My Newbie Tank

vickicj

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Coral Beauty - she's hard to photograph, she moves around so fast! But she truly is georgous! (Her name is Belle)
 
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And this is Pierre, he's huge! He's already molted 3 times in the 4 months I've had him!! My husband teases that he'll be on the grill if he gets much bigger.....btw does anyone know how big these actually do get???
 
saltymom

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lol...shrimp on the barbie..ehey? !! LoL too funny!
Good pictures, thanks for sharing!
Do you love your lil goby guy? They are so cute! I love them! I had an oranged diamond goby for nearly a year..but he just suddenly died overnight one night..I dont know what happen to him. I thought Id get another one maybe sometime again...yours looks nice!
PS I saw Dallas/FW TX on :happy: COPS:happy: the other night...boy..they R O C K! ! They dont take any crap down there do they! hehe!
 
vickicj

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I absolutely love my goby, he really has some great personality, I'd be heartbroken if I lost him ( or any of them)
As for COPS - I promise I'm innocent!!! LOL, no kidding, the cops here don't take any crap from anyone, and of course that show always shows off the best of the best, both cops & criminals
 
vickicj

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Thanks Y'all!!! Here's a pic of the whole thing, still a work in progress, like I said I'm a newbie :yes:
 
vickicj

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Yeah, I think you're talking about the Mayan temple type of art/sculpture in there...I wasn't sure about it either, but it has grown on me...especially since my shrimp loves it so much, it seems like he's always on it :D
 
vickicj

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Definitely alot of algae, in fact I was getting a bit concerned about it, had alot of green hair algae & red slime algae, but realized I was running my lights too long, cut them down to 7 hours a day and it's cleared it up quite nicely...I also cut down on feeding everyone, they seem to be ok with it, but I bet that is exactly why he hangs out there, grazing....what kind of tank do you have? Any pics?
 
montidanae

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looks like your using PC lights, sorry to tell you this, but those lights will not support your aenmones, the rock maybe but the curly Q i dont think so, anemones need very mature tanks, High lights and very stable and clean water quality, they deffinitly arent easy animals to keep.......
but other then that, the tank looks great, and if you really want your tank to look good and have your fish stand out, i would get a solid color background, they can be bought at the LFS, a blue one is nice, i just found out that i need to wet the background put it on the tank so it sticks and squegge out any air, lol that took me a year to find out!
 
vickicj

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Thanks for the complement and for the advice! I have had such trouble with that background, and I really want a solid blue background or even black? Anyway, I didn't know about wetting it either, no wonder mine won't stick!! As for the anemones, I have read (and read, and read :) and most of the research indicates that the Rock Flower & the Curly Q's don't have any special lighting requrements, also I do feed them formula one, at the same time I feed my fish - anyway, quite a learning process in this but I'm really enjoying learning it!
 
vickicj

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Originally posted by lionfish12
I dont like the barbie face thing. ( but you if like it then fine ) your choice
Actually it's not Mayan, it's a replica of one of those Easter Island statues...my mistake! Just wanted to clarify that one :)
 
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