A Splash of Color - My SPS Peninsula Reef

[tommyboynj]

This is on hell of a tank mate. The coloration of the corals is pretty amazing. Keep up the good work.

 

[reefmutt]

So, it's bionic koala pee... Thought regular koala pee wasn't good enough to produce such an awesome tank.
Love that video, Andrew!!
Tank is fantastic!

 

[biggles]

Holy cow biggles! Tank is looking absolutely mint bud!! Loving the scape, the acro and the fish! Tell Kevin whatever he's doing to keep on doing it!! :inlove:

Thanks a lot Scotty, you can tell i chuck lots of food in at random times because the fish go nuts every time i even look their way now lol.

Too funny! The younger crowd may not get it unless they are watching some old reruns on TV. So for me that makes it even funnier.

I knew you'd appreciate that one Greg Only in America would they reward you for nose diving a gazillion dollar space ship into the runway by dropping six million bucks on making you a bionic useless bastard.
If you did that in aus you'd wake up with legs and arms made out of empty beer cans........ if you were lucky......

Andrew, how do you feed your scolly?

I don't but now i'm getting the impression that i should be....... what's the go mate ?

Always nice to read this thread.

Thanks my friend

It appears you survived your ich outbreak!

Marty

Yes Marty, that's why i had the cyano issue with the ridiculous amount of food the fish were receiving.

This is on hell of a tank mate. The coloration of the corals is pretty amazing. Keep up the good work.

Thanks mate, appreciate the kind words. :beer:

So, it's bionic koala pee... Thought regular koala pee wasn't good enough to produce such an awesome tank.
Love that video, Andrew!!
Tank is fantastic!

Thanks Matt, one day it will have sand and less pumps hopefully.

 

[biggles]

The scolly soli plan came to an abrupt end when i realised the scolly which was already removed from a spot on the rocks due to light stress, wouldn't handle the light level where i wanted to attach the soli. I ended up plonking a lump of bright orange pav in the middle of the bright green soli. Haven't taken any pics of it in the tank but here it is on the bench after i'd shaped the end to match the rock curve i was attaching it too. Beside it is my 2" high acro stand which the soli rested on while the putty/glue was curing.

Not very pretty out of the water, it's about the size of a small hand, like a girls hand size, not a man hand size........ it's Mindy hand sized.

Then since i was in the mood i grabbed a piece of rock out of the sump and stuck the stupid monti on one end. The monti looks light grey in the tank - nothing like the color out of the water. I hate the monti and the monti hates me.

Then since i was putting this little island right where one of Wrangy's frags was resting i borrowed it and attached the rock it was on to the top of the other rock. This way the acro encrusts over real estate that can go with it to its new home rather than chopping it off the main rock when Wrangy takes it home. It's bright blue tipped and sprouts heaps of new tips and thickety fine growth very fast.

Finally, since i realised after closer inspection that the acro i thought was a loisetteae is in fact a straight growing piece of bloody horrida i decided to shove it on the little island too. The horrida was in pretty bad shape with lots of dead bits from laying on the store tank bottom for quite a while. I chopped the dead top 2" off the main branch and left the rest to heal over. It looks coloreless light grey with white polyps much like the stupid grey monti.
It's the island of lost SPS dreams............ grey monti....... grey horrida....... pretty blue acro that's not mine......... :facepalm:

 

[jimrawr]

Are you feeding the corals the paste portion of the skimmate or the skimmate water too? The paste portion is probably better stuff than the commercial foods like D&D ReefPaste. :spin2:

Which begs the question: what is the point of running a high performance skimmer if you're placing some of the collected stuff back into the water?

As usual you stole the good acros that were supposed to be headed for English waters... :headwalls:

I've been thinking about doing this as well. Have a feeling the skimmer is pulling out too much.

Beautiful tank Biggles

 

[bibarassa]

Andrew,
I'm feeding my scolly as the other corals

P.S.: I'm feeding with FM coral food

 

[sahin]

Tank is looking very nice mate. Love the coral arrangement shots. Very good teaching material. :beer: Thats whats good about your threads: pretty photos to keep our interest, and real reefkeeping material thrown in for us to learn. :reading:

 

[Wrangy]

The scolly soli plan came to an abrupt end when i realised the scolly which was already removed from a spot on the rocks due to light stress, wouldn't handle the light level where i wanted to attach the soli. I ended up plonking a lump of bright orange pav in the middle of the bright green soli. Haven't taken any pics of it in the tank but here it is on the bench after i'd shaped the end to match the rock curve i was attaching it too. Beside it is my 2" high acro stand which the soli rested on while the putty/glue was curing.

