Just wanting to say hello as I am new to this forum and nano. Just setting up a 14g cube which and wanted to share some pics, any suggestions and advice is appreciated. The tank has been set up for 1 week, I put in 18lbs of LR and am just waitng for the tank to cycle. Just did a few water tests and : nitrate 20ppm, nitrite 0ppm, alkalinity 300ppm, PH8.3 . Today I left the lights on for about 10hrs and noticed some bright green (algae I presume) on the LR. any recomendations for clean up crew? was thinking pepermint and blood shrimp, some sort of snails and crabs? mabye add next week? Thanks to all the members for the great pins in this section. I have learned alot since being on this site.
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to the salty side of life. pepperming shrimp or blood shrimp are great for nano tanks. In the snail category you might want to consider trochus, nassarius, cerith, and/or astrea. I'd stay away from turbos since they get a little big. Also for the crab situation, try and avoid blueleg or zebra hermits and stick to scarlets (aka mexican redlegs) as they're less aggressive and wont kill all your snails like the bluelegs do.
