24 gallon Aquapod (lots of pics)
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Reef-Emperor
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I was wondering where can I find the bulkhead? I can't find it anywhere or maybe I'm looking right at it...lol?
Thanks!
Thanks!
icenine2005
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..I got the bulkhead from foster and smith.
Here is a quick pic of some of the suns out... 'scuse the refelction.
Here is a quick pic of some of the suns out... 'scuse the refelction.
Reef-Emperor
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Did Foster & Smith change their return shipping method? Because I don't understand how some of you get replacement products without paying to ship your bad products back to F&S first??. The reason why say this is because I have recently recieved a defective light and I sent them e-mail and they said I have to PAY to ship it back to them before anything happens??? Was I suppose to get a pre-paid return shipping label or something?? None of this makes sense, simply because you have to pay even more money to get a replacement product from them! What was your answer from them and how did you recieve your replacement?
Thanks Everyone!
Thanks Everyone!
icenine2005
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It probably depends on what it is. The only return I've had to make to them was the pod(s). They sent me a pre-paid tag to fed ex it back to them... but cosidering there were some "issues" with the packing and shippiong of the 24 gallon pods those first few months that may have been an exception.
..it can't hurt to call and ask them fora pre-paid shipping lable. Worst case they tell you why they won't give you one.
..it can't hurt to call and ask them fora pre-paid shipping lable. Worst case they tell you why they won't give you one.
beautiful Tank.
I was considering getting the same tank but before I ordered it I decided to do some research on it. That's how I stumbled upon your thread, after reading this and seeing those pics I ordered it immediately. But you really seem to know what your doing as far as feeding and water changes are concerned. I only hope I can do that good of a job. I would also like to upgrade the gph in the tank like you have. is there any way to get a picture of the rear of the tank to really show the modifications you made by adding another pump?
I was considering getting the same tank but before I ordered it I decided to do some research on it. That's how I stumbled upon your thread, after reading this and seeing those pics I ordered it immediately. But you really seem to know what your doing as far as feeding and water changes are concerned. I only hope I can do that good of a job. I would also like to upgrade the gph in the tank like you have. is there any way to get a picture of the rear of the tank to really show the modifications you made by adding another pump?
icenine2005
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Tanks!
A few changes.... less sofites more sponges.
The reef is reaching two years old, and while I've fragged lots of things some of the softies are a challenge to keep up with.
So removed are:
Long polyp toad stool. Fragging this coral was not the hardest thing in the world, but it would look like crap for a week give or take some after fragging, not so nice in a nano display. It's growth rate seemed to pick up as well and it was requiring a trim every six weeks or so before it got too big and began to shade too much of the tank out. I was getting about three weeks of nice looking toadstool, two weeks of monster shading things out and a week or more of floppy recovering toadstool after if was fragged.
...plus it had spread from its base being contained on one small rock to a larger harder to remove rock from the display, so I severed the piece entirely and gave it away.
Sinulara. Same deal... growth rate really picked up and I found myself trimming it back too often. Leaving it be meant allopathy concerns as it was quick to encroach on other corals.
Kenya tree. I fragged this piece several times but the last couple fragging events seemed to take longer recovery periods, so I decided it would be better off else where.
Softies like these are nice for beginners in that they are easy to care for... but they can also crowd a nano tank rather quickly. When the day comes to set up the "big" system, I'm sure I'll want to add these corals again, but I'm going to keep them out of the nano plans.
Mushrooms.. The reds have managed to out compete green and blue. And in one case even took a chunk out of some favia when I wasn't paying attention. I still have a couple green and blue shroms.. but they have been forced to the back of the display by the dominant reds.
GSP kinda got away from me. It's taken over th top rock in the display for the most part.. choking out some palys and zoas. One paly morph seems able to fend it off and do faviates, gorgonian and candy cane.
Hamelia for the record loses out to GSP... interesting combat shot here for ya:
(yes, gsp grows that fast, it did this in about two days)
Blastos... I messed these guys up a bit. I stuck them in an area that had a little too much flow and did not notice for several days... since I don't feed every day there are actually days that can go by where I don't really look at the display. They took a beating but are on their way to recovery.
