Fedukeford's 125 reef diary!

ci11337

ci11337

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Originally Posted by fedukeford
the fungia still has a orange color, and has even become a little brighter, but the edges and center are still bleached. The brain is fine, but i never found out what happend to it. My green brain is HUGE right now, ill try to get a pic. Its the biggest ive ever seen it, probley 12" in diameter
Mabye your red brain was really hungrey or something.
your green brain is 12" acros!! Mine is like 2-3" across. BTW, does your fungia put out feeder tentecles like your brains? I've been wanting one for a while but i wanna make sure I know everything about it first. Here's a pic of my now tiny brain and some other pics of my tank. The sad thing is that the brain probably the 2nd or 3rd biggest coral in the tank.





 
fedukeford

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Sweet pics. that anthia is NICEEE. Ya my fungia USED to put out feeder tenticles but it dosent anymore. heres some updated pics
12" brain


 
fedukeford

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Thanks, i hope he starts comeing out a little more, right now he just swims around this one cave in the rock...
 
ci11337

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Wow that's a really good pic of your foxface. Your fungia dosen't look so bad, It comforts me to know what they can go through and still come back. I say this 'cuz i think I'am gonna order one off this site, (only $29.99
) and it's my first online livestock order. I had a firefish but when I got the anthias for my birthday the anthias kinda tryed to eat him so he hid in his 'lil cave for 20 something days before I caught and retuned him.
 
fedukeford

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Thanks.... good luck with the order on line, ive never orderd from SWF , i guess ill have to some time soon...
The fungia is looking bad now, its pretty much all white with a little orange, i think its a goner
 
fedukeford

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Thanks, im hoping to order a swallowtail angel in the next month or two, but it might not happen for a while... still trying to figure out the last couple fish i want. I think im gonna skip on the butterfly
 
ci11337

ci11337

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AHHHH!!! I am having a bad day, I did a water change last night and everything seemed fine this morning, but when I got home from school my brain was closed up so I did some tests and.....my saltinity was 1.021!!! So I've been slowly raising the salt level and when I got it up tp 1.023 I went to check on the brain. While I was looking at it my foxface swooped in and nibbled at it!!! I don't think the foxface is the cause of the the brain being closed, I assume it was the low salt, although all my other corals are fine. So for now i have to watch and wait, the good thing is that the brain has expanded some since i fixed the salt, but it's still not itself. BTW, they should have a smiley that is tearing his hair out... Owell this'll do...
 
jayc

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Originally Posted by ci11337
AHHHH!!! I am having a bad day, I did a water change last night and everything seemed fine this morning, but when I got home from school my brain was closed up so I did some tests and.....my saltinity was 1.021!!! So I've been slowly raising the salt level and when I got it up tp 1.023 I went to check on the brain. While I was looking at it my foxface swooped in and nibbled at it!!! I don't think the foxface is the cause of the the brain being closed, I assume it was the low salt, although all my other corals are fine. So for now i have to watch and wait, the good thing is that the brain has expanded some since i fixed the salt, but it's still not itself. BTW, they should have a smiley that is tearing his hair out... Owell this'll do...

Thats really not to low. I dont think thats what caused it. What kinda brain is it? I had the same prob with my foxface. He destroyed almost all of my lobo brain. I'm trying to get him out w/o taking my whole tank apart.
 
fedukeford

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Hope your brain recovers, but i dont think 1.021 would have hurt it that much, my 125 was around 1.021 for a few days, and everything seemed fine
 
ci11337

ci11337

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Originally Posted by JayC
Thats really not to low. I dont think thats what caused it. What kinda brain is it? I had the same prob with my foxface. He destroyed almost all of my lobo brain. I'm trying to get him out w/o taking my whole tank apart.
It's a open brain and it wasn't the salt being low, it was the foxface.
i watched the tank carefully for awhile and saw him nip at it several times. atleast I'm not alone, i got mine out last night and it wasn't to hard...first i isolated his favorite hiding spot,(a small crevice near the bottom of a rock) Next I scared him into the crevice and used a stainless steel screen to keep him in that 1/4 of the tank. Since the rock he was hiding under was the only one in the screened area I just took it right out. Catching him wasn't hard once I got him in a small area with no rocks. Now i have $20 of store credit and a healthy brain coral...I still miss my foxface though....
 
ci11337

ci11337

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Originally Posted by fedukeford
.....sale tommarow (50% off SW fish every month on the 31 , only months that go to 31 days)
It just hit me that I should probably look at the first couple pages of this thread and while doing so I found this. (the quote) What store is that at?
 
fishgeek01

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Originally Posted by fedukeford
im only planning on having a few SPS, but a few always seems to be 20, so i might go with another seio
I got the zoo/ric garden idea from some reefers on this site. i found this one site where i can get 20 (5-10 polyps each) zoo frags for $200 (that inculdes shipping) and 5 different rics/shrooms for $45 so ill probley just get those after xmas
can you email me with this website? jbarbier@jdbyrider.com... by the way tank looks great, i have been following your progress, looks nice, well planned for being as young as you are, i admire your patience.
 
fedukeford

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ci11337- that store is natures best fish in Vestal, they rarely have any coral and have very low fish and invert stock, but they do have the good sale, IMO not even worth THINKING about comeing to the store from rochester
Fishgeek01- thanks, sent you the site but not sure if it worked, so if it didnt LMK and ill send it again
 
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