Dougs Reef

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Looks great so far. No issues with the two kinds of shrimp together? I thought fire shrimp were supposed to be be fairly aggressive with sharing territory?

Not that I have seen Tony. That pic obviously was a cleaner, which I have fixed now. I have two fire shrimp, 2 cleaners and 2 peppermints. Have never seen any aggression. The do have their own sections for hanging out but at feeding time, are usually together chasing down food.

[Doug]

Thanks guys. Just need more corals now.

[Doug]

Lobo,s I believe Mike told me.



Green brain



Red brain



Some form of hairy mushroom



An iMac,



Now how did that one get in there.

[Doug]

Ah crap, forgot to resize them to 800 by 600. Hope all looking have large screens also.
How come once posted they cant be edited for size. I went back to PB and resized them, then deleted the link during edit and pasted the new one from the PB edited version and the pics stay the same here????

Although I think they look purdy when large.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Doug

Ah crap, forgot to resize them to 800 by 600. Hope all looking have large screens also.
How come once posted they cant be edited for size. I went back to PB and resized them, then deleted the link during edit and pasted the new one from the PB edited version and the pics stay the same here????

Although I think they look purdy when large.

They look fine to me, sometimes it takes a bit for various servers to catch up.

[christyf5]

Looking good Doug. Why is that skimmer still in the box? No love I tell ya, no love!

Nice lobo, we hardly ever get them around here. Oh and what are you using for bulbs? I'm liking that blue

[Doug]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Looking good Doug. Why is that skimmer still in the box? No love I tell ya, no love!

Nice lobo, we hardly ever get them around here. Oh and what are you using for bulbs? I'm liking that blue

Ya I know. What the heck good is a nice skimmer like that in a box in the corner. My old Coralvue is skimming pretty good but I will get around to it.

The bulb is a 14k 150w HQI. The Lumenmax 3 pendant is the difference maker in my opinion. I have ran that version bulb is a couple different fixtures and none looked as good as in this pendant.

I also believe the 150w electronic Galaxy is driving it brighter than my HQI type ballast, which I think is backwards ?

[Doug]

Cant believe I did that. Added sand to my tank yesterday. May get a pic today. My Rainford goby is happy. He does not have to sift the detritus build up anymore.

Cant say Mrs. clown is similary pleased. Even though I left their area in front of their house and baby making area clean, she is still determined to move it all around. Mind you, she has basically only seen a bare bottom in "her" tank, most of her nearly 8yrs.

Now, I need stupid sand clean up creatures. Hmmmm!!

[Doug]

My new SWC sump. Has fresh water reservoir on right side, float switch and pump. Nice and solid. Black silicon.



SWC 160 come skimmer. Absolutely dead quiet. Easily adjusts and cleans. Impressed so far.



Closer collection cup pic. 2 days since last cleaning.