10 Gallon Mini-Reef Build

[little_fish]

Coraline is actually a hard algae that grows in our tanks, its the purple stuff growing on your crab, its not a type of snail or anything.

 

[kbuser92]

So my snails are regular old margaritas then with the algae growing on the shell? Eh, tbats kinda cool.

 

[little_fish]

I hope the are turbo snails and not margarita snails. Margarita snails are a cold water snail and just slowly boil to death in our tanks.

 

[kbuser92]

...theyre Margaritas for sure...what do I do..?

As for the lil guy, hes white and definitely has a purple stripe...any idea or is he too small to tell yet?

 

[little_fish]

not much you can do about it, and keep an eye on the small snail, its not likely to be a turbo or a margaritas. It might be a collinista (?) snail and will stay small and be a great cleaner or it might be a pest snail who will go after soft corals.

 

[kbuser92]

All softies including lps like frogspawn and hammers and stuff or just like leathers and mushrooms?

 

[little_fish]

hammers and frogspawn are LPS corals, you can tell because they have a hard skeleton. And then which softies they might have a taste for depends on the individual species.

 

[kbuser92]

But they still have soft polyps is what I meant...but they wont bother lps at all?

 

[little_fish]

I dont think so, just keep an eye on it

 

[NanoReefer]

+1 lil fish!

 

[kbuser92]

Okay. So im going with the T5. What do yall think of feather dusters?

 

[little_fish]

Great additions to a tank, but dont get them confused with coco worms, those can be very challenging to keep.

 

[kbuser92]

Alright. What sort of lighting do they need?

 

[kbuser92]

Im probably way too excited about this, but I found a baby (7 mm) starfish tonight. : ))))
Ill post a couple pics tomorrow for id. : )

 

[kbuser92]

Well I bought a polyp rock today with some zoas, an orange duncan, a tiny feather duster and either an acan or a brain. Theyre all really small.

I also brought home another blue hermit and some more baby stars, at least 8 and a micro brittle. Lotsss of algae, too. And a couple more lbs of rock so im done with that now aside from what frags may come on.

 

[kbuser92]

Happy Holidays, everyone, I hope all has been/is/will be great for everyone!

Here's some pictures I promised:

FTS as of Yesterday:

Right Side:

Zoas:

Duncan?:

Zoas and a Yellow Polyp:

I think this one is a Favia:

Hope you enjoy! I'm hoping to add some sort of fish or a cleaner shrimp in the next week, but we'll see what's available. : ]

 

[little_fish]

looks good.

The thing you called a duncan is actually a cinnamon paly, which grow slow but get bigger than any other paly out there.

It also looks like you have pest nem in that clump of zoas, I would remove it ASAP with aiptasia X

 

[texreefer]

If you haven't already purchased your lighting seriously look into this

7 LED PAR38 Bulb

I have it on my 5.5g and it covers great.

 

[kbuser92]

Is that pest what I called the polyp? And also, is that indeed a favia?

Ill get that Aptasia.

 

[texreefer]

appears to be favia to me