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Red Sea Max Nano (gigantea & mixed reef)

Tank 3 of 4 from Amazing Aquariums & Reefs Lives Up To Its Name

mixed reef
Style
Red Sea Max Nano
Brand
A Red Sea Max Nano packed with prized long-held pieces — a pair of gigantea anemones with true percs, a wild aberrant 'dollar-sign' clownfish from the Solomon Islands, a blue derasa clam, and old Euphyllia and Palythoa colonies. Run remarkably simply with a built-in skimmer, float-valve top-off, and a single never-changed filter sock.
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Equipment

Gear in this tank

Filtration
filter sock
Husbandry

Protocols & Practices

  • Run the all-in-one nano minimally — one filter sock in back that's never been replaced.
  • Freshwater top-off from a simple container with a float valve in the rear chamber.
  • Keep long-held mother colonies for years and frag pieces off them for sale.
  • Sell frags off big colonies rather than breaking down the display pieces.
Stocked

Livestock

Corals
7
Euphyllia (frogspawn, branching morph mother colony ~8-9 yrs)crystal green branching frogspawnJapanese pink soft coralPalythoa grandis (many old colonies)long-polyp Caulastrea / Trachyphyllia-like pieceRicordeaacan/lord (atossa mother colony)
Fish
2
dollar-sign clownfish (wild aberrant, Solomon Islands, ~3-4 yrs)true percula pair
Inverts
4
two Heteractis magnifica / gigantea anemonessmall beaded/haddoni carpet anemoneSaint Thomas rock (Ricordea)derasa clam (heavy blue coloration)