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Fishytimes 20g pics
Hi everyone. I'm new to canreef (been on a couple other site for awhile). Would like to thank zylumn, and sandyd for turning me on to canreef. Great site. Was just wanting to fish around for comments, suggestions or critiques.Heres what I'm playing with.
standard 20g 2- Hagen "glo" 2x24w T5 HO lights AquaC Remora skimmer/ maxi-jet 1200 pump Ac 70 filter (prob soon to be fuge) 2 koralia 1s and AC 10 PHs Jager 100w heater 23ish lbs mixed fiji, haitian LR 10 lbs (about 1/2 to 1 inch) aragonite sand Livestock 1 ocellaris clown 1 six line wrasse 1 royal gramma zebra hermits blue knuckled hermit scarlet hermit halloween hermit emerald crab cleaner shrimp hawian feather duster 4 astrea snails 1 trochus snails 2 bumblebee snails blue( I think) xenia pink palys green palys red palys green "wagonwheel" shrooms and orange/orange zoas gsp blueberry zoas brown/orange zoas brown/green zoas red/orange zoa green zoas green/red/purple zoas green/pink zoas green/gray/pink zoas green hairy shroom green fuzzy shroom orange rhodactis shroom "watermellon" shroom purple shrooms purple striped shroom "super mario" shroom(red with blue dots) red hairy shroom yellow polyps candy cane frogspawn green digitata orange digitata purple digitata birdsnest blue polyped birdsnest hydnophora rigata green ricordia yuma green ricordia florida purple ricordia florida orange ricodia florida red/green favia http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0479.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0487.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0486.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0472.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0481.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0467.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0480.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0484.jpg and the fts http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP0482.jpg Thanks for lookin. Doug |
Great start 3 months from now it will be amazing .
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looking good for sure in 3 months it will look great:biggrin:
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updated pics
Thanks for the comps guys. The last round of pics was from a couple weeks ago so thought I would post some updated pics, Just got back from seeing Greg(snappy) and... well... left there with a few goodies( a few shrooms and some sps frags) and a lighter wallet. Beautiful healthy lookin tank btw Greg. Then grabbed a zoa frag from Golds.
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Hey, you know what.....I'm excited to see that you're buying small pieces/frags and letting them grow. It's tempting to guy large pieces and have a fully stocked tank right away....but watching my corals grow has been the most fun. Looks good and keep it up....with pictures of course! :wink:
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score you did. Congrats
When I said wait 6 months I meant wait 3 months and your tank will be set. K |
a couple of update pics. Yellow polps from zylumn and lps( was sold to me as hammer but looks like frogspawn to me).
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Noticed today that my little birdsnest frag is starting to branch out allready(two weeks).
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Your tank is coming along nicely :biggrin: Birdsnest corals are always fun to watch as they grow incredibly fast. Before you know it you'll have a little colony!
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Boy your tellin me christyf5, Im blown away by it. Another growth pic of the birdsnest and gsp, and a couple more update pics:biggrin:
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I think your building this tank up so nice to eventually fill your 110???? Nice pics keep em comin
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very nice!
better have a lid - Personal experience (and a kick in the ***) for not listening to people that a firefish *WILL* jump it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Seal it, TIGHT! ;) |
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Luckily it's not an EXPENSIVE firefish, but even so, you don't want him going the way of the dodo :) |
Andsoitgoes is that bi-color blenny in your avatar, in your tank? If so how do you like him? Was thinking about getting one in the future but not sure a 20g would be a good fit for one.
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If you have the chance, get one - anyone that has one will tell you how fun they are and they provide such great amusement to the tank. He'd do great in a 20g, and you'd have room to add in another few fish that would really give the tank some zing |
Looks good. Are you buying the frags locally?
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Well.... it happened ....my firefish Peter Panned out of the tank and ended up a CCC( crispy carpet critter), RIP little buddie:cry: Guess I pushed my luck to long. I was plannin on rigging up a cover after I move in a couple weeks. The bright side is I get to think bout a new fishy. Here's a couple tank shots from last weekend.Last pics of Jumpy the firefish.
