30 gal cube frag tank

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by soapy

What are you doing for the staghorn hermit? Are you going to target feed it?

My son and I bought one of those silly staghorn buggars too. I am target feeding the shell frozen cyclopeeze. My sandbed is pretty healthy and full of life but I suspect it will be pretty tricky to keep the shell alive. Your thoughts?

im not doing anything, nor did i plan too... as far as I have read a long as you have an established tank, good flow(nutrient delivery) and lighting good enough for sps you should be good. I target feed some corals but moestly broadcast feed cyclopeez.. mine are doing ok, one has bumbep up against an acan, shell damaged, not surprised..

[soapy]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

im not doing anything, nor did i plan too... as far as I have read a long as you have an established tank, good flow(nutrient delivery) and lighting good enough for sps you should be good. I target feed some corals but moestly broadcast feed cyclopeez.. mine are doing ok, one has bumbep up against an acan, shell damaged, not surprised..

Thats good to hear. You mentioned lighting are you suggesting the bryozoans or hydroids on the shell are photosynthetic? Would be nice if they were.

BTW, the tank is looking good!

[Roskoreef]

montastrea





rainbow acans colouring up















true oregon blue tort... this little 1" nub is all thats left from a large frag i got a while ago, installed a prayer reactor just for this acro.



this is my new favourite coral for sure, a scroll coral...







acros love this tank now..

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by soapy

Thats good to hear. You mentioned lighting are you suggesting the bryozoans or hydroids on the shell are photosynthetic? Would be nice if they were.

BTW, the tank is looking good!

Thanks! , I only mentioned lighting as alot of what i read kept mentioning similar conditions for sps... They are not photosynthetic, and only filter feeders of plankton... i might start adding some powdered phyto, see what happens.

[Roskoreef]

version 3.0

changing this tank up a bit, going black sand and lps moestly. A few fish including my birthday present from my fiancee - green seagrass wrasse (Novaculichthys macrolepidotus).

New tank inhabitants:

Redspot blenny - Blenniella chrysospilos
green sea grass wrasse - Novaculichthys macrolepidotus
ocellaris clownfish - Amphiprion ocellaris
fiji blue damselfis - Chrysiptera taupou
2 random damsels..
purple reef lobster
snails
strwberry crab

added a new skimmer, a coral box d500 - chinese ripoff. worls great, very happy!

pics,

















teeph

[FishyFishy!]

Did you happen to pick that seagrass wrasse up at pisces? I saw a nice one there last week, looked identical.

[lyall12]

Nice pics. That wrasse is cool.

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

Did you happen to pick that seagrass wrasse up at pisces? I saw a nice one there last week, looked identical.

sure did, it was biting one of the employees, i found it pretty funny. nice fish tho, eats a ton and does not bite me.

[Roskoreef]

well the seagrass wrasse crackered himself.

got a clam and a leopard wrasse, re-did the sump and equipment a little bit, currently running UV, Bubble magnus 3-channel doser, coral box 500d skimmer and a gyre 130. Lights are 7 24w t5's, all sunbright individual AIO fixtures. 6 kz bulbs and a lagoon bulb.















high fin anthinas finally came out

[FishyFishy!]

What do you use to mount corals to the glass? Ive always wanted to mount some monti's like that on my back wall.