Hogie's "Office Tank" (Nuvo 4)

I've gotten a lot of entertainment and information reading everyone else's tank threads, so I surmised it's about time I did one of my own. I told the story of this tank in the general thread of why its my "office tank.". So to summarize, I'll just say
12 goldfish+office prank+several hrs=dead, foamy tank.

So, I brought the tank home, took out and rinsed the rock and sand in 'fresh' salt water, scrubbed caked slime off the walls and got the tank cleaned up. After putting everything back, the cycle begins.

Lights on:


Lights off:


Left side:


Right side:


Edited by Hogie - April 02 2013 at 10:31pm

Good luck, thats cool!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing with a thread!

Time for an update:
Good news! After a few days, I tested the big 3 (ammonia, nitrite and nitrate) and all were 0! I thought it was a fluke and it needed time to get out of the rock and sand and start building up in the tank. So, I tested it a week later and still 0! I figured it was time for a test run and put 2 snails and a crab in it (thanks frag fest!) and they did (and are doing) perfectly well.

So, after another week, I imported a baby clown (also from fragfest) and a small ricordea (did I mention fragfest?) It's been two more weeks and they are doing great. (Now before going haywire on a clown being in such a small tank, he's there temporarily.   I have another 20 gal long tank that's being set up and when he's bigger, he's going in there.) The clown is at best 3/4 of an inch and seemed to be really having to work in the flow of the tank, so I put in the little pot where he'd have a place to go hang out with less flow. He's quickly adopted it and like to swim through it out the hole in the back. He's quite content.

I've also decided to make this an algae tank as my other tank is sps dominate and I wanted something different, so I pickup a few different kinds (thanks Corey and ebay) and they've been in there 4 days now. I also picked up a gorgonia from Anne (after her trigger decided it was a tasty treat.) Guess where she got it? That's right, fragfest!!

I do have two questions:
1: Does the dragon's breath need to be in the sand or is it good up on the rock?
2: I was told for photosynthetic gorgonias, lots of flow, lowish light. Is that correct?

Now time for pics.

Front Shot:


Side Shot:


Other Side Shot:


Dragon's Breath:


Ricordea:


Red Macro from Ebay (my first ebay purchase of something living!):


Unknown Red Macro (this macro I originally got from Cole aka Spike. It grew like crazy and I gave some to Corey. I then had a bunch of snail decide they liked the taste of it and they ate it all, so i got some back from Corey!):


Gorgonia:




Edited by Hogie - April 13 2013 at 3:24pm

Love it! Glad to see the gorgonia is doing so well!