My 5g SW nano

[mixixe]

I got my new camera today so I took a bunch of pictures of my tanks and here are some of my SW nano :)

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[Jonesy]

WOW!!! Great shots!!!

[CACAdmin]

Wow! Beautiful pictures! Sure makes it tempting to venture into a SW setup.
As for the camera, it's always fun to get a toy. Glad to see you put it to good use right away.;) What kind of Camera? Obviously, with some macro lenses from the shots you took.

As for your tank, I'm really impressed. How long have you had it set up? As one of those uninitiated to SW, I'd love it if you could ID your tank inhabitants for us.:yes:

[mixixe]

Thanks guys! Here is the list of all the things I have in my tank.

Corals:
zoanthids, palyzoas and button polyps
white star and green star polyps
yellow and orange clove polyps
anthelia
mushroom anenomes (blue and red)
ricordia mushrooms (pink)

Other inhabitants:
yellow clown goby
sharknose goby
4 boxer crabs
2 sexy shrimp
4 spiked snails??
1 egyptian pyramid snail (my favorite snail)
1 featherduster worm

Things that I had that didn't work out:
asterina snails (kept falling over and dying)
pulsing xenia: stopped pulsing

I'm expecting an order soon with more button polyps, zoanthids and mushroom corals so I'll post more when I get them in :)

[thegrandpoohbah]

Nice. What are the hardware specs?

[mixixe]

I have two strip lights i'm using on the tank, with 2x 9 watt 10,000k bulbs and 2x 9watt actinic bulbs. A 25 watt stealth heater, a 3.5 refugium built by mykiss and i'll post pics of that too in a bit, and a regular light for the refugium, and a powerhead 110g/hour, but i think thast a bit too much flow, I think i've reduced it but I can't really tell, one of my fish can't swim comfortably in the current but the other one can. Everything else seems to like it.

[hp10BII]

Very nice! Must stay away from the darkside...

[Melody]

Evil temptress! Gorgeous. I can't believe that list of things you have in there! In freshwater you'd be lucky to have a few Shrimp & a pair of Het's in a 5G.

I'm glad to hear that you picked up a camera. I'll look forward to many more pic's :smile: .

[Melody]

Very nice! Must stay away from the darkside...

I dunno Mr. HP, I'm beginning to think that's where all of the fun is. There is a stigma attached to the 'twilight' zone, going towards the light means you can't come back and people who look on the bright side are very irritating overall, so I may just cross over to the dark side because that's obviously where all the cool kids hang out.:D

[mixixe]

I think it's true what they say about salt water, once you go SW you don't go back.

[Melody]

I don't think there's enough breeding possibilities to keep me interested - I couldn't play with color and finnage like I can with Livebearers. I wouldn't mind trying a small one before I go towards the light....lol....but otherwise the only thing I've ever really wanted in marine fish are seahorses, because I've loved horses since I was a little girl. I love other people's marine tanks though.:yes:

[mixixe]

yeah, sea horses are cool. The only thing I've ever wanted in a marine tank is a blenny, but I have no blenny and a bunch of other stuff. But now I love the other stuff. One day I guess i'll have to upgrade and get a blenny. I named my computer and mp3 player Blenny, that's how much I like them.

[mixixe]

Here is the refugium that mykiss made for me. I think he did an awesome job!

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0076.jpg

[Melody]

That's excellent! I can see another side biz in his future. I think he has some spare time between 3:34 AM & 3:52 AM so he could do it then ;) .

[hp10BII]

Pardon my ignorance as I do not have any sw tanks, but what's the purpose of a refugium? Is it a sump that doubles as a second tank that you keep a few more inhabitants to help filter the water?

[Pamelajo]

Nice tank. Love the colours.

[mixixe]

The refugium is like sump, to add more water, but also in a refugium you put in things like plants to get rid of extra nutrients like a filter. I guess you can add more inhabitants if you want but it's just helps to keep the water cleaner. I like it because now i ahve two tanks to look at even though i got nothing but rock and algae in the other one.

[CACAdmin]

So how big is your refugium?

[mixixe]

3.5 gallons

[mixixe]

My yellow clown goby Elaine finally stopped hiding! :) So cute!

