#nano reef

[redwarriorsworld]

My tank is beginning. 32 gallon biocube.

#saltwater aquarium #nano reef

[lifestyleofluxe]

#lifestyle #luxury #Nano Reefs #Gibraltar #MI #USA [4032x3024]

[nanoreefyyc]

#neewerdslr photo nanoaquarium reefaquarium reelsinstagram nanoreef nanoreeftank nano reef2reef reeftank reef nanoreefyyc nano

[kstarvibes]

Choose Environmentally Friendly Sunscreens: Protecting Marine Life

Sunscreen plays a vital role in protecting our skin from the harmful effects of the sun, especially during the summer months. However, it’s important to be aware of the impact that certain sunscreen ingredients can have on marine life, particularly coral reefs. In this article, we will explore the key concerns associated with sunscreen use and highlight alternative options that are both effective…

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#carotenoid family #chemical sunscreen #coral reefs #eco-friendly #environmentally friendly #marine life #nano-scale particles #natural alternatives #octinoxate #oxybenzone #oxybenzone breakdown technologies #physical sunscreen #preserving marine ecosystems #skin protection #summer #Sunscreen #sunscreen ingredients #titanium dioxide #ultra-hygrophilic bacteria #UV rays #zinc oxide

[orowyrm]

Is keeping sea slugs difficult? I love them and probably won't get them anytime soon because cats but if I ever do...

i’d say it’s pretty difficult, yeah. depends on what species you’re looking at, but all nudibranchs (and ‘things-that-get-labeled-as-nudibranchs-even-though-they-technically-aren’t, like the blue velvet slugs i just got) are very picky eaters and will often Exclusively eat one type of food down to species. the ‘easiest’ are probably lettuce slugs, as they’re algae grazers, but even then some say they’ll only eat certain species of macroalgae.

i have two species of slugs in my nano reef right now— berghia nudibranchs and the blue velvet slugs. i bought them because i have an excess of pest animals that they both prey on exclusively (aiptasia anemones for the berghia and flatworms for the velvets) and can’t control these pests via chemical means (for the safety of the other animals in my tank) or mechanical (they’re very hard to fully remove and i have hand tremors anyway), but it’s often accepted that if you don’t have a good supply of what these guys eat, they’ll starve to death pretty fast.

of the two, i’d honestly say the berghia nudis are generally easier to keep - lot of people will breed them and just keep a separate tank full of aiptasia to feed them with, since they’re very fast growing anemones. blue velvets are a bit harder because they’ve got short lifespans as-is and flatworms are hard to get ahold of except for by accident, while some people purposefully culture and sell aiptasia as feeders.

i’m taking a STRONG gamble with my slugs, and honestly i’m only doing it because i have a fair amount of confidence in my ability to maintain good water conditions, but even then it’s not bulletproof. they’re one of those things where even if you do everything “right”, they still might not thrive because we don’t really know them as well as we know, say, shrimp or corals just yet. for me this is really my only option for handling my flatworm problem, so i’m taking that risk, but it may not work out and i’m prepared for that outcome.

i’m hoping the will continue to improve when it comes to getting better at keeping and breeding these animals, though, because they’re very cool! while i can’t say i’d want to see them wild-caught in the pet trade, the ability to aquaculture them would be a huge step. and it would be wonderful to see them in aquariums more often :)

#i tend to have mixed feelings on the aquarium hobby when it comes to marine livestock #while it’s still not uncommon for people to keep unsustainable wild caught animals #i feel as though the general opinion among more experienced aquarists reefkeepers especially is a lot more mindful #but exotic pet ownership in general is suffering from the social media effect so (shrug) ethics are wobbly #however! #i wholly understand your love of sea slugs hehe ^_^ me too!!! #if there was some way to keep dorids healthy and happy that would be my dream

[meaninglessblah-writes]

Hello! Good luck with Nano ❤️

⚰️⚔️😳👄

Thank you for the encouragement 🥰

"Kid," Slade rumbles, and Jason feels it slide like nails down his spine. In the darkness, it's hard to make out his expression. There's a streetlight above where they're parked on this stakeout, but like every other lamp in the street, the bulb is shattered. Jason heard the shards of glass crunch beneath their tyres when they pulled up to the curb.

Jason pulls in a steadying breath, trying to feign obliviousness. "Yeah?"

