Bloopers 25 gallon

The tank is a zeroedge with a empty water capacity of ~25 gallons.

I did not like the huge amounts of evaporation nor the lack of flow, so I plumbed the aquarium to be a rimless.

I need to move the return from the sump so that it's not in the centre of the tank...but, I'm lazy.











I plan to do a few tech upgrades before I get serious about stocking it. First and foremost...I need a par meter.


The aquarium is about 3 months old and I do have livestock in it. For now I'm mainly just collecting frags.

 

Welcome to 3reef.

I love the look of zero edge tanks.

 

Welcome to the reef. I like that you converted your tank to a rimless. Although I really like how zeroedges look I have seen too many were the the flow over the edge is too turbulent and then you can only look at the tank from above, which I don't like.

 

My clam



My captain America palys, these guys were dookie brown about a month ago, browned out from being kept under an old halide bulb previous to me buying the par38s

 

The battle between having proper flow for the animals and keeping that crisp and clean overflow was not one I was enjoying. I'm much happier now, as is the livestock.


Not to mention the fish that carpet surf from the overflow...that got old.

 

My dirty, but effective sumpfugium.



I spread and rotate the cheato weekly, it grows well, but it grows dense. To make sure It doesn't kill parts of itself in addition to rotating it I also remove a handful every two weeks or so.


I have no real desire to be constantly monitoring my calcium and alkalinity levels, but, because I have the clams I have to do so with more care then my general laziness wants. Luckily I like pickles a lot an have tons of calcium hydroxide.

The crocea is my second clam, the first one may not actually be a clam at all, I'm not very familiar with bivalves and what makes a clam a clam and an oyster an oyster. I purchased a wild collected St. Thomas mushroom, and it came attached to a NPS bivalve approximately 3 inches long and 2 inches wide, the bag broke during shipping and the mushroom never recovered, but the bivalve has been filtering my aquarium and sucking up calcium for the past 2 months.

 

Tank looks good, I think that might be an oyster you are holding.

Let me know when you are throwing out the cheato, I would be happy to take some of it.

 

Will do, I just did it this last weekend so it should be in a couple weeks. I'll send you a pm when it's ready.

 

I was near my tank and had my phone, so, I decided to take some pictures...



My [not]purple hornets



My dark gray and tan skirt zoas!!



My baby blue palys!!



My green palys, in between the striations of green is a cool redish undertone, not picked up by my phone



My clove polyps!!!

 

just checked my calcium and it was high, time to cut back on the kalk...