Grizz's 8' shallow sea

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Polscot

your tank is gorgeous man, my nano is only a year old and my other is in the process of a transfer, can i ask u how you keep your sand so white? mine seems to look like crap lol does it just come with time or do u have alot of sand sifters

Well not all of it looks that good I know for sure that I still have 1 sand sifting star but there should be 2. Also have an orange spot sand sifting goby that move's and cleans sand ALL DAY LONG. He lives under the rock that is covered in GSP so I move it around once in a while to different parts of the tank.

I would like to have some more sand stars and a blue spot goby but don't think the orange spot would behave.

[The Grizz]

Short update: Have not had time to re-do my rock but everything seems to be happy and healthy. Zoa's are growing like crazy, branching hammer has some new heads growing out nice, galaxy coral is super bushy. The only thing that is weird is my GBTA has moved under a rock and wont come out. Once I have this huge project down I will get the tank back to the way it should be.

[The Grizz]

New additions added last night from a trip to Calgary:

Yellow Coris Wrasse



Mandarin



Red Star ( I think that is what it is called )



Red Knob Star



RTBA and the rock it came on

[The Grizz]

I have changed some of my bulbs to see if things get better as far as growth and polyp extension. Took out my Figi Purple and Super Blue and replaced them with some 12,000K bulbs I have never used.

So now I have a mix of Coral Lite 10,000K, Oddyssea 12,000K and New Gen 14,000K. If it looks like things are improving I will pick up some new / better quality 12,000K bulbs as the Coral Lite and New Gens are only a few month old.

Looking at getting a controller, not sure of what kind yet but it will either be an APEX or Reef Keeper. Picking up a NextReef reactor for pellets from BW and going to convert both my TLF 150's to run carbon.

Grab some ZeoVit additives from Red Coral Calgary as well.

[othicx]

they look good, I might just have to come out and see them

[The Grizz]

Or just come out and hang the xmas lights that my wife has been trying to get me to do for the last month but to busy, she is so ****ed at me ATM.

[Triggz]

Hey Greg! Nice new additions...you might want to keep an eye on that red knob starfish though. They are not exactly "Reef safe". They have been known to eat soft corals, clams, other starfish, etc...

Cheers!