my new 33L - pics

[rlschne]

Hi, been lurking here for a while... set up my 33L about 3 weeks ago and its been totally cycled for about a week now....this is my first attempt at a sort of reef tank... not really looking to invest a lot in corals.... just added some hermits, snails and a GSP just because it was cheap mostly...surprisingly, an hour after adding the gsp it is even more open than it was in the store... go figure... the specs are as follows -

Acryllic 33L from glasscages
45# of fiji from petsolutions - great rock btw
40# argonite
current usa single satellite - with the single 96w 10k/actinic bulb
running an emperor 400 mostly for carbon and water movement - lots of it btw...
coralife superskimmer for the 65 gal... awesome skimmer after running a seaclone for the first week or so... couldn't deal with that much longer....
current inhabitants are
1-4 stripe damsel, 1 blue tail damsel,and an ocellaris clown named chuck norris in an attempt to find the name most opposite of nemo.
then the inverts i added today...

Havent really had much of an algae problem, the rocks and sand had a light dusting of brown algae, but just in the past week its started to receed on its own... anyway... give me any thoughts or suggestions.... also... any suggestions as far as other low light corals and stuff i could keep.... excuse my craptacular photography skills

 

[Anonymous]

Just watch those damsels. Aquascaping looks good.

 

[Ben1]

Looks like a nice start. I would probably add something more for water movement. A cheap way would be a sieo.

As far as low light corals, there are lots of softies that would do fine. Zoas, shrooms, leathers besides sarcophyton elegans, and many other branching softies like sinularias. A colt coral would look nice in there and give the clown a nice false host.

 

[Anonymous]

What you keep depends on lighting and water movement. What do you have?

 

[Ben1]

BTW, welome to RDO! Here is my best job at a MACRO of one of my zoas.

 

[rlschne]

that is an awesome photo.... anyway... ive just got the 96w pc over a 36" 33gallon tank, and as far as flow i have the emperor 400 and my protein skimmer for now... it really does have quite a bit of water movement... I do have an extra maxi jet 1200 sitting around from the seaclone that i could use....

 

[ChrisRD]

I agree about the damsels and upping the flow - use the MJ.

Looks good. 8)

 

[rlschne]

Well, i took the advice about the flow and picked up a 300 gph penguin powerhead... pretty touchy as far as adjusting it... like a sandstorm if I'm not careful.... I also added a small finger leather of some kind .... thinking about some pulsating xenia...what do you guys think? Would that work in my tank considering my lighting, flow, and no dosing?

 

[Anonymous]

The xenia would be fine. It can be a weed so I would suggest puttint it on a stand alone rock. Leathers are nice. Mushrooms and zoas come in lots of colors and do not requires lots of light or water flow.