Awais' 120g Build

I was looking back at my parameters and yes its been just about 3.5 months.
Ive made the mistake earlier, and I am going to heed yours and everyones advice to wait some more time. Couple of weeks wont harm me, lol, Ill just be working all the time any way!
2 corals that survived, Ponape birdnest and the eagle eye zoa, are doing good. They both are surely growing, ponape atleast few mms in 3 diff places. The zoa started with teens, todays count is 24!
Thanks for your advice, I am going to wait for some time, until Nooks party:celeb1:

smoothdog said:
Looks like it's starting to turn the corner Awais. Looking back at the start of this thread it's been about 3 months since you started up the tank, IME that's about when things start to stabilize and start going better. I'd keep an eye on things for at least a few more weeks and when the corals that survived start thriving and growing then you can start slowly adding some more.
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Back wall

Back wall

So the back wall that wife and I made so painstakingly, eggcrate with small marble stone siliconed atleats 3 layers and then medium size rocks drilled zipties.... is already beginning to fall....
The marble stones arent keeping up...I see eggcrate so many places. :debi:

I am going to remove the whole thing out ( it was also siliconed to the back glass wall inside the tank !!) and most likely put a mirror tint from the outside on the back.

Such a waste of precious labor, we spent the most time in sticking those freaking marble stones.:deadhorse1:
Just another lesson learned
 
Bummer, I am against those types of backgrounds anyway as they will become algae traps eventually. I prefer a nice clean background. I would consider black instead of mirror finish.
 
Ill check both mirror and black and keep what would appeal to wife! Safest bet right. hahahaha I still want to buy corals and stuff, lmao.
 
Thanks Guys!

I was saying that I will put whatever wife wants, as that will keep her happy so that i can still keep spending money on the hobby without her complaining! :bum:
 
By the way if any one uses randys 2 part. I have a lot of Magnesium Chloride ( which is hard to get), that Id be happy to share with, obviously only SLASH members.
 
Nanook said:
Bummer, I am against those types of backgrounds anyway as they will become algae traps eventually. I prefer a nice clean background. I would consider black instead of mirror finish.
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Would fish see their reflections in a mirrored background? If so, wouldn't this be a point of stress for any fish that are territorial?
 
I use a small hand mirror to curb aggression of the dominant fish in my tank. When the fish sees "another fish" of it's own species in it's territory it will immediately go on the offensive and not bother the other fish in the tank. With the small mirror, as soon as the fish swims out of view of the mirror the perceived threat is gone for the moment and it may not see another "threat" for a few minutes, this is fairly common in nature to have small regular skirmishes for territory. With a fully mirrored back, the fish would never be able to "chase away" the intruder for even a few seconds and I think this would cause undue stress and possibly even injury from constantly attacking the tank wall. If you only plan to keep communal species that are totally non-aggressive you might be ok but many of those will even have issues if they see another same sex "alpha" fish in the group. I'd go with the dark black tint or paint.
 
i have a complete mirror tint. only fish that ever showed aggression to its own refection was a powder blue, it went at it for 3 days then forgot about it. i have more than 30 fish in my tank right now and no one cares.
 
bnumair said:
i have a complete mirror tint. only fish that ever showed aggression to its own refection was a powder blue, it went at it for 3 days then forgot about it. i have more than 30 fish in my tank right now and no one cares.
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Hmm, that's interesting. Tangs are always the most aggressive mirror attackers IME but I've also had angels and even wrasses attack their own reflection. Maybe with the small mirror they only see their reflection and maybe one other fish and tend to be more aggressive, whereas with the whole back a mirror they are a little more on the defensive sine it would appear to them that there are twice as many other fish to look out for?
 
smoothdog said:
Hmm, that's interesting. Tangs are always the most aggressive mirror attackers IME but I've also had angels and even wrasses attack their own reflection. Maybe with the small mirror they only see their reflection and maybe one other fish and tend to be more aggressive, whereas with the whole back a mirror they are a little more on the defensive sine it would appear to them that there are twice as many other fish to look out for?
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i have 4 tangs, yellow, hippo, powder blue and achilles. i think the thing is if the mirror effect is there 24/7 they get used to it after few days. placing a mirror to divert aggression every now and then keeps them in the game. also over time coralline algae and film algae takes over and mirror effect fades away.
 
Interesting discussion there. Justs ays there are more then one way to do things.

As I have already ordered the mirro tint, Ill use that, I wont make it permanent. If things dont go well, Ill exchange that for a black back.
As far as they are going to be outside the tank, it will be easy to change, unlike the current intank siliconed to the back, wall! LOL. It will be a days project for sure. That back wall is siliconed below the end to end glass weir :D
 
How is Cyclops eeze liquid for feeding fishes? seems they LOVE it.
What does it do to the phos?
Any personal experiences?
 
Awais phos is over rated in this hobby. everything is made of phos including us as humans. without phos there will be nothing in this universe. its an essential part of everything.
food on the other had (any) will add phos to ur tank no matter what but i think the contribution is very little to where we should be able to ignore it or control it with regular gfo changes.
i feed my tank cyclop eeze dry mix it in ro/di water and feed it with my other frozen foods. its best for smaller fish.
 
Phosphates aren't overrated for certain tanks. It all depends on what you want to keep. A little phosphate is good, too high a phosphate and it will start to effect certain things.
 
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