Greg's 75g

[gregzz4]

I'm waiting for the rubbermaid water to warm up, so .... more pics

The GFO is running. I moved both reactor outlet lines so they go through the socks and maybe some will even get into the skimmer. There's still all the room I need to easily change the socks too



Here's one of the kinds of sponge that survived the cooking - the white ball that looks like an urchin



And today I spotted some mushrooms that I thought were only coralline
They are purple in this pic. Looks like about 8 or so
Bad, bad picture

[gregzz4]

I'm really happy with the LR I bought from TaioneReefer. He let me pick through two different tubs and his smaller SW tank. Lots and lots of coralline, lots of Tonga, lots of nice shaped base pieces too and it's light, porous rock. Great guy. Thanks Kevin

If you're lookin' for LR, you'd best contact him soon. He still has a lot of great pieces left - some huge ones too

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=85705

I filled my rubbermaid and then had to 'scape the 20g QT too 'cause I bought way too much for one rubbermaid !!!
Looks like I can't buy any fish this week now until I get the rock out of the QT. But that's OK as now there may be some seeding going on in the AC50
Later, probably this coming weekend, I'll put as much as I can in the sump and decide what to risk in the QT

So far there are loads of micro brittles, and some asterinas, amphipods, tube worms/feather thingys, mushrooms, some sponges and also a bunch of some kind of polyps spread out
Also lots and lots of coralline

I gave everything a quick RO dip and managed to pull out what was left of some live Fireworms that he missed. No biggie - it's LR so it's expected
No crabs to be found and, unfortunately, no bristle worms. Ce La Vie

Great find - way more life than the LR I got from the LFS that someone traded in

I transfered a few micro brittles to the DT but I'll leave the Asterinas for now

So, as I stated earlier today, I'll watch the rubbermaid LR this week and if there's no spikes and no PO4, I'll load up the sump.
The wife already has her eye on a couple small pieces to add to the DT as well

And, 'cause Photobucket seems to be endless ...

The rock is not green, it's just my camera

[gregzz4]

Micro star ( like no one's seen them before )



Mushrooms on Kevin's rock. There's lots more - probably over 1/2 dozen I can see



Are these tube worms the kind that grow in your sump and such when there's too many nutrients ???

[gregzz4]

Nothing exciting here. Just trying my hand at a youtube thing
Here's the chaeto tank in action

http://youtu.be/B3B2yIX97-4

[Nano]

looking good Mang.

I could be wrong but if your using the chaeto fuge to grow pods as well, the flow might need to be a bit slower

[gregzz4]

I'm not overly worried about pods yet but that's a good point
It's funny you mention that as I'm still kinda fine tuning all the flows and while it may be a lot for the chaeto I'd still like to have it rolling some
Each time I turn it down I have to adjust the drain rate so it's a slow process

[gregzz4]

Things are lookin' up

Diatoms started a couple days ago, so the cycle isn't stalled. Nothing out of control to speak of, just some here and there. I wonder if all the snail poo has re-started the cycle - hmm ...
All DT params are great. Nothing to measure except a trace of NO3

Last night we started seeing copepods all over the glass and now they are visible daytime too. This makes me happy. They must have come from the chaeto

We now have 5 astreas, 12 margaritas and 4 red scarlet hermits. All are busy cleaning the rock and giving us something to watch.
I installed the red moonlights today, on a 1 hour timer, so we can watch stuff after the lights go out

Waiting to put the new LR in ... probably this weekend
I won't say the rock is ready by any means, but now is the time to mess the tank up
Today's readings, in 9g of water, are NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 1+ and PO4 1-2 ish

I don't want to wait another month or 3 curing the rock in a tub, so into the system it goes

And something funny to me ...
I turned my back on the DT for about 5 mins, after watching the hermits for awhile. I come back and one of the dudes has gone from the extreme left rock pile to the extreme right one. He's pickin' away at another hermit, they get quite close for a min or two, then he leaves. The other hermit carried on afterwards, so no harm.
He had gone down the tower of rock, across 3 feet of sand, up another tower of rock and straight to another hermit.
Only conclusion I come to is mating

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Nano

looking good Mang.

I could be wrong but if your using the chaeto fuge to grow pods as well, the flow might need to be a bit slower

I ended up having to keep the flow where I had it
The chaeto wouldn't tumble otherwise and I'm not overly concerned how it will affect the pods as it's just motion, not flushing
If the pods can't hang onto a ball that big, they deserve to end up in the DT