25gallon nano

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Acan Lord:http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1004379.jpg
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Zoanthids: http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1004382.jpg
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Mushroom,Fox Coral and Duncan:http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1004366.jpg

Candy Cane:http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1004365.jpg


Red Goniopora:http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1004363.jpg

Ricordeas:http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1004346.jpg

[100%hydrophylic]

Oh my god, FTS?

[jtgordon20]

Holy S**T. The colors really pop. Lets see a FTS and some more information on the system.

[duncantse]

Yes, a fts please.

[duncantse]

Any updates?

[Jadams]

ntotm??

[GF3]

Certainly didn't waste any room in that tank! Looks like you downsized from a 60, and moved EVERYTHING over! I LOVE that rico garden you have going there, so many great color combos and such a great array of colors.

[Zack_Man777]

wow that is a beautiful tank bud!

[BANDIT ANGEL]

SIZE:60cm X 45cm X45cm
FILTER: I use two KOTOBUKI SV9000 canisters. The water was chenged five liters every day because I feed too much.
SGV:1.022~1.024
FEEDING FREQUENCY: The corals are fed every day using CORAL FRENZY, HIKARI frozen mysis and plankton grown by my LFS.
FISH: 1 Yellow tang
1 P.hepatus(yellow belly)
1 A.clarki
1 A sebae
A pair of Yellow Banded Maroon Clown. (VERY AGGRESSIVE!!!)
1 damsel


Here comes the FTS:wave::wave:


[http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1004386.jpg

[BANDIT ANGEL]

ntotm??


Thanks, I am considering but I don't know how to join the ntotm contest.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Certainly didn't waste any room in that tank! Looks like you downsized from a 60, and moved EVERYTHING over! I LOVE that rico garden you have going there, so many great color combos and such a great array of colors.


I love all the corals so I just keep buying and squeezing them in tight spaces.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

wow that is a beautiful tank bud!

Thanks for your admire.

[100%hydrophylic]

as i said earlier...

oh my god.

all you need to do to sign up for ntotm is go to the sticky at the top of the nano tank forums. it says ntotm entries or something like that

(i do suggest that before you sign up for ntotm, put the tangs in a different tank. some people will scrutinize you pretty bad for that)

[duncantse]

Your tang looks very healthy!

[SkullV]

Nice tank! Interesting fish selection though, 2 different species of clowns and a tang. How long have all the fish been together? My Maroon pair would have destroyed everything in a tank that size. How often do you do water changes in a tank that stocked?

[duncantse]

How long have you had this tank for? Whoa, I just noticed something, you have a blue tang too?

[Scott B]

My goodness!!! a 10g tank on steroids! yeah, i am curious on how long you have had all those set up together

[JLopez]

nice tank...watch out for the tang police though

[100%hydrophylic]

yea, he has a hippo tang and a yellow tang in there with a maroon clown. i would have thought both tangs fins would have been shredded, but they arent. very strange that he hasnt come across territory issues...

still looks amazing

[cmac23]

I see 2 maroon clowns, 1 yellow, 1 hippo and scallops that all should not be in there. Nice tank though

[100%hydrophylic]

^i hear scallops are pretty difficult to keep, but why not in a nano? do they add quite a bit to bio load?

i guess it would be because of stability issues, but stability can be controlled if your diligent enough.

[SkullV]

I see 2 maroon clowns, 1 yellow, 1 hippo and scallops that all should not be in there. Nice tank though

Nothing wrong with the Scallops, or the Maroons if they were the only fish in the tank. I would personally do away with both tangs and the other clownfish and leave everything else if it was my tank.

I am still interested as to how often you do a water change. With that amount of bioload you must do nearly 100% weekly to keep the nitrates down or have a HUGE sump that we don't know about.

Edit: I see you change about 5L a day which if you truly do it every day comes out to 37% water change weekly. Do you siphon right after feeding to get rid of unused food?

[duncantse]

How much pounds of LR you have their?

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Your tang looks very healthy!

I noticed that fish that live in a reef tanks live very healthy.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

How much pounds of LR you have their?

I purchase the rocks in small amounts so I lost count, there are about 15kilograms I guess.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Nice tank! Interesting fish selection though, 2 different species of clowns and a tang. How long have all the fish been together? My Maroon pair would have destroyed everything in a tank that size. How often do you do water changes in a tank that stocked?


Everyone told me thet maroons are aggressive but I noticed that the rank of a fish in a tank is formed by the sequence you put the fish in. I put the marrons at last so they are quite tame.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

My goodness!!! a 10g tank on steroids! yeah, i am curious on how long you have had all those set up together


:D:D:D:D Very funny. I own this tank since 2009.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

How long have you had this tank for? Whoa, I just noticed something, you have a blue tang too?

I own this tank since 2009, the blue tang is a yellow bellied subspecie originated from East Africa.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

nice tank...watch out for the tang police though

The tang is like the emperor in the tank, all fish scatters when the yellow comes near.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

yea, he has a hippo tang and a yellow tang in there with a maroon clown. i would have thought both tangs fins would have been shredded, but they arent. very strange that he hasnt come across territory issues...

still looks amazing

It seems that my tank is a combination of different miracles.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

^i hear scallops are pretty difficult to keep, but why not in a nano? do they add quite a bit to bio load?

i guess it would be because of stability issues, but stability can be controlled if your diligent enough.


