My 55 g at a Half Year

Been setup a tad over a half year. The clowns were bought on feb 9 or so.

I just added the rock on the right. Most of this is man made rock with just a few pieces of seed rock.

The rock on the left was 14 days from manufacture and into the tank. I can't find my log book for the exact dates, but rock and water were in for awhile before fish came along. Some slight alk/ph variations.

Tank is home to 2 maroon clowns, Ricky and Lucy. 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 nassarious snail, 1 bumble bee snail, countless tiny little snails, 3 varieties. bristle worms and a boatloads of pods.

1 small colony of button polyps and one little mushroom.

I was on vacation for 2 months and this tank was in the care of peeps who only fed and topped off the tank. It was scary when I got back. Nobody died.:cheers:
There are still some lingering signs of the algae blooms.

The lights were off the two months with only morning direct sun. Tank has never seen much in the line of good lighting.

All together, am very pleased with the tank.

yes, it is hollow also, the first place the shrimp headed when I added him

I have been thinking lawnmower blenny, and mandarin. I have a real good population of pods. I have plenty of algae for the lawnmower.

I'm actually more interested in getting some snails going. I have (had?) a wild looking gastropod somewhere in there that rarely showed up, may be he died while I was away. A real good grazer, Watched it grow from a bb sized thing to over an inch long. Every time it showed up, it was alot bigger.

I may look into conches or some others like them.

ninjaish said:

are thoes live plants in the left corner?

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Well sortof.... Macro algae.... two different kinds, one is like a fern, and the other is like a blade of grass. Culpera I think.