| Jbj nano cube tank: Fish - 1 Percula Clown (1 inch small) - 1 Bi-color Blenny (3 inch large) Inverts - 1 Cleaner shrimp (large) - 1 Astrea crown snail (1 inch and a half) - 1 Margarita snail - 1 Blue legged hermit crab (dead) - 2 emerald crab 07/25/04, second Emerald crab added on 08/09/04 (I haven't seen these guys in a long long time) - 3 Nassarius vibex snails 08/03/04 (one died) - 1 Pom Pom crab 08/05/04 - 1 Florida Fighting Conch 08/05/04 - 3 Astrea snail 08/09/04, 2&3 added on 09/23/04 - 2 Electric blue Hermit crab 08/09/04, 08/16/04 - 1 Halloween Hermit crab 08/09/04 - 1 small Mexican turbo snail 08/16/04 - 2 Cerith snails 08/16/04 - 1 Queen Conch 09/18/04 - 1 Indo snail 09/23/04 - Maxima clam added on 09/23/04 Corals - 2 Green Star Polyps colony - Rose Anenome - 6 Zooanthid colony - Pulsing Xenia forest (passed away) - Pink Leather - Red goniopora - 5 Pink w/ blue skirt Florida Ricordia - 1 plus one tiny Tri color Ricordia 09/23/04 - 1 neon green Ricordia 09/23/04 Hitch Hikers - Undentified star fish - Unidentified brittle star fish - Red feather dusters - Common feather dusters - Anthropods and copepods - Other inverts and corals - Unidentified scallop clam Mechanical Filtration - 1 Stock sponge filter - Removed bio balls and ceramic rings (as stated in the nano cube instruction paper) - Stock carbon bag replaced after 42 days with Chemi-pure 10 oz. 1 unit bag Subtrate & Rocks Filtration - ll pounds of Arag-Alive! live sand -11.5 pounds of Marshal,Fiji, and Tonga Kaelini rocks total - Live rock rubles in the sump (no rubbles in the fourth compartment with the heater and pump) Heating - Ebo Jagger Ts 50w (my tank temp @ 75-77F at night, and 76-80F during the day) Power Heads (the water pumps) - Mini-Jet 606 @160gph (marinedepot.com or lfs) - Mini-Jet 606 @ 80 gph (marinedepot.com or lfs) Lighting - Stock 24 watt 50/50 lights + CSL 32 watts + CSL 32 watts / 88 watts total Fans - Dual 60mm Vantec stealth fans with adjustable Coby Deluxe voltage adapter Test Kits - Salifert test kits - Calcium - Dissolved oxygen - Alkalinity - Phosphate - FastTest Master kit - Ammonia - Nitrite - Nitrate - pH Food - Phytoplankton (DT's Phytoplankton at Pacific reef) - Nova II Frozen 50/50 brine shrimp & blood worms (Tropical Fish on Goldenwest st) - Tetra Marine marine flakes the essential one - Frozen krill (the frozen Hikari krill which comes in cubes and falls apart in water) - Formula one frozen cubes Additives - Salifert Coral calcium - Kent Marine pH buffer (When the tank is cycling, your pH will fluctuate, so this is not required) Miscellaneous - Diffuser nozzle Get this! it will break up the protein grime at the surface (got it at Pacifc Reef) - Refractometer RHS-10ATC blue model (diyreef.com) - Milwaukee Smart pH tester (diyreef.com) - Hydrometer (I used Coral life deep six) - Salt (I used Instant ocean salt) - Big digital temp alert (Marine Depot) - Thermometer (I got Pen Plax, don't buy this brand, the suction cup keeps coming loose from the glass) - Heater (I use Ebo Jagger TS 50w) - Fish net (I use Hagen fine nylon blue net) - Gravel cleaner with pump (Korean brand with a blue hand pump) - Short length of air line tubing (used with the air control kit for acclimating new fish by drip method) (Aquatics Garden) - Air control kit (Profile) - Test kit (FastTest) - Turkey baster (got it at Vons grocery store, Good cook brand, or get it at any grocery store) - Coral life small digital temperature - A bunch of empty snail shells |
| 5.5 gallon Visio AGA Zoo tank Power Head - Maxi-Jet 600 (works as a heater, water circulator, and aerator) temp at 75-86F Subtrate & Rocks Filtration - 9 pounds of Aragonite live sand - 2 lbs of Fiji rock and marshall rocks total - 1 lb of Tonga branch - 2 lbs of some kind of calcium encrusted base rock - 5.9 pounds of Tonga Kaelini Ultra show Fish - 1 Purple stripe Pseudochromis Inverts - 1 Scarlet hermit crab 08/18/04 - 1 Margarita snail - 2 Nassarius vibex snails 08/03/04 - 1 Emerald crab 08/03/04 - 3 Astrea snail 08/05/04, second Astrea added on 08/09/04 (Both are probably dead) 3rd one added on 09/23/04 - 1 small Mexican turbo snail - 2 Cerith snails 09/18/04 - 1 Astrea crown snail Corals - 9 zoo colonies Lighting - Coral Life 50/50 flourescent compact 20 watt 10000k (this is the screw in type with built in ballast) |
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| Additional Stuff - Nano cube stock 106gph PH used to mix salt - Rubbermaid plastic container to mix salt (Get it cheap at Target) - power strip with timer (I bought the Coral Life brand. Get it at Marinedepot.com, then pick it up if you live close enough) - Wash towel - flake food - Tooth brush (got one at Marukai) - Toothpicks - Dish washing gloves (I got a pair very long pink gloves at Marukai for 98 cents) - 12 inch extension cord (Liberator brand ordered online) |
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