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alexa11
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gorgeous!
30g considered nano..new start up
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subielover
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Very nice reef
I love your red acans
stanlalee
Active Member
Originally Posted by subielover
http:///forum/post/2802118
Very nice reef
I love your red acans
thanks, I'd like to get more but they are pricey! they sure grow pretty fast though. like 5 more heads since I got it and no more room on the rock. I put it up next to another rock hoping it will spread. I want more acans, zoo's and sps but I've already spent more than I should. I'm going to spend $100 on SPS frags then gear up for christmas expenses.
july acan
october acan
Originally Posted by alexa11
http:///forum/post/2802117
gorgeous!
thanks! its alright but has a loooooooong way to go. still looks empty to me
Originally Posted by rebelprettyboy
http:///forum/post/2802100
Wonderful tank. Its always so nice and clean
thanks, thats the main thing I've been focusing on. it has never gone past 7 days without a water change (down to 5 gallons from 10 gallons), the GFO (granular ferric oxide) works great! I swear after I started using it I dont even get the normal film of algae on the glass or overflow box I've always gotten regardless of tanks I've had. can usually go a week or more without using the magfloat. I may do a UV as well to further help but having used both GFO works much better than the UV ever did for algae. Also if I see atypical or excessive algae growth I manually remove it with tweezers and do another water change to get nutrients or what ever caused the growth spike back down. much easier to do this than to try and correct algae problems after the fact. some people test for nitrates and phospates, I watch the algae (testing is useless now that everything always test zero). I had/have some really difficult to contain type of algae (still dont know what kind but its a B*&##*) so I have to stay on top of it.
http:///forum/post/2802118
Very nice reef
thanks, I'd like to get more but they are pricey! they sure grow pretty fast though. like 5 more heads since I got it and no more room on the rock. I put it up next to another rock hoping it will spread. I want more acans, zoo's and sps but I've already spent more than I should. I'm going to spend $100 on SPS frags then gear up for christmas expenses.
july acan
october acan
Originally Posted by alexa11
http:///forum/post/2802117
gorgeous!
thanks! its alright but has a loooooooong way to go. still looks empty to me
Originally Posted by rebelprettyboy
http:///forum/post/2802100
Wonderful tank. Its always so nice and clean
thanks, thats the main thing I've been focusing on. it has never gone past 7 days without a water change (down to 5 gallons from 10 gallons), the GFO (granular ferric oxide) works great! I swear after I started using it I dont even get the normal film of algae on the glass or overflow box I've always gotten regardless of tanks I've had. can usually go a week or more without using the magfloat. I may do a UV as well to further help but having used both GFO works much better than the UV ever did for algae. Also if I see atypical or excessive algae growth I manually remove it with tweezers and do another water change to get nutrients or what ever caused the growth spike back down. much easier to do this than to try and correct algae problems after the fact. some people test for nitrates and phospates, I watch the algae (testing is useless now that everything always test zero). I had/have some really difficult to contain type of algae (still dont know what kind but its a B*&##*) so I have to stay on top of it.
stanlalee
Active Member
ah FINALLY the fish I've been longing for, fang blennies! these are an ORA pair of canary blennies (you may have seen them if you browse the DD section of that other retailer). they are tank bred but I still havent seen these guys take any prepared food. they just pick critters off the rocks and sand. thought my 6 line might harrass them but he only attacked them once when he mistakened one of their darting for a meal as an aggressive act. beautiful yellow colloration (the pictures dont show it)! so now my fish stocking is two canary fang blennies, false perc and a sixline. hopefully this will be the FINAL stocking.
and that pink stylophora, I "saved" that from the local pet store that had it under normal flourscents. its a little bleached I think but not so much it cant recover. they had an elkhorn monti in it but cant save everything. All their corals are $39.99 regardless of size or type so I bought it
positioned in the tank
good pic of the skimmer outside the tank (for a clean up)
and that pink stylophora, I "saved" that from the local pet store that had it under normal flourscents. its a little bleached I think but not so much it cant recover. they had an elkhorn monti in it but cant save everything. All their corals are $39.99 regardless of size or type so I bought it
positioned in the tank
good pic of the skimmer outside the tank (for a clean up)
patrick8929
Active Member
very nice looks like it s coming along great!!! i love the fish!!
stanlalee
Active Member
not that much of an update and most negative but here we go. lets start with the good (you may not think so):
out with the sand and the koralia 1 along with it. I dont want to do a ultra low nutrient system (mainly because I dont want to be trapped into constantly feeding bacteria with additives/vodka or whatever to keep it going) so for me this is the next best thing. took about 3 water changes and some rock lifting and its still a change or two from done
most of the sand went into the sump for a deep sand bed. the bottom bar of the stand is blocking the lower half so its deeper than it looks at 1rst glance
now for the bad. a) the blennies died. they ate well twice a day, werent picked on and still withered away. I increased feeding/variety didn't do a thing.