The formia star disintegrated after slightly over five months. It was very active... up until the last week. Spent a lot of time in one place then just began to fall apart. In general a little under six months is about par for the course on these guys. Gonna try again though.
This one is a pink tile.
I added a couple sponges... a red tree sponge and orange frilly job. I feed the reef a wide variety of micro foods and there is a healthy amount of planktonic activity going on.. so I'm confident the system can support them. They will grow slower than the softies they are replacing.
I was looking to punch up the color intensity of the tank with these additions as well. It was looking rather green and purple and in general "blah" (for a reef tank, or at least my vision of it).
That was the main reason I had changed the green brain for the red one, added the bright yellow sun and now these orange and red sponges and kept only a few select zoa colonies. The "zoa garden" looks nice for a few months, but eventually one morph will choke out another.... and it's usually not the one you would rather keep of the two.
I have moved the hammer into the area once occupied by the toadstool. It's sweepers are not terribly long, but I am keeping an eye on it. It's a branching hammer, with about a dozen heads now.
Oh... I've had a crocea clam in this system for a few months now as well. Started out babysitting it for someone else and it’s just kinda stayed. It's mounted fairly high in the rock work and has been looking healthy. So, yep conventional wisdom says this is not a good idea under this lighting. ..however I know of several people keeping these animals under PCs of similar intensity, for several years. The reef is stable and established which I think is more a factor than the lighting here. ...so, we'll see how it goes.
With the addition of the clam.. I now test for calcium (salifert kit).
Even with all the calcium demand (clam, tons of lps and hamelia) I have in there levels stay up (400PPM) with weekly (large scale still) water changes. ...oh, and both those sponges get exposed to air during those changes every week too, just fyi.
I'm watching alkalinity and PH more closely as well... but just that, watching them. I've seen no need to use any additives or muck with any chemistry as of yet. ...I bought a new Hana PH meter (really, there is an SPS project in the back of my head I am subconsciously accumulating things for) and the PH runs a steady 8.1 (salifert says its more like 8.3 btw) since I'm able to calibrate the hana meter I'm thinking that is an accurate reading. Low? .. maybe, but it's stable so I'm not gonna mess with it.
More pics:
Micros I've had for a while. (and a lil Valonia I need to get rid of)
FTS... lousy one, I took it this afternoon and ther eare a lot of windows in the room where the tank sits, too much glare, I gotta try another one.
A few changes.... less sofites more sponges.
The reef is reaching two years old, and while I've fragged lots of things some of the softies are a challenge to keep up with.
So removed are:
Long polyp toad stool. Fragging this coral was not the hardest thing in the world, but it would look like crap for a week give or take some after fragging, not so nice in a nano display. It's growth rate seemed to pick up as well and it was requiring a trim every six weeks or so before it got too big and began to shade too much of the tank out. I was getting about three weeks of nice looking toadstool, two weeks of monster shading things out and a week or more of floppy recovering toadstool after if was fragged.
...plus it had spread from its base being contained on one small rock to a larger harder to remove rock from the display, so I severed the piece entirely and gave it away.
Sinulara. Same deal... growth rate really picked up and I found myself trimming it back too often. Leaving it be meant allopathy concerns as it was quick to encroach on other corals.
Kenya tree. I fragged this piece several times but the last couple fragging events seemed to take longer recovery periods, so I decided it would be better off else where.
Softies like these are nice for beginners in that they are easy to care for... but they can also crowd a nano tank rather quickly. When the day comes to set up the "big" system, I'm sure I'll want to add these corals again, but I'm going to keep them out of the nano plans.
Mushrooms.. The reds have managed to out compete green and blue. And in one case even took a chunk out of some favia when I wasn't paying attention. I still have a couple green and blue shroms.. but they have been forced to the back of the display by the dominant reds.
GSP kinda got away from me. It's taken over th top rock in the display for the most part.. choking out some palys and zoas. One paly morph seems able to fend it off and do faviates, gorgonian and candy cane.
Hamelia for the record loses out to GSP... interesting combat shot here for ya:
(yes, gsp grows that fast, it did this in about two days)
Blastos... I messed these guys up a bit. I stuck them in an area that had a little too much flow and did not notice for several days... since I don't feed every day there are actually days that can go by where I don't really look at the display. They took a beating but are on their way to recovery.
