Terry

Yes it is looking good - good job! I think all SW tanks with that type of lighting look that way in pictures. I should have my tank delivered next week or the week after. Really looking forward to it!

atmmachine816

Thanks guys, I like it a lot. Still working on getting my dad to buy a real digital camera but he's set on moving now so that's going to have to wait.

Terry-can't wait to see your tank, I like cubes a lot and that red sea tank looks really nice, you should make a journal.

Terry

Good idea on the journal, if I can remember!

Isabella

It looks beautiful Atm I can't wait to see some fish in there What fish will you have? Also, which fixture and which legs did you finally get? (Sorry, I am really far behind the forum now.)

atmmachine816

Hope you remember Terry

Isabella, I got this fixture http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewIt...roduct=ES53124 with black deluxe regular mounting legs. The deluxe mounting legs are a bit too big and I might try the regular one's when I go to a lfs next. They are too long and I have a problem mounting them in the back where the switch is, I had to take the switch cover off for now. I plan on getting a clown goby or some other type of small goby or a black lyretail molly.

Livestock now:
1 peppermint shrimp
2 margarita snails
2 astrea snails
1 emeral/mirthrax crab

Am going to return margarita snails and one astrea snails and try to get cerith and another type. Found out margarita snails perfer cooler temps and astrea's aren't keeping my algae down.

atmmachine816

Update: 8-13-07

Fish:
1xGreen Clown Goby

Inverts:
2x astrea snails
1xemerald crab
2xfeather dusters

Corals:
9xActinodiscus genus mushrooms
1xfantastic mushroom (unsure on scientific name)
5xbutton polyps


Here's an older photo, not much has changed

Tom

Looks great, I thought you had more fish than that? Now an invert I would love to add to a tank would be a porcelain crab.
Tom

atmmachine816

No I've always had only one fish and planned for one fish. It's a small tank so a goby is one of the few fish I could actually get for the tank since they don't swim much and need much room. He's so hard to take a picture of though, I'm still trying to take a decent one, he's so fast.

http://www.etropicals.com/product/pr...43&pCatId=1954 this what you are talking about?

Tom

No, I mean these little guys.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...cfm?pCatId=629
They are so cute and full of personallity, or at least the ones at the LFS are.
Tom

atmmachine816

Interesting, not sure if they would work in my tank, don't think I want to try that, you going to setup your 10gallon to saltwater?

Tom

I will most likely if I can't get a hold of anymore galaxy rasboras and I would move my otos and coolie loach to another tank. There is a local site that I can get live rock for I think it was $3 a pound. I would also try to get a hold of an anemone if I could. Should I still try and go for the clown or some other small fish? Which one would you advise? I really want to see if I could get one of those neat little crabs.
Tom

Tom

I just checked out one of the sites of one of the places I go to and they take orders on fish, inverts, and corals.
Tom

atmmachine816

What size tank did you decide to use?

Sabi

Wow! Great looking tank Atm!
Knowing nothing on sw tanks, might i ask what 'feather dusters' are?

Tom

I would have liked to use my 10 gallon but my dad said 'NO' to SW since he thinks it will cost lots of $$$.
Tom

atmmachine816

O sorry about that then

Tom

It's kind of depressing, but what can you do?
Tom

atmmachine816

Save up, then find everything cheap, show him the price and see what happens, that's what I did, finally convince my parents it wasn't that expensive.