700 gallon tank, or how i spent my daughters inheritance
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I was real worried as I turned up the flow he'd be unhappy. Quite the contrary, it doubled in size in two years. Ran out of room to grow new heads downwards so it started clearing a path around it only extending stingers where there was coral to be stung. No energy waisted. Pretty smart for a mindless creature hey?!
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I was real worried as I turned up the flow he'd be unhappy. Quite the contrary, it doubled in size in two years. Ran out of room to grow new heads downwards so it started clearing a path around it only extending stingers where there was coral to be stung. No energy waisted. Pretty smart for a mindless creature hey?!
Thanks J
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My method for dealing with my Galaxea (it was the size of a toddlers head when I got rid of it and had sweepers over 12" long) was to place a BTA anemone. Those LPS types can 'smell' whats around them, and will reach out in the direction they know another coral is... regardless of flow or anything. So, I give them something nasty to smell, like an anemone that can take it on if needed, and since, no more sweepers.
As for the more 'open brain' style LPS... yeah, I had a trachy that sent out a 'spiderman' web at a rock about 8" away covered with rics... covered it with its 'web', and destroyed the whole rock. Sometimes, they do that.
As for the more 'open brain' style LPS... yeah, I had a trachy that sent out a 'spiderman' web at a rock about 8" away covered with rics... covered it with its 'web', and destroyed the whole rock. Sometimes, they do that.
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i looked in the tank about dusk last evening and saw one of my Diadema urchins spawning. i assume it is a male or are the hermaphroditic?
the event lasted about 40 minutes. it seemed like a lot of stuff came out and all the other corals in the tank extended polyps.
on a sadder note one of my Acans that i had had for over a year and had been in the new tank for 5-6 weeks deveoped a brown jelly infection and was mostly gone in two days. it is amazing how fast it can progress. this is a coral that was about 8x12".
i moved it into another tank i have outside with mostly just LR and a few corals and no fish. i haven't had the heart to see if it is all gone. the tank is only viewable from above and i would have to turn off the pump pointed at the water surface to see into the tank.
the event lasted about 40 minutes. it seemed like a lot of stuff came out and all the other corals in the tank extended polyps.
on a sadder note one of my Acans that i had had for over a year and had been in the new tank for 5-6 weeks deveoped a brown jelly infection and was mostly gone in two days. it is amazing how fast it can progress. this is a coral that was about 8x12".
i moved it into another tank i have outside with mostly just LR and a few corals and no fish. i haven't had the heart to see if it is all gone. the tank is only viewable from above and i would have to turn off the pump pointed at the water surface to see into the tank.
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Sorry to hear about the acan loss. I actually think your solar panels will pay off in the long run if you can get decent $ back from the electric company. It must be nice not having to worry about the addition of another 100 watt pump if its is needed.
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we are getting the max rebate from dwp, $3.50 per watt.
i was able to catch some of my fish from one of my other tanks to put in the new tank last weekend.
if only they knew where they were going they would not have fought so hard to not be caught.
all seem to be happy and eating well in the new tank.
i was starting to get some dozens of bubble algae proliferating, however today could not find a single Valonia. i suspect the Foxface Rabbitfish but that is just a guess.
now if they will only start to eat all the other algae in the tank i will be a happy guy.
i am feeding some of the Brineshrimpdirect 500-1000 micron food and the Gorgonian seems to love it. not the best picture but you can see several captured particles and some in the shaft past the mouth.
Carl
i was able to catch some of my fish from one of my other tanks to put in the new tank last weekend.
if only they knew where they were going they would not have fought so hard to not be caught.
all seem to be happy and eating well in the new tank.
i was starting to get some dozens of bubble algae proliferating, however today could not find a single Valonia. i suspect the Foxface Rabbitfish but that is just a guess.
now if they will only start to eat all the other algae in the tank i will be a happy guy.
i am feeding some of the Brineshrimpdirect 500-1000 micron food and the Gorgonian seems to love it. not the best picture but you can see several captured particles and some in the shaft past the mouth.
Carl
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thanks!
the Foxface is about 8". it is quite a relief that one of them is eating the Valonia. i hoped that would be the case. in my tank they came from i have not seen Valonia in a very long time. there is also an attached frag tank to that tank that only has a pair of clowns in it and there is Valonia in that tank so i thought one of the fish in the main tank was eating it.
the Foxface is about 8". it is quite a relief that one of them is eating the Valonia. i hoped that would be the case. in my tank they came from i have not seen Valonia in a very long time. there is also an attached frag tank to that tank that only has a pair of clowns in it and there is Valonia in that tank so i thought one of the fish in the main tank was eating it.
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i have to snorkel in the tank to do a water change while sucking crap off the bottom. i hope this chges once i get the sump and return lines going and hopefully keep stuff in suspension long enough to be eaten or removed from the tank.
the male trigger is fearless and comes right up and hovers nearby while i am working in the tank. like within an inch of my face.
the bottom of the tank is covered with thousands of small worms in the sand bed. the type that have the mucilaginous tube.
i am also starting to hate acrylic tanks. it already has scratches on the inside and i am afraid to clean much near the sandbed. a glass tank this size was not an option though. i couldn't lie on the top of it to work in the tank. massively heavy to get into place. only once of course.
next time it will be glass though.
the male trigger is fearless and comes right up and hovers nearby while i am working in the tank. like within an inch of my face.
the bottom of the tank is covered with thousands of small worms in the sand bed. the type that have the mucilaginous tube.
i am also starting to hate acrylic tanks. it already has scratches on the inside and i am afraid to clean much near the sandbed. a glass tank this size was not an option though. i couldn't lie on the top of it to work in the tank. massively heavy to get into place. only once of course.
next time it will be glass though.
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water quality update.
i really hope i can get my sump set up soon to start exporting some nutrients with macroalgae and get the new skimmer set up. of course more DSB and LR too.
right now i am adding about 750ml daqily of two part solution to keep the alk and ca stable.
i have a Kalk reactor and Ca reactor for the sumps.
after adding the 7 good sized fish, 6-8", ten days ago and feeding them quite a bit a couple times a day i am getting some cyano on the sandbed.
nitrate went from 0.5ppm to 2.3ppm
PO4 from 0.09 to .34ppm
i guess it is time to change the GFO. i hope to be able to eliminate the use of the GFO eventually when i get better export mechanisms in place and mature.
when the sump is set up i will have more flow from the return pumps directed more down at the sand bed. now all the flow from the CL pumps are anlged 45 degrees towards the top of the tank.
i really hope i can get my sump set up soon to start exporting some nutrients with macroalgae and get the new skimmer set up. of course more DSB and LR too.
right now i am adding about 750ml daqily of two part solution to keep the alk and ca stable.
i have a Kalk reactor and Ca reactor for the sumps.
after adding the 7 good sized fish, 6-8", ten days ago and feeding them quite a bit a couple times a day i am getting some cyano on the sandbed.
nitrate went from 0.5ppm to 2.3ppm
PO4 from 0.09 to .34ppm
i guess it is time to change the GFO. i hope to be able to eliminate the use of the GFO eventually when i get better export mechanisms in place and mature.
when the sump is set up i will have more flow from the return pumps directed more down at the sand bed. now all the flow from the CL pumps are anlged 45 degrees towards the top of the tank.
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