75g sps build thread
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REEF SMAC
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I had a bicolor for many years that would take swipes at my acros and my clams. He never seemed to do any damage though.
Congrats on the switchover, and well done. Always a stressful ordeal but everthing looks like it made it just fine.
I think you'll see things color up for you, especially after your corals get used to their new home.:thumbsup:
Congrats on the switchover, and well done. Always a stressful ordeal but everthing looks like it made it just fine.
I think you'll see things color up for you, especially after your corals get used to their new home.:thumbsup:
allsps40
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I have started to have a little RTN on 2 millis since the change over. I have lost 2 small frags to it. Everything else is looking great though, my RP is coloring up already and PE on all corals is great. I was expecting to have some looses so no biggy. The few corals the blenny munched on will fully recover, soon hopefully.
allsps40
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Yeah thats what I figured, I did acclimate all the corals for an hour before pitting them in the new tank. Oh well not biggy. The ponpai bd was that color when I got it, it was 10-12" under Panorama LEDs at the LFS. I really like the color it is not as pale as the others I have seen. I placed it high under my new MH and it is keeping color and has good PE, seems to be doing very well. Some of the frags I made after the tank move have already started to encrust the plugs. I still need to get new bulbs, going back to Phoenix but I can afford them your a few weeks. Getting married really hurts the bank accounts.
chrishayes
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Awwwww you said bank accountS! I warn you, from a man that is 1 month away from his 10 year anniversary, keep your accounts seperate! Best thing we ever did and it saved our marriage, litterally. Its a hard concept for young couples to get their heads around but the times done already changed, men AND women now have jobs that pay equally, needs and wants that have no hierarchy...its just a disaster for marriages these days to share finances. If you can agree on some basic bill structuring and have joint savings you still get that fuzzy feeling of being married without the midnight screaming matches over her 300th pair of the same fing pair of shoes and your $300 ugly brown frag you HAD to have! lol im serious.
allsps40
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Thank for the insight, so far having a joint account is working though. I tell the wife what I spending money on so she does not freak. I am luck to have a wife that enjoys reef keeping as well so she does not get to made if I spent a lot of money on the tank. It is all my money that goes into the tank anyways. Plus I still have my account our joint account is to pay bills.
chrishayes
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Its these points you should concern yourself with. You and her will quickly tire of telling one another what youre going to spend and there may be a little fib here or there on how much then shell catch u in the fib and youll answer with "it is my money that goes into the tank anyways", marriage counceling isnt far behind...:headwalls:
You either share money openly or you seperate money. Period. And god love ya if one of you makes significantly more than the other! Waitll that little pecking order game starts up! woooooohooooooooo anyone got a pen so I can sign these papers or better yet jam it in...nevermind. Good luck with whatever you decide, just remember money is the root of all evil. No more preachin, promise!
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allsps40
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Most of the money that I put into the tank either comes from selling equipment, trading/selling frags or side work cash. I pretty much paid for the tank up grade by selling my old equipment. I also used mostly used equipment that I bought from local members or new that I got a killer deal on. Thanks for the heads up and advice but my wife is really cool about my hobby and she loves the tank and fish so coming home with a new fish or corals is normally pleasant for both of us. In fact the wife said we need to get more fish.
chrishayes
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oh yeah, im not baggin on your wife man, please dont take it that way! Im glad she enjoys the hobby as does my wife. I never get grief for anything to do with it and she actually enjoys it for the most part, hell, her and my son are going to a 4 hour frag swap this weekend! Now thats love!
Im just giving this advice in general as it falls on deaf ears until a few years in or less...it happens to every couple im sure so its a seed that should be planted early on to increase the success of mariage in my opinion. Money is so worthless compared to a great mariage yet it causes SO many problems especially in young often cash strapped couples. Not sayin you guys are that by any means just that it happens to the rich and poor but money sharing is just such a part of mariage that its difficult to even realize you CAN do it differently with better results.
I wish you nothing but luck and love in marriage but its a bumpy ride so hold on tight! And I say this as a man that truly has my dreamgirl and best friend all rolled into one wife so just realize sometimes thats not enough and be willing to try inovative ways to keep tension to a minimum. Ok, im preachin now. Thats not what I meant to do with my comments so im sorry.
Hows the tank? Did you lose the rtn corals completely? Hows the coloring coming along? Im starting to get encrustation now with a few corals lightening up from their brown cacoons! I have a bunch of tri color frags that happend on accident during the move that went doo doo brown and lost all PE that are now showing yellow full PE day and night along with another coral thats been brown since I got it that is showing multiple colors now along with lightening up so im happy to see that! Hope youre having the same positive results that we expect after a major upgrade like weve done! Cant wait to see pics of your tank in the next few months!
Im just giving this advice in general as it falls on deaf ears until a few years in or less...it happens to every couple im sure so its a seed that should be planted early on to increase the success of mariage in my opinion. Money is so worthless compared to a great mariage yet it causes SO many problems especially in young often cash strapped couples. Not sayin you guys are that by any means just that it happens to the rich and poor but money sharing is just such a part of mariage that its difficult to even realize you CAN do it differently with better results.
I wish you nothing but luck and love in marriage but its a bumpy ride so hold on tight! And I say this as a man that truly has my dreamgirl and best friend all rolled into one wife so just realize sometimes thats not enough and be willing to try inovative ways to keep tension to a minimum. Ok, im preachin now. Thats not what I meant to do with my comments so im sorry.
