Avgou's Reef Days 34 and 35

[Avgou]

Hello There,

I am on week six that started today (yesterday, Monday). These photos are from this weekend. The link below the first photo takes you to my albums on Google's Picasa. Let me say this is the easiest way to upload photos. There is a embed photos link for each photo where you can choose thumbnail size.

All reading are near perfect. There is <5 to <10 Nitrates during the week. Micro Algae is starting to subdue. The Halimeda is coming in really nice and I hope this Macroalgae helps limit the micro, with my grazers of course!!!

The live rock was purchased and placed into the tank on March 8th...The tank was started up on Feb 25th.


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Got two if these guys due to the LFS giving them to me as a surprise when I bought 2 lbs. of live sand from them. Thank you Aqua Dreams!

Check out their site, they truly have amazing live rock from the Gulf of Mexico.

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The mantis died today...accidentally flushed him down the drain trying to get him out of a rock and into quarantine, I panicked and forget to place rock in bucket due to feather dusters being on the rock, I caught him out of his hole on the base rock with the dusters, lost a duster too...

I really don't like killing animals and out of panic I lost him down the drain. There is a baby one somewhere, it's definately a mantis because he fought with my skewer...

Please let me know what you all think, I need to aquascape two rocks I bought this weekend.

All sorts of sponges, tube corals, brittle starfish, cucumbers, a sea urchin, I have all sorts of pink and red fanworms and all sorts fo clams/scallops/oysters not sure which is which.

 

[edwing206]

Looks good. There's a ton of life on that rock.

 

[Avgou]

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment Edwing.

 

[breutus]

awesome looking! great rock, lot of life for only a little over a month old!

is that clam alive with the orange sponge under it??? if so turn it upright you got a hell of a deal there!

 

[Avgou]

He's certainly alive...how do you know he's upside down?

 

[Thhitman]

I think he means turn him upright where the mantle can get the light from the tank.