430gal., L-shaped display

[EnglishRebel]

I want to be like Andy when I grow up, wait a minute, I am grown up. Ah well, I can wish.
Andy, for a typesetter you are one amazing aquaculturist (if there is such a word). Give up your day job man and write a book or something. :rollface:

 

["Umm fish?"]

Wow! The thread works again!

Thanks, Alan.... But being an aquaculturist means raising the suckers and I'm certainly still new at that. But, the book's already been written. If you haven't seen it, this is one great book:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Illu...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246888486&sr=8-1

Gotta run, but I'll be back with day 2 seahorse vid!

 

["Umm fish?"]

Day 2 (yesterday):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPy1dan4KQs

I counted six this morning, but they are all over the place and really pretty good at blending in. I decided to throw in some small-strain newly-hatched baby brine shrimp (NHBBS). The kids seemed to think that that was a _really_ good idea. I'll certainly keep overlapping the rots and BBS for a couple of days, but the NHBBS should help them put on some quick growth.

 

["Umm fish?"]

I love video and all, but I have to pull out the still camera every once in a while. Day 3:

 

[dtech]

They look funny bein all big eyed and all

 

["Umm fish?"]

Looks like the last ones died last night.

Just so you guys know, I'll be out-of-touch most of the day today.

 

[dtech]

Bummer on the last one, I hope they spawn again.

 

[Hopeful Reefer]

Sorry to hear that Andy...any idea what may have happened?

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks, y'all! It could have been many things. Not enough prey density and too clear water in the first couple of days is something I want to address next round. The rot cultures just weren't quite ready. There's also some concern that there might be a parasite that's being transferred from parent to fry in this species. 'Cause the truth is that the fry are relatively large. They seem to eat well. They should be easily raise-able. But, nothing to do but move on and try to improve each time. Papa's looking pregnant.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Citron gobies are spawning again tonight. This time they chose an actual coral to spawn on:

I'm surprised. The one in the photo took a big piece of urchin spine in the side (black mark on its left side in photo) earlier in the week and I thought I was going to lose it. But the wound healed over and it's been doing fine.

 

["Umm fish?"]

I'm sure they are done now, so I can risk glass cleaning and flash from below.

The complete photo:

100% crop:

200%:

 

[dtech]

Cool stuff, One day your gonna be beggin to get rid of babies

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, you know, if I fill up the rest can be coral food. Or, chromis food, which is more like how it goes now. I really need to go finish the plumbing for the larval system. I have the overflow pipes glued, but need to hang everything and connect it all together.

Looks like something ate the citron eggs overnight. I wouldn't put it past the papa. He's had a hard week and could probably use the extra nutrition. I hope they get it together, though.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15346471#post15346471 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by "Umm, fish?"
Well, you know, if I fill up the rest can be coral food.

Can't wait for that day

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, me too....

 

["Umm fish?"]

I finally got a really good nitrate test kit. So now I know that my nitrate _isn't_ actually 0. In actuality, it's 1.

Had some problems with the acros recently. I had a big die-off of some of the algae at the same time as my kalkwasser gave out. The pH took a plunge down under 8 before I could get the kalk up and running again, so I lost a couple of frags and a couple of small colonies. Now that I'm solidly back up over 8.1 all day, things seem to be resolving. At any rate, it was only the acros that showed any issues.

Sorry I haven't done a lot of updating (like FTS) lately. I'm pretty slammed for time recently and the extra I have has been going to plumbing the larval system. I want to try with some sixlines, soon!

 

["Umm fish?"]

Round two on the seahorses, probably 40-50 larvae this time:

(Congratulations on getting the site back online so quickly!)

 

[Hopeful Reefer]

Woot!! grats to the proud papa...

Let's cross our fingers and hope for your better luck with this batch...

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks, Jason. We'll see. Since there were no rots until tomorrow and no bbs either, I started experimenting.

At any rate, a little video. "Journey with me ... into the kreisel...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qcjQU5eIQ4

 

["Umm fish?"]

Double post.