Hello.
I am a college student. I, like everyone here, share an intense passion for the ocean and its life, in fact so much so that I am working on my bachelors in Biology and hoping to become a research scientist or teach someday. Ever since my first snorkel of a reef in the Caribbean I just knew this was my passion.
My soft coral and mushroom anemone dominated tank consists of:
-29-gallon (less than 20 gallons with the gravel) acrylic aquarium.
-4 NO flourescent bulbs in a hood, two blue two daylight (which only ammounts to 80 watts of lighting but I have had good growth in all corals as long as I keep up on changing the bulbs every 5 months. If it works don't fix it!!!)
-1 hang on power filter with no continual
mechanical filtration but to hold carbon occasionally.
-One modified Sea-Clone skimmer
-2 revolving output powerheads for varying water movement.
-a 100 watt heater
-20 pounds of live rock
-1 1/2 inch plenum with 4 inches of aragonite gravel over it.
-1 silver gorgonian
-1 purple blade gorgonian
-1 lettuce coral (Sinularia dura)
-1 Leather coral (Sarcophyton)
-Lots of colorful zoanthids
-Lots of blue, green and red
mushroom anemones.
-Lots of yellow polyps
-Rapidly growing star polyps creeping up the tank walls
-1 green rock anemone (Phymanthus sp.)
-about 20 assorted snails and hermit crabs.
-One Arrow crab
-one Blue Damsel and one gold-sripe clown.
All is very well. the tank was converted from a fish-only aquarium to a reef in the spring of 99. All corals are prospering and growing very profusely, in fact I cut and propagate the corals to keep aggression down. Most corals were grown from polyps and fragments that were propagated. I do 10% monthly water changes and add B-ionic daily.
Aquaman
[This message has been edited by Aquaman (edited 12-21-2000).]
