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| This one is a work in progress. Actually I'm using it as an "experimental/learning" tank for the larger Saltwater tank I'm planning to work on this winter. I added the last of the rock today (7/17/?05) and it needs to probably cycle for another week or so before I can add anything. The budget actually tells me that I'm probably going to wait quite awhile and only add a tiny bit of stuff at once because things are SO expensive in Saltwater. In FW I could stock this tank chock full of stuff for like 10 bucks. SW even the shrimps are expensive!! (we're talkin $20 for a single shrimp!) Anyway...the plan is to get a couple of hermit crabs, some snails, some shrimp and one or two little fish. |
| This was the old SW setup... |
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| 20 Gallon Saltwater |
| (Update 1/29/06) I moved all of my saltwater things into this 20G setup. Right now it is still bare bottom, I have the sand just need to take the time to get it washed and into the tank. It is only housing a hermit crab and a nassarius snail at the moment. (and some pods of course heh) |
| These are my firefish and two pink skunk clownfish. Unfortunately something went wrong after my last water change and I lost all three of them. The firefish had been in the original tank and was moved to this one, so that was kind of a hard loss. The pink skunks were only in the tank about 2 and a half weeks, but still long enough to be sort of attached. After a few weeks when I get the sand into the tank and make sure that everything is ok I think I may get another pair of them. |
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| Unfortunately after the deaths of the fish below I let the tank fall into a rut of, well ok I didn't touch it until I moved it upstairs just a couple weeks ago. THIS is what it looked like before I moved it. YUCK -=gag=- |
| This is a pretty bad picture, better one soon I promise. Anyway, everything has settled...mostly. I have new sand in the bottom, hoping I didn't completely kill my live rock, but not sure yet. The tank is sitting there with sand and rock, no critters until I know whether the LR is ok or not. Whether it is or not I think I'll be stopping by a store to pick up another big piece soon and probably move some of the little pieces into a little 2g I have off to the side thats holding my hermit and a snail right now. Let it cycle again and then go about adding critters. |
| 8/19/07 - Unfortunately after the move I didn't really do anything in addition to adding sand. I got some chaeto sent to me via ebay and that took off and pretty much took over the tank lol. I still have a nassarius snail that is living in the tank, but I get the feeling that the live rock isn't really that alive. I dont know. I can't really tell. I guess I could get like a shrimp or something to put in there and test and see how it is. I really need to do some water changes, clean it up and corral the chaeto before I do anything though hehe. |