[marinebiologist]

today is my tanks one month anniversary. i have 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 emerald, and 1 sea devil. on friday im going to get my first corals. its going to be 2 xenia frags and a colony of yellow polyps. any info on them would be appreciated. ill try to get pics as soon as possible.

[marinebiologist]

here is mr clean

fts

tell me what you think.

[WILLIAM1]

Sounds like your on the right path... I always tried to keep my xenia on a little island rock in the sand bed. Becuase if it gets out of controll and it will its hard to keep up with the stuff. But all sounds good..

[marinebiologist]

the pics look a lot better in person but do you think it looks good?

[BLKBRDTA]

It looks great Marine, xenia does get quite out of control. Williams idea with the isolated rock would be very beneficial. Welcome to the reef!

[marinebiologist]

thanks for the warm welcome. and ill probably give the xenia its own little rock.

[BLKBRDTA]

No problem Andrew, good to have another bright mind among us.. I'm starting my 50's corals soon as well!

[WILLIAM1]

It does look good. I would consider putting a small koralia powerhead in there so you dont get any dead spots. I like to keep that water moving.....

[unclejed]

I hate to be the dissenter, however, if it were me I would slow down. The tank is too young to start stocking. Even if your parameters are good you still seem to be showing Brown algae and a little (hard to see) Green algae. What are Calc, Mag, SG and Alk if you don't mind sharing. Once I got all my essential elements and chemistry established within ocean parameters and could keep them there for another month, then I would stock up.

[redsea]

the tank looks great! and welcome!

[e_baer]

Tank does looke good! And welcome to RB.

As william mentioned, I would add another powerhead to keep the water moving. You want to aim for at least 10x tunrover rate, however I would lean more towards 20x.

[marinebiologist]

thanks for all of the positive replies everyone. and ill get the koralia nano as soon as i get money because right now im broke.

[marinebiologist]

quick update. im probably not going to get the xenia on friday. but im definitely going to get the yellow polyp colony.

[marinebiologist]

im getting #1 which has 40 to 50 polyps

[marinebiologist]

my cuc arrived at 12 from reef cleaners

[BLKBRDTA]

Very nice, post up some pictures when you can..

[marinebiologist]

ill try to post some tonight because right now the water is cloudy from doing a wc before the snails arrived.

[marinebiologist]

i couldnt get the coral today because of a snow storm but my bro might be able to pick it up tomorrow.

[BLKBRDTA]

Man, that sux. Your the second person I have talked to this week that said a storm has delayed their orders..

[marinebiologist]

my bro should be picking the coral up this morning.

[marinebiologist]

got my coral

[BLKBRDTA]

Looking great Andrew, thanks for posting the pictures.

[marinebiologist]

if anyone is curious here is my tank thread from beginning to end
marinebiologists 12 gallon nano cube - Nano-Reef.com Forums

[marinebiologist]

sorry i havent been posting any updates everyone. ive been a little busy. if you go on my link it will show everything. i know have a mh light and a hawkfish. the thread is on nano reef. you guys should make an acount on there you can get a lot of info.

[marinebiologist]

anyone going to the coral farmers market in socal?