A Miracles in Roanoke - My New Tank Build

[Chemguy85]

Looks great. I am jealous my tank is still cycling.

 

[tekjunkie28]

Updates?

 

[eengmd]

Well I upgraded the radions to pros. The reds and purples seem to pop much more. Ill post a new par chart after I ramp up. I have added quite a few things from quarantine recently. Hopefully I can make a list of the sps and their origins soon. Check out the fin variety that just entered the tank. Phosphates 0.02, alk 8.6, calcium 475, nitrates 0. I also got 4 green chromis but I think the dominant one killed the others as about every third day I noticed one dying with missing scales and blood marks on them. No picture of the chromis. Still waiting to capture the yasha hada and geometric Pygmy hawk pair.

Awesome colors. The three of them hang out together.

Here is my elusive Pygmy wrasse who has come out more recently.

 

[tekjunkie28]

Thats awesome. I'm hoping to get a house soon and after that I should get more coral. I only have 4 frags now. Ur fish and tank looks good.

 

[eengmd]

Quick update, summer has been busy and the tank is coming along. I had what I thought was a phosphate scare but realized I got a bad batch of reagent for my hanna checker. I did buy a lab grade phosphate meter though. Started to collect high end Zoanthids. Here is my zoa list as of now with approximate polyps. Always open to trades locally.

Eagle eyes 300+
Purple death 100+
Nuclear greens 100+
Olive deaths 15
Armor of God 60
Dragon eyes 200+
Fire and ice 50
Everlasting gobstopers 50
Evil Mel's 50
Mohawks 30
Tubs blue 80
Giant cinnamon 15
Blue palys 6
Blue with green skirt 40
Bam bams 15
Lunar eclipses 12
Captain America's 10
La lakers 20
Jokers 6
Darth Mauls (not wild caught) 10
Yodas 3
My clementine 2
Rastas 4
Blue mccaws 5
Emeralds on fire 5
Orange center green skirt 40
Nightmares 6
Nebulas 15
Leprechaun 40
CAR 5
Pink orange paly with green center 30
Several others of which I forgot names

 

[eengmd]

Fish Update

I added a Bartlett anthia, 3 green maldivian chromis and a lawnmower blenny. Sadly my yellow longnose got too aggressive chasing food and had a power head injury which led to his demise. Thus far disease free! I want to add one male
Lyretail from the Maldives and a surprise soon to be revealed. On a non fish related note, I added one more blood shrimp and a red tuxedo urchin.

 

[eengmd]

Sps list left island

Green digi
Enigma tort from aquaholics
Purple monster
Yellow pink tip milli
Sherbert milli
ORA Joe the coral
Hairy blue milli
Hairy hot pink milli
ORA MI bottlebrush
Rainbow nasuta
ORA pearlberry
Green suharsonoi
Blue table purple tips
Acro simplex green
Strawberry shortcake origin Copps
Aussie strawberry shortcake (microclados)
Red dragon
Ice fire enchintata
Hairy green acro
Pink lemonade
Shades of fall
Neon green tenius
ORA Hawkins enchinata
Purple digi
Purple slimer
Bubble gum milli
Nathan's green milli
Garf bonsai
Tommy knockers aquaholics
ORA ponopes birdsnest
ORA bellina
Aquaholics Lynchburg lemonade
Nectar of the gods digi
Purple encrusting Monti
Superman Monti
Birds or paradise
Purple stylo
Sky blue stag
Blue hokesemi
Aquaholics Phoebus
Aquaholics south beach
Sunset milli
Setosa
2 recovering sps hopefully to be a colorful surprise

I will list the right island which is smaller at another time. It has fewer sps.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

I'm looking for that funny pic that says "this thread is nothing without pictures"

 

[eengmd]

I'm looking for that funny pic that says "this thread is nothing without pictures"

Touché! I need to dust off the canon. I'm having a hard time getting good shots with the LEDs. Anybody local a good reef photographer?

 

[cburgreefer]

Touché! I need to dust off the canon. I'm having a hard time getting good shots with the LEDs. Anybody local a good reef photographer?

It's all about getting the white balance set as close as possible in camera, and then you can finish adjusting in post. LEDs are tough to photo everywhere, not just in tanks. It helps having some sort of white balancing sorce in the tank (something quite to gray to reference later when in post)

Also, if your camera shoots raw, that will help greatly as well.

 

[koddyVT]

If you experiment with taking pictures while turning off/dimming different color LED lights then it should be easier than counting 400 polyps

 

[eengmd]

Added a new fish out if quarentine, here is a hint, an obscure hint all be it.

I took some photos but they are ok. Cburgreefer is going to give me some lessons. Thanks David!

 

[eengmd]

No guesses. To the winner, if local, will get their choice of a free frag of their choice: nuclear greens, purple deaths, frogs in a blender birdsnest, purple digi, green digi, ORA purple stylo, ORA birds of paradice, eagle eye or dragon eyes. Again local pick up only.

 

[lighthouze08]

hmmmm, yellow tang?

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

Pinstripe Wrasse

 

[eengmd]

Ngyuen you are close. No NBA historians here I guess.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

I know who it is now due to the hint, but I still am trying to make the connection to a fish...

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

How about Purple Tang

 

[lighthouze08]

Yellow Coris Wrasse

 

[eengmd]

Clue number 2, the above gentleman in his youth. Imagine the Celtic not pictured.