Christy's 180 build

christyf5 · #1 03-12-2011, 04:41 AM

Haven't had much time for the tank lately. I bought a matted filefish to take care of the majanos, he didn't do much and only ate mysis. I gave him a couple of weeks to get interested in them but decided I'd bought yet another "dud" fish and went ahead and bought an Aiptasia Zapper from Oceanic Corals. It worked pretty well, I figure about 50% of what I tried to kill stayed dead, I don't think I was zapping them long enough. I left the tank yet again with no time to deal with it and by the time I did have a few spare minutes to zap a few more I couldn't find a single majano in the tank. The filefish had finally discovered those tasty morsels. He won't have anything to do with the aiptasia though so I had to take matters into my own hands. All the accessible ones are dead but there are a few lurking in hard to reach spots.

Other than that, I'm still battling cyano, story of my life. Got a few pics of the tank snapped with my cell phone. First camera to actually accurately capture the colors. Not too shabby. Anyway heres the pics:

My computer is crashing so I'm hitting the submit button. More later

freezetyle · #2 03-12-2011, 05:20 AM

looking good Christy!

reefan · #3 03-12-2011, 02:49 PM

Yeah nice tank you got there

Lance · #4 03-12-2011, 04:12 PM

Wow! Pretty good growth since I saw it last; filling in nicely. Keep up the good work Christy.
On a side note: Two months between updates? A tank that nice must be shown more often. Sheesh, you'd think you're spending all your time changing diapers or something.

christyf5 · #5 03-12-2011, 04:44 PM

Thanks guys!

Yeah Lance, it takes me a few weeks to get the photos off the camera card and onto the computer, then a few more to get them onto photobucket, then a few more to remember to post them here. Its an exhaustive process

Skimmerking · #6 03-12-2011, 04:51 PM

the tank looks great wish I was closer

Lance · #7 03-12-2011, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by christyf5

Thanks guys!

Yeah Lance, it takes me a few weeks to get the photos off the camera card and onto the computer, then a few more to get them onto photobucket, then a few more to remember to post them here. Its an exhaustive process

Ha! Just giving you a hard time. I'm not too bad updating tank pics, my bad is getting to some of the maintenance chores.

In the second pic there is an orange coral that looks kinda like an encrusting Monti, growing right beside some Rics, just to the left of the Wrasse's tail. What is it? It can't be a Monti or the Rics would be killing it.

christyf5 · #8 03-12-2011, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Lance

Ha! Just giving you a hard time. I'm not too bad updating tank pics, my bad is getting to some of the maintenance chores.

In the second pic there is an orange coral that looks kinda like an encrusting Monti, growing right beside some Rics, just to the left of the Wrasse's tail. What is it? It can't be a Monti or the Rics would be killing it.

Oh I know you're just yanking my chain but sometimes its amazing how long it takes to do the most simplest of things these days

Those would be red mushrooms, they're the most red mushrooms I've ever seen although they look kind of orangey in that photo. Thank god they've confined them to that small area instead of spreading like my orange ones.

PoonTang · #9 03-12-2011, 06:02 PM

Tank looks great! and im glad to hear about the Mojano's. Mabey the Filefish will take an interest in the aptasia now that they are all gone. If not its a good excuse to get a CBB.

kien · #10 03-12-2011, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by christyf5

Haven't had much time for the tank lately.

I can't tell that the tank has been receiving less attention, it still looks great! Those colonies are big and healthy, cyano and majanos be damned!