Pico people - positioning

new2salt1

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I'm not sure OSU. I know a half dozen people who could see the video. Sorry I can't help...
Update on the tank...
Nothing has died, xenia has split, kenya has 4-5 new branches, button polyp had a baby. I am so excited about the button polyp. I moved the rock it was on (spun it around), and between the 2 original polyps, and little guy just appeared!!!
The false perc is eating well and will outgrow this tank inside of a month. I already have a 6 gallon lined up.
The blue/yellow zoas have gotten very large and their colors have been getting better and better. The sexy shrimp, orange snail, emerald crab, and nass snails are all doing well...
Oh, I lied about something...I did have one casualty...orange troch snail scaled the tank and fell on to my desk and dried up. I was sad I didn't see him in time...And the clown did jump out once when I was claning the tank. When I upgrade to the 6 gallon, I will get a larger soft coral for him to host. My clown at home lives in my elegance and is getting fat because he is very confident feeding in/around the elegance.
After about 2+ months, I finally had to break down the filter and clean out the algae. I couldn't control the algae. I would scrape the sides, come in th next morning, and it was back again. I pulled out CHUNKS of filter alga. There were also about 50+ pods living in the filter, so it's not all bad.
All in all, with daily topoffs and weekly water changes, the tank is doing well. Some of the corals have grown so much that I moved the ric and yellow polyps into my home tank to give the other room to grow.
Lots of pics to follow...
 

new2salt1

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Well, I decided to upgrade to a 5.5 gallon, which looks huge compared to the 3 gallon.
I added a false perc. The Kenya Tree went from 3 branches to 8. The Sexy Shrimp has doubled in size. But the coolest thing is the button polyps. I had 2 huge buttons. And while you can see growth in the zoas and kenya, it was amazing to one day look down and see a 3rd button in between the 2 original ones. Today there are 5, and they are rapidly taking over the rock the xenia is on. Hopefully they spread on to the substrate and I can give a couple away. It's nice to know that these cheaper setups (this one cost me $80 with 36 watts of 50/50 lighting) can still be effective enough to grow coral and leave the natural reefs ALONE.
Attached are a few pics. Sorry the FTS is lacking so much detail, I didn't realize it was so blurry until I uploaded it.
Soon to come: some sort of Bubble Coral or other large softie that the clown can host. He is a tiny juvi (the size of a nickel), and he needs a bed to sleep in at night!
More to follow...
 

new2salt1

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It's funny how bare the tank looks, even though it is 5.5 gallons and I have 5# of LR, 7 species of coral, 1 sexy, 6 nass snails, 1 orange trochus, and 6 hermits!!
I took the ricordia and yellow buttons home to put in the elgance tank because my fiance came to my office and said, "Im jealous. Your work tank is more colorful than our tank at home."
Go figure!
Anyone have any experience with Bubble Coral? Pro's/Cons? Also, can you suggest another type of softie that the clown might host?
Thanks!
PS - The black and white things dont do so well in salt water!
 
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