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Hi all. I'm just north of Boston and working on my first planted tank but it's not my first aquarium.
About 8 months ago I picked up a 33 gallon long with the intention of using it immediately as a saltwater quarantine. Long term the tank would become either a frag tank (coral propagation) or a FOWLR (Fish Only With Live-Rock).
I went the FOWLR route because I didn't want to tie the tank into my existing reef aquarium and had plenty of room for the immediate frags in the display tank. Also, I always had a desire to breed clownfish and cardinalfish (Banggai). So, I quarantined (1 month) and then added; mated-pair of misbarred false percula clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris), mated-pair of Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) and a Lemonpeel angelfish (Centropyge flavissimus) -because I wanted one.
Out of nowhere and within 30 hours, Brooklynella wiped my tank out. Can't explain it because I was thorough with all quarantine precautions which I'm very familiar with but that's the heartache of Brooklynella.
Now, the 33-long has 60lbs of black fluorite, a beautiful piece of Malaysian wood and plenty of foliage. The tank is also sporting a 4x54 watt T5 fixture which I'm only running 2 10K bulbs in.
My first livestock additions will be 6-10 Otocinlus vestitus and the bulk of the livestock will probably be Corydoras hastatus. Brown diatoms have settled on the wood, plants and glass. A closer inspection of a Cryptocoryne lutea yielded beautiful hitchhiking snails feasting on the brown diatoms. What are they?
What I'd like to see on this site is a hitchhiking forum. More knowledgeable members can identify what newbies are seeing with the addition of new plants and livestock. On reef forums, hitchhiker posts are a common occurrence due to the extreme amount of organisms living in saltwater.
I'd also like to see the for-sale forum broken down into plants, livestock and equipment. This should prove useful in the future and maybe attract breeders.
A vendor experience forum could be beneficial to users who are incline to order from a random websites and Aquabid. A search may lead them here.
Just random thoughts, take it how you wish.
See you around,
Dave
About 8 months ago I picked up a 33 gallon long with the intention of using it immediately as a saltwater quarantine. Long term the tank would become either a frag tank (coral propagation) or a FOWLR (Fish Only With Live-Rock).
I went the FOWLR route because I didn't want to tie the tank into my existing reef aquarium and had plenty of room for the immediate frags in the display tank. Also, I always had a desire to breed clownfish and cardinalfish (Banggai). So, I quarantined (1 month) and then added; mated-pair of misbarred false percula clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris), mated-pair of Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) and a Lemonpeel angelfish (Centropyge flavissimus) -because I wanted one.
Out of nowhere and within 30 hours, Brooklynella wiped my tank out. Can't explain it because I was thorough with all quarantine precautions which I'm very familiar with but that's the heartache of Brooklynella.
Now, the 33-long has 60lbs of black fluorite, a beautiful piece of Malaysian wood and plenty of foliage. The tank is also sporting a 4x54 watt T5 fixture which I'm only running 2 10K bulbs in.
My first livestock additions will be 6-10 Otocinlus vestitus and the bulk of the livestock will probably be Corydoras hastatus. Brown diatoms have settled on the wood, plants and glass. A closer inspection of a Cryptocoryne lutea yielded beautiful hitchhiking snails feasting on the brown diatoms. What are they?
What I'd like to see on this site is a hitchhiking forum. More knowledgeable members can identify what newbies are seeing with the addition of new plants and livestock. On reef forums, hitchhiker posts are a common occurrence due to the extreme amount of organisms living in saltwater.
I'd also like to see the for-sale forum broken down into plants, livestock and equipment. This should prove useful in the future and maybe attract breeders.
A vendor experience forum could be beneficial to users who are incline to order from a random websites and Aquabid. A search may lead them here.
Just random thoughts, take it how you wish.
See you around,
Dave
