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  • Courtney4094

On May 27, 2010, I salted a mini-sea in Jebo with

Patrick4439

In six months, it looked more lived-in.

Kenneth7331

And now a year has passed. Today the jar looks like this.

Matthew

Now in more detail. Water - after osmosis. Salt - Tetra Marin. Heater - Jebo 25 Watts. Light - 8 Watts white and 2x6 Watts blue T5. 12 hours. No carbon, no anti-phosphate. No tests. Devices - Aqua Magic salinity meter and Feron electronic light timer. Temperature 27-29 degrees.

Thomas

Now for the livestock. 1. Zoanthids. 2 species. Live for more than six months. Undemanding. They grow.

Chad

Clavularia. Beautiful, undemanding. Grows slowly. Added more to a separate stone.

Todd8452

Lollipop - Calastreia. Lives for just under six months. Arrived in less than ideal condition. Grows slowly. Needs clean water without filamentous algae and cyanobacteria.

Daniel4967

Lobophyllia. Unpretentious soft coral. In the aquarium for about 5 months. Molted twice. Slowly growing. Arrived without a rock, attached quickly. Tied to a rock with thread. Behind it hides Briarium. A beautiful green lawn.

David953

Ricordea. Beautiful. It grows. It has produced offspring. Unpretentious. But one day the hermit turned over the stone with it - it stressed for a month and shed its zooxanthellae. I thought it wouldn't survive. There are also a few discoactinia fungi. Blue, green, red. They are slowly growing and reproducing. Unpretentious.

Noah1632

Now the fish! A pair of Melanopus lives for about 5 months. They arrived the same size. One grew, occupied the euphyllia and Rodactis. The smaller one is chased away and not befriended. They are very timid. Strong, I have never seen them in the crypt. Their appetite is excellent.

Diana3118

Montipora. SPS coral. It was a gift from Maxim along with the Seriatopora. I didn't expect them to be so undemanding. The Seriatopora has really grown into a bush. In the photo upon arrival and now.

Beth3383

Pocillopora. SPS coral. Beautiful. Grows slowly. Undemanding.

Tiffany5069

Sarcophiton! Monster. Lover of murkiness. Handsome. Over six months in the aquarium.

Rebecca1419

Sinularia. The youngest coral in the aquarium. Just over two months old. It is growing well. It has attached to a small rock and is reaching for the light. In its natural habitat, it grows in shallow waters and basks in the sun. Therefore, it resembles half a ball. In the aquarium, it doesn't get enough light, so it grows upwards with fingers. It is undemanding. Halimedia. It started to grow after I began adding calcium and magnesium.

Monique1236

Well, there are also various gammarids, mysids, polychaetes, mussels, a couple of striped worms, sponges, and a bit of algae - chaetomorpha has started to grow, red algae - a phosphate eater, and also snails and little snails that didn't make it into the frame. That's all for now. This is all the good news. There were also a few sad moments, but I'll talk about them in a couple of days. There was also a war with aiptasia and other unwanted illegals, but I'll cover that later as well. Water changes are done with 30% water sometimes once a week, and lately every 2-3 weeks when I started adding calcium and magnesium.

Susan1358

What filters are available? Or is it just current and light?

Joseph9203

The filter is conditional. The pump pumps water up into the compartment, where a piece of synthetic padding is placed, and through it, the water flows down in nine streams, creating a current. According to the specifications, the pump is 300 liters, although I haven't measured it.

Melissa1838

Aren't you planning to switch to a larger volume?

Larry9400

Currently, there is only space for the Resan 400. It has a technical department where the pump and heater can be hidden. And the volume is twice as large. But these are just plans for now...

Rachael

What did you launch on? J.K. (live rocks) or S.R.K. (dry reef rocks)?

Jessica5348

If you look closely at the first photo, you can see that one stone is dark and alive, while several white ones are dry.

