Nebthet's 56g Reef

[Nebthet]

LOLZ.. If I can ever afford to upgrade to a much larger tank... say a 125g... then I will buy a pair of black clowns from you.. :P

[Nebthet]

Well it has been over a month without any updates. I have continued to have some highs and lows but things are all working themselves out now.

Lost a few heads of candy canes... but not all of them.

I managed to clean off some of the algae from the back of the tank.... what a pain in the arse.. I don't know how some people keep it so clean.. within a few days though the algae was growing back.
So I made an order, and got myself some Phoseguard by Seachem, the 500ml bottle. Used about 3/4 of it and put it in the AC70.
Within a week I have noticed a reduction in the bryopsis, but the hair aglae (which I have less of) is still going strong.), but I don't mind the looks of where it is in patches right now.

I have started dosing for Calcium and Alkalinity. I am using Kent Tech A & B, in addition to Kent Coral-Accel. The later two I am dosing 6ml each, and 10ml of the Accel.
Within the first day of using this, I noticed all my SPS seemed sooo much happier. Polyp extension noticeably imbroved and so has color.

The baby clowns are still doing good. They are getting a little more harassed now that I put my Koralia3 back in this tank to get more flow. I am now up to 48x.

Elegance is still doing nicely. My large female clown still is testing it out for hosting. Took me a month to even get some decent shots of her buried in it.

So to the pictures: (Note: All these shots are taken with flash so you don't get the nice flourescent colors of the corals like you otherwise would see... )


Omen is still growing and is almost the size of Jigsaw the picasso now. I would say less than half an inch difference.
As you can see though, he still hasn't developed the Onyx coloration.


Big Momma checking out an Asternia Star. I have 2 of these in my tank.


Stripes, the Bengaii Cardinal (sorry for the crappy pic.. camera focused on the green algae spots and not the fish) has gotten larger now and no longer hides from the other fish.


Hermit Pile


Green Bottlebrush, taken with flash... has been encrusting very nicely.


Unknown Acro front side, the polyps end out more now than they used to since starting to dose.


The back side of the same Acro, showing there is new growth of branches starting. woo hoo.


This Acro really extended it's polyps after.


GSP is liking it's new spot at the front right of the tank. Close up shot.

[Nebthet]

Coco Worm


Dendros and my Clam, who loves moving himself around in a semi cirlce all the time.


I finally got some more epoxy to put the purple digi in place.


I lost one stalk of Xenia, but it left some material on the live rock where it was, so I am hoping it will grow back there. The other stalks seem ok for now.


The MontiCap has really grown out and is shooting off to the right a little more.



The Elegance coral, Big, expanded and happy, even with an intruder.






I had been trying for a long time to get pics of her when she was testing out the elegance, but every time I even tried to move from the couch before she would stop what she was doing and come to the front of the tank looking for food.
Tonight, she didn't do that, so I took the opportunity to also get a video while I could.




Enjoy.

[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.