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Siptang http:///t/388524/recovery/40#post_3430590
Well, if you look at your own, you will always find a flaw that you want to fix. (grass always does seem more greener on the other side is it not? )
I want a better reef tank. I hope that my wrasse wasn't a such a prick to knock everything down and over and under and bury everything. I wish I can get xenia to thrive instead of keep dying. I wish I can maintain some cool corals... (never had a good luck on those..)
Well... I'm going to buy some more leather and a short colts tomorrow. I seem to do ok with those lol.
How should I qt them? Jeff was telling me about dipping them but I haven't done that yet and still a novice in that so far...
Qt'g a coral is the same as qt'ing your fish friends. We have the "CCU" (Coral Containment Unit) Lol. Pending on the type of coral, we merely temp acclimate and set it in the tank for 4-6 weeks. Now if the coral is something stony, we merely do the dip and rinse off several times in hoping the old water is flushed out. Our Anemone we have in the q.t because it's full of water, a clam would go into the QT.
This morning I added in my 2nd clown from the fish QT and he (MOJO) is totally tripping over the corals in my tank.
Back to this tank thing. What does Siptang want his tank to look like? I could give you ideas but those are my ideas and maybe you might like them Lol...
This may sound rather on the weird side but personally, I believe a tank represents you. The aqua-scape, types of corals, and fish. With that said my tank for example has different types of corals, some soft some stonies. It doesn't have to be in any specific order although order makes the design and personally, I see myself getting bored with my scaping from time to time and change it around every six months or so.
If you would like some ideas here they are...
1) more live rock, maybe in the middle of the tank. Add some height, caves and crevices somewhere the fish could swim in and around. With this you could add a few cliffs (flat pieces) to put some coral on. In my tank I have a montipora glues to the over flow box, will PM a new pic and new coral too). Maybe some more L.R or dry rock in the back corners.
what I did was make a drawing of my tank and scribble in a few ideas and tried to make that picture happen.
2) get some Xenia's, be careful tho because they spread like wild fire. One of my first corals was the green star polyps. They are bright, flow nicely and spread where you want them to.
3) neon candy canes and acons make beautiful additions.
Those are just some of my thoughts Richard, good luck and let me know if you need any more ideas, although I'm sure your going to get alot of other great thoughts too.
P.S. look in the Dictionary on what Wrasse means Lol..... you'll get a kick out of it. bwahahahaha
