Feather&Rocket
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello, hello! We have started a 55 gallon FOWLR saltwater tank. We are giving our tank a long, long time to cycle because we put a lot of tufa and lava rock in to cycle into the process of the tank.
We have a homemade (by us) sump running (from a 10 gallon tank) with a 200W heater and Quiet1One 1200 pump. We're going to be getting the Octopus 100 protein skimmer very soon. We also have 2 Penguin 550 powerheads running in the tank and some live rock (found a snail, a few brittle sea stars, bristle worms, some tiny snails, and other fun critters).
We've added stress zyme and a shrimp to the tank and are now housing two cute little orange-tailed blue damsels. We're letting the tank mature even more to start acclimating and adding in new fish. We may send the damsels back to the pet store once our tank cycles, too. Just in case their too territorial. Yes, we're naming them. They're Kita and Kati. All our fish will have French names, as Rocket and Rocket's family are very into French culture, all speaking it fluently and having relatives in France.
I'm really not sure what else to say here, so I'll put up pictures and if anyone has questions, let us know.
Picture list:
1. Rocket starting the syphon for the overflow.
2. Tank setup.
3. Cute little snail who hitchhiked along with the live rock.
4. Our two damsels, Kati and Kita after they were introduced to the tank.
-Feather
We have a homemade (by us) sump running (from a 10 gallon tank) with a 200W heater and Quiet1One 1200 pump. We're going to be getting the Octopus 100 protein skimmer very soon. We also have 2 Penguin 550 powerheads running in the tank and some live rock (found a snail, a few brittle sea stars, bristle worms, some tiny snails, and other fun critters).
We've added stress zyme and a shrimp to the tank and are now housing two cute little orange-tailed blue damsels. We're letting the tank mature even more to start acclimating and adding in new fish. We may send the damsels back to the pet store once our tank cycles, too. Just in case their too territorial. Yes, we're naming them. They're Kita and Kati. All our fish will have French names, as Rocket and Rocket's family are very into French culture, all speaking it fluently and having relatives in France.
I'm really not sure what else to say here, so I'll put up pictures and if anyone has questions, let us know.
Picture list:
1. Rocket starting the syphon for the overflow.
2. Tank setup.
3. Cute little snail who hitchhiked along with the live rock.
4. Our two damsels, Kati and Kita after they were introduced to the tank.
-Feather