Hows the tank? Did you lose the rtn corals completely? Hows the coloring coming along? Im starting to get encrustation now with a few corals lightening up from their brown cacoons! I have a bunch of tri color frags that happend on accident during the move that went doo doo brown and lost all PE that are now showing yellow full PE day and night along with another coral thats been brown since I got it that is showing multiple colors now along with lightening up so im happy to see that! Hope youre having the same positive results that we expect after a major upgrade like weve done! Cant wait to see pics of your tank in the next few months!
allsps40
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I have not lost any full colonies but I have lost 4 frags that where only a few months in my care and had to frag up a my large green milli but I wanted to frag it up anyways. My large acro in the center has some small spots of RTN but it should pull through, this is a though sps and has lived through some hard times plus the rest of it looks good and is greening up now after a slight browning. My orange coral that bleached a bit it almost fully recovered and my RP is greening up again. I am starting to get the normal algae blooms on the sand and glass but hopefully it wont get to bad. the blenny was for sure eating sps, I have not seem any new bite marks since pulling it out. Oh and I lost my yellow tang, was not looking to hot a few days ago. I think it was another victim of my fiji clowns, mean little guys the tang looked beat up. I saw some salt creep on the back of the tank trim, I really hope I dont have a leaky seal. I leak tested the tank for 2 days before setting it up and all was fine. I will keep an eye on it. I am leaving for Vegas in the morning for the weekend (bachelor party) so hopefully I will come home to a happy tank with coloring up corals.
chrishayes
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Right on, not too bad really...sucks about your blenny. I dont blame them though do you? I mean their little freakin mouths are perfect size and shape to chow down on a neverending sea of polys in our tanks! Id do it too, like being in a house made of pizza! Id even eat the toilet!
I have a saddle blenny and he is just a pod hunter. I thought hed be interested in algae but no dice. I even excluded my six line from this tank to save the pod populations so you can imagine im not happy to see him scarfin them all down. Hes not even looked at a coral so far.
Now I picked up a coral beauty yesterday due to it being a deeper water variety with really rich darker coloration plus the price couldnt be beaten. He was fat and happy as were his tankmates so I took the chance that hell continue to eat JUST frozen and pellet!
Sucks your clowns are viscious. Ive been real lucky with clowns and six lines never having one that was a bully. My female bullies me when I put my hand in the tank and her wimp of a man but not other fish thank god.
Good luck at the party, its too bad theyre never as good as the movies make them out to be! stay safe and remember to carry small bills!
I have a saddle blenny and he is just a pod hunter. I thought hed be interested in algae but no dice. I even excluded my six line from this tank to save the pod populations so you can imagine im not happy to see him scarfin them all down. Hes not even looked at a coral so far.
Now I picked up a coral beauty yesterday due to it being a deeper water variety with really rich darker coloration plus the price couldnt be beaten. He was fat and happy as were his tankmates so I took the chance that hell continue to eat JUST frozen and pellet!
Sucks your clowns are viscious. Ive been real lucky with clowns and six lines never having one that was a bully. My female bullies me when I put my hand in the tank and her wimp of a man but not other fish thank god.
Good luck at the party, its too bad theyre never as good as the movies make them out to be! stay safe and remember to carry small bills!
JT3069
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Yall all suck cause my wife isn't so keen on my reef tank but the kids like it
i have to hide new additions to the tank and let her find them,
then come up with an excuse of why it is there lol
my wife has two accounts hers and mine lol
but keep them seperate as :already been stated
best of luck
i have to hide new additions to the tank and let her find them,
then come up with an excuse of why it is there lol
my wife has two accounts hers and mine lol
but keep them seperate as :already been stated
best of luck
allsps40
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Im back my party was awesome. Everything in the tank did just fine. Came back to some algae though, got some short hair algae on the power heads and brown film algae on the glass and some on the sand. My yellow tang died the day before I left so I need another tang for algae clean up. My large acro in the top center of the tank is still having STN on some parts, could be from the BN next to it, the rest of it looks healthey and good PE. I will just see what happens if I need to I will frag it up but that will suck, its a large colony now.
allsps40
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Well I made the decision to frag up my large acro colony. It was a sady thing to have to do, it was the first sps that I got when I set up my old 40B. Grew it from a 1-2 inch frag. But I felt that I would rather frag it up to save the healthy parts before the STN killed the whole colony. Here are some pics of this acro threw the years.
Upper left, only sps in the tank sad and brown
now moved to the center where it remained for many years
going threw a bad UV burn
recovered
at its peak
STNing and had to frag up
the damage done in a week
I made several large frags, kept the best 2 and traded the rest for store credit. I hate it when this happens, the only way to stop is to cut off the effected parts. It funny how a few sps STNd and others could not be happier.
Upper left, only sps in the tank sad and brown
now moved to the center where it remained for many years
going threw a bad UV burn
recovered
at its peak
STNing and had to frag up
the damage done in a week
I made several large frags, kept the best 2 and traded the rest for store credit. I hate it when this happens, the only way to stop is to cut off the effected parts. It funny how a few sps STNd and others could not be happier.
allsps40
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Well I made the decision to frag up my large acro colony. It was a sady thing to have to do, it was the first sps that I got when I set up my old 40B. Grew it from a 1-2 inch frag. But I felt that I would rather frag it up to save the healthy parts before the STN killed the whole colony. Here are some pics of this acro threw the years.
Upper left, only sps in the tank sad and brown
now moved to the center where it remained for many years
going threw a bad UV burn
recovered
at its peak
STNing and had to frag up
the damage done in a week
I made several large frags, kept the best 2 and traded the rest for store credit. I hate it when this happens, the only way to stop is to cut off the effected parts. It funny how a few sps STNd and others could not be happier.
Upper left, only sps in the tank sad and brown
now moved to the center where it remained for many years
going threw a bad UV burn
recovered
at its peak
STNing and had to frag up
the damage done in a week
I made several large frags, kept the best 2 and traded the rest for store credit. I hate it when this happens, the only way to stop is to cut off the effected parts. It funny how a few sps STNd and others could not be happier.
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