geekengineer
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Never thought of it but I guess reef light does look a bit spooky. I think you have ghosts in your tank. HaHa..
Foam Rockwall w/ built in refuge for a 26 gal bowfront
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sam.basye
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Thanks guys, it's nice to sit back and watch without having to worry about the tank (except for giant crabs!) Especially when I stick my arm(s) in the tank, which seems to be multiple times a day.. There's always something that needs rescuing, adjusting, or retrieving.
The majority of the time I knock the little spacer in-between the lip and glass door (vent for the fans) reaching in and around the tank... Frustrating! Neither super glue or hot glue will keep it attached to the glass.
My wife posted a pic of the jack o lanterns to the local news Facebook and it made it on TV! We're famous. Lol
Michael, you like my multi-purpose soap dish frag rack don't you.
There definitely some paranormal activity going on in there under the moonlights!
On a side note, I think I mentioned my weird landlord previously... Anyways, when I went out of town a few weeks ago I had to resort to asking him to take care of my fish as I had nobody else. Turns out when I switch the light from normal to blue LED only, the change and pop of the corals blew his mind. Lol come to find out each time he came to check on and water the fish, he would spend about 45 min just staring at the tank. Haha He did a good job though, I've definitely had worse help before: water splashing everywhere on my desk because they ran out of top off water.
The Automatic feeder actually quit and the fish made it a week without food..
The majority of the time I knock the little spacer in-between the lip and glass door (vent for the fans) reaching in and around the tank... Frustrating! Neither super glue or hot glue will keep it attached to the glass.
My wife posted a pic of the jack o lanterns to the local news Facebook and it made it on TV! We're famous. Lol
Michael, you like my multi-purpose soap dish frag rack don't you.
There definitely some paranormal activity going on in there under the moonlights!
On a side note, I think I mentioned my weird landlord previously... Anyways, when I went out of town a few weeks ago I had to resort to asking him to take care of my fish as I had nobody else. Turns out when I switch the light from normal to blue LED only, the change and pop of the corals blew his mind. Lol come to find out each time he came to check on and water the fish, he would spend about 45 min just staring at the tank. Haha He did a good job though, I've definitely had worse help before: water splashing everywhere on my desk because they ran out of top off water.
The Automatic feeder actually quit and the fish made it a week without food..
I remember, back in the day, before you were famous jack o lanternists…
I do love that soapdish! I see I'm not the only one.
I do love that soapdish! I see I'm not the only one.
sam.basye
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Yep, those of you that were lucky enough to know me before being famous..
Soo, last weekend I went out of town for 5 nights and came home to the tank's water level being way too low. It is usually okay if I fill it to the rim and leave for 4 days. My neon green cualastrea was only partially submerged. The top two heads were dry and kind bony looking. Today, they have come back and are regrowing and don't look bad for gradually not being submerged for probably 24 hours. I thought they would be dead for sure!
Yesterday was the first power outage my tank had experienced. The day after getting back, my landlord told me the power would be out from 8am - noon for power line tree removal. I rushed to Walmart that night and bought me a bigger and quieter battery powered bubbler. I have the tiny version for trips and collecting.
The big one is good for a little over 2 days on two D batteries.
I split it off to aireate both sides of the tank and put the little one in the 'fuge. Power ever up being off from 9:10 to 1:30. Everything worked as planned and is still alive
Mp10 was on in pic
I mounted it to the stand, ran the tubing up to a check valve, then in the tank.
Soo, last weekend I went out of town for 5 nights and came home to the tank's water level being way too low. It is usually okay if I fill it to the rim and leave for 4 days. My neon green cualastrea was only partially submerged. The top two heads were dry and kind bony looking. Today, they have come back and are regrowing and don't look bad for gradually not being submerged for probably 24 hours. I thought they would be dead for sure!
Yesterday was the first power outage my tank had experienced. The day after getting back, my landlord told me the power would be out from 8am - noon for power line tree removal. I rushed to Walmart that night and bought me a bigger and quieter battery powered bubbler. I have the tiny version for trips and collecting.
The big one is good for a little over 2 days on two D batteries.
I split it off to aireate both sides of the tank and put the little one in the 'fuge. Power ever up being off from 9:10 to 1:30. Everything worked as planned and is still alive
Mp10 was on in pic
I mounted it to the stand, ran the tubing up to a check valve, then in the tank.
