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my new addition, will do a full update tonight. shooting under mostly a 22k is alot harder than i thought
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About 3 years ago I had a tank with just about the same dimensions, mine was 48x18x18 and the way your tank looks I am kicking myself in the arse for giving it away.
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oh and btw... looks like our house has airborn flatworms. today was the first day i have seen my tank with my middle lights on and i have flatworms. everything has been dipped before entering the tank and nothing from josh's tank has made it into mine. sneaky little basterds they are... oh well lol |
So i finally bought a camera, YA. sadly my tank ran into some problems since my previous update with pictures. my skimmer air line plugged and i thought it was working when it wasn't and sure enough, stn'ing came to bit me in the ass. my green tabling acro stn'ed all over but i was able to salvage 3 frags and my purple slimmer has been experiencing stn'ing as well. Now i have hit a horriable bump and the LPS addiction has hit and i am debating about selling most to all of my sps and creating a low flow LPS/zoa tank. So here are a few pictures with the new camera, still trying to get used to it
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Love the dendros
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So the tank has had water in it for 9 months now, time for a update
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you can definatly see the water movement on the growth of your sps.
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so quick update on this one... turns out i am in a battle with Dinoflagellates, which explains why my snails have been dying. crap. thought it was diatom's for a bit till it started looking snotty.
got lazy in the past 3 weeks with going back to school. Mg 1080 Ca 360 Alk 8 salinity 1.021 buying new bulbs (after i have the fixture off for 2days) starting bi-weekly 5 gal water changes again, getting the phos-ban running again (maxi-jet died somehow...), might run an internal filter to see if that helps with the situation well gotta love being a poor ass student, well sobey's has hungry man's for sale for $3 each right now |
$3? How could you do that to your tank?!
Bulk KD at Costco or cheap noodles at T&T! Sorry to hear about the minor issues...the last pic you posted looks fantastic. |
When I was in university I lived off of ramen noodles at 50cent a pack. They are good for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Man your salinity looks low. Do you always run it at 1.021? Or is that due to evaporation without topoff? Just curious. |
lol ya i ate kd as a diet when i was first in college 4 years ago and now its a once in a while thing. plus my microwave died on me about a month ago. i miss working.
the tank was doing great and than i cleaned off all the glass of the coraline algae, stopped dosing nitrate destroyer (which i believe is the cause) and this hit me. its on some of my skirts of my zoa's but i am sure once i turn my lights back on for friday i should be ok. i guess this is what happens when you neglect it for a couple of weeks so i am not over ****ed about it. figured out my maxijet was just plugged. just cleaned it and KZ carbon is now running. and a water change is waiting to be done tommorrow when i get home. here is my new bulb configuration for this round of bulbs Aqua Science 22,000k KZ coral light new gen KZ fiji purple (yes i know algae loves red spectrum) Aqua Science 17,500k KZ coral light new gen Aqua Science 22,000k |
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Oops, what I meant to suggest/ask was was it perhaps due to salt creep
rather than evaporation. Evaporation should raise salinity not lower it hehe. I think of salt creep as a form of salt evap. :-) anyway.. Two weeks worth of salt creep perhaps. |
ya that could be why, never had an issue before and i usually just whip it off (which i get alot of) but it was a month since my previous water change
its the old reef tank story right now when i took those previous pictures it was looking the best it has been in months (had an hair algae issue i was fighting and finally won) and than this. well on the side note my corals are getting great growth and the zoas are coming close to considering fragging in the next 2-3 months |
yeah that birdnest is looking great. and is that the red planet frag ?
