Magic Kiwi's Tank Journal Thread

[Magickiwi]

Check out the tents on this torch coral:



That's a full grown cleaner wrasse in front of it. Here's a picture of the first month I had him:

[Magickiwi]

Does anyone read these??

So this weekend was a good and not so good for my 90g reef tank. On Friday night I bought two golden head sleeper gobies (one for my tank one for my daughter's), two PJ Cardinals, and a small Copper-Band Butterfly. The Copper and the PJs weren't really a great buy as the copper and one of the PJ's didn't even last 24 hours. They wound up getting picked off by something during the night and they are gone without a trace.

Also went to Golds and got two corals and a rock with macro algae. You would not believe the amount of red worms I got off them when I dipped them. I bought a white bubble coral as well as a peach and baby blue acropora. The acropora was clean but the bubble had at least thirty red worms come off in the dip. I left it in for extra long and blasted the rock with a syringe to make sure that the dip got into all the crevices etc. Also sprayed the coral but more gently. The rock with macro was covered in worms and slugs as well. I pulled off seven large slugs, an emerald crab (freebie woohoo!), three blue-legged hermits, three or four unknown snails, and some sort of polyp (looked like an anemone). Of course it was infested with worms too. The dip looked like a worm collector when I was finished.

Right now they are in a QT and I'm going to dip them again before they go into my DT. Pictures to follow.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

Does anyone read these??

I don't.

[reeferfulton]

I read them i read lots but rarely post

Nobody seems to reply on build threads either much lol .

Sound like you got alot more then you paid for lol . They should include a free bottle of dipping solution with each coral they sell lol .
Hopefully you you got all the bad pests ..
Good luck , sorry to hear about the fish lost . Your store have any policy on survival ?

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by reeferfulton

I read them i read lots but rarely post

Nobody seems to reply on build threads either much lol .

Sound like you got alot more then you paid for lol . They should include a free bottle of dipping solution with each coral they sell lol .
Hopefully you you got all the bad pests ..
Good luck , sorry to hear about the fish lost . Your store have any policy on survival ?

Yes, Pieces has the SOL policy with regards to fish purchases. (Marine fish only that is) The copper did OK for a little while but deteriorated pretty rapidly. Quite the disappointment because I've been hoping for one for some time now.

Kien: You don't even read your text messages so why would you read a tank thread? :P

[kien]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

Kien: You don't even read your text messages so why would you read a tank thread? :P

whatever. I read ALL my text messages (unless they're from Brett).

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by kien

whatever. I read ALL my text messages (unless they're from Brett).

OK but replying isn't actually part of the process. I sent you a txt about a couple purple-tip frogspawn a few weeks ago now. Wanted to give you firsties!

[kien]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

OK but replying isn't actually part of the process. I sent you a txt about a couple purple-tip frogspawn a few weeks ago now. Wanted to give you firsties!

you must have sent that text to the other (fake) kein, because I didn't receive any texts from you !

[Madreefer]

Good thing you dip your corals? So you're shutting off your overflow at feeding time to prevent the food from getting sucked down or?

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Good thing you dip your corals? So you're shutting off your overflow at feeding time to prevent the food from getting sucked down or?

Yeah, I have a 30min feed cycle on my Apex which shuts down my wave maker and return pump/siphon during feeding. I was feeding a mix of BBS, dried plankton, and cyclopeeze. They ate here and there and picked at the snail eggs on my tank walls etc.