Not very pretty out of the water, it's about the size of a small hand, like a girls hand size, not a man hand size........ it's Mindy hand sized.

Then since i was in the mood i grabbed a piece of rock out of the sump and stuck the stupid monti on one end. The monti looks light grey in the tank - nothing like the color out of the water. I hate the monti and the monti hates me.

Then since i was putting this little island right where one of Wrangy's frags was resting i borrowed it and attached the rock it was on to the top of the other rock. This way the acro encrusts over real estate that can go with it to its new home rather than chopping it off the main rock when Wrangy takes it home. It's bright blue tipped and sprouts heaps of new tips and thickety fine growth very fast.

Finally, since i realised after closer inspection that the acro i thought was a loisetteae is in fact a straight growing piece of bloody horrida i decided to shove it on the little island too. The horrida was in pretty bad shape with lots of dead bits from laying on the store tank bottom for quite a while. I chopped the dead top 2" off the main branch and left the rest to heal over. It looks coloreless light grey with white polyps much like the stupid grey monti.
It's the island of lost SPS dreams............ grey monti....... grey horrida....... pretty blue acro that's not mine......... :facepalm:

As Sahin has said, your posts are some of the best! Pics and info, what more could a person want!

That's a pretty awesome little rock creation there, I do love your ingenuity when it comes to these things and how many frags do you have for me?! haha I'm heading down to Deer Park on Thursday night but might not have to buy anything as I may already be out of room :spin1: especially if you're twisting my arm for more frags :debi: at least I'm getting my wrasse though

 

[mhucasey]

I love the combo rocks!

 

[martinphillip03]

Andrew, I am quite interested how you handled your ich outbreak. My tank had it and it decimated my fish. I would love for you to enlighten me on your fish keeping husbandry.

Marty

 

[markalot]

Feed heavy and often is how I handled mine. I soaked food in garlic to make it more appetizing but I'm not sure it was really needed.

 

[biggles]

I've been thinking about doing this as well. Have a feeling the skimmer is pulling out too much.

Beautiful tank Biggles

Thank you Jim, i'll explain a few things about what and why i do it in regards to skimmate if you like.

Andrew,
I'm feeding my scolly as the other corals

P.S.: I'm feeding with FM coral food

I'll squirt them with reef roids and see what they do lol.

Tank is looking very nice mate. Love the coral arrangement shots. Very good teaching material. :beer: Thats whats good about your threads: pretty photos to keep our interest, and real reefkeeping material thrown in for us to learn. :reading:

Thanks mate, i need to get back to reef rambling......

As Sahin has said, your posts are some of the best! Pics and info, what more could a person want!

That's a pretty awesome little rock creation there, I do love your ingenuity when it comes to these things and how many frags do you have for me?! haha I'm heading down to Deer Park on Thursday night but might not have to buy anything as I may already be out of room :spin1: especially if you're twisting my arm for more frags, at least I'm getting my wrasse though

I went to Deer Park at lunch time on Wednesday and Dave showed me your wrasse....... i asked Dave to sell it to me and he offered to get me another one in and i was like ' you're missing the bloody point Dave, i want Wrangy's wrasse not another one that looks like it - you can tell him your mom sold it while you were out doing stuff and then you can get him another one in and i won't ever mention i have the wrasse - easy ' ( i was lying of course because i would have posted pics all over RC of that stunning little fish )
Poor Dave didn't know whether i was joking or not lol. Don't think he's all mr nice guy because he did offer to move your fish a few tanks away so you freaked out when you came to pick it up........ i like Dave

I love the combo rocks!

Thanks Matt

Andrew, I am quite interested how you handled your ich outbreak. My tank had it and it decimated my fish. I would love for you to enlighten me on your fish keeping husbandry.

Marty

I did what Mark did and fed the fish 6-7 times a day for about three weeks. I lost one Randall's Anthia and everything else kicked it off. The royal gramma was on the sand at one point but even he pulled through. He swims upside down when under his arch but when he was really sick he was swimming upside down out in the open - not a good look lol.

Feed heavy and often is how I handled mine. I soaked food in garlic to make it more appetizing but I'm not sure it was really needed.