The formia star disintegrated after slightly over five months. It was very active... up until the last week. Spent a lot of time in one place then just began to fall apart. In general a little under six months is about par for the course on these guys. Gonna try again though.
This one is a pink tile.
I added a couple sponges... a red tree sponge and orange frilly job. I feed the reef a wide variety of micro foods and there is a healthy amount of planktonic activity going on.. so I'm confident the system can support them. They will grow slower than the softies they are replacing.
I was looking to punch up the color intensity of the tank with these additions as well. It was looking rather green and purple and in general "blah" (for a reef tank, or at least my vision of it).
That was the main reason I had changed the green brain for the red one, added the bright yellow sun and now these orange and red sponges and kept only a few select zoa colonies. The "zoa garden" looks nice for a few months, but eventually one morph will choke out another.... and it's usually not the one you would rather keep of the two.
I have moved the hammer into the area once occupied by the toadstool. It's sweepers are not terribly long, but I am keeping an eye on it. It's a branching hammer, with about a dozen heads now.
Oh... I've had a crocea clam in this system for a few months now as well. Started out babysitting it for someone else and it’s just kinda stayed. It's mounted fairly high in the rock work and has been looking healthy. So, yep conventional wisdom says this is not a good idea under this lighting. ..however I know of several people keeping these animals under PCs of similar intensity, for several years. The reef is stable and established which I think is more a factor than the lighting here. ...so, we'll see how it goes.
With the addition of the clam.. I now test for calcium (salifert kit).
Even with all the calcium demand (clam, tons of lps and hamelia) I have in there levels stay up (400PPM) with weekly (large scale still) water changes. ...oh, and both those sponges get exposed to air during those changes every week too, just fyi.
I'm watching alkalinity and PH more closely as well... but just that, watching them. I've seen no need to use any additives or muck with any chemistry as of yet. ...I bought a new Hana PH meter (really, there is an SPS project in the back of my head I am subconsciously accumulating things for) and the PH runs a steady 8.1 (salifert says its more like 8.3 btw) since I'm able to calibrate the hana meter I'm thinking that is an accurate reading. Low? .. maybe, but it's stable so I'm not gonna mess with it.
More pics:
Micros I've had for a while. (and a lil Valonia I need to get rid of)
FTS... lousy one, I took it this afternoon and ther eare a lot of windows in the room where the tank sits, too much glare, I gotta try another one.
icenine2005
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I've not posted many antinic shots... but here ya go:
Nothing stands out more than this florida ric under anticis, it's even more than that pink IRL:
One of two feather dusters in the tank right now:
Nothing stands out more than this florida ric under anticis, it's even more than that pink IRL:
One of two feather dusters in the tank right now:
Mr Sh0tgun
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your tank is amazing.:eek2:
SEAFLOWERS
Premium Member
get rid of that Valonia now! I jusy had to break down my 70 gal to scrub it off the rocks. It had to have been introduced from a piece I bought somewhere; I look at every piece I buy now like a hawk. Very nice tank !!!!!!!!!!
WillWorkForFish
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be careful with those sponges if you care about them.. I barely exposed the tip of my blue sponge to the air, and 2 days later it was dead from the inside out..
icenine2005
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I know what you mean... however, here is a bit from the collector of the sponges in this tank:
The two you see don't have an adverse reaction to being exposed to air so much. I do clear off any air bubbles I see clinging to them with a turkey baster ( a truly must have reefkeeper's tool.
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Illuminati
Premium Member
Like always simply amazing.
Did you get the sponges from Sealifeflorida?
Did you get the sponges from Sealifeflorida?
Gordonious
Active member
Sealifeflorida good food?
I have been wanting to get some sponges for a while, but haven't made it to a good live stock store in a while. What are the names of the all the sponges you keep? Red tree(I'm assuming) and....
I have been wanting to get some sponges for a while, but haven't made it to a good live stock store in a while. What are the names of the all the sponges you keep? Red tree(I'm assuming) and....
icenine2005
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Yep... sealifeflorida.
Red/Orange Tree Sponges, Likely both some type of Ptilocaulis sp I think.
Red/Orange Tree Sponges, Likely both some type of Ptilocaulis sp I think.
