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Nebthet's 56g Reef
Hardware:
- 56g tank - 36" 234w 6x39w Tek T5HO light - 30lb pacific black reef live sand - 65lbs live rock fully cured. - Aquaclear 70 HOB Filter - Koralia 1 (will get another to upgrade to more flow) - Koralia 3 - Vortech MP20 - Remora with Drain skimmer - 300w heater Livestock: - 3 x SA Onyx Clownfish (Ordering an extra in case of issues. once paired. the 3rd will have a new home in my sisters' tank so it doesn't get picked on my the other two) - 1x Picasso Clown - 1x Bengaii Cardinal - 1x Starry Blenny - 1 x Blue Devil Damsel (If overly aggressive it will have a new home elsewhere) - 6 hermit crabs - 12 nassarius snails (will get more and cerith snails) - Pulsing Xenia - Elegance White tip, and purple tip. - Aussie Duncan 24heads with babies - Candy Canes Green 8 heads and growing - Toadstool - Zoanathids Peach eyed and Radioactive dragon eyes. - Green Star Polyps - SPS: Blue tipped tenuis, Tricolor Valida, another Tricolor, Green Bottlebrush, Red and Purple tipped Digitatas, Monti Cap Red and Green w/white rim. - Burgandy plating algae - Rainbow Chalice - Tear Drop Maxima - Blue/Purple Crocea or Maxea - Ultra Blue/Green Crocea - Orange and Green Bubble Tipped Anemone - Sebae Anemone. Well yestarday I took down the other tank and set up the 55g. I ended up getting what I needed in the mail. I am just waiting for the T5 lights which should arrive in the mail sometime around 10:30am. Here are some pics of my progress of setting it up. This is the empty tank sitting on the stand. Yes. I managed to get it up there all by myself. It was really heavy, but I was able to manipulate it by getting the end up first and then raising the rest up. For leveling I put two boards underneath. This also ensures that the front and back rims of the tank are securely supported as otherwise it would not have fit. Thankfully I had those boards laying around from an old tv stand I used to have. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g1.jpg Tank shot showing the live sand. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g2.jpg Close up of the live sand. Pacific Black Reef. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ckreefsand.jpg Foggy tank shot. Thankfully it is clearing up bit by bit. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g3.jpg Tank shot tonight. Water is getting clearer. Once I get more rock in there tomorrow I will update with more pics. For now though all my fish are happy with the new room they have, especially my clownfish. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g4.jpg |
looks like you're off to a good start
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Thanks. I am just happy all my fish are really enjoying it. I am getting the 30lbs more live rock tomorrow from a guy in my area who is taking down his one tank, so I am hoping I get some good hitchickers with it. I asked others how his stuff was and they all had good things to say.
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Looks great!
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Looking forward to the 90gal upgrade thread ... what, we all know how upgrades go ... :razz:
Looks great! |
Ok. Here is a quick update with the new lights and 30lbs of live rock added in.
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g8.jpg Closer front tank shot http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g5.jpg View slightly from the right side showing the added caves. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g6.jpg Left hand side of the tank showing the space I left back there for the more shy fish to hang out. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...0Reef/55g7.jpg |
Everything is progressing very nicely in this tank. I took some more pics tonight especially since I was feeding my sun coral.
Under the atcinics: Blastos http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...toatcinic1.jpg Candycanes, Zoas and Suncoral http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...esatcinic1.jpg Cleaner Shrimp and GSP frags http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...eratcinic1.jpg Duncans http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...anatcinic1.jpg Frogspawn frag http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...wnatcinic1.jpg Front Tank Shot http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ic05-16-09.jpg Suncoral Feeding Time: Before http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../suncoral1.jpg Using the top half of a 2Litre pop bottle to protect the coral and food during spot feeding. I use a mix of all frozen saltwater medly, brine shrimp and baby brine shrimp for the new baby heads appearing. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...alfeeding1.jpg This Nassarius snail was adament he was gonna get something to eat. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...alfeeding2.jpg He succeeded at it too! http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...alfeeding3.jpg After feeding http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...alfeeding4.jpg Suncoral looking much nicer and happy now! http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../suncoral2.jpg and finally one of the scissortail gobies poking it's head out of one of the small caves on the left side of the tank. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...rtailgoby1.jpg |
Ever wonder why people would want an urchin?
