terry's 25g starfire cube. new pics jan 30/10

[The Grizz]

not sure about that as mine are kinda hiden but if they are coco's they should, keep your Ca up.

[simplycoral]

They are Vermetid Snails Terry..

They can be a real pain if they multiply and the mucus netting they secrete to catch food can be irritating to corals and hobbyist..

Plug the end with putty like i do and they will soon die.

Regards,

Simon..

PS.. Tank is looking great

[the marine apprentice]

ok awesome thank you simon. i really need to get some of that putty you guys all speak of. i wouldnt mind using it to mount some of my coral on the rocks. im sick of them falling off all the time.

[The Grizz]

I have some of the putty Terry. And thanks to Simon as well good info from some one who's know's his stuff.

[the marine apprentice]

right on greg ill have to try that stuff out see how it works

[the marine apprentice]

so i was sittin at my desk today looking at my tank and cruisin around on canreef reading peoples journals and what not, and saw something in a journal that i liked and i thought to myself that yeah i could build that and then some.
so i went down to my work room in the basement and found my big tupperware box of plumbing supplies, found my drill and a 1/8" drillbit and went back up into my office to brainstorm.
I ended up having a whole bunch of half inch pipe and fittings that i had gotten a few months ago for a failed attempt to a closed loop system that did not impress me at all, and i started building a substructure for my tank, i feel like an idiot cuz i never got a picture of the structure before i got carried away and put it in the cube.
the reason i had the drill and bit out was to drill about 25 little holes into the substructure as i had a maxijet 1200 plumbed into the bottom of it for extra flow.
the whole project took me about 2 hours and a few cranky corals, and confused fish.
it was totally worth doing because this is by far my most favorite aquascape i have done in the cube yet.
the reason i am kinda rambleing along is because i am waiting for photobucket to hurry up and download my new pictures i took for this.
thanks for reading and i hope you like.
terry




i love starfire glass

new rock work


and yes another one of my rics.

cornershot front and right side

cornershot front and left side

[bauder1986]

Totally cool. Even though I live with this guy I still enjoy reading this thread

[the marine apprentice]

so when the lights came on this morning, yes i actually got to watch the halides come on today i was up early haha. everything is still in place and not knocked all over the place other then one frag of zoas. which will be puttied down as soon as i get a tube of that stuff.

[lorenz0]

tanks looking good. i really like the orange florida ric

[the marine apprentice]

thanks dude, yeah they are my fav in my tank i think.

so the new flow i have in my tank is doing wonders for my frogspawn, plus i really like the way the rockwork turned out