Buildup of a 90 gallon Reef (picture intensive)

[thrlride]

wow Ryan - got the reactor online huh? Were you really at a point you needed it yet?

I'm still able to get by on kalk. I'm riding the 10% Oceanic weekly change and heavy kalk drip train as long as I can.

Let me know how you like that reactor.

I didn't really need it yet but I got everything for around $400 so I thought that was a good deal.

 

[thrlride]

Here is the best close up of the clam that I have:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/thrlride/Salt%20tank/DSCF1960.jpg">

 

[thrlride]

Those are some amazing looking zoos too!

I haven't tried the formula 2 in a while. The one I have is rather old so I need to buy another package.

They go nuts over some nori though!

 

[H2OLUVSME]

that is a sweet clam Ryan!

 

[thrlride]

Thanks! I actually found him at an LFS! They have one more that is smaller and the blues are deeper.

 

[thrlride]

I found this guy on my acro last night, is he good or bad?

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/thrlride/Salt%20tank/DSCF2231.jpg">

and

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/thrlride/Salt%20tank/DSCF2229.jpg">

 

[Toddrtrex]

Looks like an Acro crab to me, if it is, it is good.

 

[AJP]

He be an acro crab (i think), most likely will be fine. If he ventuers out and starts to eat snails and such, banish him.

 

[thrlride]

This guy is about the size of a dime. Very small and shy.

 

[H2OLUVSME]

mine is a little hairier than yours (and blurrier). i was told to take him out and he will eat the polyps off of your corals, but i havent seen him do any damage besides walking on the polyps. i watch him pull food items off of his hairy legs and also see him scavange algae off of the tips of this acro.

he came to me in a dying (small) colony. he picked it clean then left it for a more colorful colony. after he left the original one started coming back. it was almost as if he left the first one so it could recover, very odd.

i say inoccent until proven guilty.

 

[AJP]

Here is one I pulled out of an acro sometime ago

 

[thrlride]

Did you hear they were bad, is that why you banished him? Mine isn't quite like that as you can see. Mine is a little more hairy. Not quite Robin Williams hairy, like H2OLovesme but in the middle.

 

[electric130]

Not quite Robin Williams hairy...

 

[AJP]

I banished him because I didn't need any more crabs. He never even went in my tank. Straight to the fuge.

 

[thrlride]

:lmao:

Your chuckle made me chuckle!

 

[electric130]

get my PM at RASOC?

 

[thrlride]

Yeah, just did. Those are great!

 

[thrlride]

I was busy blowing the rocks to try and get any debris off. What a mess. You'd think that 3600 gph wouldn't allow anything to sit on the rock's but you'd be wrong.

 

[H2OLUVSME]

i re-arranged one of my Seios last night and the same thing happened (blew crap all ovr the place). ive got 4000gph in my display and shhtuff still settles.

 

[thrlride]

My SEIO's were starting to get a lot of hair algae on the outputs so I left them off last night (mainly to let newly glued frags have ample time to dry) and now they are spotless. I should give the tangs a raise!