leto
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I bought my hexagon tank about 4-5 years ago. It was 14 gallon till about 5 days ago when I cut about 15 cm off the top making it a 10gallon tank. I also cut off the base and then glued it in 4 small spots to easily detach it if I ever decide to go without it.
I love how it looks now. I like that you can see though it and that it is hexagon.
10 gallon makes it so much easier: buy one 2.5-gallon spring water container for $2.50 - and it's my 25% water change..
I have a lot of live rock in it. Maybe more than needed 30 - 40 pounds. Great that I purchased it 4 years ago b/c now it goes for $11-12 per pound where I live.
Not sure if I ever will go with mushrooms or other invertebrates - extremely expensive here in NYC. I would say $70 is the cheapest one you can find. Anemone is less but can make a mess wondering around the tank at night and getting sucked into the filter.
I have 3 clowns. One of them is 2/ 2.5 inches maroon clown. Most likely too big for this tank but he doubled in size since I got him 4 years ago. He’s been though hell : no filter for half a month no lights for 4 months, worm outbreak, heating problems, no water changes for a year - lived thru everything.
Despite what many people say I bought a pair of tiny clowns 4 days ago. He bullied them for one day. Now they are best friends. These two babies ‘chip and dale’ constantly spying on him, taking half of the food, sneaking around the tank, swimming against power heads at night. Maybe he’s enjoying it – been lonely for so long or maybe he’s just old.
A few weeks ago I was lucky to find an awesome deal on Galileo I-9 LED light (1/3 of full price). The light is amazing. When my clown was without a light I probably tried about 4 different light fixtures, including a metal halide and sent all of them back. MH in my opinion is a huge liability, not b/c of electric consumption and heat that are horrible but b/c if anything goes wrong with it, it can create a fire disaster in seconds and you’ll want no tank then. This Galileo led light is extremely bright. Cannot look at it when on. The water is shimmering. The light gets barely barely warm and takes 40W.
I also noticed that the shimmer effect has nothing to do with metal halide but has to do with the size of the light point. Turn on your tiny night light and see how well it shimmers. Simple physics.
I also took out bio balls from my eheim filter based on what I read here and left only one ordered layer
of holed cylinders in.
These are made of some similar material as live rock and don’t catch a lot of debris. All bad stuff in my tank is at 0 except nitrates that are at 40/4. Will do a couple more water changes and hopefully it will go down.
I also got 2 big mexican snails 2 days ago. (you can see one in the pic) They eat all day long and crap all day long too.. Wondering if their excrements can cause nitrogen spikes ??? One small clown twitches several times a day. No ick though. I wonder if they used cyanide to catch these.
Otherwise just wanted to say hello and wish everybody well. such a pity a have a bad 2 megapix digital camera, the tank is much more beautiful in reality.
Here is my setup:
10 gal. hexagon tank
2222 eheim filter
2 koralia nano powerheads
Galileo i-9 led light
a 50w heater set at 78-79
no thermometer (0 heat from LED)
lots of live rock
3 clowns
2 snails
1 lazy hermit crab
I bought my hexagon tank about 4-5 years ago. It was 14 gallon till about 5 days ago when I cut about 15 cm off the top making it a 10gallon tank. I also cut off the base and then glued it in 4 small spots to easily detach it if I ever decide to go without it.
I love how it looks now. I like that you can see though it and that it is hexagon.
10 gallon makes it so much easier: buy one 2.5-gallon spring water container for $2.50 - and it's my 25% water change..
I have a lot of live rock in it. Maybe more than needed 30 - 40 pounds. Great that I purchased it 4 years ago b/c now it goes for $11-12 per pound where I live.
Not sure if I ever will go with mushrooms or other invertebrates - extremely expensive here in NYC. I would say $70 is the cheapest one you can find. Anemone is less but can make a mess wondering around the tank at night and getting sucked into the filter.
I have 3 clowns. One of them is 2/ 2.5 inches maroon clown. Most likely too big for this tank but he doubled in size since I got him 4 years ago. He’s been though hell : no filter for half a month no lights for 4 months, worm outbreak, heating problems, no water changes for a year - lived thru everything.
Despite what many people say I bought a pair of tiny clowns 4 days ago. He bullied them for one day. Now they are best friends. These two babies ‘chip and dale’ constantly spying on him, taking half of the food, sneaking around the tank, swimming against power heads at night. Maybe he’s enjoying it – been lonely for so long or maybe he’s just old.
A few weeks ago I was lucky to find an awesome deal on Galileo I-9 LED light (1/3 of full price). The light is amazing. When my clown was without a light I probably tried about 4 different light fixtures, including a metal halide and sent all of them back. MH in my opinion is a huge liability, not b/c of electric consumption and heat that are horrible but b/c if anything goes wrong with it, it can create a fire disaster in seconds and you’ll want no tank then. This Galileo led light is extremely bright. Cannot look at it when on. The water is shimmering. The light gets barely barely warm and takes 40W.
I also noticed that the shimmer effect has nothing to do with metal halide but has to do with the size of the light point. Turn on your tiny night light and see how well it shimmers. Simple physics.
I also took out bio balls from my eheim filter based on what I read here and left only one ordered layer
of holed cylinders in.
These are made of some similar material as live rock and don’t catch a lot of debris. All bad stuff in my tank is at 0 except nitrates that are at 40/4. Will do a couple more water changes and hopefully it will go down.
I also got 2 big mexican snails 2 days ago. (you can see one in the pic) They eat all day long and crap all day long too.. Wondering if their excrements can cause nitrogen spikes ??? One small clown twitches several times a day. No ick though. I wonder if they used cyanide to catch these.
Otherwise just wanted to say hello and wish everybody well. such a pity a have a bad 2 megapix digital camera, the tank is much more beautiful in reality.
Here is my setup:
10 gal. hexagon tank
2222 eheim filter
2 koralia nano powerheads
Galileo i-9 led light
a 50w heater set at 78-79
no thermometer (0 heat from LED)
lots of live rock
3 clowns
2 snails
1 lazy hermit crab
Two little guys (a clown pair) i got are new and feel very happy in the tank. 
