So yesterday, we brought the tank upstairs into our bedroom. I decided that Odo would not become socialized with the low foot traffic in the laundry room, and it’s not the best place for tank watching! 🤣. Now it’s on my dresser next to a paludarium where I have a barking tree frog in an endless supply of Endler’s live bearers, and an anemone and clownfish tank.
One end of the tank is full of Ulva that I got from Sach’s, filled with pods to hunt. We have seen Odo hunting in that patch! We’ve supplemented the algae with some groovy stuff growing in the other tanks. It’s a super simple set up, with an Oase canister filter which is AWESOME- the heater is contained IN the filter, a small internal UV filter and Fluval Aqua Sky marine lights.
The tank was initially bought last minute when we received a much larger mantis shrimp than we ordered. We then used it for curing live rock, and we loved it so much we just kept rock in it. We added a fish or two, but they went into the bio cube when Odo came. Eventually, will get different lighting when Odo moves into a larger tank, as our initial plan was to make this a nano reef with a mated pair of jaw fish.
