Hello everybody

[winter]

nice site you have here. Its my first post and could be good moment to introduce myself.
I'm from Spain and just starting with sw in a 40l (10 gallon) reef. I come from fw and in fact I still maintain a 40g Malawi and a 15g for invertebrates.
I hope to share experiences, I'm sure I'll learn a lot here.

Just a brief detail of my new mreef:

Filtration mini DSB + Liverock (total 30lb)
Pump 500l/h (130g/h)
29w 2 Powerglo
Soft corals: Protopalyzhoa, Zoos, Sinularia Fl. Sarco, Ricordeas
LPS: Galaxea (just 10 polyps from a friend)
Macro inside the tank. No fish. No skimmer.
Setup July. 2months cycling. Current parms: 25ºC - 1025d - Ph 8,2 - NH4 0 – NO2 0 – NO3 <5 - Ca 480 (?) (strange as I dont use anything)
And below you'll find some pics. Hope you like them.
Regards,

 

[OrionGirl]

Any crustaceans or fish? Looks nice. How often do you topoff?

 

[winter]

Hi Oriongirl. Thanks for your reply.
There's no fish and no crustacean introduced intencionally. I think is too small to maintain them properly. Just thinking on introducing a peppermint srimp, but still not decided.
Anyway I've located lots of other fauna around, just the one that came in liverock. 2 diffferent crabs, 2 types of marine stars, tons of 3 diff types of fanworms, some eurythoe and terebellids, tons of copepods, hydros, sponges, some few aitapsias... I also 'suspect' for a pistol shrimp, but not completely sure

Topoff is just about 1lt (0.2gl) of osmosys water per week as evaporation replacement. Additionally 1lt per week of 'real' water change.
Regards,

 

[mogurnda]

That's a nice looking tank. I really like zoanthids.

Welcome to AC.

 

[Dangerdoll]

I agree, nice looking tank, Winter.... welcome to the boards.

 

[winter]

Thank you mogurnda and Dangerdoll
I'll keep you informed of the 'experiment' evolution

PD: This forum looks great, very interesting posts and active people here.

 

[Blinky]

Very nice to meet you winter
That's a great little tank, very pretty.

 

[winter]

Thanks Blinky, and nice to meet u too

 

[mermaiden78]

welcome

i just want to say welcome to the wacky world of wanting more fish LOL
anything we can help you with just let us know ( and in my case ask as many questions as possible cause i need the aswers LOL). Beautiful tank though.

 

[winter]

lol thanks mermaiden for your reply
for me every answer I learn, 2 new questions arise too