Paddy's Ocean - 70 Gallon Mixed Reef **Phoenix Rebuild**

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by reefwars

glad to see things are looking up, looks like your on the high side of calcium but its going down so thats good news

And again... no dosing at all since set up....50 pounds of rock and only a couple corals right now so not much to suck the elements out of the water yet.

We will see soon.

[paddyob]

My powerheads came today.

One each....Koralia 2 (600 GPH) and Koralia 3 (850 GPH).


SUBSTANTIALLY more flow ha ha!


Hopefully I have lights soon.

Cycle is going well. Had some detectable ammonia on Tuesday but it was still in the same zone. In two more weeks I should be adding fish from my 20 gallon.

[paddyob]

So just a quick comparison of how the tank has progressed. One picture is how the last owner had the tank looking... the second is how it looks today.



How it looked before I came along….




How it is today….





I personally think it has come a long way and is looking fantastic! I am so excited for this to finish coming together! (Does it ever come together? Or is it constantly evolving? HaHa!)

[paddyob]

So I added a Tail Spot Blenny last night and a small CUC (10 margerita snails and 10 blue leggers).


prices were very good at Red Coral Edmonton.... .99 cents for snails and crabs ( NICE!!!) and the tail spot was $24.... cheaper than online so I cold not resist. The tail spot is gonna be mad at e when I temporarily move is home to add more rock but I know he will forgive me when I drop mysis in ha ha!

[Wayne]

WOW the tank is coming along so well! What a transformation between before and after! That filter sock was pretty nasty looking

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by Wayne

WOW the tank is coming along so well! What a transformation between before and after! That filter sock was pretty nasty looking

Thanks! And I am so far from done!!!!!

[paddyob]

So I am still waiting for lights. I have a small light over half my tank as I acquired not one... but TWO beautiful RBTAs from Kona (Jason). These are absolutely amazing in color and they bubbled right up after they hit my tank.

Very bright red. I added my clowns and I am hoping that with the RBTA in there, and nothing else to distract them, that they will take to one of them.

They have a habit of hosting my frog spawn and bubble.... so why the hell should they ignore this beauty?!?! I hope they don't. I ma going to try some of the things people have posted in the past about hosting tips... picture on glass of clowns hosting or the flower pot.

Time will tell.

I also threw a couple more zoa colonies in as I am slowly moving stuff from my old 20G into here and if I can add some now... then when my light arrives it will not be such a huge chore.

Anyhow... I will try post pics of the RBTA later. Again they are beautiful... definitely a future show piece!

[paddyob]

Well awaiting lights but here are some things going into the tank....

Rose Bubbletip Anemone (Thanks Jason**Kona)
Acan Lord
Red Frogspawn
Green Bubbble Coral
Red Chalice (frag)
Favia (red with neon green mouth)
Montipora Capricornis (red)
Montipora Capricornis (neon green - frag)


countless Zoa and Paly

I am most likely adding GSP to the backside of my rocks as it is a swim around aquascape. I will let the GSP grow over the back to add dimension as opposed to putting something "nice" back there.


I have some more stuff.... but not sure what I am going to add.

This is a start and once my lights show up I am going to have a whole bunch of fun!

Patrick

[paddyob]

Soooo my Ocellaris finally started to host something asides form a bubble coral or frogspawn.

I set this tank up... and added the clowns and RBTA within days of each other. No action. I added a picture to the side of my tank with an Ocellaris hosting an RBTA and now 3 days later.... HOSTING!!!!!


This is the first time they ever took to an anemone!!! No I can add other corals with the hopes they stay in the RBTA forever!!!!


WOHAHHAHHAH!!!! Good day after all!!

[paddyob]

My lights will be here tomorrow! Its been a long wait but its finally time to shine! ha ha ha!