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Yes.....amazing little piece........* not so patiently rubs hands* My tort is ready....nudge nudge.:lol:
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so while doing a waterchange decided to try some top down shots. sorry about the PE, they were a little stressed with me being in the tank with the sypon
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Cmon.....lets get some snipable branches on that thing already:mrgreen:
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So made a trip to see greg (coral master) today and picked up some new goodies. Some new mille's, digitata's, birdsnest, and my first deep water. Also a great visit, thanks again greg
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K so i am going to update both tanks tonight
So first I am going to start off with a rant about why I am against vodka dosing and jdigital can vouch for the causes it can do if you stop dosing. Previously i was fighting hair algae with no luck. So after picking and picking just to see it grow back thicker and covering more and more area (it was a main supporting rock so taking it out involved ripping the whole tank apart). So I started considering vodka dosing, and after much research decided that dosing Tailored Aquatic's nitrate destroyer was my route of choice. 2 months of dosing goes by with great results and all of the hair algae was now gone I decided to stop dosing. Over 2 weeks i slowed down and than stopped dosing. Now where is the fun part. Tank was looking amazing, I was happy with the outcome of the product and than i started to produce excessive amounts of dinoflagellates, which now if being talked about with vodka dosing. No matter what I have done they would not go away. 2 months has passed and they are not producing as much. Its been a huge headache and i just want everything to be perfect like ever reefer. There are people out there who have been vodka dosing and want to get off (lol sounds like a drug) but are worried about the same out come. My summery about it is to not even start. There have been nights where I wanted to shut it down and restart. Since than I have changed the bulbs, started running carbon and phosban and things are starting to clear up. Old light Set up AquaScience 22,000k KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k) KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k) KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k) KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k) AquaScience 22,000k New light set up: AquaScience 22,000k AquaScience 17,500k duo KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k) Giesemann actinic+ (22,000k) doug shhhhh AquaScience 17,500k duo AquaScience 22,000k I was really hoping for the 17,500k aqua science bulbs to be a bit more blue but they aren't to much of a difference in my eye's. i think adding that third 22,000k made a bit of a difference. looking forward to seeing some of the long term effects this selection has on my corals as I will be running this combo for at least 6 months before changing them. FTS for Nov. 3rd http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e6...0/DSCN6518.jpg |
love the blue look alot , looks great. i was dosing vodka for about 2 months and then just stopped and nothing happened. then i went to phosban and that is the ticket i think for red turf algae and bubble and any hair kill it at the heart...
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It was the only thing i changed and a week later BAM. But i have talked to a few people and i totally agree, phosban is key in a system and same with carbon for me. things are starting to turn around. hopefully it stays that way
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aww its been a month. still messing around with the setting on my camera. some shots with the white balancing on, others on auto with only my 22,000k's on
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Nice. Love that pink birdsnest ;-). Hey, did you buy josh's red/orange digi??
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Looking very good ! What is the red SPS on the Rt side? Is it as red as it looks ? The last pic I had a piece of also - from RC ? - and my blue tang picked it up and dropped it down in behind the rock work where I can't get it :twised:
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wow very nice i like the rockwork.
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nice stylo, inbetween the red zoas. :biggrin:
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kien oh man tempting but i have to hold off till the upgrade. Its going to be a strickly sps only tank and all of the zoa's will either be sold off. Hopefully this will be happening late spring, all depends on money. As for now, i am max'd out and have no more room. :redface: Quote:
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Well its been a year, everything is really starting to take off. Probably the best thing i could have done was not touch anything to much. Only thing i have to say is I will be fragging this birdsnest before it gets to out of hand. Its starting to get really close to some of my other corals
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wow dude that looks awesome. that birdsnest has grown alot in the last year. just looking at the old pics to the new ones, there has been alot of growth in your tank. good work man
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Thanks a bunch, lol that birdsnest is a beast. I think in the last week it has grown 1/2 inch.
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Well a crappy update. came home and my large birdsnest colony RTN'd on me during the day. Did a water change last night, which i haven't done in a while. Well to say the least, extremely upset because it was my favorite piece. doing all my testing tonight to see what happened... funny thing all my other birdsnests are fine and my acros are doing great. was able to salvage a ok sized frag but i will be going to RC for a replacement for its spot tomorrow
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Lookin great Laurier! I LOVE the bright pink birdsnest!
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thanks carmen, to bad its dead. very big disappointment
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well good bye tank. i have a buyer for it that is taking everything
being a student i have decided this was for the best, but i am not gone. I decided to downgrade big time and start over again. Just something for the new place in my room. right now i am trying to design a "all in one" custom tank (24x16x14 for the display portion) than add 8 more inches for a sump as per say. for equipment, i am sticking to t5's and, flow will be adjusted with either a mp10 or a mp20 and i am thinking about running it skimmer less for now but will add maybe the tunze nano 9002 down the road. |
Sucks to see you shut down the 60g Lorenzo, one my favorite Montis did the exact same thing as your birdsnest did.
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don't know whats happening for a new system. i am looking at the cadlights 22gal all-in-1 cause its upgradable. My friend who i am moving in with is ok with a fish tank but i don't have much room so its either that or a nano-cube 14gal to hold my addiction till i find a place i will be in alot longer than this on.
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