Winged's Tanks

The frogspawn is actually looking better!



See how the heads in the bottom of the picture look, how they're all retracted and you can hardly see the polyps? When I took this coral out of the 55, it all looked like that. But, now look at the heads at the top of the picture. They look so much better. I hope it will continue to improve.

Because the frogspawn is improving, I decided my tank is ready for more corals. I went to the LFS and purchased five "nano frags". These tiny frags are cheap and perfect for this tank. I bought a green mushroom, some green zoanthids, some red and green zoanthids, some sort of tiny leather (I think...it's almost to little to tell), and some purple button polyps. They're looking good.

Most aiptasia are gone. We returned the filefish to the store and got some new waving hand polyps for the 55 gallon.

Current picture (poor quality again...):



I've been thinking about what my maintenance and eventual feeding schedule will be like for this tank. I am thinking about using a pet water bottle for an auto-top off. Provided that works, that will take care of top-offs. Maintenance and feeding can't be something that require a lot of work, especially when fall comes and I'm back at school. I really want a sun coral, but that will require daily or near daily feedings, and I don't stay at school during the weekend. I'm thinking about twice weekly, one gallon water changes. During the first week or two after any changes in livestock, I will test all levels daily. I'll probably do the same following the move to school and back.

Before selling him back to the store, I put the filefish in the pico to eat some aiptasia. I left him in the tank for a few days, and did frequent water changes as the tank isn't quite stable. He hasn't started eating the aiptasia yet, but I'm sure he will soon.

Current params:
Ammonia: 0.25 ppm
Nitrite: between 0 and 0.25, closer to 0
Nitrate: 10 ppm
pH: 8.2

Here are a couple of pictures.

A couple of days ago:


Today:



(You'll have to excuse the quality in these pics. They were taken with my phone.)

Here are some pics from one of our saltwater tanks.

The clownfish in their finger leather:


The flowerpot (it wasn't too happy when this picture was taken as I had just moved it):


And the frogspawn:

This is my 10 gallon shrimp tank in my dorm room at school.



It has an unknown amount of red cherry shrimp. It is planted, no CO₂, no ferts. The light is this one, with the bulbs that come with it. I'm planning on replacing the actinic bulb with one more appropriate for a FW planted tank. Plants include Hemianthus micranthemoides (baby tears), Heteranthera zosterifolia (stargrass), Sagittaria subulata (dwarf sag), Microsorum pteropus (java fern), and Lilaeopsis brasiliensis (microsword).

Here are some pics. You'll have to excuse quality as they were taken with my phone.