Nebthet's 56g Reef

[fishytime]

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.

[Nebthet]

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.

[Nebthet]

Just some more pix.









Duncans are doing well.


Moved the pink zoas from the one rock to the front area where the other zoas are.

[Nebthet]

Profile of Runt showing him just starting the development of his tail bar.



Profile of Omen showing as the mid-bar develops more the black is thickening around it. Hopefully, this is the development of the Onyx coloring.





My silly baby clowns have taken to hosting some GHA for now. Thankfully they do not stay in it all the time.



Had a nice suprise in my tank the other day. Baby Nassarius snails. I saw two at once and then caught a pic of this one yestarday.




VID of babies hosting GHA.

[Nebthet]

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


April 2009


May 2009


Aug 2009


Sept 2009


Oct 2009


Dec 2009


Jan 27, 2010



Radioactive Dragoneye Zoas
Jan 2009


Feb 2009


Aug2009


Sept 2009


Oct 2009


Dec 2009


Jan 27 2010

[Nebthet]

Also I wanted to show the growth progression of the first 4 months of the sps I got from Nematoad.


Digis
Sept 2009


Oct 2009


Dec 2009


Jan 27 2010




MontiCap
Sept 2009


Oct 2009


Nov 2009


Dec 2009


Jan 27 2010




Green Bottlebrush
Sept 2009


Oct 2009


Nov 2009


Dec 2009


Jan 27 2010

[Nebthet]

Then a couple various other pix I took.

Omen


Runt


Spot


Jigsaw


Baby nassarius snail with Purple chiton piggybacker.


Unknown red branching macroalgae

[Nebthet]

02-06-2010 Pix:

My Clam


Big Momma and Jigsaw


Hermits


Cleaner Shrimp


Starry Blenny: He's already been going around nipping at the algae in the tank.

[Nebthet]

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.






This pic looking down on the same clam... just shows how more intense the green is.


Quarter Inch more growth on Purple tip since last month.


Zoas looking happier and coloring up. I even tore off a frag to trade with someone in ONT.



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.


FTS, where in the back you can see where the blenny cleaned.

[Nebthet]

More pix... because I love taking them.

Zoa frag under actinics


Zoa colony with flash... these guys are getting nice and bright.


Unknown Acro#1, is branching out more in the back, but you can definately see here the improvement in the polyp extension.


Runt is still growing slowly, but strongly. He sticks to around the Koralia pump for safety. His tailbar is still coming in.


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.


GSP under actinics


Dendro head


Green bottlebrush under actinics


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.




Lastly my digis under actinic.. my red digi is awsome red.... love it.. I am so glad it is growing more now.


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.