has 2 true prec making the jewel as their home. perhaps you would like to refer to his tread in the nano tank. it has been like that for a few months and the jewel is still doing very well...

Hi to add on, actually i got 2 gonoiporas now. 1 was with me for more than half a year already, the other abt 4 months. Both my perculars like to hide in the gonois. Sometimes they will swop with each other gonnois. But in the night, the gonois will close up. then my perculars will go for my tube worms for shelter.

[nicholas_yeo]

Thanks Kamiru, yours is very similar to mine. The jewel will close up in the nite and during the day time, the clowns will start playing with it.

Can u share with me your wkly supplement and foods for the jewel?

After consulting with all u guys, I decided to shift the jewel to the substrate and the flow rate at that are is higher. Interesting the jewel stays open much longer though not as big when I initially buy it. Now I perform 2 twice wkly target food for the jewel.

[nicholas_yeo]

here is a pic of the jewel with the clown during nite time... will closely monitor them now. Trying to keep the trace element and magnesium 'at the right level' after reviewing that the article that jewel appear to absort both quickly to ensure a 'healthy' growth.