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0088.jpg

[Melody]

I'm trying to remember what cartoon character she reminds me of... something about the shape of that face....

Regardless, very nice fishy. I still can't believe just how much of the marine experience you can have in a small tank. Whodathunkit?

[mixixe]

Flounder from the little mermaid?

[Melody]

Its something abstract... can't put my finger on it.

It will probably come to me at about 3AM in June of 2008. I'll call you then ok? :laugh:

[MobileImage]

I'm trying to remember what cartoon character she reminds me of... something about the shape of that face....

Regardless, very nice fishy. I still can't believe just how much of the marine experience you can have in a small tank. Whodathunkit?


Her, right?
http://nesha2hot4ya.tripod.com/my_favorite_cartoons/Tweety.jpg

[Melody]

I don't know, Tripod won't let me see it....lol.

[mixixe]

I can't see it either.

[MobileImage]

Ops, here it is!;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/Casstudio/Tweety.jpg

[mixixe]

haha! it does look like tweedy bwird. :) thanks A!

[Melody]

Nope, that's not it, but I see the resemblance....lol.

[mixixe]

Got some new pics for my SW tank as I got some new stuff from a friend and bought some more stuff today :)

Check it out!

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0231.jpg

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My fishies resting on shrooms!

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My newest frag. Got them today from OA

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0225.jpg

[Melody]

That looks fantastic! I can't believe you got more in there....lol.

The fish colors are perfect - everything compliments the other.

[CACAdmin]

Looks really good... lucky fish to have such a nice home!

[hp10BII]

wow!!...it's coming around very nicely. Good thing Boxing Day is a bit aways, plenty of time to talk myself out of starting a new tank...

[mixixe]

:laugh: I want to start a new one too! We can be new tank buddies!

[mixixe]

Ok I"ve managed to stuff more into this tank, but i think it's hit it's limit. and if anything grows i wont even be able to fit my hand in it...

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and one of my precious pom pom crabs!

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0347.jpg

I'm getting a bit worried that some corals may be too close together, but so far so good.

[Melody]

Time for a bigger tank! ;)

[mixixe]

More sw pics... my tank has transformed a bit due to bad parenting!!! I didn't do waterchanges for a month and stopped dosing and some corals died but some survived...Somehow I managed to kill off some zoos... and some of my coraline algae turned white... must do water change. Anyhow it's not all bad, I did some rescaping, and my tank looks a bit different and the corals are a bit disturbed but here are the new pics.

FULL SHOT

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0889.jpg

The GSP encroaching into my anthelia of all things lol.

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My cloves have only grown this much:

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the zoos that survived

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some frogspawn and a trimma goby

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0897.jpg

[mixixe]

and this is my true perc (i think) in my prop tank which is very bare and not very exciting. he's the cutest thing there

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m271/mixixe/CIMG0872.jpg

his name is nemo :)

[nathan u]

gorgeous tank.
what kind of lights do you on it,, and how much hard is it keeping such a small tank.
I have been toying with a 10g for holding frags.
everything is lookin awsome,, love the gobies

[Melody]

his name is nemo :)

Well of course his name is Nemo. I can't imagine owning one and NOT naming it Nemo...lol....I like them.

[fishykisses]

lol that's funny - mine was Nemo too!

[mixixe]

I"ve never had a big tank so I don't know how hard it is in comparison but it's not so hard. My tank was doing much better when I was doing weekly water changes and dosing, so I guess that's very important as in any other tank lol. I have a refugium so that helps. It's actually not as hard as I thought it would be.

I just use a current satelite 36 watt light strip and I might be switching to MH later on in the summer.

Thanks for the compliment on the gobies :)

I"ll post again i a couple of months as I am trying to take better care of it now... see if there is a difference :)

gorgeous tank.
what kind of lights do you on it,, and how much hard is it keeping such a small tank.
I have been toying with a 10g for holding frags.
everything is lookin awsome,, love the gobies

[mixixe]

I tried really hard not to call him nemo and I could only resist for like 3 seconds.
lol

lol that's funny - mine was Nemo too!