My First Tank (56K = rake some leaves) *updated*

[Delphinus]

How big is your main tank?

[Richer]

Its a little 30 gallon

-Richer

[muck]

Originally Posted by Richer

Sure! Pictures to come when I get home from work =)

-Richer

You home from work yet??

[Richer]

Sorry, today was a 12 hour day. When I got home, I found a 3 foot long box sitting outside my door and I got all excited. By the time I remembered to take a pic my lights were off. I will try to remember for tomorrow!

-Richer

[muck]

no worries, just seen you online and decided to razz ya...
when ever you get a chance.

[Richer]

Well, since you like my photography skills so much...
Here's a pic of what was inside that 3 foot box.



Enjoy

-Richer

[muck]

Looks like VHOs and MHs. (I think...this darn computer monitor is garbage, everything is so dark.)
Nice, no wonder you were all excited.
Id be all over it like a fat kid on a smartie.

[Richer]

Just for you muck



The colours are a bit different compared to the other shots since I have MHs over the tank now.



A picture of my ghetto light rig, notice the WH7 ballast on top of the rig and the wiring on the right. My MH ballasts are sitting on top of a sheet of aluminum (left over from a computer mod I did) which sits on top of a piece of plywood on top of my water res.

-Richer

[muck]

Originally Posted by Richer

Just for you muck

Thanks buddy. Looking good btw!

[Richer]

Some updates on my tank:


As you can see I rearranged my rocks a bit. In doing so, I think I ****ed off my clowns.... particularly the dominate one. It just sort of laid down on its side, spazzed then pretended it was dead . Of course, everything was back to "normal" as soon as food hit the water... crazy fish
Oh... and if you haven't noticed, I've got a lot more algae on my glass than I did last time I took a picture... just when I thought I was done with the outbreaks, they come back laughing at me. Its not too bad though, my algae blenny (whom I'm still trying to get a picture of) and my two astrea snails are slowly making a dent in it.


Some zoos that I got off of Bob_I (zoo #3 I believe). They look nice under MH lights and even better when only my actinics are on.


Shortly after I dropped off a green digitata frag for Jim, I found this accidental frag in my tank. It must have broken off when I was holding the frag. A bonus for me I guess . Its suppose to be bright green, but I guess my lights aren't good enough... so its a light tan colour with a slight hint of green.


This is the bundle of green zoos that I found blowing around my tank. Nothing a bit of superglue gel didn't fix These green zoos came from Jim.


Here's another zoo I got from Jim. After the green zoos popped off the rock, it gave me the opportunity to seperate this zoo from the green ones. Once again, I got this one from Jim.


I got this bunch of green and red/yellow zoos from Jim. Does this guy's generosity ever cease!?



A couple shots of the xenia in my tank. So far they haven't spread anywhere... but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'm trying to get them to move onto a couple pieces of LR rubble so I can stick them in the middle area of the tank. Hopefully relocating them there will prevent any of kind spreading problems I might get later in the future.


Apprently, this is the only mushroom that survived the water flow in my tank. I believe Patrick had originally given me 3 of them. Initially I thought I had lost all three of the shrooms given to me due to my water current... but after moving around some rubble a few weeks ago, I found this. It looks great under the atinic lights.



A couple shots of the monti cap I got off of Canadian Man. One with clown, one without . Its been doing great ever since I got it... the pinkish edges are all new growth.

Thanks to Canadian Man for the digitata and montipora cap frags, Jim for the green, yellow and red/yellow zoos, Bob for zoo#3, Patrick for the mushroom, Harvey for the xenia, and Beth for picking up the zoos from Bob.

-Richer