Here is the answer; http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...lgaeurchin.jpg And after he was done that spot. All nice and clean: http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...rchinafter.jpg Once the other powerhead is done, it is on to this one next. Oh and you can just make out my BTA in the back right corner there. Happily sitting in his favourite spot away from the T5 lighting. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../rightshot.jpg Feather Caulerpa growing nicely in the sectioned off back left area of the tank. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...eef/macro1.jpg Couple close ups of one of my SPS I am thinking may be a tortusa. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...Reef/tort2.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...Reef/tort1.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/tortosa2.jpg Acro SP. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ef/acrosp1.jpg This Acro is starting to encrust back over itsself. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...acroregrow.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../acrogrow2.jpg Zoa Garden again http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...agarden1-1.jpg Octo Frogspawn doing very well now. It likes the spot it is in. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...Reef/octo2.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...Reef/octo1.jpg Pods have significantly increased and there is no where I look where there aren't any. If things continue that way, I may consider a red mandarin goby. The damsel is still being submissive to the other fish and has began to pick at the algae growing rather than eating the fish flakes. He remains to be fat and happy. He has a new territory around the skimmer intake and outtake (which the later I need to develop some s piping to reduce microbubble issues). The baby Onyx are doing very well. It is a pain in the derier though to keep cleaning the breeding net. I am going to get one of those plastic critter keepers and drill small holes in it. I think with a little cleaning magnet it will help and the clowns will be big enough then not to slip through. Of new hitchhikers I have with this tank there are 8 brittle stars, spaghetti worms. I have also been following along with the baby tubo snails I have had. There are still 2 of them in there and they have continued to grow steadily. The sun coral has a bunch of new mouths growing on it. One of them is orange which was an awsome suprise. I would like to get a black sun coral eventually. My Metallic Green BTA is happy in his spot on the top right corner. It doesn't seem to mind the water changes, when the water level goes down and then back up. So as long as it is happy, so am I. Future plans for the tank: - Red Mushrooms - only 1-2 to start they can do their thing on their own. - Torch Coral frag - Hammer coral frag - SPS frags, for which I will hold out for an Oregon Tort. - Black sun coral - Firefish Goby - Mandarin Goby (big maybe) |
Looking good! Gorgeous Percula! Have you been monitoring ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate during the move?
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Yes I have definately been monitoring all of that since the move, especially since I expected a soft cycle with the new live sand.
As of June 2nd, my perameters were the following: Salinity: 1.025 Ammonia: 0 Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 Calcium: 380 (touch low for acropora, but didn't want to start adding extras in yet.) Alkalinity: 4.5 meq/l PH: 8.3 I am checking my perameters about once per week the day before doing a water change. When I first did the change over there was a small cycle where the nitrates got between 5-10 but that was expected. |
Here are some more pic updates from today.
The red mushies are nice and happy now. They finally attached themselves to a rock. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...edmushies1.jpg The acro is doing great. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...eef/sps1-1.jpg This big hermit likes bugging my candycanes. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...tincandies.jpg Blasto is finally developing babies. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...astoshroom.jpg My MGBTA has finally (i hope) selected a permanent home. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../btahappy1.jpg Here is a sequence of pix showing me feeding my MGBTA silversides.NOM NOM NOM NOM.... http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/btafeed1.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/btafeed2.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/btafeed3.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/btafeed4.jpg And finally I got the set of blue LEDs in the mail today that I won on ebay. They make perfect moonlights and only cost me $35 Canadian, shipping included. They are made up of 4 connections of 3-led beam bulbs each and are waterproof. The Metallic Green BTA http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...oonlights2.jpg Frogspawn and Duncans http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...oonlights1.jpg The front tank shot. In person the leds do not look that bright, but the camera setting I use lets more light in. I had a closer up shot of the red mushies under the Leds, but it was too blurry, but the red really pops out under these too!! http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...06-24-2009.jpg |
Got some new inhabitants today.
