30 gallon cube

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  1. sterling

    sterling Peppermint Shrimp

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    hey, this is my 30 gallon cube, been running for about 4 months. Working on a 90 which will be ready in a couple of months so i can move my fish as there going to get big fast. Tank has a stocklist as follows:
    1 Cleaner shrimp
    9 turbo snails
    5 blue legged hermit crabs
    sand sifting star
    blue tuxedo urchin
    1 banggai cardinal
    1 scarlet hawkfish
    1 naso tang
    1 blue regal tang
    1 maroon clown
    2 bubble tip anenomes
    1 orange sea sponge
    and lets not forget an inch long mantis shrimp which came with a rock. ****ty deal, i know, but he makes cool sounds during the day.
    The corals in the tank are doing great, and are:
    1 mushroom leather
    sun coral
    metallic open brain
    candy cane
    frogspawn
    hammer
    orange zoos
    green, pink and yellow solomon zoos
    green star polyps
    some type of yellow star polyps
    and some other random stuff

    AM I OVER-STOCKED?
    I know that my fish are going to get big and need lots of room, so im upgrading eventually. And i do a 10-20% water change each week
     

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  3. KOgle

    KOgle Zoanthid

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    Looks good, as you know don't keep those tangs in that 30 for long. And dip your live rock in RO water when you move it to your new 90. That mantis will come running out and you can snatch him up.
     
  4. NU-2reef

    NU-2reef Montipora Digitata

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    looks real nice, im glad you're moving those fish to the 90. hey how are your sun corals doing? ive never seen them placed so high in a tank. most of what i read says dim lighting. did yours slowly acclimate to a higher position?
     
  5. m_hsiao

    m_hsiao Purple Spiny Lobster

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    those tangs in that size tank is really asking for trouble.. i hope you can make that move real soon.. i really don't like seeing fish being crammed up like that :xxx
     
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  6. sterling

    sterling Peppermint Shrimp

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    hey, the sun coral is underneath a rock that acts as a bridge so its actually dark there. And for the tangs, well the naso i got when it was like 2 inches long, and i got the blue tang from a lfs that held it in an aquarium of pretty much equal size. all the fish are doing fine, and what do u mean by trouble???
     
  7. REDMANS CUBE

    REDMANS CUBE Fire Shrimp

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    are you overstocked? are you kidding? look at the cardinal, he is stressed. then shouldnt be that color! i dont know what you were thinking.
     
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  9. killareefer

    killareefer Feather Duster

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    woah overstocked but cool! i want that open brain! ! ! ! !
     
  10. sterling

    sterling Peppermint Shrimp

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    alright, well the cardinal is actually doing great. hes grown like a centimeter in length since i got him. I dont know how you can say that about him, what is he suppose to look like?