Oh No... Not Another Nano Startup Thread!

[SkiFletch]

...+attention whore Goby

Wish my goby wasn't the exact opposite. Great lookin frags there

 

[@ombomb]

Saw some ace blue mushrooms in my LFS last week but my GF talked me out of buying them.

I went on my own today...

The weird thing is she likes them now they're in the tank... women

Big Goby delivery in the shop tomorrow, fingers crossed for a Rainfords / Hectors!

 

[@ombomb]

1 year has passed!

And in that time we've gone from this:

To this:

Quick close up of the Sun Coral (and the attention whore Goby of course! ):

 

[dixaisy930]

That's amazing. What a great looking tank!

 

[sianeds]

Your sun corals are beautiful. The whole tank is gorgeous. Well done

 

[-Nemo-]

wow what a great looking tank, huge difference after a year
What fish do you currently have in there?

 

[@ombomb]

it's currently home to a six line wrasse, perc clown, orange spotted prawn goby.

Still debated whether to turf out the wrasse as it's just a big too territorial these days and a destroyer of shrimps.

Still keen on a rainford's goby if I keep the wrasse, but will get a flame angel if I don't.

 

[demonmagus]

any updates?

 

[@ombomb]

Not much to report really, tanks doing very well at the moment.

Haver added a small trumpet coral frag and a long spined urchin.

Water quality started to go down hill a couple of weeks ago, but that was just the rowaphos / RO membrane getting well beyond the end of their useful life. Both are now replaced and water quality is great.

Am keen to add another fish, but am still concerned about the aggressive nature of the wrasse and don't think it's an option really

We're in the process of selling our flat at the moment to move to a bigger place, which one passed the original nightmare of moving the tank, could lead to an upgrade to a larger tank which might give me more options for tank mates.

Will post an updated pic tonight, have moved a couple of corals around and the pocillopora and torch have really grown.

The clown is now always to be found in / around the torch am so happy it's taken to it

 

[jakeroberts]

that is a mssive improvment

 

[@ombomb]

Just checked and I said I was going to update this in June...

Well better late than never I suppose!

Not much has happened other than a house move which killed my torch coral but did allow me to finally catch the demon crab!

Current stock: Sixline Wrasse, Clown, Watchman Goby / Pistol Shrimp, Cleaner Shrimp, Emerald Crab, Urchin, Various hermits / snails

Here's the pics...

Latest fish addition, lives with a pistol shrimp which didn't seem to want to be photographed...

Replacement torch

Riccordia - spot the starfish!

Plate coral - Moved itself there and seems to like it

Hitchhiker polyps spotted 18 months after rock added

Frogspawn

Emerald Crab was out and about

Candycane

Side tank

Full frontal

 

[nanocubeking]

I have a new found respect for you and your tank @ombomb.

 

[@ombomb]

Clean up time all round today, just as a was finishing off the weekly water change the shrimp decided to clean out one of their many burrows and for once I actually had the camera to hand.

It's amazing how well these two work together, highly recommended for any tank.

Just as a side not, the holes in the coraline algae on the rock to the left of center were created by my urchin feeding, worth anyone thing of getting one remembering just how quickly they get through it. My rock is covered in the stuff so it does fine without damaging the overall coverage, but they could easily strip a less mature tank bare in a couple of weeks.

 

[BigC]

Great tank bomb,
Can I use the Full Frontal pic on my website (Aquarists Nano Pics) with reference to you and the forum.
Regards
BigC

 

[@ombomb]

of course