Slade's watching him. He can feel that eye boring down to his bones. Jason squirms in his seat, and tries to pass it off as stretching.

Slade isn't fooled. "Out with it, kid," he orders.

Swallowing, Jason fingers the strap of his binoculars and doesn't look over at him. "Out with what?"

"You've been staring at me all night. You're not as subtle as you think you are. So spit it out and tell me what it is that's got you all hot and bothered."

Jason barks a laugh, but it feels thin and doesn't even fool him. "I don't know what you're—"

Slade reaches across the width of the cabin and seizes a handful of Jason's hair, reefing his head back. He gasps, and moans, and then snaps his jaw shut.

Everything is still for too long. Jason feels like he might combust; his face feels too hot, the nerves in his stomach too much to contain.

"Now," Slade says, blunt. "Tell me the truth."

To emphasise his point, the mercenary twists his grip on Jason's tender follicles, making him rise off the seat a few inches in his bid for relief.

He hisses between his teeth, but bites out, "I wanna suck you, okay?"

Slade drops him, and Jason falls back on his ass with a gasp. When he feels brave enough, Jason steals a glance at the mercenary, braced for rejection.

Slade doesn't look uninterested. From the tilt of his brow, Jason is guessing surprised, but there's a hunger in that gaze where it drags up Jason's body, stopping at his bitten lips.

"Care to elaborate?"

Jason's heart must be audible, it's thundering so loudly in his chest. "I just thought— while you were driving earlier, I was thinking about how good it would be to give you road head."

Slade's brow crooks. "Didn't know you Bats were so adventurous."

Jason scowls, setting the binoculars on the dashboard a little harder than strictly called for. "If you're going to mock me—"

"I haven't said no," Slade interrupts plainly, and Jason's jaw snaps shut. "I'm considering your offer."

Jason splutters, ears red. "I didn't offer, you forced a confession out of me!"

"Then you don't want to?" Slade asks. The hand he doesn't have crooked over the steering wheel slides down to squeeze his groin. Jason's eyes zero in on that bulge like a laser, mouth dry.

"I didn't say that," he croaks, licking his lips.

Slade spreads his knees a little wider, broad thighs flexing as he tugs his zipper down and slips a hand inside. Jason can't see what he's doing, but he can see the way Slade's abdomen flexes when that hand moves.

Jason tries to imagine what it would feel like to be kneeling in that footwell, trapped by Slade's legs. Drooling on his cock, Slade's hand in his hair holding him down, forcing him to take it deep. Uncaring for the redness in Jason's cheeks and the tears beading in his eyes. His whimpers drowned out by the rumble of the engine as Slade drives.

"I'm not waiting all night, kid."

Jason shakes himself out of the fantasy, glancing down to where Slade has a thumb hooked in his zipper, holding his pants open to reveal his sizable cock. It juts upright, curving a little with its weight, begging for a mouth on it.

Jason doesn't hesitate to climb out of his seat, fingers slipping on the plastic of the centre console as he manoeuvres himself into a better position. One that puts him at eyeline with Slade's cock, mouth watering as he takes the tip between his lips.

"Don't be dainty," Slade chastises. A hand lands heavy on the back of Jason's neck, pushing him down until Slade's cock is distending his cheeks, drool slipping past his full lips to drip down Jason's chin and onto Slade's balls. "Suck me like you mean it."

Jason moans, wrapping a hand over Slade's knee to steady himself before he sets to work taking all that length into his throat.

10,777 / 50,000

Help me reach my goal!

#meaninglessblah answers #meaninglessblah conquers nanowrimo #anonymous

[doggiewoggiez]

my 20g long invert only nano reef loaded with hitchhikers. I'm just letting nature take its course with this tank and seeing what happens with just water changes

to us it's deep into the ugly phase, but to the animals inside it's a little tide pool of paradise. even though my nice calcified macroalgae has mostly been eaten by sacoglossans and melted after blackouts to kill dinoflagellates. there's even a baby fish that ended up here somehow.