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hate to be the one to do this but..... I told you so!! :(
He was a pretty guy, if you decide to do it again, go full on with a solid cover, eggcrate won't cut it and any other mesh might be an issue. Just go big or go home, unfortunately it's a risk with these guys and you're just asking for trouble. |
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Well I decided to get rid of 1 of my chunks of xenia( before it becomes the most prominant thing in the tank). Traded with zylumn for a hydnophora rigata frag. Got a free "super mario" shroom, and added a emerald crab. Here's some pics of the new stuff ( not the shroom though, he's still kinda "ahhhh"), and some growth pics of some other stuff.
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everything looks pretty cool
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Looking good there, fishytime. We have figured out how to get the pictures from the camera onto the computer. Now just need to learn how to post pictures. Your birdsnest frag is doing awesome!
We started to restock after the death wave and picked up a pair of true percs and a royal gramma. I find my new royal gramma (female) is a lot smaller and less aggressive than the male that died. Might want to keep that in mind when purchasing a royal gramma. Golds had some last weekend and I grabbed a female. Very timid little thing who is just starting to come out of her cave in the last couple of days. The firefish that survived the fish holocaust is rarely seen since I added the new fish. I would never get a firefish again, either. They are way too jumpy and do not come out of the rocks often enough. However, that must have saved it from whatever killed my other livestock. Sweet tank! Karen (a.k.a. Roderick on this forum) |
Thanks alot ladies. Karen I upload my photos onto photobucket.com and then just copy and paste the link into my posts. Photobucket accounts are free. Its pretty easy. Hope you get it worked out. I would really like to see some pics of you guys tank. I would like a royal gramma too but they say it should be the last fish you introduce so will probably wait awhile.Was just at elite tonight and saw a fish or two that I may have to go back and get(green clown goby or six line wrasse). Not sure which one. He just got them in today and said to wait a couple days to make sure everything is cool. I wanna check Golds on Saturday anyway cause the prices are better there. Anyway keep workin on those pics.
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research the 6 line wrasse in your 20
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Yasha's are pretty.....but hide ALOT! I have one in both of my 14g biocubes...and you wouldn't know it most of the time...a shy but BEAUTIFUL fish. We got ours from J&L's.
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Holy crap thats alot of salt man, and thanks for the info Chaloupa. Do you know something I dont Kev? What do you mean?
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Well I know I said I was gonna wait until I moved but I could stand looking at the tank with one lonley ocellaris in it. So....I broke down and bought a six line wrasse.Havent been able to get a pic of him yet ,but when I do I will post it. Do these guys ever stop swimming?lol
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I finnaly got some ricordia!! So here is some pics o rics. Oh yeah and the "Super Mario" mush that was unhappy last week.
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We moved last w/e and was really stressed about the saltwater tank( have read about some really bad tank moves). But all my worrying was for nothing. The move went well and most of the corals opened up that night. Whew! I added an AquaC Remora skimmer a couple days ago and two more zoa frags.
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I traded away another chunk of xenia( man that schtuff spreads like wildfire) to denbert for a small piece of purpleish star polyps with a small green striped shroom on it.Added a small bi-color blenny( thanks Colby for holding him for me til after my move) and a feather duster. The small "bad" looking ricordia (three polyps had a rock leaning on them at the LFS) havn't showed any sign of improvement, but I havn't given up on them yet. The remora skimmer seems to be workin good. Not even a week and its all ready startin to pull some gunk out of the water.A few more pics for ya. The new star polyps are still POed.
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just wanted some more information on your lighting
"2- Hagen "glo" 2x24w T5 HO lights" does this mean you have 4x24 w T5s or 2x24 w T5s? just wanted some clarification. Thanks |
1 unit is 2x24w and I have two units over my tank.....So 4x24w total.:biggrin:
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Favia, red zoa, Kick a$$ orange mush from Snappy, and the redish star polyps that FINALY opened up.
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Nice looking "rics" Doug.
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Wow, a compliment from Snappy:biggrin: The tank miester himself. Thanks alot Greg.
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I swaped out my big nasty power suckin AC 50 PH for a "koralia 1" and scored a couple more kinds of shrooms. Some orange yuma rics, and some dark green and red ones(not sure of the species).
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