Christy's 180 build

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by fishytime

I for one would love to have a piece of your.....um .....digi:, Christy

Pretty hard up these days eh Doug? Have you tried eharmony.com?

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Pretty hard up these days eh Doug? Have you tried eharmony.com?

it shows that much huh?
but, Canreef is my eharmony....what better place place to find someone with the same interests?

but seriously, if logistics ever allow....I would love to get a frag of it from ya.

[christyf5]

Been awhile since I updated this thread. Green slime is mostly gone, cyano still hanging in there in a couple of spots. I just siphon it out when it gets really annoying.


Got some new photos today

Todays FTS



New addition: Powder Blue Tang. I had one previously in the tank but he was a little bastard to new additions. Solution, send him off to a new tank and add a new one last. Well last tang anyways (and don't hold me to that). He's super mellow and guess what? He has ick! No way you say? Yes way, I know, shocking. Course everyone else has it too so when you see it in the photos, don't be too surprised.





I have yet to see him eat what I offer. He fills up on algae though, no lumpy gut or anything.

Course everyone else wanted to get in on the photo action:







Clams are growing nicely


The others look like hell as they're still being snacked on. I've ordered an autofeeder to feed the Fat Bastard (aka regal tang) during the day so hopefully he'll lose his taste for clam mantle.







My version of the Purple Monster. Its not authentic so I call it the Purple Monstrosity




Early to bed, late to rise makes a fish....lazy. My wrasse sleeping in his sandbed

[kien]

Is that your Melanarus sleeping in the sandbed?? Mine is the first to bed as well. He calls it a day about 8:10 on the dot! 10 minutes after day lights out and doesn't even partake in the evening feeding frenzy of frozen food goodness which happens at 8:15. Plus there's still a good 2 hours of light left .

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by kien

Is that your Melanarus sleeping in the sandbed?? Mine is the first to bed as well. He calls it a day about 8:10 on the dot! 10 minutes after day lights out and doesn't even partake in the evening feeding frenzy of frozen food goodness which happens at 8:15. Plus there's still a good 2 hours of light left .

Yep thats him. He heads to bed around 9:30 or so. He gets up early on sunny days as there is enough light coming through the nearby window for him to wake up to but on days it rains/cloudy he waits until the first MH comes on

[Delphinus]

My canary wrasse goes to bed around 7:30- 8:00 too. No idea what he's cueing on for time because there are no light changes around then. Internal chronometer alone I guess.

[Dez]

I came home today at 5pm and I asked my wife whether she saw the Hawaiian flame wrasse and she said "I don't know" then I proceeded to look all around the floor and in my stand to see if she jumped. I ended up finding my Solarensis wrasse that "disappeared" quite a few months ago all dried up. I was quite frantic at this point and fed some "frozen goodness". Out she comes from under the sand and has supper and swims around for about an hour and then heads "back to bed". Is this normal for wrasses to be lazy?

[no_bs]

Beautiful tank Christy. Comming along very nicely.

[christyf5]

So this week I went on a bit of a killing spree. And I enjoyed it! Does that make me a bad person??

The tank has been pretty neglected lately, and by neglected I mean I do all the usual waterchanges, skimmer cup cleaning etc but not much looking other than to feed, count the fish, make sure they are all fat and then move on. Suffice it to say when I actually looked at it there are frigging majanos, aiptasia, flatworms, bubble algae and brown wafer algae all over the place.

Enough of that crap. I broke out the flatworm exit and used almost the whole bottle on the tank. Die you stinking flatworms! Who knew there were that many on the tank, I kind of laughed at the instructions "Do not underestimate the number of flatworms in your tank". Yeah thats for sure, they were dying in droves! I thought I had siphoned most of them out. Apparently not

Next, aiptasia and majanos. I mixed up some superconcentrated Aiptasia Destroyer and went to town on them. Some are pretty difficult to get as they're growing on an angle so you can't really pile on the solution (I like to make little Matterhorn mountains on top of them for good measure). I think I blasted most of them. I even put some of the solution on patches of brown wafer algae just for fun. Works like a hot damn. Unfortunately I'd take out my tank if I attempted to get all the wafer algae.

As for the bubble algae and the rest of the brown wafer algae, I've decided to get back on the FM Ultralith system. Even though I thought it was a pain in the arse measuring all the solutions (why can't they make little pumps for them, one pump = 1ml or something?) it did do a great job of eliminating almost every algae present in the tank the last time I used it. Well, except for the dreaded caulerpa which seems to be impossible to get rid of

Some new acquisitions from the frag swap

Lobophyllia from Terry


Gorgonian from Anthony


Sea whip from Anthony


Fancypants montipora from Chris


Marshall Island Acro and Hot to trot cyphastrea (I can't remember what it was called so I made that up) from Ron


And some new acquisitions not from the frag swap





And just because I love it so and its growing like a weed. My pink lemonade MINI COLONY!!!!



And when I got it last October (funny I thought it was longer than that)



I can grow SPS! Who knew!!??!