#fishkeeping #marine biology #reef tank #aquarium

[butchniqabi]

I use badger mineral sunscreen w/ “non-nano uncoated zinc oxide” and the rest of the ingredients are plant things (sunflower/calendula oil, beeswax, seabuckthorn) is it still toxic?

firstly ill just say im a random person online with an opinion but i checked and although there are red flags with branding with the term "reef safe" despite containing zinc oxide which is also toxic to reefs (the term itself is unregulated so literally Anyone can claim to be reef safe) (but dont despair! reefs have been healing remarkably well within the past few years, vigilance is still good but all is not lost) but that aside it seems alright for humans. the major gripe i have with mineral sunscreens is less the ingredients themselves (which specific ones can pose more risk) but the hypocrisy and outright lying that takes place. this sunscreen seems fine and the best sunscreen is honestly the one you wear most consistently

tldr: youre good 😐👍🏼

#asks

[copperbora]

🪸Purrling Reef Has (One) Coral!🪸

It's been a while since I updated you guys on the progress of my 13.5 gallon nano reef tank, Purrling Reef. Arguably you guys probably would have preferred me using this time to work on Rise Up but this was somehow nagging me more I guess. 😅

Last Tuesday on the drive back from visiting my brother K and sister-in-law E on Vancouver Island I picked up my very first corals! Yes, plural; I bought a purple and turquoise ('green') favia (likely actually favites due to taxonomy changes,) and a rasta colour morph zoanthid.

Unfortunately, I wasn't quite aware at that point that I had set up my automatic topoff (ATO) system incorrectly. For the entire life of my aquarium I had been confused at how it kept seeming to suck water out of my aquarium, which I worried was diluting its salinity.

It was.

This of course seemed to come to a head - along with some stunning lack of preparedness on my part - when I introduced the poor corals and it shamefully took me days to get my salinity from the horrible 1.018 that it was back up to 1.025 that it was suppposed to be. This past Friday I at last figured out that I needed to competely redo my ATO's hose configuration and finally, finally I had it installed correctly. No longer did the ATO's tubing have any access to my aquarium water either; at long last it could no longer remove water from my aquarium!

I made handy use of the water-side hole in my light's mounting bracket for holding the ATO's tube in place. The gunk on its interior is algae.

ATO finally fixed - and just in time for cooler fall temperatures which meant I no longer even really needed to use the damned thing, I was at last able to fix that critical salinity, yet my favia coral still appeared to be unfortunately dying.

The favia's heartbreakingly tragic progress from a beautiful vibrant coral of my dreams to just another piece of reef rock. I plan on trying again with it next spring when I may be able to source another piece of the same morph from the Lower Mainland shop that I got it from. All isn't completely lost though; while the antiparasitic dip that I treated the corals with upon their arrival almost certainly killed the vermetid snail living on the favia frag's underside, there was something else there too, which due to its biology may be okay - a mussel!

I have no idea if the mussel still lives but if it does that'd be pretty wicked honestly!

Meanwhile, I dosed the reef with calcium and magnesium; the next day, yesterday, the zoanthid coral finally opened up two of its polyps!

I believe that I may have lost one of its three polyps to my incompetence but I still have two living - if I suspect immature - polyps! I haven't secured the zoa frag in its spot yet but as I am currently kinda scared of touching the thing I think that I will give it a week or so to get acclimated before bothering it to aquarium epoxy it in place. (Most people use super glue but I don't have any at the moment. The epoxy will work too, it's just uglier.)

And yeah, the zoanthid polyps don't look like much right now, but this is what they will look like someday!

(Photo from Tidal Gardens, whose wonderful coral species spotlights on Youtube are my bible when it comes to species research. Plus the host/owner Than's voice is really soothing and ASMR-like!)

Through this whole snafu with my water chemistry - which I am still working on improving with daily dosing of Brightwell Aquatics Alkalin8.3 to bring up my aquarium's PH a point (it's at 7.3,) I also thought that I had lost one of my reef's most charismatic creatures - Captain Spook the Halloween Hermit Crab. Having found his dismembered exoskeleton, I mournfully declared him deceased, only to discover yesterday evening...

...that he was just moulting! I can't tell you how happy I was! Also I had been dead convinced that my tank had reached the ripe ol' age of six months old by now so I was berating myself as a poor reef keeper, but looking back in my reef record Purrling Reef is actually only three months old. This made me feel a lot better about myself; it's okay that my reef is looking scruffy because it is young and my research has told me that pretty much all captive reefs go through a scruffy period!

