On my box eh? :lol: :razz:

Good thing it's a small tank and he's usually easy to find :mrgreen:

Eh ?? :eek:

Hey there Doug I already did have my nose there and my hand in there too..:mrgreen:

+1 :eek:, Get a room you 3 :lol:.

EEK my thread is getting more R rated then fishytime's! :surprise:

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Closer up pic.'s of new frags

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Well some sad news, after my frogfish lost his tail 3 days ago (and seemed to be healing and doing ok) I noticed today he was breathing really hard. Did a 25% water change and added a bubbler to the tank this morning then went to LFS in the afternoon. When I got back I noticed the frog still breathing hard then noticed his hand was gone :surprise: My friends birthday party was starting right away and I wasn't sure what happend so I figured I'd leave him in the tank for now (didn't want to stress him more by moving him) and that I'd figure out what to do in the morning. Unfortunately when I got home from the party (a little while ago) I found him dead :cry:

Here's a link to the thread were I was talking about it http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=64837

Here is a pic. I took of the lion and the frog together Friday night May 28, when it seemed like everything was going to be ok. R.I.P. Bumblebee :cry:

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aw thats too bad Laurie......sorry:sad:

Sorry to hear this Laurie. :biggrin: I was really hoping the little guy would be ok.

Oops! Meant to be the sad face :cry: not the smiley face. Sorry.

Thanks guys, I really thought he'd pull through and then he went downhill so fast on Sat. I did what I could but it didn't help :sad: and Lance no worries, it's easy enough to click on the wrong face.

Me + AI + garage sale = new lights and more frags :mrgreen:

I took a whole bunch of cool underwater pic.'s (thank-you Dez for telling me what settings to use) however the battery died right after :twised: So a few pic.'s from the other camera will have to do for now.

New lights: I bought two AquaticLife dual-lamp T5 HO fixtures. Great thing about them is they attach together to become a 4 bulb fixture.
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FTS
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Im glad Im not the only one with a single head of Duncan in their tank :) Mine just popped out its first branch... its still maybe half the diameter of a dime.. but the main stalk is pushing close to the size of a quarter now. :)

Nice looking cube by the way :)

Thanks. I bought the frag at AI's garage sale 2 weeks ago, it was $10 a head so I figured I'd spend the $10 and watch it grow more :biggrin:

My favourite thing to watch happen, tiny frag turn into larger colony :) Its a good feeling

lookin like you've just about got that little box of yours stuffed, there Laurie:wink:.....should look impressive when the schticks get bigger for you:biggrin:

Thanks I've added 3 more frags and an elegance coral since that pic. I took some underwater close ups of the sps frags but I haven't gotten around to posting them yet. The elegance coral is cool but it was supposed to be in my reef tank, however my CBB thought it tasted good, so for now it's in this tank.

Edit: a friend of mine took the elegance coral.

When I was in Calgary last week I bought some new sps from Red Coral to bring back with me. I also dropped off a shipment of sps for Wes (Bluetang<3) that he ordered from RC and much to my pleasant surprise he gave me a bunch of sps for delivering them.

So Doug (fishytime)........here's the pic.'s I promised.....of my "wee box" that you helped stuff even more :razz:

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I took a few more pic.'s but my camera is acting up and wont connect to the computer right now so I'll have to wait until later to share them. Also thank-you Doug for showing me how to set my camera so that the pic.'s turn out good.

I also am in the process of setting up a 10g bowfront tank right beside my cube tank. This tank will be for my mantis, I figure it will be nice for Mr. mantis to have his own tank and not be stuck in the sump anymore, because a lot of flow goes into it and he hides all the time.

Nice stuff! Boy that's gonna be pure mayhem if all those pieces grow up!

Got feather dusters? :mrgreen:

Ya needless to say I'm running out of room. When the sps get bigger I'm going to have to upgrade!

What I have feather dusters.....I didn't notice :twised: I think I need to add a fish that likes to eat them, but I don't know of any fish that are suitable for a 20g that will eat feather dusters :sad: I am getting a 6-line wrasse, but I'm not sure if it will eat them or not...here's hoping :biggrin:

Laurie, the cube is lookin' fine. You could move the Copperband to the cube for awhile if he's not too big. He'll gobble up them Dusters.

My CBB is too big for the cube, and most likely he'd eat the sps and not just the feather dusters :twised: Plus I've had him for 3yrs and don't really want to move him around and upset him.

hey your welcome Girly.....its all about pushin the right buttons:biggrin:


Wow Laurie!:surprise:.......do ya think you can squeeze any more into there?:wink:.....pics look great!.... your wee box really is cubealicious:wink:

Aww man, those feather dusters are soo cool.
Reminds me of the BBC Ocean Deep where theirs just separate colonies of life on those vents.
Amazing how much life is in your nano!

looks good laurie hope all the frags work out for you :biggrin:

Wow look at all those feather dusters :D

Well I'm glad you know how to push the right buttons :lol: My pic.'s with this camera have never looked so good.

Come on Doug, you know my motto "there's always room for more" :mrgreen:

Thanks, but to me the feather dusters are pretty annoying, especially when they grow all over the sps.

Thanks again so much for all those frags, so far they're all doing great :mrgreen:

Ya it's crazy how many there are of them, they're like weeds in my tank.

its not really hard to get em good when the right buttons are pushed......more a matter of just being "steady".....

I know but Im just concerned that that box may burst:surprise:.......maybe you need to stretch it out to say 30x30x24:wink:

Steady as she goes eh? :lol:

An upgrade would be nice, having the money to do it with would be even nicer :neutral: *sigh*

Hey sweet looking tank Laurie! Gonna look great in 6 months when everything colors up and you have a growth explosion! The first year of a tank's life drives me nuts...hurry up and mature already! :p

The tank looks awesome Laurie! cant wait to see it
when its completely full in a couple months:lol:
looks like its going fantastic and nice set up!

Yup. It's no wonder some beginners pack it in after 3 or 4 months, (one algae infestation after another!) It is especially tough on those with large tanks; dealing with algae in smaller tanks is a little easier. I have seen a few new tanks that got through the break-in fairly easily, but they are the exception.

Thanks everyone. I agree it's going to look cool when everything starts to grow out, however when it does start to grow it won't take long until before they start to touch one another :neutral:

how are the corals doing

They're all doing great, thanks again for the frags :mrgreen:

Taylor you're welcome to stop by and see it in person when you have time :biggrin:

thanks again Laurie for letting me put my sticks(frags) in your box for a while....

You should go and see it Taylor......its a very nice little box.....just saw it in person myself.....not sure if you will get the exclusive access that I got but:wink:.....

So I took a few pics of Lauries box(s) while I was there.....started off innocently enough .....just through the glass....... but then things got a little more serious and Laurie let me get wet and go wrist deep:surprise:......it was a bit of a tight squeeze......wee box......two relatively large hands and a camera:mrgreen:


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and a pretty good shot of Lauries kitty:mrgreen:
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