mseepman's 16" starfire nano

[mseepman]

So today after much debate over the last few months I got an urchin (tuxedo) which I hope will help tackle my algae problem. I spent some of the morning epoxying down any loose corals and then picked him/her up in the afternoon. I'm acclimating it now so I will try to get pictures tonight or tomorrow.

Got the fingers crossed that it might help.

[Myka]

That's not a bad idea. If all else fails the urchin will do well in your 70.

[mseepman]

Well, here's my new little Urchin buddy. Hopefully he does what I've read elsewhere on the net and mows down all my algae.


You can see that ugly red stuff all over the rocks above him in the pic.

[Myka]

I have my fingers crossed for you!

Say, how's your 70 doing? I don't think you have a journal for it do you?

[mseepman]

Hey Myka, no I don't have a thread for my 70G tank. I didn't even know about this site when I started that tank. I've included a few pics in the FTS thread but not much more.

The tank is doing well. I'm still struggling with some algae on those two acros tips but hopefully my change to dosing will help in the long run.

As for my urchin, so far, he's ripped some algae off to use in his camoflage, but I don't see any eaten yet. Not sure how fast that happens so maybe I'm just being impatient.

I will try to get a FTS of the nano with my wife's camera tonight. It is an A640 so it has more range, including controls over the aperature...which my camera doesn't.

Don't uncross those fingers...lol..

[mseepman]

Well after suggestions from a few people I thought I would put a picture of my 70G tank up since I haven't done so in a long time.



I originally wanted to change over from softies to SPS with the odd LPS but now I'm in a holding pattern until my new tank is started (roughly a 280g) where I hope to have some softies at one end (low flow end) and SPS at the other end.

[fishytime]

looking goooood there Mark....a 280g huh?....theres a bit of a jump