Frags are looking good, they all made it ?

Yeah they all made it only one didnt look good for a while but I think its coming around now.

very good
 

Well i got a new fish and thought i would put up a couple of pictures. There was lots of stuff in the water because i just did a water change so the pictures arent very good
Here is one of him in his favorite hiding spot.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/trigger3.jpg
And here is a few more of him swimming around
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/trigger4.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...st/trigger.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/trigger2.jpg
oh I forgot to say that it is a male crosshatch trigger he is about 9 inches long. Steve at red coral edmonton got him for me.

I also thought I would put a picture of my Miniature Schnauzer puppy Kokomo.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...nst/Kokomo.jpg

Muahahaha nice trigger!

Steve

Awesome score!! One of my favourites. :)

Nice looking Trigger. :biggrin:

What a beaut. It's pictures like these that sometimes made me wish I had a bigger tank. But then I think about the extra cost associated with bigger and I quickly become satisfied again. Thanks for sharing and letting me live vicariously through you for a split second.

I will try and get some better pictures when my water is clearer. I wasnt expecting him to be so big but he is pretty sweet. I went to feed him a silverside with my tongs and he took the whole thing and ate it in like a second and those are big silversides. lol

wow its been a long time since I posted anything on my tank Journal. Well I have been battling bryopsis for awhile now and it doesnt seem like its getting much better. So since bryopsis is a low phosphate algae I have decided to us rowaphos even though I am using zeovit. I have had my magnesium at around 1500 ppm for a couple months now which I think slowed down the growth I am currently increasing the magnesium to 1600 and see how that goes in conjunction with the rowaphos. I will try and take a couple pictures tonight or tomorrow and post them for an update.

Here is a couple pictures of my mandarin that I took yesterday.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...anIMG_0059.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...anIMG_0057.jpg
I took a couple pictures of my blood shrimp molting the pictures arent very good because the shrimp was at the back of my tank.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...anIMG_0047.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...anIMG_0044.jpg
A picture of the clam I got from Steve at red coral
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...anIMG_0067.jpg

Haha Ryan you and your marine epoxy hahaha looks good, now where is the full tank shot!!!!

Steve

Haha yeah I do like my epoxy. lol I will tank a full tank shot next week sometime. I only had my Iphone to take pictures with. lol

man a crosshatch and a killer clam!????......that Steve guy sure seems to get some nice stuff!:wink:......great scores man!:biggrin:

Just posting an update on my tank. The bryopsis is pretty much gone and my sps are starting to color back up and have been growing like crazy over the last month. Everything seems to be going good.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_2711.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_2639.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_2695.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_2668.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_2636.jpg

That Trigger is a camera poser if I ever saw one.

+1

Yeah he likes the camera he is always in front of it. He usually scares away the smaller fish that I am trying to take pictures of which is kindof annoying. Lol

Looks great!

What did you change to get the bryopsis under control?

Well I kind of did a lot of things at once which isn't the best thing to do. lol
At first I started bringing my magnesium up to like 1500 which slowed down the growth. Then I got a big tub of rowaphos even though my phosphate tested at basically zero I ran about half a litre in a reactor changing it out monthly. I started using kent tech-m magnesium supplement to bring my water change waters magnesium up to 1500 1600ppm I probably went through like 6 of the 64 oz bottles. I took out around 70 pounds of the live rock that was covered in bryopsis dried it out and put it in storage. I was doing 30 gallon water changes weekly from the beginning of the Bryopsis outbreak during every water change i slowly pulled it off the rocks using the suction tube and my thumb. If a rock got really bad and I could pull it out of my tank I would take it out and scrub all the bryopsis off it then rinse it with tank water. I also switched from zeovit to vertex biopellets.

Looks great I like the three rock towers. I agree the trigger is a camera hog :lol:

Lookin real good Ryan, I'm glad the troubles are behind you.... Did you end up merging your moms tank into it?

Steve

Not yet she still has a valentini puffer and an angel to sell because they cant go in my tank.

I decided to start vodka dosing here is a pick of how its going.lol
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a.../vodkadose.jpg
Seriously though I am going to dilute it so I can use my doser instead of daily dosing. I will keep you updated on the progress good or bad.

You're putting gray goose in your tank?

BAH!@#!@ Go grab the cheap stuff, that doesn't belong in your reef!!!

Lol that's just how Ryan rolls..... But seriously cheaper vodka my friend....

Steve

Haha its just what I had I will probably buy cheaper stuff when I make my next batch of vodka and water. lol But it kind of does make sense Better vodka for me = better for my tank right? lol

I hear fish love the taste of armadale
it makes them sing

I posted in another thread but it appeared here

The vodka dosing is going good I was dosing 1ml a day for the last couple weeks but now I am going to go to 1.5ml a day its hard for me to follow the dosing instructions because my tank tests 0 nitrates and 0 phosphates, I am running biopellets but I am still getting some nuisance algae growth. The sps is really starting to grow well and continues get more colorful everyday.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...anst/tank2.jpg
Here is a picture of my new fixture I got from lastnight now both sides of my tank look the same. lol
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...yanst/tank.jpg

Rock aquascaping attempt 2 my last rock work wasnt very stable so I decided to redo it with aquarium epoxy and 2 packs later this is what I got. The water was still a bit dirty from the move though.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_3100.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_3101.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_3104.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_3108.jpg
And here a a couple new frags I picked up from steve.
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_3111.jpg
http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/IMG_3112.jpg

Have you tried to relocate your pumps yet?

Yeah I did but I cant get a wave going I think my tank is just to long. I like the new pump position though.

It does take some tweaking with the frequency to get the best wave in my tank it is around a second on then off for a second.

Ok I will try that I just set it up on quick pulse and didn't really read the manual much on how to change the length of the pulses.