Another tidy setup, Sam!
Maybe an ATO some day? I don't have one on my quarantine tank, and it's just annoying.
Maybe an ATO some day? I don't have one on my quarantine tank, and it's just annoying.
sam.basye
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Here are some videos I put together from my honeymoon that go with the pics I posted a while back. I broke up probably 4 hours of footage into roughly three 5 min videos of highlights.
The irritating clicking is me taking still photos while recording. Shot in 1080p @ 30fps with a Drift HD Ghost in waterproof housing on a monopod.
The clicking is the price you pay or not having to go though all 4 hours of footage!
Video 1
https://youtu.be/o0bQaquzbhk
Video 2
https://youtu.be/vIWGpyHfqRc
Video 3
https://youtu.be/SKQz_xe4e_g
Tank updates to follow in the next day or two...
The irritating clicking is me taking still photos while recording. Shot in 1080p @ 30fps with a Drift HD Ghost in waterproof housing on a monopod.
The clicking is the price you pay or not having to go though all 4 hours of footage!
Video 1
https://youtu.be/o0bQaquzbhk
Video 2
https://youtu.be/vIWGpyHfqRc
Video 3
https://youtu.be/SKQz_xe4e_g
Tank updates to follow in the next day or two...
Nice work! Great variety of fish and inverts. I was trying to name everything, as I saw it - fun! Those ricordeas on the last vid looked like they were the size of dinner plates!
sam.basye
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They definitely were! I couldn't help it and touched one. Lol very sticky. It freaked me out at first, but I had to do it a second time just for fun.
I would've uploaded the part when I got stung, but it wasn't as exciting as I had thought at the moment. Lol
I opted to use YouTube's stabilization enhancement to counter my shakiness, seems like I traded shakiness for warbly images... Oh well, I tried. Haha
I would've uploaded the part when I got stung, but it wasn't as exciting as I had thought at the moment. Lol
I opted to use YouTube's stabilization enhancement to counter my shakiness, seems like I traded shakiness for warbly images... Oh well, I tried. Haha
sam.basye
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Not too much new with the tank. Yesterday was the first day ever taking a razor to the glass to get the little hard green dots off that the mag float doesn't get. I wish I had done this sooner! I've been paranoid about scratching the glass.. Crystal clear, just in time to do another 3 day blackout to get rid of some unwanted algae.
Here is the backside of my foam wall that was not sealed. Looks like it did when I first put it in the tank. The top half is blurry from algae on the glass. The bottom half is accurate.
I found Snappy's passage way into the back! It's probably the size of a nickel.
Somehow a hermits shell got a big hole in it and it now looks ridiculous walking around sticking out of the wrong hole. lol
The sea whips aren't doing so well. I moved one to the back to see if lighting is to blame. I can't keep diatoms off of them. I brush it off, come back a couple hours later and it's covered again. I want to find the snails that live on them, but no luck. They aren't available anywhere. Like-colored one-tooth simnia snails.
Lastly, I moved my newish purple style to a lower spot thats more dim as it was bleaching and blocking light to my zoas below it. They were unhappy and the color was fading.
Here is the backside of my foam wall that was not sealed. Looks like it did when I first put it in the tank. The top half is blurry from algae on the glass. The bottom half is accurate.
I found Snappy's passage way into the back! It's probably the size of a nickel.
Somehow a hermits shell got a big hole in it and it now looks ridiculous walking around sticking out of the wrong hole. lol
The sea whips aren't doing so well. I moved one to the back to see if lighting is to blame. I can't keep diatoms off of them. I brush it off, come back a couple hours later and it's covered again. I want to find the snails that live on them, but no luck. They aren't available anywhere. Like-colored one-tooth simnia snails.
Lastly, I moved my newish purple style to a lower spot thats more dim as it was bleaching and blocking light to my zoas below it. They were unhappy and the color was fading.
Stylophora is one of my favorites! Wish I could help with that gorgonian. I don't know if it's photosynthetic or not. Even if it is, I think you still have to feed it plankton sized food. Since diatoms are growing on it, it may prefer shade, which would point to non-photosynthetic.
Glad to hear your fake wall is holding up.
Glad to hear your fake wall is holding up.
sam.basye
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I found somewhere online that sold them (out of stock) that said they liked low light. I also read somewhere else that clear polyps is often a trait of being nonphotosynthetic compared to those that are colored.
