My 29g Reef - former AP24.

[Nebthet]

So here is a pic of what is left of my Xenia now. 24hrs after I cut the tops off.




The tops are not flat but have rounded themselves out and have become stiff again instead of flopping over. I would have figured if it was going to continue to deteriorate it would have over the last 24hrs. Also the colour is coming back.

Do you think it will survive okay? or am I giving it false hope? Has anyone else had this sort of issue with Xenia before?

[Nebthet]

Well I have some updated picks today. I got some frags off of a local guy who was selling them from his tank.


Front tank shot



Hammer and little green zoas on right.


Close up of the Green Zoas


Atcinic shot of the green zoas.


My Xenia, with small new heads starting.



Orange and Brown Zoa


Candy Canes and my peppermint shrimp behind.


Atcinic Shot of the Candy Canes and Orange/brown zoas.


Mushroom Garden


Another front tank shot.


I have a small toadstool in there too but I wasnt able to get a decent pick of it. I will try again later.
Enjoy

[Nebthet]

Here are the rest of the frags and one heck of a large piece of live rock with GSP on it that I had to split up with a hammer and chisel to make room for it. It gave me 2 good sized colonies, some small frags and a nice clam was growing on the underside, with a couple Paly's.

The amount of rock with it also took me up over 20lbs of rock in my tank, so that is good for filtration. It also gave me some rubble to work with for the filter system.

I performed a 12% water change after finishing adding everything in there since the water was mussed up, and I have extra water prepared to do continual small changes through out the next two weeks to help with the bioload and doing frequent testing of the parameters.

My next purchase wont be until February sometime, when I get a small BTA, black sun coral and two clownfish.

Here are some pics.

Front tank shot without flash.


with flash


The clam. I have no idea what type it is right now. Anyone have any ideas?


More Candy Canes


Another shot with my peppermint shrimp


Blasto Merletti with the Toadstool behind it.


Peppermint checking out the GSP as soon as it was in place.


On my next day off work I am going up to the hardware store to find some egg crate and acrylic so I can change from the stock lighting to the 130 watt PC's I have. I just have some other rearranging to do first on another project I am working on.

Please let me know what you think.

[Nebthet]

Some more updated pics for the New Year.


FTS showing the removal of the Aquapod stock hooding and replacement with the Odyssea 130w pc with 12,000k bulb, atcinics and moonlights.
It is sitting on top of a 0.220 thick piece of Acrylic panel cut to fit in the shelving space (due to my stupid cats to keep them from falling or trying to drink the tank water... )
I was prepared wit egg crate to use as well, but have found it unnecessary with the acrylic.


Atcinic wit flash FTS


The Hammer all happy as usual. He has grown 1.5 inches back over his skeleton towards the back of te tank as I was hoping when I put him in that spot.
You can see the colour and density of the GSP on the lower left.
A red hermit is sitting beside the clam shell. It shot out a nice pile of crap just as I was taking the pic.
The Xenia on the shell as you can see has come back nicely and it is pulsing happily now. There are several seperate stalks forming, but they are small yet.


Lastly, a close up image of the Blasto Merletti. It as plumped up realy nice and has started touching the rock it is butted up against. I am hoping that in time, it will start growing over the rock.


I am waiting for an order of 3heads of Aussie Duncans, an Acropora Nano frag and an Acropora Suharsonoi frag (which is a deep water Acro) to come in. I thought I would give the Acro's a try with the higher, newer light and placing them closer to the surface of the tank and since fragalot.com has an awsome boxing week sale going on right now where all of these were only $10 each + $45 shipping. I went for it. Of course I will have plenty of pics to show when they come in.

Let me know what you think.

[Nebthet]

Ok.. time for me to add more pictures.

Mr. Xenia is doing very very well. It is up and pulsing vigorously again and getting larger by day.


Blastos and tiny zoa frag in it's final home where it is being less distubed by the hermits.


Beware De Claw!


Nummm nummm nummm nummm


Feeding Frenzy



Check out what I found!!
Baby Snails!!! Nassarius and Turbo!


There is the one by the bubble algae in this pick


I think I am gonna have to name my tank Love Cove or something with the way these suckers keep spitting out babies, whether they survive or not.

[Nebthet]

I finally got my 3 frags in from fragalot.ca today. Not their fault.. Paypal takes forever to let a bank payment go through.

Here are the two Acropora Frags I ordered.
The one in the background is suppose to be Acropora Nano (though it doesnt look like it). and the one in the foreground is Acropora Suharsonoi.


The next pic is my Aussie Duncan (Duncanopsummia). It was only suppose to be 3 heads, but lucky me I got 4.




They had really fast shipping. These 3 frags only cost me $30.. lol.. the shipping cost me more.

They have another $10 frag sale on right now too.. They have some nice stuff and will be ordering from them in the future.

[Nebthet]

So I was out doing some grocery shopping today and other things and I stopped in at Shane's Aquarium Emporium checking to see if they had an MJ1200 and to check prices on other things.

They had a super cute black frogfish in there.. but I dont want to spend $50 on him and it wasnt in my tank plans. They also have an eel in there. very cool.

So in the one tank there was this lone tiny damsel in there hanging in the corner not doing much of anything. I felt bad for him.

I had been reading a few things and weighing my options on what to ad and not to for the passed couple of months and how I wanted to do it. I have come to a final decision on what I want to stock my tank with.

- 2 Onyx clownfish (true perc variant)
- 1 firefish goby
- 1 Damsel: I was gonna go with a neon goby but for $10 I went for the damsel.

I wanted to test my system to see if flow was good on how the parameters would change with fish livestock additions and I wanted to go slow on that. So, the damsel has become my test subject.

All is well so far. In at Shane's he want as bright. He was more of a dark blue dull colour. After acclimating him and putting him in my tank he is now the normal bright blue.

Here are some pics.



Here it is checking out his now favourite cave/tunnel system


Damsel just coming out of the Peppermints cave.


and two front tank shots.