Amber1273

There lives and grows such an illegal immigrant. A snail. Its size is about that of a bean. There is a suspicion that it is carnivorous. It loves to regularly crawl right under the body of Euphilia - apparently, it eats the eggs of planarians. It can sit on a rock all day, being active at night. It rarely climbs onto the glass. Who is this? I couldn't find an exact match in my searches.

Jill1815

report for credit

John828

Kostya, the aquarium is good - well done! Remove the thermometer from view. Try to find a smaller water pump.

Heather9815

Are you hinting that the view is spoiled? Yes, I already removed it, or rather, it removed itself. The original pump worked faithfully for exactly 1 year and 1 month and then gave up. Perhaps a piece of algae got into it and jammed the impeller, resulting in the winding burning out. I have now installed a lower power one, but I haven't fully mounted it yet. With the reduced performance, the corals have been doing worse; I will keep adjusting it, maybe I will install 2 small ones. By the way, the metal shaft on the old one is in perfect mirror shine.

Gene1948

If the rod is made of good stainless steel, then there's basically nothing to worry about. The aquarium is interesting; I would put shrimp in it instead of fish, as it's too small for fish. I once had a pair of boxer shrimp in 40 liters, and they were very interesting companions. They followed each other around, fed each other, and even had a larva.

Aaron6112

Black Sea shrimp lived for half a year. When there were no fish. I agree, the jar is a bit small. A bit small... Regarding the snail, I found a similar one - Habromorula_spinosa. A closed Sinularia has been sitting for several days. Strange. Everyone is fine, but their two frags are shriveled. And Sinularia probably molts too? Or what happened to them?

Leonard

They can close for many reasons, which are not worth listing, as all the sinularia are quite flexible, easily withstand stress, and open up quickly. Just wait a little and you will see how it opens. It may have also gone into a short-term molt. Moreover, if the aquarium is clean, there is no need to worry...

Amber

The Sinularia is slowly coming to life, more and more polyps are opening up. The Euphyllia divided its mouth. A small one formed next to the large one and started to move away from it. There was no swelling. At first, a bridge formed, and then they began to separate. I fed the Euphyllia a piece of shrimp. I didn't expect it to slowly drag it into its body. The clownfish was trying to steal pieces from it, what a glutton. I had given him so much beforehand, thinking he would burst, but no, it was all too little.

Leah

In general, experience has shown that adding calcium and magnesium is not a reason to reduce the frequency of water changes. Everything started to shrink. The Sinularia decided to shed, and the Seriatopora became less fluffy. I changed 30% of the water, and everything came back to life. With a small volume and no skimmer, the optimal interval between changes is 7-10 days, provided that the aquarium's condition is monitored daily.

Stephanie9175

I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here boiled Black Sea shrimp are sold all year round. My fish enjoy the roe, and even Sarcophyton, while I feed pieces of meat to Euphyllia and Caulastrea. A piece is enough for Euphyllia once a week, but Caulastrea turned out to be incredibly gluttonous. Just an hour later, it opened up again and released its tentacles.

Andrew419

Why are you feeding the sark? It should grow well even without that. The zooxanthellae always keep it in shape... There are recommendations for feeding with zooplankton, but I have never practiced that in my entire experience. Without targeted feeding, three sarks have grown to enormous sizes, and I just can't bring myself to cut them; that's why I have to move some things to better-lit areas—they block the light.

Sarah7284

I didn't do it on purpose. I threw a couple of dozen eggs - a few ended up in the polyps of Sarka. I didn't release them back.

Danielle9144

Greedy Sark....

Scott9892

Everything here is so beautiful))) Is it difficult to maintain an aquarium with such equipment? What kind of lighting and filtration do you have? Are there any inhabitants besides the corals? And was the initial setup expensive, if you don't mind me asking?

Chris

Offtopic You have a colleague, a girl your age, from Zaporizhzhia (nickname - Solimr). She recently set up a sea. Send her these questions in a private message. Because everyone is already tired of chewing over what has been chewed multiple times.

