phurst
08/10/2012, 02:58 PM
Howdy! Just thought I'd throw up a thread for my 4.3 gallon Deep Blue cube. A friend who owns a LFS hooked me up with it about a month ago. There are no fish, and it is envisioned as a maxi-mini garden with a few critters who will call them home.
The tank is in my office here at work. Flow is from a Deep Blue HOB filter (with nothing in it except a cheap Tetra heater, and the probe for a Coralife thermometer.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0225.jpg
The tank has been up for about 4 weeks now. I used LR from a friends fuge, and was transported the short distance to my office in buckets of water. There was no measurable cycle, though I'm at the tail end of a diatom bloom.
Here it is right after setup:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0178.jpg
Current inhabitants are 2 hermits, a nasarius, and 2 snails (the turbo will be traded for something a little smaller shortly), a porcelain crab, 4 sexy shrimp, 4 mini carpets and a hand full of frags from my tank at home to add interest until there are more mini-carpets.
Here are a couple of current shots.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0218.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0206.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0221.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0224.jpg
The tank is in my office here at work. Flow is from a Deep Blue HOB filter (with nothing in it except a cheap Tetra heater, and the probe for a Coralife thermometer.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0225.jpg
The tank has been up for about 4 weeks now. I used LR from a friends fuge, and was transported the short distance to my office in buckets of water. There was no measurable cycle, though I'm at the tail end of a diatom bloom.
Here it is right after setup:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0178.jpg
Current inhabitants are 2 hermits, a nasarius, and 2 snails (the turbo will be traded for something a little smaller shortly), a porcelain crab, 4 sexy shrimp, 4 mini carpets and a hand full of frags from my tank at home to add interest until there are more mini-carpets.
Here are a couple of current shots.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0218.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0206.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0221.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0224.jpg