28 gallon nano cube

**street_fury** · 02-03-2011, 05:18 AM

Hey averagejoe. I was reading ur posts and I see u have a pretty nice set up. I also have a 34g cadiff loaded with corals. I am not sure if u installed ur chiller but I am using. 1/13hp chiller in mine and water stays @78 degrees I thing ur 1/10 should be fine just plug in a heater. What I did was use a maxi jet and drilled a hole near the top off bottles and put the pump for chiller and I put the return line near skimmer. I've had the tank for about 2 years .I'm also from nj so you can add me. I will try to come on more often. Clown fishes are nice but what til urs start mating. U will be super excited. But unfortunately they will die because of the way tank is designed If you are lucky u can catch a few when they hatch and try to raise them. Well happy reefing good luck and u can Im me if u have questions. I've learnt alot from every one on talkingreef and carmie is great Good luck

**CarmieJo** · 02-05-2011, 12:24 AM

Hi Lance, how's it going?

**street_fury** · 02-06-2011, 03:57 PM

Hey carmie. Everything is great so far how about u. Hope u are enjoying ur tank as much as I'm enjoying mine.I finally got some time to get back on forum. I've made some changes to my tank . Lost my cleaner shrimp so sad. I think the clown fish ate him for a snack because I change their food and didn't notice they weren't eating it .also they ate my peppermint shrimp. Boo hoo. But the corals are growing out of control I will soon post some pics as soon as I clean off the purple coraline algea .I've broken all the rules of keeping a nano tank and I must say it's been very successful. Had my tank 2 years now and lost one hammer coral and I had no idea about reefs. But thanks to ur advice I'm able to keep my reef happy. Well hope all is well with u and family enjoy ur day. I need help identifying this coral it has split and I think it will split again will post pic later

**averagejoe** · 02-11-2011, 05:07 PM

havent been on in a while pictures coming soon

**CarmieJo** · 02-12-2011, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by street_fury

Hey carmie. Everything is great so far how about u. Hope u are enjoying ur tank as much as I'm enjoying mine.I finally got some time to get back on forum. I've made some changes to my tank . Lost my cleaner shrimp so sad. I think the clown fish ate him for a snack because I change their food and didn't notice they weren't eating it .also they ate my peppermint shrimp. Boo hoo. But the corals are growing out of control I will soon post some pics as soon as I clean off the purple coraline algea .I've broken all the rules of keeping a nano tank and I must say it's been very successful. Had my tank 2 years now and lost one hammer coral and I had no idea about reefs. But thanks to ur advice I'm able to keep my reef happy. Well hope all is well with u and family enjoy ur day. I need help identifying this coral it has split and I think it will split again will post pic later

That is a little weird about the shrimp. It doesn't sound like typical clown behavior.

Joe, I am looking froward to seeing new pictures!

**street_fury** · 02-13-2011, 09:25 PM

Hey joe patiently waiting to see pics,,

Hey carmie i still have one more peppermint. Finally saw him hiding out. Lol. Ive added some pics on a different thread

**averagejoe** · 02-27-2011, 08:08 PM

anyone around kearny nj my taro tree is out of control and need to frag and hope people will take it. or try a local fish store but alot aways want it for free and then sell it.

**SaltyDawg** · 02-27-2011, 10:28 PM

I've got the same problem. More trees than I know what to do with. If there is a local reef club that hosts frag swaps you might be able to get rid of some. Or craigslist might get rid of a few. In the last year I flushed more tree and xenia frags than you can imagine. It just sucks to know that at 10 bucks a piece I could have bought a crazy nice light fixture with whats sitting in my septic tank.

**averagejoe** · 05-05-2011, 03:19 PM

been so busy i havent been on buy i have some great news one of my clownfish is living in my bubble tip. still waiting for the other one. will post pictures soon

**CarmieJo** · 05-15-2011, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by averagejoe

been so busy i havent been on buy i have some great news one of my clownfish is living in my bubble tip. still waiting for the other one. will post pictures soon

Is the second one hosting yet?

**averagejoe** · 05-16-2011, 11:14 AM

no not yet the one hosting is very peotective. wont let in close yet. is there anything i can do

**CarmieJo** · 05-20-2011, 01:28 AM

Not that I know of. The one that is hosting is probably the female.

**averagejoe** · 05-23-2011, 11:21 AM

so here is a picture of my clownfish in my bubbletip.

**averagejoe** · 05-23-2011, 11:42 AM

i will take more pictures wednesday i have a pulsing xenia and a pink encrusting flower pot coming. so my tank has crabs, snails, 2 peppermint shirmp 2 slugs, 2 serpent star fish, n a bubbletip. my fish are 2 clownfish and a coral beauty. i have a yellow sponge. corals r taro tree, candy cane, green cup coral, watermelon zoanthids, frogspawn, and a coral i am not to sure of. will take a picture maybe you guys can help. was told it was a toadstool but i dont think it is

**averagejoe** · 05-23-2011, 12:10 PM

any ideas what this is

**CarmieJo** · 05-25-2011, 05:04 PM

They look like toadstools to me.

**averagejoe** · 09-22-2011, 09:53 AM

so my bubble tip split a couple of days ago. i now have two of them. they are side by side but their feet are attached to two different pieces of live rock

**rayme07** · 09-22-2011, 05:45 PM

Awesome congrats on the split!

**averagejoe** · 09-23-2011, 08:01 PM

has anyone ever used sea lab 28. i am using it. is there any supplements u guys use. on a different note thining of adding a orange sun coral. i will add pictures this week i have three new corals coming on tuesday. all mushrooms. red, green striped, and a orange ricordea.

**CarmieJo** · 09-28-2011, 02:02 AM

I'm not familiar with Sea Lab 8.

**averagejoe** · 09-30-2011, 02:07 PM

so here are a couple of new photo's of my 28g nano cube. not sure if you can tell but my bubble tip split. dont know if i should keep both.

**averagejoe** · 09-30-2011, 02:12 PM

the red mushrooms and green striped mushrooms just got a couple of days ago. running to lfs to pick up plugs or disk going to frag my plusing xenia, and my taro tree. any close to kearny nj looking to start a reef aquarium or dont have either one let me know. i would gladly let you take a couple. as u can see in the picture the xenia is out of control and the taro tree keeps showing up around the tank.

**Proseph** · 10-01-2011, 12:02 AM

Your tank looks like a forest haha, I like it a a lot!

**averagejoe** · 10-01-2011, 10:12 AM

so my lfs was out of plugs going to try another one today.

**averagejoe** · 10-04-2011, 11:28 AM

so i just purchased the vortech mp10 for my tank. should be coming in the next couple of days. going to run it in reef crest mode. does anyone have any advice about these pumps and how to run them. i do have to say sometimes it feels like i am posting just for myself to read