Knowing this, my confidence has returned and I'm excited to try some more corals as well as hopefully introduce a sea urchin/living lawnmower to take care of all the turf algae which has grown rampant around the reef.❤️

#reefing #coral reef #zoanthid #favites #favia #coral #Purrling Reef #marine aquarium #reef tank #hermit crab #halloween hermit crab #mussel

[yomiosatious]

FISHTANKS???? YOOO LEMME SEE THAT SHIT IMMEDIATELY

also you should totally look into sirens (sally mander) theyre fucked up and i have one named benry

YOU DEMAND I SUPPLY ‼️‼️‼️

My nano reef is an absolutely insane freak of nature. It is entirely self sufficient, I do not add anything besides food once every 2 weeks to the tank. The rest is all balanced out by the macro algae I grow to maintain balance in the water quality. My corals are all soft and don’t need much maintenance at all. The only occupants of this tank are my starfish who u can barley see (Patrick) and some assorted snails. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH 💖

My nano reef is an absolutely insane freak of nature. It is entirely self sufficient, I do not add anything besides food once every 2 weeks to the tank. The rest is all balanced out by the macro algae I grow to maintain balance in the water quality. My corals are all soft and don’t need much maintenance at all. The only occupants of this tank are my starfish who u can barley see (Patrick) and some assorted snails. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH 💖

My planted 5 gallon is also entirely self sufficient, and was made for my 6 year old green neon Little Papa. He outlived his original school so I bought a new school for him. The babies now are all grown up but they still act like kids. Little Papa is huge on the right of the first pic. They all hunt the aquatic bugs I have in my tank. That’s right, self sustaining food source. Crazy right? Not sure myself how it happened but I’m glad it did. They hunt for their food on their own and I don’t feed them often, like maybe once every two weeks when I feed my reef. I also have a tiny chili rasbora. But I don’t see him often because he spends all his time hiding. If you look through my yomiofishous tag you’ll see him. He’s completely blind in both eyes! Every time I think he’s dead he shows up so I just assume he’s alive until proven otherwise. The last fish in there is the betta. It was my sisters but she didn’t really take care of it so I took it. Now it refuses to die, which isn’t bad. But it limits what I can do with the tank which is annoying lol. He bullies my shrimp too much.

Lastly my swamp tank is literally like a living trash can. I throw all the clippings I don’t use when I trim my 5 gallon in there and just let it fester. I have 2 banded killifish in there who absolutely love all the excess plant growth. I also have one mystery tetra who I feel bad for. I can’t find him a school until I know what kind of tetra he is and I’ve been looking but can find none that look like him yet. So until then he’ll have to keep enjoying hiding in the plants. This tank also has the bugs btw so feeding isn’t something I do often.

THANK U AGAIN FOR ASKING ME ABOUT MY TANKS‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Also so awesome of u to have a crazy amphibian named benry,, so fitting for a long mudpuppy lookin creature beast to be named after another inexplicable indescribable entity. I LOVE SALAMANDERS

#top ten asks of ever #yomioasks #yomiofishous

[redwarriorsworld]

I have a new obsession…well, more a rediscovery of an old passion. Years ago, when my kids were little and I was with my first husband, I had a saltwater fish tank. Before I left him, I had to sell it to help make payments on debt he’d racked up.

I loved that tank. I would stare for hours watching the tiny creatures within it and research about them and their world. I’d hand feed my rock flower anemone and brittle starfish. My kids enjoyed watching the sea monsters. There was so much life in just 12 gallons.

I left my ex with only what I could fit in my truck, the tank long gone and sold. I’d learned not to get attached to things and never gave another thought to getting another fish tank…until this year.

At first I thought maybe I’d get a beta or a small freshwater tank, now that my kids are almost grown. Then, I saw an ad for a local saltwater fish store and I remembered how much I loved my old tank.

And so, on FB Marketplace, I found someone looking to leave the hobby and got a good deal on a used tank.

It’s never too late, I guess.

For now, it’s a temporary octopus tank while I gather supplies and equipment.

#nano reef #saltwater aquarium

[irisbleufic]

Look, I know what nanoreefer means. I really do. And yet every single time I click on your blog and your bio greets my weary gaze I am assaulted by the mental image of a tiny blunt. A nano reefer, if you will. I don't even smoke weed

LMAO 🤣 Fair enough.

For those who don’t know: it means I’m a saltwater aquarium hobbyist focusing on a very small tank! A nano reef tank is generally around 20 gallons or under. I have a 15 gallon cube tank with two clownfish, a couple ring cowries, a trochus snail, and some soft corals.

[frostbite-merun]

Aquarium Tips!