To maintain this fragile system, I felt that I am the SLAVE of the tank.:o

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Nothing wrong with the Scallops, or the Maroons if they were the only fish in the tank. I would personally do away with both tangs and the other clownfish and leave everything else if it was my tank.

I am still interested as to how often you do a water change. With that amount of bioload you must do nearly 100% weekly to keep the nitrates down or have a HUGE sump that we don't know about.

Edit: I see you change about 5L a day which if you truly do it every day comes out to 37% water change weekly. Do you siphon right after feeding to get rid of unused food?

I siphon right after feeding to prevent unused food from decomposing.

[Scott B]

What kind of lighting do you have on that tank? sorry if i missed it somewhere

[duncantse]

How long have you had the 2 tangs for?

[BANDIT ANGEL]

What kind of lighting do you have on that tank? sorry if i missed it somewhere

I use 4 24watt T5 lights and LED that my friend made.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

How long have you had the 2 tangs for?

The tangs are bought two months after the tank was set so the have been living in captivity for more than a year.

[SkullV]

Everyone told me thet maroons are aggressive but I noticed that the rank of a fish in a tank is formed by the sequence you put the fish in. I put the marrons at last so they are quite tame.

Wait until they start spawning. Everything in that tank (including coral which is close to their spawn site) will be in jeopardy! I know you love your tank but if you really like the way it looks I would consider puling all the fish and restocking it properly for long term success.

[pompeyjohn]

In my opinion good tank husbandry is no excuse for torturing fish. The corals looks fantastic, but this is just wrong.

[fox2589]

what do you use for flow?that tank is exactly the color scheme i would want in a mini tank.well done!-Drew

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Wait until they start spawning. Everything in that tank (including coral which is close to their spawn site) will be in jeopardy! I know you love your tank but if you really like the way it looks I would consider puling all the fish and restocking it properly for long term success.


I am now working hard to catch and relocate them in a FOWLR tank.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

In my opinion good tank husbandry is no excuse for torturing fish. The corals looks fantastic, but this is just wrong.

I cought the A.clarki and the A.sebae already, they are living happpily in the FOWLR.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

what do you use for flow?that tank is exactly the color scheme i would want in a mini tank.well done!-Drew

The flows are powered only by two KOTOBUKI SV9000 motors, the water's shooted out of two tubes(one on the side and one on the back). No other motors are used to improve water flow.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Realm of the LORDS!!

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k590/a29685116/L1030058.jpg

[adolfo425]

I am loving your ric and acan gardens.

[BANDIT ANGEL]

I am loving your ric and acan gardens.

Thanks!! My tank is suffering a terrible flat worm disaster.

[mantis1437]

Beautiful tank! I love all those colors in there! Only thing I would change in there are the fish selection. Everything else looks AMAZING!

[1$R]

Thanks!! My tank is suffering a terrible flat worm disaster.

Maybe add a six-line wrasse to rid of flat worms?

[ange062]

Maybe add a six-line wrasse to rid of flat worms?

A blue velvet nudibranch looks awesome and should clear up the flatworm problem. The Catch22 is figuring how to keep it alive once the flat worms are gone.

[Kyleben]

So where did you get your acans? I have a few but youres are awesome! What color bulbs do you have in the t5?

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[BANDIT ANGEL]

So where did you get your acans? I have a few but youres are awesome! What color bulbs do you have in the t5?

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I collected them from the great barrier reef,ha ha ha,just kidding. The corals are from my lfs or sometimes, a local wholesaler. I use two 10,000K and another two 14,000K t5.

[fullmonti]

Corals look great! Obviously You have managed to find just the right balance in that tank. More corals & fish than one might think is safe or even possible to maintain. I think the key may be, it takes a lot of fish to help feed a lot of corals. That and you must be very diligent indeed to keep that much life so heathy in that size tank.

I don't think you ever said how much water change you do per week? Or I missed it.

If you don't mind, where are you located? You have a really good LFS to have found that many nice corals.

Congratulations!!! Beautiful tank. I hope you can continue to maintain that delicate balance.

Jim

[BANDIT ANGEL]

Corals look great! Obviously You have managed to find just the right balance in that tank. More corals & fish than one might think is safe or even possible to maintain. I think the key may be, it takes a lot of fish to help feed a lot of corals. That and you must be very diligent indeed to keep that much life so heathy in that size tank.

I don't think you ever said how much water change you do per week? Or I missed it.

If you don't mind, where are you located? You have a really good LFS to have found that many nice corals.

Congratulations!!! Beautiful tank. I hope you can continue to maintain that delicate balance.

Jim
Thanks, the amount of water change is mentioned in the May NTOTM thread:
BANDIT ANGEL'S 25g NANO
I live in Taiwan so we can obtain Indonesian corals with decent prices but as you can see the australian and caribbean corals I own are bought from a local importer. By establishing good relationships with your local whole saler you can get your hand on FRESH,just imported corals with lower price than buying them from a lfs.