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Equipment
Live Rock and Sand
Fish
Snails and Clams
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. LED nightlights changed on 11/8/10.
  
• Visitherm 50 W heater set to 73 degrees F put in 12/23/10 after the previous 50 W Visitherm toasted the tank up to 94 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
  
• Maxi Jet 600, 160 gph pump added 1/15/11 to replace Koralia Nano Pump added 5/1/10 for extra water movement, out take next to the other pump

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.

Snails and Clams

1 Nassarius snail - two added 6/5/08. One died on 7/16/11.

Previously three Margarita snails - 2 added 6/5/08, 1 added 6/16/08. All gone by 2010.

1 Cerith snail - added 6/16/08.

Previously three Astraea snails - added 6/16/08. Last one died 8/1/10 or so.

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

Previously five Banded trochus snails - added 8/5/10. Three confirmed dead on 9/25/10. The remaining two are presumed dead.

Previously two Astraea snails added 10/8/10. One was dead by 10/23/10 while the other confirmed dead on 10/24/10.

1 Margarita snails added 10/8/10. I started with four but only one remained by 2011.

2 Astraea snails added 1/21/11.

2 Cerith snails added 1/21/11.

16 Cerith snails added 4/14/11. These were not store bought cerith snails but ones sent to me by another aquarist. They are very tiny, maybe 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch. This species stays small.

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.

Corals

Previously one Green zooanthids colony - added 5/21/08, dead by 2011.

1 Green star polyps colony - added 5/21/08, barely alive by 2011.

1 Orange and green zooanthids colony - added 6/16/08, two species of corals, barely alive by 12/10.

Previously one Duncan LPS coral - added 6/16/08. Thrived until 2011. By 4/16/11, only a few of the 20 some polyps were still alive and barely so. Duncan was completely dead by September 2011.

Previously one Pavona SPS coral - added 6/16/08. A third bleached 7/10. All dead by 2011.

1 Green star polyps colony - added 6/16/08, barely alive 12/10 after previously growing like a weed and transplanted to the 6 gallon tank where it still thrives.

Previously one Sun coral - added 6/16/08. Died.

1 Pineapple brain coral - added 7/6/08. Half bleached 7/10 but alive as of 4/16/11.

Previously one Xenia - added 7/6/08. Died late 11/10 all of a sudden after thriving.

Previously two Green zooanthid colonies - very small, only a few polyps each, added 10/4/08. Died 2009.

Other Animals

Previously one 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. It was.

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. All gone by 2010.

Some feathery macroalgae on the smaller zooanthid colony.

Hair algae, green and pink; took over the tank in 2010, and the corals all started to die.

Bubble algae - removed weekly for a while. Mostly gone by 2011..

1 Fuzzy tip algae. Gone now.

Various other hard green attached algae.

Coralline algae - pink and purple.

Caulerpa algae that showed up on its own, 2010 to 2011.

Added 4/14/11 - Cheatomorpha macroalgae sent by another aquarist. It is in a clump.

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