Tangwich's Thirty!

[JojosReef]

That's really amazing. Awesome tunicate, btw! This tank is full of surprises!

 

[Tangwich]

I love oddball creatures and I found these 2 after many years of searching for them. They are doing well and growing.

 

[dontavo27]

Thank you. Dendros are stubborn corals for sure when it comes to budding. I think I fed my first 1 head frag for like 8-10 months before it budded a new head. But now, my frags/colonies bud all the time and they have even started actively spawning, as you can see in this vid from a year ago.

I need one of these bro!

 

[Tangwich]

I need one of these bro!

I gotchu bro.

 

[Smite]

Your tank is looking awesome! I love those gigantea. I've never been able to keep sun coral/dendro types, awesome to see yours are thriving.

 

[dansyr]

Beautiful tank and great setup! This is one of my favorite tanks, how you've created a little paradise for inverts and other often overlooked critters

 

[drexel]

I absolutely love nano tanks, there are so many cool things to love about them. Yours is looking awesome and I love the selection of animals. Keep up the great work!

 

[Tangwich]

Thank you @Smite @dansyr @drexel

 

[s2k]

Nice nano tank. How’s the 8ft tank coming along?

 

[Tangwich]

Nice nano tank. How’s the 8ft tank coming along?

Good question...hey @SPEARGUNHUNTER how's the 8 footer doing brother?

 

[Thereefaddict]

I love oddball creatures and I found these 2 after many years of searching for them. They are doing well and growing. View attachment 124520 View attachment 124521

Where did you find them.

 

[Tangwich]

Where did you find them.

Ellis aquatics in compton.

 

[Tangwich]

A couple vids of the left side of the tank

https://youtube.com/shorts/XEo7mDjgkp8?si=Brtpt4BloHQdnhGq

 

[moondoggy]

Wow looking good, I live those sponges. What do you keeping your Sachem HOB filter?

 

[Tangwich]

Wow looking good, I live those sponges. What do you keeping your Sachem HOB filter?

Thanks Jim. The hob filter houses rock rubble for the time being. I used to run carbon and filter floss but the filter floss would slowly deteriorate and end up stuck around my powerhead's impellers...so for that reason, no more filter floss. I run chemipure blue/elite occasionally.

Now the bigger purpose that the HOB filter serves, imo, is as an algae scrubber. You can see why in the video below.

 

[Tangwich]

Bottom left corner of the tank. Also some inverts and macros in the tank.

 

[JojosReef]

Bottom left corner of the tank. Also some inverts and macros in the tank. View attachment 124613 View attachment 124616 View attachment 124619 View attachment 124621 View attachment 124622 View attachment 124623

Love the orange galaxy macro! I jave a little bit of it regrowing. Also in love with that Xmas tree worm rock, something that would never make it in my tank with the wrasses. Nice star, too!

 

[Tangwich]

Love the orange galaxy macro! I jave a little bit of it regrowing. Also in love with that Xmas tree worm rock, something that would never make it in my tank with the wrasses. Nice star, too!

Thank you. I got that macro from Top Shelf Aquatics..they call it Atomic Broccoli. It has cool specks of glitter that really pop under blues. It's funny that you mentioned "something that would never make it in my tank." A lot of the corals and macros i am keeping in this tank, it's my first time successfully keeping them. And reason for that is that early on i made a conscious decision to only keep fish that wouldn't bother any corals or eat algaes. Which leads me to my fish list..here's what I currently have.

2 x wild caught ocellaris clownfish
1 white banded possum wrasse
1 springeri damsel - only in there because i believed the hype about them and planaria and now I can't get him out lol.
2 x scooter dragons

If i can catch the damsel, I will replace it with a nice basslet of some kind.

 

[Bck2hobby]

this is an awesome macro tank that needs to be seen in person. One of those tanks you can just sit and vege for a good while.

 

[Bck2hobby]

Thanks Jim. The hob filter houses rock rubble for the time being. I used to run carbon and filter floss but the filter floss would slowly deteriorate and end up stuck around my powerhead's impellers...so for that reason, no more filter floss. I run chemipure blue/elite occasionally.

Now the bigger purpose that the HOB filter serves, imo, is as an algae scrubber. You can see why in the video below.

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think i will do same crushed coral/rubble rock along with the sponge it comes with. Hopefully i dont wipe out the copepod population. Sponge although has very large openings - compared to copepod size. going through fugly faze on my macro tank - hopefully it clears out and looks a tad as good as yours.