Hey Mark, yep i do what you do and it seems to work well for me. I don't use garlic just lots and lots of good food. :beer:

Since we're on the subject of fish i want to get some opinions on a serious problem i have with one of mine. A couple of weeks ago i turned the lights on and saw that one of the Randall's eyes was popped right out of his head. He wasn't swimming well and was lying on the bottom before lights out which the Anthias don't normally do. He'll be dead in the morning for sure, poor little guy i thought that night.
Now the next day i turned on the lights and he was swimming around as if nothing had happened but his eye was still hanging out. Over the past weeks his eye has gone back in about half way but he's happy as a pig in you know what. Here is the problem, the other fish are of the opinion he died and is now a zombie fish....... you can see he does look a tad creepy. :uhoh3:

 

[reefmutt]

I suggest you eat him. The pop eye will be transferred to you and then you can enjoy life as a pop eyed zombie reefer!

If he has come back this far, maybe he'll beat it in another week or so..

 

[markalot]

I've been lucky with fish ... lucky as in either they die quickly or don't seem to have anything. I've been trying to up my school of little cardinals ... peeling them off the mp40 in the morning ... bought 6 more, 1 survived. Yay.

Anyway I had a Flame Angel way back when I first started ... he got some kind of popeye and fungus and looked near death. Some extra water changes and heavy feeding worked well, and he fully recovered. I eventually had to take him back to the LFS due to the nipping. Beautiful fish.

 

[martinphillip03]

Oh great one, please humor me. How did you get rid of the parasites?

Marty

Yes Marty, that's why i had the cyano issue with the ridiculous amount of food the fish were receiving.

 

[markalot]

Oh great one, please humor me. How did you get rid of the parasites?

Marty

The great one is busy, but if I may ...

You don't get rid of them, they just move to the background. Still in the tank, still able to infect new fish, still infecting existing fish but (guessing) at a tolerable level.

 

[biggles]

I suggest you eat him. The pop eye will be transferred to you and then you can enjoy life as a pop eyed zombie reefer!

If he has come back this far, maybe he'll beat it in another week or so..

Hey Matt I'm sure he'll be good as new (or the undead) in no time at all mate.

I've been lucky with fish ... lucky as in either they die quickly or don't seem to have anything. I've been trying to up my school of little cardinals ... peeling them off the mp40 in the morning ... bought 6 more, 1 survived. Yay.

Anyway I had a Flame Angel way back when I first started ... he got some kind of popeye and fungus and looked near death. Some extra water changes and heavy feeding worked well, and he fully recovered. I eventually had to take him back to the LFS due to the nipping. Beautiful fish.

I have three out of fifteen glass fish left so i feel your pain lol.
My fish get lots of food every day and i'm sure that will help the little freak get better. :thumbsup:

Oh great one, please humor me. How did you get rid of the parasites?

Marty

Marty i have no clue about fish but Mark's post below explains it just right Every time i've added a blue tang they blow up with ich and every time i feed the fish crazy amounts of food they get better. I never see ich again no matter how many new fish i get.

The great one is busy, but if I may ...

You don't get rid of them, they just move to the background. Still in the tank, still able to infect new fish, still infecting existing fish but (guessing) at a tolerable level.

Thanks Mark, well fed fish in good ocean water tend to stay healthy i find

You don't see one of these acros every day...........

 

[reefmutt]

Oooooooohhh! That's a nice acro!!!
Love the baby blue.
Like, loooooove this coral!!!

 

[biggles]

Oooooooohhh! That's a nice acro!!!
Love the baby blue.
Like, loooooove this coral!!!

Thanks buddy

I'd already scoped out the acro sale tank - nothing new that i liked and then tried to steal Wrangy's wrasse to no avail when Dave starts banging on about how he's expecting a new acro shipment in a few days...........
I was facing away from the acro tank looking past Dave at the 10ft long flubber sale tank opposite ( i started feeling nauseous btw ) when i see the most unusual looking acro i've ever seen laying on the bottom surrounded by garbage. I pointed at it and said ' what the hell is that Dave '

' Oh yeah i thought i'd put a few pieces in there to see how they go, that ones really interesting looking. There's a couple of other nice bits up high on the shelf but you have to bend down to see them '.

Dave, Dave, Dave.........:facepalm:

I bent down and saw the other two pieces i came home with that day.

In future Dave would you mind not HIDING BEAUTIFUL ACROS IN THE FLUBBER TANK ! :deadhorse:


This is what happens when two pacifist acros meet.......... nothing.

The polyps are in constant contact but both these tree hugging acros refuse to throw a punch. The baby blue tipped one has instead decided to grow under the other acro.

 

[mhucasey]

Your recent acro additions have been absolutely amazing!