agsansoo

Hey yours is looking good too ! I like nanocubes, I've seen a lot of great corals in naocubes. The LFS I go to has a pair of clowns and an anemone in one. The only thing it runs a little too warm, so they had to put a chiller on it !

Howeyg

i wish i had a tank like that . i love mandarin gobies and i love the set up. hopefully mine will look like that one day

armadillo

Nanocubes come with a chiller, don't they? That's what impresses me with them so much. All the stuff they come with .

COBettaCouple

we could go for some chillers here, this hot florida summer.

armadillo

Oh talking of chillers, huuuuge diversion here, sorry, but we've just had the greatest idea (in all modesty). In our supermarkets, they sold Calippo-shaped ice lolly cones (don't know if it's the same brand name in the US, so here's some pictures of a calippo stick: http://images.google.com/images?um=1...3Aen&q=calippo). Anyway, so we filled them with:
1/ creme de menthe / water;
2/ 4 roses bourbon and coke;
3/ creme de chocolat / amaretto
and waited until they froze.

We had some friends over and it was a huuuge success. You should totally try the creme de menthe ones if you're having a hot summer!

P.S. Kids, this is for adults only, please don't try this yourselves.

COBettaCouple

lol, drop one of those in the tank and the fish wouldn't care what the temp was!

armadillo

I was wondering what it was like out of sheer intellectual curiosity. I'd never do this myself. Anyway, I found this: .

atmmachine816

I was thinking I might have some problems buying some of that here

Not a lot seem to and you have to usually add more flow because the pumps are low. They are good for beginners and DIYers. If you wanted hard corals you would have to mod it.

agsansoo

Updated photos:



All the fish hang out near the clowns. Why ? I have no clue ! LOL




Sun Coral


Zoanthids

agsansoo

Oh yeah the starfish is still alive !


One more of the Mandarin

capekate

Cool Pixs!!! I just love saltwater fish... they are so beautiful with amazing markings. Like your manderin and the blue tang! wowwoww is all I can say! If it wasnt so expensive and hard to care for, I wish I would be able to do a SW tank. Well.. maybe some day! Thanks for sharing the photos.. every now and then I love to pop over to the saltwater section just so that I can see these fantastic photos!!

COBettaCouple

what type of anemone is that in the corner with the clowns? it's a beauty! i'd love one of those in a SW tank when we get one and i'd say that sun coral is my fav. of the corals that i've seen.

agsansoo

Thanks !! It's a little more money to get started and about the same to care for. Come and join the fun.

agsansoo

It's a Green Bubble Tip Anemone (GBTA). It's doing better now, you can tell by the brown color it's betting back (their symbiotic zooxanthellae algae). As for the sun coral, I will try to get a picture of it eating tonight !

agsansoo

Here is the sun coral opening as lights start to cycle off. They feed at night.

COBettaCouple

too cool. what do they eat? i see there's a lot of studying of anemone and corals to do...

agsansoo

They basically eat anything they can catch in the water column. I supplement feed them mysid shrimp and cyclopezee every other day.

COBettaCouple

cool