New 56g tall tank

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Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/387668/new-56g-tall-tank/200#post_3433371
This looks great, Flower. Still lovin' the feeding column!

Thanks Nova, the tank needs some macro and coral to spruce it up some, but I do like it. The coral from the 30g is now in the 90g and it seems so very happy in there, LOL.....I hate to take it out now.
I run a phoban reactor and turn the dial down to make the little beads dance like instructions tell me. But it makes the pump buzz, any idea what I could do to silence it?...Maybe put it on a timer to only run in the daytime so I can sleep...
 
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Cayano is back. I haven't done any water tests. I'm sure my messy eaters are to blame.
I ordered some macro algae. The Hectors Goby only nips the rocks and sand and won't eat the wasted mysis shrimp, so I need some fish that will. So next puppy sale or turn of the month, I will be getting some fish, but I need to know what to get.
How many Yellow Clown Gobies can I have in the tank with the SHs?
What else can go in the tank with the SHs and YCGs?
 
teresaq

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There are quite a few.
Any of the dart fish - Firefish, scissor tail or zebra strip
orange lined cardinals
pearl jawfish
scooter blenny
Mandrin if you can watch it eat - Mine eats frozen like crazy
How many peppermint shrimp do you have??
Do you have any scarlets (yellow eyes) hermits. These are safe too
 
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Originally Posted by TeresaQ http:///t/387668/new-56g-tall-tank/220#post_3434682
There are quite a few.
Any of the dart fish - Firefish, scissor tail or zebra strip
orange lined cardinals
pearl jawfish
scooter blenny
Mandrin if you can watch it eat - Mine eats frozen like crazy
How many peppermint shrimp do you have??
Do you have any scarlets (yellow eyes) hermits. These are safe too
So all those also get along with each other besides the SHs? I don't want a dartfish, they all jump...it isn't worth the money to try and keep one.
Scooter and mandarine needs copepods...of which my tank is too newly set up.
I will check out the orange lined cardinals and pearl jawfish.
Those litt green striped whatever Meowzer has, can they be with yellow clown Gobies?
 
novahobbies

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I kept a blue spotted sand sifting goby in with the horse until the goby became too big for his britches. I'd watch any sand sifters for their behaviour, but small ones are a fair safe bet. Teresa and I are some of the lucky ones when it comes to Mandarins...both of mine gobble up mysis like it's a treat. Scooter dragonets are more easily weaned to frozen, remember, so you may have a good shot at keeping one in there now...but don't be surprised of you see the mandarin in the food bowl eventually. If you have a deep enough sand bed I'd go for the jawfish personally. Just remember they like to have a burrow.
 
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Update pictures:
Well I added some macroalgae. Some red and some weird caulerpa that looks like seagrass, the horses love it. The pink polyps are growing nicely, I don't think I will add any coral to this tank except what's already in there...there is a striped green mushroom way in the back where it can't be seen. If it spreads maybe I can rearrange it someday.
First of the month I plane to get more amphipods to seed it. I didn't realize I had to acclimate pods but I read that if you want them to populate and be used just for more than a tastey treat to acclimate them so I will. It really makes no sense to me, those little bugs live in the live rock and I never worried about them being able to survive, they just do. I also got another LED blue strip...I put it on the side of the tank vertical in the back area to light the columns at night...it looks awesome, but pictures won't come out right to show you guys.
The red on everything is not cyano, it's red turf algae. The snails keep it mowed down.

Find the seahorse game

This red/orange maco looks great for the horse tank...I hope it grows happy and good. I put it near the top for easy pruning, my book says it can become invasive.
 
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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///t/387668/new-56g-tall-tank/220#post_3435755
Looks good...and I finally get to see the psp...LOL
I thought I took a bunch of pictures of it??? If I didn't I'm sooo sorry. These puppies have been keeping my mind and body in such a state, I don't know if I'm coming or going. I haven't even been on the site but for a few minutes here and there.
Last ditch effort...I put another two ads out for this weekend, I still have the two girls to sell and they are getting past the cute stage to lanky, when It's hard to sell them.
 
