First Post + Video *updated 3/2010*

WOW, what on earth made you post this! You have no clue if there are any experts here. Not everyone toots their own horn. Hmm, wonder where you are coming from?

 

hey nice cube u got there. I like how you stacked the rocks together i looks cool and welcome. i like your discus tank too.

 

I think it's Fiji branch live rock, however, some have tried to convince me it's Tonga branch live rock.

 

Very nice biocube. I noticed there are no starter fish for cycling not that it's necessary or anything just curious what plans do you have for stocking coral and fish? I started my first reef tank which was a 65g tank with 2 tank raised percula clowns. I still have them and I call them Ned and Nemo. Well good luck and lets see more videos as you add to it.

 

Thanks. Since this is my first coral tank, I'm not gonna try to do anything too fancy. May be a frogspawn, some mushrooms of some sort, 1 or 2 small fish max and work my way up from there (coralwise) ... not sure about shrimp, because I hear they may upset feather dusters (which I really like and intend to add some time down the road). Also, looking for some small pieces of porous fiji rock to add since the branch rock seems pretty dense. Hoping 3reefers can offer me some suggestions as well, which I am very open to at this point.

 

First thing I have to say is it's tricky stocking a small tank because certain corals grow and sting each other. It's much easier to stock the fish because they're going to grow to a certain size and then that's it.

I have orange mushrooms that are stinging a large toadstool leather and caused it to shrivel up on that side. My orange mushrooms have grown about ten times the size of when I got them a year and a half ago along with my blue mushrooms that have propagated all over the tank! I'm just saying and I'm not complaining but just be cautious with corals because your the one that's going to have to scrape them off the rocks when they get too big.

I like my shrimp I have 2 cleaners and 2 fire red shrimp. The cleaners I do believe may have killed a cocoworm but the fire red shrimp don't bother corals. Shrimp are an intrical part of the ecosystem in that they seem to eat anything that dies and they eat the ich and parasites off the fish so don't discount the shrimp maybe discount the feather dusters.

I put some pics of what I was talking about below. You can see the blue mushroom that propagated and is resting next to the hand leather and I'm going to have to move him. Hey, I only have T5's and a sump/fuge and a simple marine pro 300 skimmer so I'm not a genius at this but I started with a 65g in 9/08 then a 120g in 12/08 and then my 210g in 3/09 and things keep growing. Enjoy the hobby. That's the bottom line.

 

congrats on the new tank and good job getting a video up on your first post looks like your off to a good start k+

 

Welcome to 3reef, great start on your reef

 

Hello and welcome to 3reef.

 

updated post#1 with recent video