500G (84X48X30)- NOW REAL !
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Sanjay
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Are you looking for frags or colonies. ? For frags Liveaquaria.com has good stuff, I got a lot of my frags from there. There are also a lot of online vendors that have good stuff, although I have not bought from any of them.
Most of my frags are from friends and trades at fragswaps, and stuff I picked up on my speaking travels.
sanjay.
Sanjay
Premium Member
Here is the updated fish list and count:
Multiples/Pairs
3 - bellus angels
2 - M. Bipartus
2 - M. Negroensis
4 - Kupang Damsels
2 - Yellow Assessors (tank Raised ORA)
3 - Neon gobies (tank raised Atlantis Marine World)
4 - Dispar
6- Rolandi Damsels
2 - Long Nose Hawkfish
Singles -
1 - Blochi Tang
1 - Purple Tang
1 - hepatus tang
1 - Blond Naso
1 - Midas Blenny
1 - Aurora Goby
1- bangaii Cardinal
1- Starry Blenny
Total : 36 fish
Multiples/Pairs
3 - bellus angels
2 - M. Bipartus
2 - M. Negroensis
4 - Kupang Damsels
2 - Yellow Assessors (tank Raised ORA)
3 - Neon gobies (tank raised Atlantis Marine World)
4 - Dispar
6- Rolandi Damsels
2 - Long Nose Hawkfish
Singles -
1 - Blochi Tang
1 - Purple Tang
1 - hepatus tang
1 - Blond Naso
1 - Midas Blenny
1 - Aurora Goby
1- bangaii Cardinal
1- Starry Blenny
Total : 36 fish
Hi Sanjay,
Nice additions. The "secret" piece never came
Did get alot of other things though. Have a large sps shipment coming in on Mon. About 80 pc. I will pick a couple and get them to you after they are stable. See anything in the pics you like?
Also, I have re-aquascaped my tank. Looks alo different. More open space but less space to put corals.
Nice additions. The "secret" piece never came
Did get alot of other things though. Have a large sps shipment coming in on Mon. About 80 pc. I will pick a couple and get them to you after they are stable. See anything in the pics you like?
Also, I have re-aquascaped my tank. Looks alo different. More open space but less space to put corals.
fishfanatic06
New member
I'll help you make some room too Steve! lol!
drummereef
Team RC
Uhh... drool. Very nice, Steve. 
Sanjay
Premium Member
Just got back from Boston today, and had a very interesting afternoon. I shut off the pumps so I could attach some of the frags I got on this trip. After I put all the frags in, i started all the pumps back up, and my Dart pump used for circulation refused to flow water. It was running, but there was barely a trickle comming out of the pump. Turned it off and tried to restart it.. nothing.. same problem. I figured there must be something wrong with the pump, so I decieded to take it out and look. The pump looked fine, the impeller was spinning. Put it back on, same problem.. the pump just did not seem to be able to generate enough pressure to push the water to the tank.
I decieded that something must be wrong with the pump, and replaced it with a spare DART that I had bought just is case any of my pumps went bad. Put the new one in.. SAME PROBLEM !!! Now I was getting really frustrated. Turned it on and off a few times.. nothing.
Two pumps could not have gone bad, so I started looking for other causes. It seemed that the pumps could not push the water up the pipe, so I thought that there must be an air lock of some sort developing in the plumbing. I took a mag pump and pumped in water to the tank, and tried to start a siphon through the circulation pump to try to remove the air. Got a good siphon going, and restarted the pump.. this time it worked !!!
As I went back to clean up and put things back in place, i noticed a dark blob in the sump. It was the bubble tip anemone that I was holding in my overflow box for the last 4 months. It made it way through the overflow box, and drain, into the sump and it must have got stuck in the ball valve of the intake. Thus blocking the intake and not allowing the pump to generate the pressure. The back flushing with the siphon managed to push it out.
It seems that every weakness in the system will eventually get exposed. I should have put a strainer on the intake from the overflow. Would have prevented disaster and hours of time being wasted trying to solve the problem.
sanjay.
I decieded that something must be wrong with the pump, and replaced it with a spare DART that I had bought just is case any of my pumps went bad. Put the new one in.. SAME PROBLEM !!! Now I was getting really frustrated. Turned it on and off a few times.. nothing.
Two pumps could not have gone bad, so I started looking for other causes. It seemed that the pumps could not push the water up the pipe, so I thought that there must be an air lock of some sort developing in the plumbing. I took a mag pump and pumped in water to the tank, and tried to start a siphon through the circulation pump to try to remove the air. Got a good siphon going, and restarted the pump.. this time it worked !!!
As I went back to clean up and put things back in place, i noticed a dark blob in the sump. It was the bubble tip anemone that I was holding in my overflow box for the last 4 months. It made it way through the overflow box, and drain, into the sump and it must have got stuck in the ball valve of the intake. Thus blocking the intake and not allowing the pump to generate the pressure. The back flushing with the siphon managed to push it out.
It seems that every weakness in the system will eventually get exposed. I should have put a strainer on the intake from the overflow. Would have prevented disaster and hours of time being wasted trying to solve the problem.
sanjay.
Did the anemone survive?
dgasmd
New member
I learned the same as you a while back, but my issue came from a bunch of snails that managed to crawl up the overflows, into the filter socks and out to the sump. Later, they crawled their way into the intake pipe for the return pump. I noticed some decrease flow and a bunch of micro bubbles coming from the sump and could not for the ife of me figure out where it came from until I took apart the entire plumbing only to find about 50 snail shells nicely compacted inside the intake pipe. Lesson learned and I put a strainer in every out and in hole I could think of in the entire system.
That's pretty funny. I was just looking at my overflow intakes an hour ago and thinking to myself, "Hmm, I need to get some strainers for these things before the tank gets set up."
(I also am using the Sequence Darts, and I also have a spare sitting in a box in case I need to do a quick swap.)
Ben
Sanjay
Premium Member
In Boston this past weekend where I was speaking to the club, I picked up a underwater viewing tube for the camera made by one of the members Gustavo. Could not wait to try it out
Here are some first attempts at trying to shoot the corals with this attached to the lens. Pretty stressful since I was holding on to the camera for dear life while trying to make sure I did not push the lens and tube underwater and keep the water out of the tube. Gave me cramps in my hand :lol:
So here are my first attempts at top down pics.
So here are my first attempts at top down pics.
sanjay.
Here are some first attempts at trying to shoot the corals with this attached to the lens. Pretty stressful since I was holding on to the camera for dear life while trying to make sure I did not push the lens and tube underwater and keep the water out of the tube. Gave me cramps in my hand :lol:
So here are my first attempts at top down pics.
So here are my first attempts at top down pics.
sanjay.
