My Tank
Established December 3, 1998

Scott Ellman
Marine Biologist







 Tank Description
       When I went to see my friend Casey in the fall of 1998 at LSU, I saw this aquarium in one of the local pet stores. It is a 20-gallon acrylic tank with a wet/dry filter mounted in the back. It also came with a power-head, bio-balls, and a 100-watt heater. The tank was used. The store wanted to get rid of them because it was too difficult to clean the tanks. They are selling them one at a time for $50. Since I wanted to build a reef tank, I needed to buy a protein skimmer. I got one from the local fish store used for $55 . It is working really well. Eventually I would like to have two tanks. A 75+gallon fish-only tank and my reef tank.

What the tank has:
       The tank is equiped with a power-head to circulate the water through the tank and bio-balls. It also has a 100-watt heater, a protein skimmer, a double balist with a 50/50 coralife and an actinic blue bulb. A daily timer regulates when they go on and off. The tank's dementions is 30"x12"x12". The people at Red Sea have some excelent information on how a Berlin Protein Skimmer works.



Contents
  • Arrow Crab
  • 3 Green Bubble Tip Anemones
  • 2 Tomato Clown Fish
  • 1 Sea Apple
  • Ricordia (Florida False Coral)
  • 3 Turbo Snails
  • 3 Red Legged Hermit Crabs
  • Bubble Alage
  • Encrusting Gergoina
  • Red Ball Sponge
  • Blue Mushrooms
  • Leather Coral
  • 14.5 pounds of figi live rock
    • I feed my fish OSI Marine Flake Food and Frozen Brine Shrimp Plus.


    DECEASED
  • Coral Banded Shrimp-He was stressed when I tried to take him out. He was nipping at my Maroon Clown.
  • Red Legged Hermit-Blue Legged Hermit, much smaller than him, took the Red Leg out of his shell.
  • Yellow leather coral-There were two Aptasia anemones on the rock he was attached to. I think they stung him.
  • Turbo Snail-He died of natural causes.



















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    Testing Solutions
    I use fasTest by for testing my Nitrates.  My salt is Instant Ocean, which is also produced by Aquariumsystems.  

    For my Calcium, pH, and Alkalinity, I use .  

    I also drip a Kalkwasser mix from .






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