Western_reefer
Reef keeper
Wow! VERY nice tank!!
ADA 120-P + Elos Mini dual NPS tank journal
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alexruegamer
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hi uhru
great tank! truly inspirion for my new tank...
how many live rocks did you use?
alex
great tank! truly inspirion for my new tank...
how many live rocks did you use?
alex
slapshot
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Looking good! Everything looks healthy and polyped out. With all the food you are serving up hows your nitrate level? Nitrates and cyno, seem to be two problems with azoox feeding. I am hoping with the new CITIES season in January we start seeing some nice Gorgs again. The market seems to have gone dry.
uhuru
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Thanks alex! I'm glad to be an inspiration to your new tank. I didn't weight the rocks so I don't know how much exactly. I've had the rocks for a long time in a holding tank and didn't even use half of it. If I had to guess I would say about 20-30 kg.
I need to pick up new N & P test kits, but I bet they are both pretty elevated. Even though this tank stays clean, the planted tank which is connected to it goes through all kinds of struggles. All of the nuisance algae and cyano seems to accumulate there. The only algae/bacteria growth I get in this tank is brown film stuff.
I can wait until Jan for new stuff no problem. Its crazy how expensive it is to stock a larger tank, so it will give me time to save more money.
I picked them up from DD as soon as I saw them. They often get the bigger solitary ones but you rarely see the colonies of small ones. I haven't had them nearly long enough to notice the colony getting bigger. Now I have some clear tunicates with fluorescent outlines that came as hitchhikers on a rock that look amazing, I mean REALLY AMAZING. They have also doubled in size since I got them. Tunicates are fascinating animals. They are the closest invertebrate relatives to us you know. With the clear ones if you look real close you can kind of see why. Too bad they have short lifespans. I will try to take pics later.
dave.m
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Way cool. I don't know why, but tunicates have always been especially appealing to me. You probably know this Ascidian site, but maybe the link will be new to someone else here. Sorry, I don't know who DD is.uhuru said:
Cheers,
Dave.M
flying_dutchman
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The tank is looking awesome! Are you going to get some fish for the tank, or is it going to be angler territory?
Divers Den, www.liveaquaria.com
alexruegamer
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hey
i can see some zormia lepacanthus!!! one of my favourite fishes...
i can see some zormia lepacanthus!!! one of my favourite fishes...
uhuru
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Thanks! The tank is fully stocked with fish already
As Alex mentioned there is a small shoal of 5 blue eye cardinals. There is also a Genicanthus bellus female and a yellow eye kole tang. I might get a pair of neon gobies but they love to steal food from coral polyps so not sure. In a bigger tank like this it might be ok. This tank has no cleanup crew just a tang and he seems to keep the algae off before I even see it. I do plan to get a bunch of nassarius snails to help clean up the sand bed.Anybody notice the Seriatopora coral on the top right? :eek1: I actually had problems with it bleaching under this light, until I changed out a couple of the GE 6500K bulbs with actinics.
uhuru
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Couple new pics! I took a few others, but they didn't turn out so great.
Paraminabea sp.
Dendronephthya sp.
I think I overdosed phyto for a few days too many, as the corals were starting to stay closed and I got a major cyano outbreak in my seagrass tank. Water got pretty scary cloudy. I've stopped dosing phyto other than Ultra Clam and will leave it like that for a while. The water is already starting to clear up a lot. The ozone and the skimmer really do a great job of clearing up the water.
Paraminabea sp.
Dendronephthya sp.
I think I overdosed phyto for a few days too many, as the corals were starting to stay closed and I got a major cyano outbreak in my seagrass tank. Water got pretty scary cloudy. I've stopped dosing phyto other than Ultra Clam and will leave it like that for a while. The water is already starting to clear up a lot. The ozone and the skimmer really do a great job of clearing up the water.
flying_dutchman
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Have you noticed any growth with the corals?
uhuru
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No, not in the ADA. I've noticed shrinkage of my Dendronephthya. They closed up for a few days when the tank got too cloudy. Its a constant race against their metabolism with these corals, IMO. Have to keep them happy! One mistake and they start shrinking on you.
Another thing I should say is the corals in this tank are still, for the most part, not accustomed to the bright lights. They only come out in full extension a few hours after the lights are off.
Another thing I should say is the corals in this tank are still, for the most part, not accustomed to the bright lights. They only come out in full extension a few hours after the lights are off.
uhuru
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I have some in direct light that rarely open during the day, but come out fully expanded when all the lights are off. The ones in the shade will sometimes open in the day but polyp extension is still best at night. The feeding goes on all night too so it just further promotes their natural behavior. It does look pretty awesome at night though when you have a lot of them because there are so many polyps and they are pure white.
slapshot
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How big do they get when yours expand? The ones I can get are about an inch unexpanded (is that a word?). One is about two inches. I have read they can expand ten times so I don't want to get it and place it wrong.
Are they like Chilis and love the flow? Any advice is as always greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Are they like Chilis and love the flow? Any advice is as always greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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