280g Inwall

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Looks great Tony, although the photos could be bigger

Get some GFO in there, I don't care what they say about zeo, sometimes that schuff just don't get the job done.

Im on board with Christy here, I think GFO will work some wonders for you.

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[michika]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Wordy update with tons of pics please.

Bonus points if you use 'pheasant balls'.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by michika

Bonus points if you use 'pheasant balls'.

What Tony lacks in balls he makes up for with eloquent prose. Now where is he?

[michika]

Originally Posted by lastlight

What Tony lacks in balls he makes up for with eloquent prose. Now where is he?

Driving the long trek between the north stores and his homebase in the Deep South? <-- My phone demanded deep south be capitalized to emphasize its very south-ness.

[Delphinus]

It takes me half an hour to drive to or from work which is an 8km distance. I hate driving in this city. And before someone goes all "well it's worse anywhere else, you should try Vancouver" I would counter with a "well, this is not Vancouver. We're not nestled right IN the mountains, and there is no ocean anywhere nearby. In fact most lakes in the vicinity are fake. I am reasonably certain that saying 'Calgary' is a Scottish word is a cover story and the real story is 'Calgary' is a Cree word that means something roughly translated as 'not even the trees live here willingly and yes it is going to take way to long to drive anywhere here'." That's what I would tell them.

Anyhow, I had typed in a nice reply with pictures but when I went to preview it I got the "Your token has expired" error. Pressed back and poof, there it was, the empty text box with all my typing effort nicely wiped out of existence. So I typed in "LOL, I got the 'Your token has expired' error message" and pressed submit and AGAIN got the "Your token has expired." Ahhh vbulletin, you quaint little piece of software, you..

Let me try to remember all what I typed in now and try again ... le sigh.

[Delphinus]

Adding GFO has been overall a positive move for the tank. For now, I still continue with the Zeovit regime but I don't really think it's doing a whole lot for me.

The downsides to GFO is that in the way that I'm using it, (just one cup's worth in a TLF150 Phosban reactor) it has to be changed out weekly. If I let it slip beyond a week, I notice a difference in the tank.

Even at only changing out 1 cup per week, the cost of GFO has been a bit of an eye opener.

As far as corals go, some things do really well for me. I have had a bit of bad luck in the past few months and have lost a handful of more finicky corals, which I hope to get around to replacing at some point.

Red Planet is one that seems to do well for me. I love this coral. I wanted a red acropora for so long, probably close to a full decade before I ever found one, and the irony is when I did find one, it turned out to be one the most resilient and faster growing corals I've ever seen .... which if you think about it is rather unusual for a coveted piece like that. Usually the favourites are the ones that grow the slowest and are the first to RTN or STN if something so much as hiccups in the tank.

Here's one side of it.


Blastos being another favourite of mine, here are 2 that seem to be growing well for now:


My Rose split a little while ago and one of the daughters has been "bubbling" up like a new anemone. We all know this is a fleeting thing so it's worthy of a picture:


(... plus I just did the overall placement with the clam and the corals all around it.)

And here are some fish:

[BlueTang<3]

Looks good you got a nice collection of fish there

[lastlight]

The stuff you did show looks like it has great colour man. I hear you on the cost of gfo I sorta wish I had my 5g pail of hc kicking around still. It would last me the rest of my reefing career!

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Anyhow, I had typed in a nice reply with pictures but when I went to preview it I got the "Your token has expired" error. Pressed back and poof, there it was, the empty text box with all my typing effort nicely wiped out of existence. So I typed in "LOL, I got the 'Your token has expired' error message" and pressed submit and AGAIN got the "Your token has expired." Ahhh vbulletin, you quaint little piece of software, you..

so quite being so cheep and put more tokens in

I would rather drive in cow town any day than vancouver though, even victoria is getting horable. what used to be a 20 min drive home for 15km, is now taking people 45 min and up. now kamloops I like. rush hour just adds 3 min on a 18km drive, so now it takes 15 min to get home from down town

oh the tank is looking good also, but what about a FTS?


Steve

[Delphinus]

I can't do FTS photos. I try, but they end up being very out of focus with no real discernible details. I thought maybe I could try a panoramic/stitch once, but after cropping and resizing it ended up being the same effect. Except that I had ghost fishes. Not sure what the trick is but I'll keep trying in the meantime.