Nemo and his father.

My kid wanted nemo and father, so I finally decide to add live stock.

Tank itself is cycle completed, but I had mini cycle due to livestock introduction.

Getting small amount of coralline algae

Will be adding fish coming weekend, my son is bugging for Nemo and his dead. I hope water is good enought

Diatom getting really bad

Dang it start getting diatom after the rearrange the rock work, might cause massive die out in the base rocks, or something else but not sure.

Shorten the light period. turn off the 34watt PC and only running 24watt PC.

Koralia power head and rearrange the tank

Rearrange the rock work
Installed surface skimmer.

seeding live sand with sand from establish tank

Well, 3 days pass since I seeded my dead sand, and I am seeing some green algae coming up, not those nasty diatom kind but actually circular green coralline, hopefully I will get some pink or purple ones soon. No live stock yet in my tank. I am waiting for surface skimmer and power head for additional water movement before I start adding live stock it seems I am not getting good gas exchange due to the fact that i have oil build up on my water surface. I hope surface skimmer will help.

I will post pics once I received the items on Wednesday.

Just another week I will be adding live stock, hermit crab and some snails first.

Here is some pic of tank

Put water in it, and waiting for cycle to be over.

Price Sheet for Nano Cube Setup

Well here I go start another saltwater tank, I had 55 gallon before and moved lost all.
it was $50 dollar tank which cause me total of over $4000 after I was done with setup.
I am not setting up big tank, I am trying to setup 12 gallon Nano Cube.

I will like to keep track on how much will cause me to set this up.

12 Gallon JBJ Nanocube use = $50
20 pound dry sand (from old tank) = Free
10 pound of base rock (use to be live rock pay $5 per pound) = Free
5 gallon salt fix x 2 = $8
TopFin small glass cleaning brush = $7
Thermometer = $2
JBJ Nano Cube M.S.S. (Modular Surface Skimmer) = $9
Hydor Koralia Nano (Mini) Pump/Powerhead 240gph = $20
shipping for two items = $7
food dry pallet = 5

livestocks

Perecula ClownFish 2 x 15 = $33
Sassariusa Snail 2 x 3 = $6
Mexico blue leg hermit 3 x 2 =$6

Live Stock = $45


Total = $58 + $45 + $50 for tank

$153