Tank maintenance day
 

Everything looked so much better after a water change, glass scraped and new carbon added that I had to grab the camera :lol:

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Exquisite, as usual Marie :)

Angel, checking to see if I'm still looking before getting into trouble

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This is the rock that I fragged ALL the ricordeas off of in the spring. Its ready for fragging again :mrgreen:
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and last but not least, Ken (scavenger) do you remember the little pipe organ frag you gave me 2 years ago?
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Dibs on the next ricordia frag :)

Providing I can keep them alive this time :redface:

Marie, if you are still having troubles with your coraline plugging up the slots on your overflow, just try lowering your water for a couple of hours or so. Corraline doesnt last too long when exposed to air. This is what I do and it seams to keep the corraline away for longer when its all dead for 1/2 " or so around the slots. Whenever I scrape i enivitibly leave a few little pieces behind that regrow quite quickly.

BEAUTIFUL as always...wow Marie, your tank is gorgeous!

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Marie, how much flow do you have hitting your pink rimmed cap? I can't seem to get mine to color up that much, even with all of my levels being fine.

Considering that my tank is low flow at the moment, it's probably in one of the highest flow areas of the tank.
When I first set up my tank, 2 6060 tunze streams were enough but now with all the corals growing it needs a wavebox (hint hint).

Wow, truly gorgeous, Marie!

Whats a coral to do once it reaches the top :lol:

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Holy Doodle, that itty bitty thing I gave you is now THAT!! Wow!!

Can I have a frag? LOL!

Wow, it's only been a month since Irene & I visited & your corals have already grown so much more. Absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

Anthony

Ken you can definitely have a frag :biggrin: Do you have a tank to put it in yet? :razz:

Anthony, I am now up to 5lbs of calcium reactor media every 4/5 weeks and my last 10lb co2 bottle took less then 5 months to empty

Wow Marie, I can't wait to see this one plate along the surface. So cool!!! :cool:

Your tank is looking awesome as usual, I think need you to do a seminar on coral growing :mrgreen:

Thanks Marie!! Yup I couldn't stand keeping my hands dry, so used up some store credit and started a 29 gallon LPS tank. Unfortunately, a...errr...ummm....upcoming change in marital status... (ya we'll call it that.:) )doesn't leave me any free funds to add coral for a while. Any frags would more than appreciated.

Marie your tank is amazing - you have to share your secrets with the rest of us bozos that are struggling with our SPS.........or am I the lone bozo here. Anyway share your secret with me!

I have no secret, It's as much a mystery to me as it is to anybody :redface: .
The only thing I add to the tank is fish food, kalkwasser and RO top off water. I do occasional water changes, have activated carbon and a pathetic red sea berlin protien skimmer.

I have just about every pest algae you can get in there and an angel that trims my acros regularily. I was adding reef roids but I haven't in the last 2 months and haven't noticed any difference what so ever

I think we need a full TOTM type write up on your methods!

What do you use for salt?

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There is one. Somewhere around July or September 2006.

It was nov :biggrin:

I have always used IO

TOTM forum doesn't work.... :(

Any growth photos to show us?

Hi Marie

Your tank looks fantastic. I have told Anthony that the next time he is going to Powell River I am tagging along with the hope of visiting you and your tank.

Tom R

This pic is from the totm (taken in oct 06)

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march 07
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july 07
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sept 07
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Pink rim cap
dec 06
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march 07
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may 07
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july 07
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sept 07
sept 07
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march 07
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april 07 ( this was actually over 6 weeks, beginning of march middle of april)
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may 07 had to move this coral it was growing too darn fast
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sept 07
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Tom, your welcome to come up anytime. There are only 2 stipulations 1. you have to like dogs ( well 1 large, slobbery, in your face, kinda dog especially :lol: ) and 2. be prepared to go home with you pockets full of montipora :razz:

Sounds like great stipulations!

Thanks for the squence photos, they look phenomenal! I drooled! :mrgreen:

How did you mount the corals on the back glass? Just straight epoxy?

Good Gravy!! 5lbs of media in a month? What kind of CO2 rate do you have? What kind of effluent rate? What's the pH? That's awesome. I'll wait for your reply by my reactor with my fingers on the knobs ready to adjust to whatever you've got :)

I try and maintain my effluent ph at 6.5 ,I did try a lower ph but I hate cleaning mush out of the bottom of the reactor so I raised it back up again. I still get an inch or 2 of mush to clean out every month though. Other then that i just keep cranking up the flow rates everytime my alk starts to drop. The co2 is coming out too fast for me to count the bubbles (more then a hundred bubbles/min) and the effluent is coming out in a steady stream :mrgreen: .
I haven't tested my tank ph in ages and to be honest I don't really want to know.

Oh and just so I get the sympathy vote, you can't get co2 bottles filled in Powell River, they have to be sent out of town which can take up to 3 weeks :cry:

Oh and just so I get the sympathy vote, you can't get co2 bottles filled in Powell River, they have to be sent out of town which can take up to 3 weeks :cry:[/quote]
I don't know if the fitting is different, but Powell River Outdoors fills the paintball bottles. They might do a bigger one? The cost might be a little higher, but you wouldn't have to ship.

Look what I found on the bus this morning :razz:

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Wow, I'm gonna go hang out at the bus station!

Me too! Seems like everyone is finding cool stuff on the bus!

So do you think my husband will go for that excuse? I thought it was better then "They followed me home can I keep them?" :lol:

I'm fond of the "It must have fallen into my pocket at the store." or "It must have been a hitchhiker in the saltbucket." excuses. But hey, I never got away with it.

Or you could try the :shocked!: WTF - how the heck did that thing get in there? approach.............oh and don't back down.

I'm not going to even touch that one.


Looks Great Marie

:rofl:

Yeah actually I was there on Sunday night, some sketchy characters and no maxima clams in sight :razz:

Oh boy. You just keep walking right into them.