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Originally Posted by Slice http:///t/387668/new-56g-tall-tank/220#post_3435756
I like that algae.
And the game, here it is!

I got what they called a red samler pack and the caulerpa. The horses are the color of stone from being around the columns so much. Tank needed some color, it looked too sterile. I didn't even know the seahorse was there when I took the picture....so I cropped it because it was so hidden...
 
travelerjp98

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Hi Flower,
I'm happy to see that this thread is moving again! Are there any other uypdates on it?
You know I want PICTURES!!!!
 
flower

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Originally Posted by travelerjp98 http:///t/387668/new-56g-tall-tank/220#post_3442454
Hi Flower,
I'm happy to see that this thread is moving again! Are there any other uypdates on it?
You know I want PICTURES!!!!
BLAH...my battery says it needs to be recharged so pics will be later
LOL..There really isn't much to say...the horses are fine. The macos are growing. I added another power head a couple of days ago (for that shelf). I got the Seio brand because there is nothing for the horses to attach to like the Koralia and hurt their tails. The macros on the shelf are not doing well, but they may not like the light so much, or the flow wasn't sufficient, I'm going to remove it ....the ones on the bottom are much happier. The blade caulerpa is attached and doing well. I have a strange pretty red algae that looks like scales growing on the columns. The chiller is keeping everything at a nice cool 73/74.
The pink star polyps I got from meowzer is as happy as can be up on the shelf and it's growing. It doesn't have the little white bulb in it like the green star, it looks a little like pink/fleashy color hair flowing in the waves.
Oddly the horses stay near the bottom and middle of the tank and seldom venture higher. Maybe because they were in a shallow 30g long tank before when they were little guys. Come next month, I plan to purchase some new fish to add some color and movement to the higher area.
Here are some pics of the red algae...I already tried the ID thread..nothing possitive yet.

 
novahobbies

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Curious question....you mentioned that they were calcified projections....I wonder if this is some form of corraline.
 
flower

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Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/387668/new-56g-tall-tank/220#post_3442480
Curious question....you mentioned that they were calcified projections....I wonder if this is some form of corraline.
BTLDreef thinks so, but the tank is so young and the calcium levels are low ...340 according to my tests this morning. Nothing that is conductive of helping coraline grow. I can see them eating up the cal in the water to grow but not like coraline would need. This tank was set up in September from scratch, nothing was added except rock and sand the first month so it could cycle ...so the tank is actually just 3 months old. I have Kalk to drip but I'm afraid to try it.
Most of it is on the center column (feeding station) and the bottom of the pavalone and half way up the front columns on it. It's also on the rocks. I know it isn't the same coraline BTLDreef named.
I removed the dying macros from the top shelf...I have dinoflagellates on the shelf rocks that was under the algae. my PO4 is 0.1 / Nitrates are 0
I added a new PH to help circulation up there...that should help it. I also need to change up with some new stuff in my Phosban reactor.
 
novahobbies

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Hmmm, some kinds of coraline are more forgiving - and more opportunistic - than others. It could be, but it's hard to tell. And it doesn't matter if you started your tank as a sterile environment...the first coral you introduced could have had coraline spores attached to it. Since it's probably a benign thing, I wouldn't worry about it....I just hope it grows more!
 
flower

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Originally Posted by novahobbies http:///t/387668/new-56g-tall-tank/220#post_3442551
Hmmm, some kinds of coraline are more forgiving - and more opportunistic - than others. It could be, but it's hard to tell. And it doesn't matter if you started your tank as a sterile environment...the first coral you introduced could have had coraline spores attached to it. Since it's probably a benign thing, I wouldn't worry about it....I just hope it grows more!
+1 it's a pretty red
I don't have but one coral in there, I got it from Meowzer. The macros I introduced, but not that one. Maybe when it matures a bit we can tell better what it is. Time will tell.
 
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