All of us come to a point where we're tempted by the siren song of a saltwater aquarium. And you very well might answer it. I'm not going to say you should or shouldn't. I will let you know, however, one bit of wisdom borne of my own mistakes.

When you get started with saltwater do NOT start out with a nano tank! Start with something that's 40 gallons AT LEAST. Hell! Go bigger! 50 gallons! 55! 75!

Just not a nano tank!

My first reef was a nano reef and it was like taking care of a baby full of worms, sick from at least 3 diseases, and zero sense of self-preservation! Saltwater fish/reefkeeping is a different skillset to freshwater because (aside from macroalgae) everything in it is an animal, and having a larger tank allows for a greater margin of error. Especially where temperature and water hardness are concerned! There is a reason a nano reef is considered 30 gallons or less when a nano freshwater aquarium is 10 gallons or less!

Everything in a typical reef aquarium poops!

If someone tells you that a nano saltwater aquarium is easy and/or affordable, keep in mind that they probably already served their nickle with a bigger reef tank, or they're trying to sell you something. Do your research, ask for help when you need it, and remember that when water evaporates the salt gets left behind so distilled water of the correct PH is perfectly fine for water top-offs.

#fishblr #aquariums #aquariumposting #the guys at my LFS told me I needed to do water top-offs with saltwater which they conveniently sold #LIARS AND SCOUNDRELS #you DO need saltwater for water changes though

[iminthetunnels]

Wait how is sunscreen bad bc I'm very concerned about skin cancer but I've never heard that sunscreen is bad for you

rubbing a thick nano particle substances with titanium dioxide on your skin doesn’t even sound good :( it’s ruins coral reefs too. ur skin is like a sponge, it’s gunna absorb the nano particle zinc oxide. it’s just what i think tho. i honestly think trends get ppl on a bandwagon. ppl who are promoting sunscreen on tiktok, utoob, social media, they get paid for tht.

[orowyrm]

unidentified polychaete worm(?) going absolutely bonkers in my nano reef. just utterly bananas. he’s blasting caramelldansen in there

#it’s moving so fast i’m having a hard time getting a close look at it and SURE AS HELL can’t catch it lmfao #fishblr

[aquariuminfobureau]

An underrated pipefish

Doryrhamphus excisus, the bluestreak or bluestripe pipefish, is probably the most widely traded pipefish in the saltwater aquarium trade, iwhen one arbitrarily excludes Hippocampus, the seahorses. D. excisus is at most 7 centimeters, or 3 inches long, making it a popular resident of quiet "nano" tanks. In the wild, it is native to the Indo-Pacific region, as are most marine aquarium imports. It is native from the Persian Gulf and East Africa, all the way to the Eastern Pacific.

This species inhabits crevices on the reef, into which it retreats when alarmed. It is a habitat generalist, and observations are recorded from lagoons, reef flats, reef slopes and walls, channels, and coral gutters. This hardy pipefish can even survive in the harsh, unstable environments of intertidal pools. Specifically it belongs to the clade named flagtail pipefishes, which evolved to hover in the water column, rather than perch or crawl. Members of this clade are easily identifiable by this habit, and by their well developed caudal fin, that allows them a burst of speed.

This burst of speed enables them to better compete for floating food as it passes, than are other syngnathids, when they are maintained among other, faster swimming and active fishes. Although it is reccommended a watch must still be kept, tI ensure that the pipefish receives enough food. Its natural diet has a microcrustacean base, and these are inhaled from the water column, known as zooplanktivory, or from the skins of other fishes. For this species is one of those fishes, that sets up cleaning stations, and is approached by other fishes to remove their problem of ectoparasitic crustaceans.

In the aquarium, D. excisus is a beautiful and peaceful fish. It will set up a small territory around a suitably sized crevice or cave in the rockwork, then hover there in view of the aquarist. D. excisus is rarely bothered by other fishes, unless they have predatory intent, and they do not themselves bother dissimilar fish species. When more agile zooplanktivores share their aquarium, there is a risk that the pipefish may not eat enough food, but I have maintained them with such fishes as Chromis, Chrysiptera, and dartfishes. These little pipefish are monogamous and, exactly like all other pipefishes, it is actually the male that has a genuine pregnancy in his pouch.

#Doryrhamphus excisus #Bluestreak pipefish #flagtail pipefishes #bluestripe pipefish