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Equipment
Live Rock and Sand
Fish
Snails
Crabs
Corals
Other Animals
Plants and Algae

Twelve Gallon Nano Reef Photos - on their own page.

My Nano Reef Blog - details about the entire process

The current inventory of this tank is below.

Equipment

• Twelve Gallon Nano Cube Deluxe Reef Tank with two 24 W lamps - holds closer to 9 gallons
  
• Moonlight fix added on 5/9/09. From here
  
• Visitherm 50 W heater set to 75 degrees F
  
• Filter contains three sponges, a mesh bag of carbon, about four bioballs, and a small amount of RowaPhos in a mesh bag
  
• Maxi Jet 900, 230 gph pump added 9/20/08 to replace pump with which it came

This is where I got the tank:

Live Rock and Sand

Added 4/26/08:
8 pound bag of live sand with a lot of small shells

Added 4/27/08:
11.5 pounds of live rock

Fish

1 Oscellaris clownfish - added 5/21/08. His name is, of course, Nemo.

1 Purple Firefish - added 10/24/09. His name is Pablo. My previous regular firefish named Jose, who I got on 6/6/08, vanished in the summer of 2009.

1 Greenbanded Goby - added 10/24/09. He is very tiny, just half an inch. His name is Enrique.

Snails

2 Nassarius snails - added 6/5/08.

3 Margarita snails - 2 added 6/5/08, 1 added 6/16/08. By 10/27/09, I think only one is left.

1 Cerith snail - added 6/16/08.

3 Astraea snails - added 6/16/08. By 2009, they are covered in a mass of algae!

1 Stomatella varia snail - discovered 6/19/08 - hitchhiker. Vanished early 2009.

Crabs

1 Dwarf zebra hermit crab - added 5/6/08. Zeby is getting big!

1 Scarlet reef hermit crabs - added 5/6/08. Two were added. By 2009, only one was left.

1 Dwarf blue let hermit crab - added 5/6/08.

1 Dwarf yellow tip hermit crab - added 5/6/08.

Corals

1 Green zooanthids colony - added 5/21/08.

1 Green star polyps colony - added 5/21/08.

1 Orange and green zooanthids colony - added 6/16/08, two species of corals.

2 Brown mushroom - added 6/16/08, two on one rock.

1 Duncan LPS coral - added 6/16/08.

1 Pavona SPS coral - added 6/16/08.

1 Green star polyps colony - added 6/16/08.

1 Sun coral - added 6/16/08. Died.

1 Pineapple brain coral - added 7/6/08.

1 Xenia - added 7/6/08.

2 Green zooanthid colonies - very small, only a few polyps each, added 10/4/08.

Other Animals

1 Pink dwarf feather duster - added 9/27/08. I named him Dusty. He died.

All of these animals showed up either with the live sand, live rock, or corals.

6+ Small feather duster worms that came with both sets of zooanthids, at least two on one rock and four or five on the other.

1 Pineapple sponge - showed up on the live rock. It was later eaten but some smaller ones are growing. Later, other pineapple sponges showed up.

1 Bryozoan colony - showed up on the live rock, might be a sponge instead.

2 Spionid worms - within the larger green star polyp colony. By late September, these seem to be gone.

Small bristleworms.

Planaria. Early on there were white planaria. By September, the dreaded red planaria/flatworms showed up and are having a great time.

Amphipods - a nice group with some big ones! They mostly come out at night.

Various other small worms.

Plants and Algae

Five groups of Halimeda macroalgae. The first group has died; the second which is the largest is starting to die; the other three are new as of 9/29/08.

Some feathery macroalgae on the smaller zooanthid colony.

Hair algae.

Bubble algae - removed weekly.

1 Fuzzy tip algae. Gone now.

Various other hard green attached algae.

Coralline algae - pink and purple.