Sunday 5 January 2014

Tropical marine aquarium

A Last summer I set up an Orca TL 450 Nano aquarium.




Equipment


  • x2 florescent white/blue bulbs
  • 53 litre 24 x 45 Orca TL 450 aquarium
  • x1 Koralia nano powerhead
  • Orca pump to supply filter


Livestock
Coral
  • Xenia sp. pulse soft coral
  • Rhodactis sp. (indosinensis) hairy mushroom coral
  • Zoanthid colony (green)
  • Green Star Polyps
  • Green mushroom polyp
  • Sarcophyton toadstool leather coral

Green Star Polyps
Zoanthid

Mushroom coral

Sarcophyton leather coral

Pulsing Xenia sp.


Other

  • x2 tank bred clown fish (A. percula)
  • x1 Testus sp. pyramid snail
  • x1 Trochus sp. snail
  • x2 sea squirts
  • Various brittlestars, sponges harpacticoid copepods and polychaetes also inhabit the tank.