First thing is the juvi picasso. They are grade B (right now), but have yet to develop their tail bar. My guy is just beginning his. I can't believe the difference in colour between the picasso and my Onyx. My Onyx are much more red by far. As for the baby Onyx. There is also a pic here of the larger one showing the mid-stripe from the bottom. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...uviclowns1.jpg Branching hammer frags behind the frogspawn. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...r1-07-2009.jpg Octocoral frogspawn colony. This guy is really nice looking with the green tips. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...o1-07-2009.jpg Dendro frag. The size of this guys heads put those of my sun coral to shame, but super awsome colour. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...o1-07-2009.jpg The red mushies are getting larger and larger by day. I put the 3rd one over with the other two when I made room for the new LPS. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...h1-07-2009.jpg Coco worm. He is in there, but just not used to having fish swimming around him as of yet. I hope he will come out and stay out after a couple of days. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...m1-07-2009.jpg |
I have some new pics now to add.
This acro is continuing to encrust over the dead portions. I don't know what type it is, but when the actinics or moonlights are on the polyps glow green. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...07-28-2009.jpg This acro, which I am thinking is a tri-color valida or Cali Tort (other side has green flourescents). It is slowly deepening its' purple colouring. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...07-28-2009.jpg Right tank shot from today. My BTA is happy, Octo frog extended out again and on the mend. The hammer and branching frogspawn are happy, and the red mushies are doing well. I also moved a set of candy canes over to this side of the tank as there is a little less flow there. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...07-28-2009.jpg Here is my larger baby clownfish Omen. As you can see his mid-bar is coming in nicely and is surrounded by black. It appears even on both sides and I am hoping it doesn't misbar. Also, the black around the head-bar is thicker. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...07-28-2009.jpg My smaller baby clown, Runt is slowly developing his mid-bar. As you can see now, it is larger than a pin head and developing on both sides. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...07-28-2009.jpg Here are all 4 of my clowns so you can see the size difference. Omen is now at the size where I could release him into the main tank if I wanted to, but I'm not..... yet. I am arranging to set up a 25g reef flats tank and will be putting the Picasso and Runt in there. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...07-28-2009.jpg Finally, my FTS for today. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...07-28-2009.jpg |
Well now that I have a new computer I am slowly getting things reconfigured but at least I can start to add pics again. Here are a couple and in a few days after I do a water change and clean out the baby onyx's pen I will add more pics.
Happy hungry BTA http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...08-20-2009.jpg Frogspawn with flash under blue leds http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ggy08-2009.jpg Blue/Purple mushroom with 2 babies http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...08-30-2009.jpg Here are some comparison shots. Duncans way back when I first got them in January 2009 with only 4 heads. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...t1/duncan1.jpg Duncans now with 24heads http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ads08-2009.jpg Back in May http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...eef/sps1-1.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...Reef/acro3.jpg Purple acropora: Now extremely purple http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...08-25-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...08-25-2009.jpg |
Well I went to Toronto and picked up some SPS from a fellow hobbyist from another site. Nematoad. Some may know him here, he goes by another name, shrimp something, but I cannot remember it right now.
I have to say I am very happy with my purchase. He kept them in his tank after cutting them for a couple of weeks to ensure they were well healed before I got them. When I brought them home I did a quick water change in my tank of only 5%, temp acclimated the sps and put them in. Within an hour the polyps were extending on all of them. These are all nice healthy frags. (These are the quality of frags a certain seller should be giving to people ...) So here are some before and after 1 hr pics. Dendro http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...dendrohead.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg MontiCap http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../monticap1.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg Digis http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...-19-2009-1.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg Green Slimer http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/newacro1.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg Bottlebrush http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/newacro2.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg Here is my cleaner shrimp checking over the frags. He went through all of these and was finished with them in less than 5 minutes. He is my first indicator on whether or not a coral or frag received is healthy. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ingnewbies.jpg and here are a couple other pics of stuff in my tank too. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg This guy is really starting to regrow now. Sorry for the crappy pic, my fish are camera whores and kept getting in the way. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg |
Ok, time for an update, it has been a few weeks.