b) I broke this acro messing around in the tank. epoxied it back on the base (weeks ago). not too worse for wear. also broke off half the left branch
c) I broke this one too
. this was the stick to the left of the one above. I tried to epoxy what broke off elsewhere but it didn't make it. maybe something will grow from just the base some day
d) appearently I have bryopsis. I dont have big large ugly patches but if you look at any close up hard you can see a twig here and there sticking up. I've had this since I got the liverock just didn't know it was bryosis until I came across picks just goofing around. I did notice NOTHING really makes it go away. luckily other than an occasional tweezer pulling it hasn't caused me much trouble. I'm 100% it came with the liverock
random sandless
where residual sand accumulates
out with the sand and the koralia 1 along with it. I dont want to do a ultra low nutrient system (mainly because I dont want to be trapped into constantly feeding bacteria with additives/vodka or whatever to keep it going) so for me this is the next best thing. took about 3 water changes and some rock lifting and its still a change or two from done
most of the sand went into the sump for a deep sand bed. the bottom bar of the stand is blocking the lower half so its deeper than it looks at 1rst glance
now for the bad. a) the blennies died. they ate well twice a day, werent picked on and still withered away. I increased feeding/variety didn't do a thing.
b) I broke this acro messing around in the tank. epoxied it back on the base (weeks ago). not too worse for wear. also broke off half the left branch
c) I broke this one too
d) appearently I have bryopsis. I dont have big large ugly patches but if you look at any close up hard you can see a twig here and there sticking up. I've had this since I got the liverock just didn't know it was bryosis until I came across picks just goofing around. I did notice NOTHING really makes it go away. luckily other than an occasional tweezer pulling it hasn't caused me much trouble. I'm 100% it came with the liverock
random sandless
where residual sand accumulates
stanlalee
Active Member
I guess its update time. I have actually added a coral or two for a change between updates. I've also changed the sunpod bulbs to ushio 20k. they are fully burned in on the pics but I still think they are brighter and whiter than the pics show. pagoda cup is also having a bad picture day (does this every few months excretion perhaps
)
full tank shot
poor cap has grey epoxy on it from when I pressed on it with my epoxy imprinted finger
green slimer in back
I've been looking for this variation of candy cane for over 2yrs now. neon green centers with white stripes. pictures dont do them justice (and the lighting is nowhere near as blue as the pics look). I should have bought more heads but I was cheap ($15 per head. got the smallest head free)
some frags from left to right: ora roscoe's blue tip, tri-color valida in the back, ora pearberry center, plum crazy up front and same old ora turquoise stag I've always had. the big purple stick to the left on the full tank shots is a ora indo purple tip stag. all the ora's acept the turquoise came from here (1rst corals I've bought from here since 05' and I'm pleased). you cant really see the colors because I cant get white balance right and its artificially blueing up everything
on the things to do list: auto top off, UV, auto dosers, some bottom corals and one more fish to go with the clown and sixline (I've tried neon dottyback, spotted hawk, fang blennies and all have died for whatever reason but none from aggression). I've narrowed it down to: pseudochromis, damsel or basslet. something small that wont be intimidated by a false perc since she thinks she owns the joint now (and the smaller sixline has no problem putting her back in her place when need be).
full tank shot
poor cap has grey epoxy on it from when I pressed on it with my epoxy imprinted finger
I've been looking for this variation of candy cane for over 2yrs now. neon green centers with white stripes. pictures dont do them justice (and the lighting is nowhere near as blue as the pics look). I should have bought more heads but I was cheap ($15 per head. got the smallest head free)
some frags from left to right: ora roscoe's blue tip, tri-color valida in the back, ora pearberry center, plum crazy up front and same old ora turquoise stag I've always had. the big purple stick to the left on the full tank shots is a ora indo purple tip stag. all the ora's acept the turquoise came from here (1rst corals I've bought from here since 05' and I'm pleased). you cant really see the colors because I cant get white balance right and its artificially blueing up everything
on the things to do list: auto top off, UV, auto dosers, some bottom corals and one more fish to go with the clown and sixline (I've tried neon dottyback, spotted hawk, fang blennies and all have died for whatever reason but none from aggression). I've narrowed it down to: pseudochromis, damsel or basslet. something small that wont be intimidated by a false perc since she thinks she owns the joint now (and the smaller sixline has no problem putting her back in her place when need be).
fishstick4sale
Member
freakin nice man good to see u back on your feet with a good size tank
fishstick4sale
Member
verytrue, but ull b ok just nomore 6foot pieces of wood around ur tank.
stanlalee
Active Member
not a whole lot to update. Added my newest and final fish combination unless something happens. So the fish (and final) list is one false perc, one sixline and the new guy. His name is Royal last name Gramma. been in there about a week. everyones getting along.
better shot of the candycane variation I love so much
obligatory full shot (even though not much has changed.
but really I come to introduce my newest project biocube 14 in my son's room. I had a 6g eclipse in there but due to the lighting I couldn't work with it. Now I have something to work with....for him of course. so far just live sand from the 6g and koralia 1. bioballs and filter pads removed. by early next week I should have liverock and I'll start with some frags in my tank. I'm looking to do two or three gobies that stay 2" or less and inverts.
I have one or two corals in mind for the 30g and an equipment to do but for the most part I'll be focusing on the biocube while the 30g grows out a little.
better shot of the candycane variation I love so much
obligatory full shot (even though not much has changed.
but really I come to introduce my newest project biocube 14 in my son's room. I had a 6g eclipse in there but due to the lighting I couldn't work with it. Now I have something to work with....for him of course. so far just live sand from the 6g and koralia 1. bioballs and filter pads removed. by early next week I should have liverock and I'll start with some frags in my tank. I'm looking to do two or three gobies that stay 2" or less and inverts.
I have one or two corals in mind for the 30g and an equipment to do but for the most part I'll be focusing on the biocube while the 30g grows out a little.
