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Peccavi18

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My tank is finally coming together, and I'm finally getting excited to see it doing something. It had been up and running bare bones for far to long. I got my two Koralia3's in, my Remora Pro is scheduled to show up today, coraline is growing everywhere, refugium is exploding with growth and life, parameters are good and stable, overall the tank is doing well. I still need to get 2 new bulbs this week and sell off some extra live rock (I bought to much) but otherwise I think I am good and can start adding a few small frags soon. Gonna stick with softies and some lps till I build up some experience and make sure I know what I'm doing. I'm looking for some hardy, inexpensive, yet colorful stuff to start off with. I know I want some long tentacled GSP, and some ricordia. Otherwise I am not really sure yet. Feel free to toss out ideas, and frags you have available. I have Xenia and some small dimpled mushrooms so far.

I also will be listing some stuff I have to sell /trade soon as I clean out the office.

Pics on my little piece of the ocean to come soon.
 
Glad to hear it man.

BTW we had dinner at Atrias one night last week...awesome New York Strip steak!
 
I had the tank up for awhile through 05-06 but went on an extended vacation and stuff went haywire which ended in a huge crash. I got discouraged so I let the tank sit for almost 2 yrs, finally figured I have almost all of it still sitting around I should get back to it. That was spring last year, I got it set back up but have been taking my time and watching it grow. My clown and blenny were good choices for fish but once I got the coral beauty(I know I will watch him) I got the approval from the g/f to set it all back up again she even helped rearrange the office so we have a couch in front of the tank.

Jared thanks, Our steaks are amazing, I have them prob once a month. BTW those Xenia are like weeds I can see them already trying to move onto other rock.
 
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i have a flame angle great looken fish never touches any of my coral look into one there great but not with that coral beauty they will kill each other for sure
 
I like the Flames but I couldn't justify that kind of money, starting out and the g/f like the CB so... The CB has easily become the life of the tank It's always swimming through holes in the rock and right up front begging to be feed, not sure why they are listed as shy or maybe i just got lucky.

The only 2 other fish I have plans for are a sixline wrasse and tang, either a yellow or a hippo gonna give that some time though.
 
i also have a yellow tang lol id say go with them they are great and very active and will take care of any hair algea and my flame is awasome allways all over the tank everywere hes the best if your looking for a fun fish to watch just for laughs get a bi color bleeny they will duck into holes in your rock and guard it like a pitt bull they are quit the site to watch and IMO quite cheap to
 
So after talking to a few people we had talked about the possibility of my bio load being to small for my skimmer to really pull. Just to test the theory I have been overfeeding twice a day. The skimmer is going nuts, pulling stinky sludge without problem now and the xenia is strongly pulsating and showing brighter colors. I did go a bit over board and have to slow down and do some water changes got to 40ppm but no one is showing any ill affects so far and our theory was right.

And here are a few pics of what I had started back with a few months ago.(new pics are loading right now)

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any way to hide the heater behind the rockwork? I think that it would really add to your look if you could...nice open look though.
 
Yeah heater was in the refugium for awhile and worked well there, or I could easily hide it behind the current rock work, I just have it laying out, till I decide what to do with the rock I am storing in there.

My point and shoot camera with lack of photo skills doesn't show off the openness of the tank. All 5 of the pillars and the 2 rocks on top are all 10lbs or more. And with all that rock are only 5 points of contact with the glass.
I also finally got my new/replacement bulbs today but managed to break a reflector holder attaching them so I am trying some JB weld if that doesn't do it I will buy a new one.
 
Looking for some insight, I have "something" on one of my zoa frags, I have been searching the net and can't find what it is. It is bright pink and looks almost like cotton candy. It has a "skin" that has spikes under it holding it up and the insides looks almost like an ant farm, with tiny little tunnel like things. There is 1 hole/tunnel into it but I have yet to see anything go in or out. It covers 1 side of the frag rock and goes right up to and around the polyps. I haven't seen any damage to or missing polyps but I am new to this. Looking for any insight, I have searched nudis, sponges, pests, snails... and am not finding it. Any lead would be appreciated

edited to add: Not even sure it is bad, would just like to know what it is. Pics coming but they make it just look like Coraline which it is not.
 
The G/f has actually gotten into the tank this time around. I got home yesterday and she had just feed the fish and was cleaning the glass. And the other day she even offered to stop into Wet Pets when we were down that way. She wanted me to pick up coral and crabs but I told her I had to wait a bit and do some research but I figured I would put out a feeler on here to see if anyone was fragging some of these soon. Since she is pushing it who am I to say no :)

These all seem recommend and doable for a beginner
Hammer or Frogspawn
Candy Cane
Trumpet
Brain Coral
Plate coral, short tentacle
Montipora
Looking for brighter colored variants of all the above


On a side note I need to get rid of two 10# plus pieces of base rock the one is still alive taking up my whole refugium and the other is dry I didn't have room for it. Make an offer I'll take pics if needed
 
Pics of the unknown?? Normally the skin doesn't have the spikes sticking out it is thicker and more translucent. I'm assuming that is only because I pulled it out of the tank
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I think the coral beauty is what got her interested. It was a comprimise but is a very nice fish. She was looking at as many fish and corals as I was at wet pets. Hopefully I can get her to do wc ;)
 
Stupid question, I think I know the answer but I will ask anyways. I had 11 blue leg hermits and 1 Mexican Red Leg hermit, got him by accident, bought them all at once and he happened to get thrown in as a blue leg. Anyways he is much larger than the blue legs and recently I have found 3 blue legs ripped out of their shells and left for dead or aleady dead. I know snails fight and blue legs are considered to be the worst I saw them kill a narcisious(sp) snail already but he is double the size of my biggest blue leg and I have a feeling it is him doing it, he is always in the area of the dead body. Should I pull him? and when I add more what do you all suggest? The blue legs pick algae here and there but the mexican really seems to clean a rock once he is on it. Any other less agressive choices?
 
I have nothing but red leg mexican hermits in my tank. They leave my snails alone. I have about 25 of them in my tank and only lost like one. The red leg are suppose to be the least aggressive choice for hermits from everything I have read. When I had blue legs in the past they were always fighting with each other and attacking my snails for their shells. I don't see that with the mexican red leg.
 
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