Alrite ppl its Lloyd from barking in essex

[Lloydprainer]

Alrite ppl i have two tanks 1 is a 6'x2'x2' Tropical
and a 65 litre nano reef both in early stages yet .
In my tropical tank i have 9 sterba,1 balck and 1 albino corys.
15 Haliquin rasboras,1 L134 leopard frog pleco,
1 Rainbow shark(but is getting evicted soon),
3 Freshwater fire shrimp, with 3 large peices of some sort of wood
(not bogwood) with lots of plants and CO2 injection.

In my nano reef i have pair of Black clown fish(nemo),
2 cleaner shrimp and a fire shrimp,1 anemone crab in a pink anemone.
some pulsing xenia and some hermit crabs,a pair up orange spotted gobie
with a blind ghost shrimp and 15kg of live rock.

i am hoping getting a breeding group of zebra plecs[/b]

[Plastic Mac]

Welcome to ZP Lloyd. Good luck finding a group.

Plastic Mac

[sam]

welcome

[Stevie.K]

Nice to have you onboard, good luck with the zebra hunting

[John]

Welcome Lloydprainer

[Adam]

Hi Lloyd and welcome to ZP.

That's a good sized tropical community tank you have there with some nice stock. The fire shrimp a.k.a cherry shrimp may not make it in there. Their young will almost certainly be eaten by the other tank inhabitants unless the tank is densely planted. I have mine in a tank of their own.

Funnily enough I have been toying with the idea of setting up a nano reef tank for quite a while now but I have to get rid of one of the other tanks first, Mrs orders. I have been reading up quite a bit on how to go about things on http://www.nano-reef.com/ I've seen some great looking setups there. I am looking at a mainly inverts only tank with soft corals, perhaps a clownfish or a purple goby. I quite fancy a pistol shrimp with goby companion due to their interesting symbiotic relationship. Not sure of what corals but definitely nothing that requires metal halides to live. Still got a lot of reading to do though, reading up on Berlin sumps,refugiums and the pros and cons of protein skimming at the moment. I would be interested to hear how you get on.

Good luck with your search for a breeding group of zebras, if you do manage to find one expect to pay a small fortune for them. My advice would be to go for tank breds as they will be easier to source and will cost less.

Regards.

Adam.

[Lloydprainer]

Thanks every one for a great welcome.
just to let you know I dont have cherry shrimp there called fire shrimp
but they are realy crayfish tiny about 1".
my nano is doing very well at the moe thanks for asking
just letting it sort its self out its got a bit of hair algae
so just keeping up the water changes.

an the zebra plecs hopefully im gona talk my dad into buying them
business talk lol

[Lloydprainer]

Just bought some more fish,
8 discus stains are
2 x White butterflys
2 x Red melons
2 x Blue diamonds
2 x Yellow whites
and i have got 4 adult albino discus coming next week

just bought 10 x more Haliquin rasboras
10 x Bleeding heart tetras
9 x Sterbia corys 1 x Albino cory 1 x Black cory

Will post some pics very soon