♥ Alunai's 5G ♥ (1 Viewer)

[Alunai]

Looks good! I like the rock work.

Looking good so far! I like the rocks you chose as well! :biggrin:

Thank you! I have so much rock, I took a select few of my favorites and kept dinking around with them till I was finally happy. Shockingly enough, I got it on the first try. I never just step back and am happy - except this time. I am in awe of myself! :gay1: :bow:

I feel like a creeper tryin to see what was going on in the reflections.....

Yo, I totally do the same thing. I'm not creeped out. :rotflmao:


I finally finished filling her up. After sitting in my living room for several months begging to be filled, she's finally wet rotflmao: Wait for it......) I will post pictures tomorrow when I can take them in the daylight. It's 1:45 AM and my 5.5 gallon has seen water for the first time! Yay! Now to begin cycling! I should try to find some type of bacterial additive to kick start the cycle. :goldfish::agree:

 

[SvRider]

Love that torch

 

[Alunai]

As do I! I cannot wait to pick it and my clowns up!

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[guy9smiley2]

Looks good. I especially love the rock work on the right. You have me tempted to set one up now, damn you :swear: hahaha :beerchug:

 

[Alunai]

Looks good. I especially love the rock work on the right. You have me tempted to set one up now, damn you :swear: hahaha :beerchug:

:gay1: Glad to be of assistance! :biglaugh2:

Also, thank you for all the compliments on the rockwork! I was very proud of it myself, and I love the affirmation that it looks good! I appreciate all the feedback! :rock:

On another note, as promised, here is the very first picture of her post-water! I also have a koralia nano on the back, which, much to my bliss, is hard to see against the black background!

 

[daphilster08]

Following this thread along. Looks good! Not sure if you posted, but are you putting any substrate in?

 

[Alunai]

I did, I am doing barebottom. At least for a while. I am thinking about doing a Randall's goby, and obviously will need sand for that. At first though, I'm definitely going to do barebottom. Glad to see you following along! :greenguy:

 

[BashfulBacterium]

Are you endorsing nanofins or something:rotflmao:
Either way I'm excited to see where this goes!

 

[Alunai]

Well, unintentionally, I guess that is what I'm doing, yes! :gay1:

 

[Alunai]

Photo Updates!

Doing a vinegar wash on the AC50 and koralias to be used in the 5 gallon, along with other equipment! This was approximately 25% (if not more) vinegar and hot water.

Lighting:

Coralife Mini Aqualight 11" T5 Fixture (1 actinic, 1 10k) - Scffvariable ($40)
2 Magenta stunner strips - Freebie - Stoneyj33
1 UV stunner strip - Freebie - Goberson79

Night time lighting with the three stunner strips! (This is actually how the lighting looks, it was only edited to show the colors that my phone couldn't correctly capture)

Aaaand time for some water testing!!

Nitrite

Nitrate

Ammonia

pH

Waterchange time?!

 

[odie]

I would wait till the nitrite was zero. Looks like it is .25 , I always wait till I see nitrates increase or see diatoms. But I am not that experienced.

 

[Alunai]

I probably won't see diatoms for a while, since I only have my t5 lights on for just over 3 hours a day. I've been keeping the photoperiod short since I haven't needed it. I'm still debating what I want to do for lighting in the long run. I really like the idea of using stunner strips for lighting. I got the coralife mini as a temporary lighting setup since I knew I was getting coral at the swap and needed lighting. Perhaps once funds allow, I'll throw an Ecoxotic panorama on there for the main lighting and the stunners as supplemental lighting.

 

[Shibbs]

Crazy Nails!!!!!!

 

[BashfulBacterium]

Are you doing a custom refugium with the ac50 like I did? I think they're so handy :banana:

 

[Alunai]

Crazy Nails!!!!!!

Thanks dude! :biggthumpup:

Are you doing a custom refugium with the ac50 like I did? I think they're so handy :banana:

I sure am! They're nice, aren't they?

 

[tdriehorst]

i made a fug with an aquaclear 110 and it was awesome. i used the same light you have on your tank right now to light it. it grew like crazy!

 

[Alunai]

Long overdue updates on this tank!

I have a couple cuties occupying this quaint little 5.5 gallon apartment now! Two beautiful black ice clowns came home with me a few months ago from Discovery Aquatics. Thank you so much Jay! They are my pride and joy. I absolutely adore them! They have been lovingly named Zeus and Hera.

Alongside the ecoxotic stunner strips, I had a Coralife Aqualight Mini lighting this tank. As you can see it was a nice light and did a good job of illuminating the tank. For some reason though, I just wasn't satisfied with it.

So I very recently picked up this absolutely awesome Beamswork LED fixture for the tank from FishMonger (thanks Brian!) and I was blown away by how amazing the tank looks under these lights. After adding the still un-modded AC50 for flow, the tank shimmers like crazy! It is totally stunning! The little ones were hiding out in the corner because I had just rearranged their furniture and did a long-overdue 3 gallon water change, but this picture perfectly shows off the gorgeous color that the light creates!

For your viewing pleasure... A video!!
[youtube]M2rb1_Ntz9Q[/youtube]

 

[Fishmonger70]

Great shots and a cool video. Glad you like the light.

 

[guy9smiley2]

Diggin the tank! Can see the little beauties hiding in the left corner in the reflection. Very nice!opworm:

 

[mnmuskyman2011]

Nice tank. Love the clowns.