The 20 gallon nano just hit 3 months old and is going strong.This tank was started with the help of my two other mature systems so it had a good biological start. Tanks been super stable with a two part plus bio mag dosing system.
😂 After countless water tests and enough beneficial bacteria to start a small civilization, our tank has officially graduated from “giant glass box of water” to fully cycled aquarium! 🎓🐟
So the reef is now at day 71 since water was added. The local corals going nuts and other inhabitants feeding and behaving as they should albeit I wish they would stop enjoying the back of the tank - but hey, the Clowns and Banggai love feeding time.
Dosing Aqua Forrest 3 in 1. Coral Essentials Phosphate Up & Nitrate Up.
90 days in and everything is settling extremely well. She’s starting to look like a small reef. Now, just have to let it all grow in over the next couple of years and it’ll be a living room show piece
3-Week Tank Update
5 straight days of stable parameters:
✅ Ammonia: 0
✅ Nitrites: 0
✅ Nitrates: 4 ppm
New additions to the tank:
🌌 Galaxy Pods introduced
🦀 2 Electric Blue Hermit Crabs
🦀 2 Crimson Red Hermit Crabs
🐌 5 Stocky Red Stripe Trochus Snails
🐌 6 Cerith Snails
🐌 2 Nassarius Snails
The 20 gallon nano just hit 3 months old and is going strong.This tank was started with the help of my two other mature systems so it had a good biological start. Tanks been super stable with a two part plus bio mag dosing system.
😂 After countless water tests and enough beneficial bacteria to start a small civilization, our tank has officially graduated from “giant glass box of water” to fully cycled aquarium! 🎓🐟
So the reef is now at day 71 since water was added. The local corals going nuts and other inhabitants feeding and behaving as they should albeit I wish they would stop enjoying the back of the tank - but hey, the Clowns and Banggai love feeding time.
Dosing Aqua Forrest 3 in 1. Coral Essentials Phosphate Up & Nitrate Up.
1 water change at day 50.
New here. Just got my tank parameters back in line after years of neglect.
4 month in and everything is looking good.
One year in! 🥳
4 months since start
90 days in and everything is settling extremely well. She’s starting to look like a small reef. Now, just have to let it all grow in over the next couple of years and it’ll be a living room show piece
Been almost 2 weeks since I got them 😊
(Tank cycled for 2 months before I added any livestock)
Tanks been running for almost 40 days!
Tanks up and running!