ADA 120-P + Elos Mini dual NPS tank journal
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uhuru
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Chiller arrived today. You're gonna laugh when you get yours Mike. Its just a medium sized box that you can hold with one arm, but it comes delivered on a big truck and a cute little pallet, with a big truck driver LOL. The company must have a special deal or maybe they own the freight company. So overkill, but at least you know it'll arrive in good shape.
stunreefer
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
uhuru
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oldreefer76
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Nice Video! I see you like playing with fire with that Pseudocolochirus axilogus
Mike
He got it from a local who had it for sometime, and beat me to getting it
uhuru
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Don't give up!! A few weeks ago I killed a very nice dendro colony by squirting too much food into one of the polyps at once. Within a couple of days the entire colony lost most of its tissue - but there was still some tissue on the sides of the skeletons so I continued to squirt food by it every day. What I realized was that the remaining tissue, even if it is NOT A WHOLE POLYP with a mouth for feeding - can DIFFERENTIATE and become a new baby polyp! This was just the skin left on the sides of the skeletons - I now have about 10 baby polyps all over the skeletons! In this pic you can see one of the polyps is now big enough to eat NLS pellets or Ultra LPS - or even smaller mysis shrimp.
Here is just a pic of two different gorgs in close contact with each other and no issues.
Here is just a pic of two different gorgs in close contact with each other and no issues.
stunreefer
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Glad to see your dendro decided life was still worth living 
Awesome shot of the gorgs too!
Awesome shot of the gorgs too!
flying_dutchman
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wow amazing tank, do you have a FTS?
flying_dutchman
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also could give some tank info?
stocklist, temp, feeding etc.
thanks
stocklist, temp, feeding etc.
thanks
uhuru
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Thank you! In terms of feeding, I use 2 syringe pumps to dose Shellfish Diet and Roti-Feast. I was using a kalk reactor to dose Fauna Marin foods, but it just got to be too much work to clean it out all the time. I will be testing a new chilled food reactor to feed the Fauna Marin foods in the future, but as of late I have been feeding manually - pretty much everytime I walk by the tank. Once I'm done with my midterms I'm going to set up a flask on a magnetic stirrer and use a peri pump to dose the food...that will be until I get the food reactor. I keep the tank between 72-74, although it has spiked up much higher a few times recently. Instead of a stocklist I'll just post up some pics and if you have any questions just ask! 
Now this one, to me, shows the similarities between "gorgs" and "soft corals," which are both octocorals. I don't even know what to call this other than an unknown octocoral.
Now this one, to me, shows the similarities between "gorgs" and "soft corals," which are both octocorals. I don't even know what to call this other than an unknown octocoral.
doorlady
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Your tank is so beautiful. May I ask what lighting you use. We are going to move our 29 gallon to my husbands office(I work there too!!!) Maybe I can convince him to go non-photo, we have been looking at seahorse and pipefish. Just not sure what we want to do, we have a 180 mix reef and a 120 mix reef.
We have several non-photos now in our 180 mix, but I think they would do better in a dedicated non-photo tank and after seeing your tank I think I could convince him.
We have several non-photos now in our 180 mix, but I think they would do better in a dedicated non-photo tank and after seeing your tank I think I could convince him.
uhuru
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Thanks! I am using a 21w LED lamp right now, but I will be running a custom controllable LED fixture in the near future. It will be strong enough to keep SPS corals but of course I won't be doing that. Main thing is I want something I can turn up when I want to really look up close at stuff or take pics.
I'm not sure how it would go with the fishes you want to keep in an NPS tank. Can those fish handle high flow?
I'm not sure how it would go with the fishes you want to keep in an NPS tank. Can those fish handle high flow?
doorlady
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the pipefish and seahorse can't take the flow. I think if we go nps we will maybe do one or 2 small colorful fish.
We have a power compact fixture and a halide fixture for this tank, do you think the power compact will be okay, I know the halide will provide to much light( right?)
We have a power compact fixture and a halide fixture for this tank, do you think the power compact will be okay, I know the halide will provide to much light( right?)
uhuru
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For sure the PCs will be ok... you can run the halide too if you want. It's really up to you. With any lights you have to consider heat and algae growth, but a lot of that depends on your tank setup, maintenance, etc. You could even just turn the halide on once in a while when you want to take pics or something like that.
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