I have finally removed the container from my system and let my baby Onyx's roam free within the tank. My main reason for doing this is because I believe the container was leaching phosphors into the tank since right after the cyano algea started going haywire. So now with the container removed and I have reduced my lighting to 6hrs a day right now with water changes it has started to disipate. I have to get new chemi-pure this week and I am going to buy seperate activated carbon to help out as well, I am at my 6 month mark for them. So here are some pictures. Duncans http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Frogspawn in actinic http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ggyactinic.jpg The MontiCap has healed fully now. You can see the green flourescents in the actinic shot. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...capactinic.jpg Digis are doing nicely. The purple tipped is really purple now and the orange polyp has green and blue skin, and not brown underneath. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...gisactinic.jpg These zoas are super troopers and have overgrown a couple places where aiptasia had taken root. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...oasactinic.jpg Red Mushie under actinic http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...hieactinic.jpg My regrowing acropora. You can finally see the green colour coming through. Any idea of the name? http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Suncorals and Dendros http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...droactinic.jpg Finally Pics of my baby clowns. Some are blurry some similar, but they show them free in the tank now and I think they may finally be developing colour. I have been very lucky that neither of my 2 larger clowns, Big Momma and Jigsaw, have been overly aggressive towards the babies. I think that is mainly due to the fact I kept them in the container within the same tank so they could see each other. They all keep to opposite corners of the tank from each other. Big Momma and Jigsaw have paired up together. They make their hourly rounds and check in with the babies making sure they submit to them, but there has been no fin nipping or other unneccesary roughness. On another note, my blue damsel doesn't seem to give a crap about the babies being lose in the tank. He doesn't bother them what so ever, even when he is among them trying to score some food. Runt http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Runt and Omen http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Omen: It is not a very clear picture, but I used it to show that I think this is the darkening of the skin just before the black coloration starts coming in. I am keeping my fingers crossed. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Omen, Jigsaw and Runt: Jigsaw doing his hourly duty and checking up on the babies. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg |
Everything looks great. Keep up the good work.. How about a FTS?
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Your not at all worried about your "big buck" clowns killing each other in the same tank? I would be.....
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Now the one thing I had been informed, which helps, is to always keep your clowns in pairs and they will be less likely to fight. Now if I had only one baby in there, there would more of a change for the male to take out the other male and there seems to be some good research to support this. Either way, just in case, I do have a 25g set up just in case. A think the success factor also came by keeping the babies within a container in the same tank, so the other two clowns were able to see them all the time over the last 5 months, and the younger clowns would do the submissive dance to them through the container. In the wild, clownfish have tendancy to live in groups within a large anemone with one female, one male and a bunch of unsexed adults. I think within our aquarium standards, it depends on the size of the tank a person has and how the new fish are introduced. Most hobbyists get their fish as adults and introduce them that why, however I think if you can get your hands on baby fish, less than an inch and raise them yourself within the same tank where the other fish can see them and not feel threatened by them, then there is a much higher chance of survival. |
I agree. There is the off chance that they will start to fight when they get older but I think its more likely they will be ok with each other. You'll have 1 Female 1 Male 1 unsexed. As long as they tolerate the unsexed guy you will be fine.
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Well, there will be two unsexed ones in there..
So I went up to Jim's today (fortyfathoms) and got some stuff, I have even had a homicide in the tank already.. shown below. Here are the pics. Bengaii Cardinal: This guy is smaller than Omen, at 1.5 inches http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg I bought two peppermint shrimp to help take care of my aiptasia issue. They quickly became an expensive snack for my cleaner shrimp. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg Ultra Crocea Clam. Approx 3". http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg Elegance Coral: Several shots as it expanded. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/elegance.jpg Mandarin Goby. Looks like Red with green strips. He has already been going around the tank and pouncing on pods, so here is hoping he gets fat. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg Mid-tank shot http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg |
Also got a rock with a couple Xenia frags and a small colony of Zoas on it. There is also something on it that is bright flourescent yellow. It looks like it could be sponge. Whatever it is, it isn't moving.
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg Then the Zoas from the left side of the rock. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg New Front Tank Shot http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg |
My mistake.. You have 4 clowns? I lost track sorry :) I've never heard of cleaners killing peps before.. Interesting. I'm going to Jims Saturday do you want me to pick you up another one?
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No thanks, but I appreciate the offer. Now that I know the peppermint is killing the peppermints, I am gonna have to get AiptasiaX to use.
