Ska's 28 Macro Algae Display

[skabooya]

The film doesnt bother me in the least. Its mostly bubbles anyway. If i dont dose and my macro go pale/white the film nearly goes away. Id rather have a healthy livestock than worry about looks on the top of my water. Im not interested in buying a surface skimmer. Meh.
My tunze hob skimmer does a pretty good job as is. I have it on the lowest setting so it leaves more "junk" in the water for the macros to thrive.
The fish and shrimp are doing amazing. Ive been very lucky to get such good stock. They have huge personalities too.
Now i want to get a coral beauty.. but im hoping it wont eat my nice macro algae or munch on the softies im going to get. Yikes. Makes me think about another fish but not much else interests me.
6 lines are nice but ive read too many controversial things about them.
Yasha goby i LOVE but geez are they expensive.
Yellow tail blue damsels i LOVE but i would want a group and my tank is too small for them.
I just dont know hmmmm

[skabooya]

Got some corals in yesterday from hockey nut. THANK YOU.
1 multi coloured ric
3 rhodactus shrooms
1 green spot shroom
1 ice blue clove frag
1 pink zoas
1 purple gorg
red macro
Im in love.
I will take pics when everything is happy and has coloured up. But so far it looks pretty good
Thanks again.

Im seariously considering this to be a mushroom tank now with lots of macro of course. No LPS.
Im still looking for blue shrooms and rics (im in love with rics so pretty much any colour is fine by me), Yuma, cloves, different kinds of macro, feather dusters, zoas but not many.
specifically looking for red with blue dots (superman) dioscema mushroom

for livestock im thinking of either a group of gobies or a coral beauty (afraid it will eat my macro) or maybe both. hmmmm

[skabooya]

Alright im putting pics in early. Some items like the ric are still closed up but it still shows its colour

[tang daddy]

Great start Vanessa, I bet you must be happy to get your tank filled with corals....

I have hit the floor running and havent looked back. the only limiting factor for me is space argh!!!!

[skabooya]

thanks. it was like chistmas. i even finally let my husband take Logan in the stroller so i could walk out of the airport with my box of coral. This is going to be it for quite a while because we are spending about 50,000 on house renos for the outside of our house (roof, windows, siding) it NEEDS to get done for safetys sake.

[skabooya]

i am so ****ed off!!!
this morning i fed 2 clowns. about an hour ago i went to feed the corals ... guess what only one clown. i tore everything apart trying to find him. the whole room is a mess and i found him between the stand and bookshelf about 2 feet off the floor stuck to the side of the stand. i had to use a sheet of paper to scrape him off. he was dry with eyes sunken in.
he was 27 freakin dollars and super healthy.
to top it off my almost 3 month old is teething; super screamer, and i lost his soother. nothing is calming him down.
i havent even gotten dressed yet. im still in my tank top and undies since 5am when logan woke up.
geez what a horrible day.

[skabooya]

Alright so i'm calmer now lol.
Im making plans to build a screen for the top of my tank. I was also strongly considering going invert only yesterday too lol

Im thinking im going to make the screen/cover in two pieces. One for the front of the tank and one for the back. The light in the middle will have nothing under it. Its sitting just over the water and spans my entire tank. No gaps at all for fish to squeeze out of there.

Im going to use polypropaline netting if i can find it for the front of the tank. I will string it to window screen frame if i can find that too. This way its light enough for me to remove for whatever i need for the tank. It also looks nicer too.

The back part of the tank is going to be an issue. I have a HOB Tunze 9002 and a few wires coming out the back corners of the tank. I would need a mesh that is sturdy enough for me to cut holes in it just big enough for the skimmer cup to fit and the wires to fit without it sagging. I will obviously need to build a frame for support but i will need something skinny enough to go in between the skimmer cup and my lights. There is very little space there and i need something that is not flammable.
I was thinking of using rigid plastic mesh and a plastic rod... maybe PVC im not sure yet as the frame. Im not worried about the back looking gross. No one is going to see it. It will need to be easily removable as well so i can clean the back glass.

Next time i go to the lfs im going to look for another clown... I hope the clown i have now doesnt kill the new one.
Im also strongly considering a 6 line wrasse.
I would also like to get a couple of hermits and a skunk cleaner.
I wouldnt mind a goby either or a dartfish but they arent carried much by our lfs and im worried the 6 line will attack and kill it.
We shall see though.