I've been occasionally been feeding some phyto in its direction, but I don't think there's a point in feeding it when the polyps aren't out, which is rare due to the diatoms..
Stinks because they add a nice yellow color to the tank and it really stands out.
I've been occasionally been feeding some phyto in its direction, but I don't think there's a point in feeding it when the polyps aren't out, which is rare due to the diatoms..
Stinks because they add a nice yellow color to the tank and it really stands out.
geekengineer
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hey stopping by for a look at your pictures looking good.
Looks like star polyps, rose anemone and sun coral. Fun pic! More please.
sam.basye
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Thanks!
Star polyps are old news, but still growing like a weed.. No sun coral, for the time being anyways. Might be looking at the half open zoas.
My local club forum on RC sent me a notification and I jumped on the post for a golf ball sized rbta! It was a great deal and I have been wanting some form of host anemone for my clowns. The guy's 12" rbta had split a little baby about a week ago and was attached to apiece of rubble. The color faded slightly from being in a separate container over the past week but will come back to a bright pinkish orange!
Upon bringing a cooler full of goodies back, I attempted to use my dremel to cut down the rubble so I didn't have to pry the nem off. It promptly let go of the rock after dipping the rock in the chalky water so I cupped it and put it in the tank and let it attach. It immediately opened up and decided to walk from the top of the rock it's on down the front and ended up in the same spot this morning, but coming up the opening behind the rock instead of in front lol.
It appears happy and waiting for the clowns to decide they want a host!
The less exciting stuff are a small toadstool leather, a tiny toadstool that was connected. Both are starting to open again. Two big birds nest frags, a big purple nurple monti cap, and some red/orange monti cap. The majority of frags were freebies!
I moved a few things around and knocked off my little green digi and had to relocate it.
Picture time!
Cooler o' fun!
About the size of the top half of a baseball. Super pretty pink streaks in each bulb.
Green toadstool leathers
Birds nest
Mintipora's. Purple cap is about 5" x8"
My genius mounting system, all you jealous of my foam rocks can be haters until they sag and break off. lol I'm hoping they encrust the wall before the tooth picks bend and break..
FTS to follow later this evening.
Star polyps are old news, but still growing like a weed.. No sun coral, for the time being anyways. Might be looking at the half open zoas.
My local club forum on RC sent me a notification and I jumped on the post for a golf ball sized rbta! It was a great deal and I have been wanting some form of host anemone for my clowns. The guy's 12" rbta had split a little baby about a week ago and was attached to apiece of rubble. The color faded slightly from being in a separate container over the past week but will come back to a bright pinkish orange!
Upon bringing a cooler full of goodies back, I attempted to use my dremel to cut down the rubble so I didn't have to pry the nem off. It promptly let go of the rock after dipping the rock in the chalky water so I cupped it and put it in the tank and let it attach. It immediately opened up and decided to walk from the top of the rock it's on down the front and ended up in the same spot this morning, but coming up the opening behind the rock instead of in front lol.
It appears happy and waiting for the clowns to decide they want a host!
The less exciting stuff are a small toadstool leather, a tiny toadstool that was connected. Both are starting to open again. Two big birds nest frags, a big purple nurple monti cap, and some red/orange monti cap. The majority of frags were freebies!
I moved a few things around and knocked off my little green digi and had to relocate it.
Picture time!
Cooler o' fun!
About the size of the top half of a baseball. Super pretty pink streaks in each bulb.
Green toadstool leathers
Birds nest
Mintipora's. Purple cap is about 5" x8"
My genius mounting system, all you jealous of my foam rocks can be haters
until they sag and break off. lol I'm hoping they encrust the wall before the tooth picks bend and break..FTS to follow later this evening.
Sweet! That nem is vivid. Love the purple monti too. Later on the FTS? You're such a tease.
sam.basye
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These pics were from my phone and I'm currently waiting on my woman to get off work, so I've had plenty of time waiting in a parking lot for the past 2 hours for my thumbs to get a nice workout. Lol The FTS is on the dslr at home.
Hope you weren't disappointed there wasn't a FTS in this post. [emoji14]
These pics were from my phone and I'm currently waiting on my woman to get off work, so I've had plenty of time waiting in a parking lot for the past 2 hours for my thumbs to get a nice workout. Lol The FTS is on the dslr at home.
Hope you weren't disappointed there wasn't a FTS in this post. [emoji14]
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