The stupid shrimp actually killed both of the peppermints I got today.. I had never heard of cleaner shrimp killing peppermints either and they had both been doing fine in my system and had started picking at the aiptasia, but didn't make it 3 hours before the cleaner had them. Grr. But at least I love the elegance and mardarin I got.. At least the like of those is overriding my distain for the cleaner shrimp right now. |
Nice pickups! The clam looks great. I've been waiting on a Crocea shipment here, but I keep missing out on them :(
My peps have always been killed by my cleaners - I have one and I*think* it's still alive. Previous to that I've tried twice and the Cleaner was always really agressive towards it. The yellow thingies look like sponges :) |
Thanks.. if you can't get clams there, you should make the drive to gananoque.
Jim has different sizes in right now. The size mine is he is selling for $48, he has slightly smaller ones for $38, Large for $60 and Extra Large for $100. They are all really nice super blues and greens I was drooling. The elegance corals he has up there too are really awsome in coloration. He also had lots of picasso clownfish, some naked clowns, b&w clowns in too. My mom was trying to convince me to buy a b&w clown and I had to keep telling her "No". |
I think you should buy a bunch of B&W Clowns :)
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LOLZ.. If I can ever afford to upgrade to a much larger tank... say a 125g... then I will buy a pair of black clowns from you.. :P
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Well it has been over a month without any updates. I have continued to have some highs and lows but things are all working themselves out now.
Lost a few heads of candy canes... but not all of them. I managed to clean off some of the algae from the back of the tank.... what a pain in the arse.. I don't know how some people keep it so clean.. within a few days though the algae was growing back. So I made an order, and got myself some Phoseguard by Seachem, the 500ml bottle. Used about 3/4 of it and put it in the AC70. Within a week I have noticed a reduction in the bryopsis, but the hair aglae (which I have less of) is still going strong.), but I don't mind the looks of where it is in patches right now. I have started dosing for Calcium and Alkalinity. I am using Kent Tech A & B, in addition to Kent Coral-Accel. The later two I am dosing 6ml each, and 10ml of the Accel. Within the first day of using this, I noticed all my SPS seemed sooo much happier. Polyp extension noticeably imbroved and so has color. The baby clowns are still doing good. They are getting a little more harassed now that I put my Koralia3 back in this tank to get more flow. I am now up to 48x. Elegance is still doing nicely. My large female clown still is testing it out for hosting. Took me a month to even get some decent shots of her buried in it. So to the pictures: (Note: All these shots are taken with flash so you don't get the nice flourescent colors of the corals like you otherwise would see... :( ) Omen is still growing and is almost the size of Jigsaw the picasso now. I would say less than half an inch difference. As you can see though, he still hasn't developed the Onyx coloration. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Big Momma checking out an Asternia Star. I have 2 of these in my tank. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Stripes, the Bengaii Cardinal (sorry for the crappy pic.. camera focused on the green algae spots and not the fish) has gotten larger now and no longer hides from the other fish. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Hermit Pile http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Green Bottlebrush, taken with flash... has been encrusting very nicely. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Unknown Acro front side, the polyps end out more now than they used to since starting to dose. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg The back side of the same Acro, showing there is new growth of branches starting. woo hoo. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg This Acro really extended it's polyps after. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg GSP is liking it's new spot at the front right of the tank. Close up shot. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg |
Coco Worm
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Dendros and my Clam, who loves moving himself around in a semi cirlce all the time. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg I finally got some more epoxy to put the purple digi in place. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg I lost one stalk of Xenia, but it left some material on the live rock where it was, so I am hoping it will grow back there. The other stalks seem ok for now. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg The MontiCap has really grown out and is shooting off to the right a little more. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg The Elegance coral, Big, expanded and happy, even with an intruder. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg I had been trying for a long time to get pics of her when she was testing out the elegance, but every time I even tried to move from the couch before she would stop what she was doing and come to the front of the tank looking for food. Tonight, she didn't do that, so I took the opportunity to also get a video while I could. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...h_100_3407.jpg Enjoy. |
Looking preety darn good man....you may want to re-think your use of "phosguard".....it contains aluminum, which irritates a lot of corals....a better choice would be one of the GFO based products like "rowaphos" etc.
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Thanks for the compliment. It is certainly coming along now.
I was in a pinch for the phosphate remover and from the stores available closest to me.. Phosguard was pretty much it.. but I will take a look for the GFO stuff. I am just thankfull my corals are all looking better now. I am going to need to replace some clean up crew soon though, and most definately get an emerald crab or two... Bubble Algae is popping up everywhere. |
Just some more pix.