Jessica8898

Thanks) I needed exactly this topic, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find it, and I didn't want to write everything out in detail)

Gabriel

In my opinion, the best small aquarium, which I really like and is a worthy example for me. I can't find such 18-watt lamps anywhere.

Debbie3587

Well said! But it's a fact!

Ryan

Tkach officially imported the Boyushnaya line recently.

Maria

Thank you for the true path, I will figure it out myself from here. Sorry, but for a decent shrimp tank, the substrate also costs around 80, osmosis is needed too, and the lid light is generally priced from 250 to 500, so if I'm going to spend money, it should be on more worthy things, like a mini-sea.

Linda

I just called. There are 13 and 24 Watts available, but there is still no 18.

Larry

I respect you!!! Well done!

Tracey

I took a photo the other day. With a camera that is already about 12 years old. One of the first digital cameras. No Photoshop. Took the picture - posted it.

Ronald

You have a lot of megapixels and zero quality of shooting!!!!

Megan

Offtopic I give a lot of pixels and improved the quality by pressing the "masterpiece" button I propagated Sarcophyton 3 months ago. Just yesterday I took a photo of the juvenile. Below is another "mushroom" from a week of cutting, but still without a cap.

Leslie

Kostya, does the current affect him moderately? From the photo, it seems so. If the current and lighting are fine, this little guy should gradually straighten out the cap, the foot will elongate towards the light, and over time, polyps will emerge from the cut, but you already know all this; I'm writing it for beginners who have never worked with these corals, just bringing them up to speed, just in case.

Danny

I received the long-awaited nitrate test for the marine aquarium. I immediately started testing because I had pre-chlorinated the water a couple of weeks ago and during that time I hadn't added water from the osmosis system or done any water changes, so I expected the nitrates to be off the charts. The test showed no nitrates. The same situation applies to phosphates... The aquarium is maintained with 30% water changes twice a month (approximately). The skimmer is not connected. No chemicals or sorbents are used. Various corals are thriving - soft, LPS, and SPS. A couple of Melanopus are present. A bunch of chaetomorpha is growing slowly. I don't know what to think.

Whitney

What to think?... Just work as you have been. The main thing is stability and precision in actions. I also don't have a skimmer; instead, I just have a powerful aerator that circulates water in the system. There are also soft corals and LPS, some SPS, but I don't keep acropora. I just want to say in advance, don't repeat this; it's my personal approach to the matter, focus only on the "standard schedule."

Jonathon8514

So the graphs show the accumulation of nitrates and their reduction during water changes. I expected it to be between 20 and 50, but it's zero. What about all those horror stories? Does it all just form by itself? Optimistic! So it turns out - don't interfere with the machine driving. Or maybe these are improved tests?

Kimberly2102

This is better than any tests in indicating the absence of nitrates / phosphates.

Sara

On the other hand, Sark, Lobophytum, and Sinularia are puffing up and slowly growing. However, one downside is the presence of filamentous algae. It is progressing slowly.

Debbie3587

As mentioned above - If the glass can still be cleaned mechanically, the stones have started to look disappointing. I introduced a certain number of hermits, and a miracle happened! They can only be called rabbits. They graze on the stones all day long. After 3 weeks, the stones began to resemble lunar landscapes, only differing in patches of Coraline. It's a pity that the hermits can't crawl on the glass. However, they did nibble a bit on the Clavularia, but let it be... Hetamorphs and red algae are not eaten.

Laura9093

Are you talking about Diogenes or about Clibanarius?

James5103

Different. I need to take a photo.

Matthew

Good afternoon. Could you please tell me, is there no pen?

Stuart

There is no sponge filter in the aquarium. There are 3 pieces in the cabinet - they are lying there, waiting for their time. The answer regarding the sponge filter is very simple - the more pollutants per liter of water, the better the filtration should be. Also, water changes are necessary both to replenish chemical elements and to replace dirty water with clean water.