gio28's 36 gallon bowfront reef

[gio28]

Could I mix a cleaner with maybe 2 pepps? That's what I would like to do if possible.
I'm jealous you have such an awesome fish . Does yours watch you? Haha. I'm regretting taking him off my stock list but is better for my firefish I think...and especially if the blenny i get is small. How is yours in terms of aggressiveness?

 

[meowzer]

LOL...yeah....I am surrounded by fish tanks....and EYES ARE ALWAYS on me

Yes, you can mix peps and cleaner shrimp...my lawnmower blennie in the 225G is still my fave though

 

[gio28]

I still think your sandperch sounds the funniest lol. Doing flips and being retarded...that's my kind of fish right there

 

[meowzer]

Originally Posted by gio28
http:///forum/post/3290194
I still think your sandperch sounds the funniest lol. Doing flips and being retarded...that's my kind of fish right there

Did I ever tell you the 2nd one died??????
It did a flip.....swam into a cave...and just stopped.....a little while later I noticed it was still there.....and it was dead

I think it flipped itself to death LOL
I may get another one eventually.....I really liked it

 

[gio28]

whaaaa?! awe that stinks...

it sounded like such an awesome fish.

 

[gio28]

got my corals today! they are already out and happy ...all of them! yay!
I'll post lots of pics later tonight once I have the 'work' camera.
I was surprised on how well they shipped for 2 day shipping and I'm SUPER satisfied with who I bought them from.

 

[gio28]

here are some pictures of most of my new coral. some were really hard to capture given I dont have a macro lens for my camera...so i couldnt show the glove coral or pinwheel mushroom. I also need some IDs...cause i didnt keep track of them when they were in their labeled bags.
my mushroom (ID?)

matting GSP

branching GSP

zoa (ID?)

green leather

pink palys

candy apples???

zoa (ID?)

another zoa (ID?)

hold on...more to come...

 

[gio28]

solar eclipse?

candy cane

hairy shroom frag

and a FTS...

sorry bout the bad quality pics...I'm getting a macro lens soon though!!! any suggestions? ( i have a nikon D40)

 

[novahobbies]

That tank is gonna look fantastic when those zoos start growing in! I really like the look of your lighting too; those blues really make the coral colors pop.
My cousin has a similar size bowfront; they're nice tanks! Wish I could find the room (and convince The Wife) for another tank....

 

[gio28]

Originally Posted by novahobbies
http:///forum/post/3292006
That tank is gonna look fantastic when those zoos start growing in! I really like the look of your lighting too; those blues really make the coral colors pop.
My cousin has a similar size bowfront; they're nice tanks! Wish I could find the room (and convince The Wife) for another tank....

thank you! yeah I can't wait for everything to start growing...but that takes patience...which i dont have alot of

lol. The picture doesnt give the lighting justice at all...its so much more crisp (and a tad whiter) in person. I would recommend the combo to anyone for sure...its kinda like in the 20K range...maybe 18K.
the bowfronts are pretty nice...but they do distort pictures and even viewing some. I still like mine though cause it magnifies everything.

 

[gio28]

so I noticed for a while now that there are a lot of baby snails in my tank. I know that one of my ceriths lays eggs all the time so can that be where they are coming from...or are they one of those helpful hitchhikers? They look to be the same shape of a cerith but a tad blacker of a shell. I actually hope they keep reproducing cause my stupid hermits attack the larger snails all the time so at least now these little guys are replacing the killed ones.
also, all those new frags I got are doing really well. I finally noticed the candy canes feeder tentacles that come out every night...really cool. I'm on the hunt for some new types of coral now...pretty much open for anything except SPS right now (need more experience first) so does anyone have suggestions for really awesome looking coral that they like?

 

[nikesb]

babys breath favia

 

[gio28]

Originally Posted by nikeSB
http:///forum/post/3293094
babys breath favia
wow awesome! Now I just have to wait till I have more money

lol

 

[gio28]

I got the sump hooked up! Its working great so far despite a few problems.
1) the water thats been sitting in there didnt have any calcium so my calcium got lowered overall. all other params are perfect though!
2) this is the one I need help on...ALOT. my overflow, both the box and the pipe in the sump, are making noise. I'm fine with it but its still kinda annoying. I have a durso standpipe in the overflow which is making a gurgling sound echoing out of it that wont go away unless i close the air hole all the way up. Problem with that is then my standpipe does the flushing thing again. I also have a bubble trap in the sump but bubbles are still popping and thats kinda annoying too. any help...PLEASE!

 

[gio28]

yay! I ordered more corals and inverts!

I got:
- a LARGE metallic green brain - $40
- a good sized rock covered in Eagle Eye zoas - $12
- a head of torch coral - $10
- a head of frogspawn (pink tip) - $10
- two cleaner shrimp - $20
- and a good sized green BTA - $25
gonna ship out monday...so I will probably get them by Wednesday
hopefully my clown will host the BTA...he used to host my sebae anemone before i took it out so i'm hoping he will

 

[gio28]

ugh I need some help guys...
first off, the mushroom frag i got from my LFS had aiptasia on it and i didnt realize till after it spread...and now its on my candy apple zoas and i can't get rid of them.
second, I also have some of those zoa eating nudis...i sucked as much off the zoas as I could...any advice on how to get rid of them for good?
third, one of the zoas frags just melted away...literally overnight...any ideas on that?

 

[meowzer]

first....for the aptasia....Joes Juice has worked well for me, and it comes with a syringe so you can get it (mostly) on the aptasia and nothing else
2. Try a lugols dip......and pick off as you have been doing....I would take the colony out...hopefully they did not spread
3. I have had zoas melt before....some just don't acclimate well I guess

 

[gio28]

thanks meowzer.
I will have to go to my LFS and pick some up...im pretty sure they sell it there. The aiptasia are really tiny right now so when I tried squirting lemon juice in them it didnt exactly work out...and i accidentally sucked them up into the plastic syringe thing i was using lol. the good news is that, at least for now, the candy apples are all open again and doing well.
i inspected all zoa frags for the nudis...the only ones that they were on were the candy apples and the king midas. the candys seem better but the midas' are still not opening so looks like i should dip the all frags to be safe.
the zoas melting was so weird to me...yesterday i was like yay look at how fast they are spreading off the frag...to today where its like...WTF...where did they all go!? lol...one of the few polyps left oozed this red stuff out of it...idk

 

[meowzer]

Could the zoas have fallen off the frag plug?? I have had that happen before too
Lemon juice or the boiling water never worked for me

...besides peppermint shrimp (which I can't keep in the 54G cause of the flame hawk) Joe's Juice has killed every one. The 54G is the only tank I have them in..YAY...well....you know what I mean LOL

 

[gio28]

lol
i know they didnt fall. its so weird to me how they died tho. its like yesterday they were saying "yay we're so happy" to today where they are like "ahhh we're melting!"
maybe i should try some peps too...since i wanted to put some in the tank anyways