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-20-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg Duncans are doing well. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg Moved the pink zoas from the one rock to the front area where the other zoas are. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg |
OK... I was going back through my pix and I realized there were a few corals I had which are officially a year old. My Duncans and Zoas which has grown nicely since I first got them so I decided to put in a month by month of the pix.
Duncans: Growth without direct feeding Jan 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...t1/duncan1.jpg April 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ncan-04-09.jpg May 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...anatcinic1.jpg Aug 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...ads08-2009.jpg Sept 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-08-2009.jpg Oct 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Dec 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg Jan 27, 2010 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg Radioactive Dragoneye Zoas Jan 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...1/greenzoa.jpg Feb 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...het1/zoas1.jpg Aug2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...08-20-2009.jpg Sept 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-08-2009.jpg Oct 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...oasactinic.jpg Dec 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-25-2009.jpg Jan 27 2010 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg |
Also I wanted to show the growth progression of the first 4 months of the sps I got from Nematoad.
Digis Sept 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...09-19-2009.jpg Oct 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Dec 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Jan 27 2010 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg MontiCap Sept 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../monticap1.jpg Oct 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-18-2009.jpg Nov 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-02-2009.jpg Dec 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Jan 27 2010 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg Green Bottlebrush Sept 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/newacro2.jpg Oct 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...10-22-2009.jpg Nov 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-02-2009.jpg Dec 2009 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...12-19-2009.jpg Jan 27 2010 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg |
Then a couple various other pix I took.
Omen http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg Runt http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg Spot http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg Jigsaw http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg Baby nassarius snail with Purple chiton piggybacker. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg Unknown red branching macroalgae http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-27-2010.jpg |
02-06-2010 Pix:
My Clam http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-06-2010.jpg Big Momma and Jigsaw http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-06-2010.jpg Hermits http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-06-2010.jpg Cleaner Shrimp http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-06-2010.jpg Starry Blenny: He's already been going around nipping at the algae in the tank. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-06-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-06-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-06-2010.jpg |
Time for more pix.
Blenny cleaning up nicely.. in the FTS you can see where on the back of the tank. New skimmer breaking in nicely. Microbubbles getting smaller and fewer. Fish don't seem to care. Dosing some Tech-M to help with bryopsis.. some corals started coloring up when I started doing this.. just following directions on bottle and dosing 12ml twice a week. Moved my Crocea clam from the sand bed.. where he was attached to the bottom of the tank to the rockwork instead.. He was a little PO'd at first, but shimmied a little bit and took to his new spot. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg This pic looking down on the same clam... just shows how more intense the green is. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg Quarter Inch more growth on Purple tip since last month. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg Zoas looking happier and coloring up. I even tore off a frag to trade with someone in ONT. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg Skimmer with the drain going back in the tank, as per the instructions, for the first 2 weeks until it breaks in and starts to accumulate skimmate. Thank god for the drain, otherwise I would have been standing constantly at my tank emptying the cup for these 2 weeks. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg FTS, where in the back you can see where the blenny cleaned. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-16-2010.jpg |
More pix... because I love taking them.
Zoa frag under actinics http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Zoa colony with flash... these guys are getting nice and bright. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Unknown Acro#1, is branching out more in the back, but you can definately see here the improvement in the polyp extension. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Runt is still growing slowly, but strongly. He sticks to around the Koralia pump for safety. His tailbar is still coming in. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Omen is growing slowly too, and as you can see here his mid-bar is now touching and on the verge of merging soon I hope. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg GSP under actinics http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Dendro head http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Green bottlebrush under actinics http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Unknown Acro#2. This one has really started to grow in the last week or so. The last two pics of it with the white tips show the actual growth. The polyps are extended really nicely as well. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg Lastly my digis under actinic.. my red digi is awsome red.... love it.. I am so glad it is growing more now. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-26-2010.jpg The Remora is just about done breaking in... Since I dose in my tank I am giving it an extra week to break in since I didn't want to stop dosing during the breakin period. Mrs Blenny... which I am gonna name Sam the Eagle anyways.. continues to decimate the hair algae. The combination of the blenny and Tech-M supplimentation has really helped to control this, rather than just using Tech-M and raising mag to 1500. This seems a more natural solution and my corals are loving it. |
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