Jadette's 140g Rimless Build Thread
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mr.lamnguyen
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look so awesome
jadette
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Forgot to mention that I got my tank from Charlie and the Fish Tank Factory. The tank was built by leemar. Very happy with it.
Thanks Rik! You'll need to give the milli plenty of light to keep the tips blue. When I ran my radiums for 6-8 hours a day, it grew beautiful blue tips:
The colony got very big and was blocking flow to other corals, so I fragged chunks of it and gave them away to fellow reefers. I keep a sizeable chunk for myself, but it's no longer in a prime location, and has lots of its color. Like you said, it's a hardy coral, but so picky with the light to keep the colors vibrant!
The rainbow stylo is another one that I had to find the perfect spot for before it truly colored up. I had placed it too high in the beginning, and it bleached a little and didn't grow. I moved it closer to the sandbed and then it browned out. I now have it in the middle of my tank (around 400-500 par) and it has recently taken off. I think I have gotten more growth out of it in the past two months than I did the prior 5 months.
I'm the other person that got the milli... it browned out on me during my crash. So now its in daves outdoor frag tankthere's nothing better than the sun for coloring up stuff
Did many of your corals brown out Brent? How's the red dragon doing?
Thanks! This particular monti cap grew out in 'cabbage leaves'. It would have a thin base and grow out in wider stalks. I love how it grew out in 'petals'. I would simply break the petals as they grew and bunched them together so that it looked like it was flowering.
All my other montis would grow so thick that I was not able to frag them. When my HUGE seasons greetings colony outgrew my tank, I had to give the whole colony to Lawrence, b/c it wasn't frag-able. There was a tiny encrusted piece left on my live rock, and my season's greetings is now growing back into a nicely sized piece.
The frags did not hold up in my sump unfortunately. Many reasons for this:
1) I allowed the algae to grow rampant in the sump and it covered up my frags and smothered them
2) I used a cheap chinese made LED fixture that supposedly would put out 150w of LED goodness. When I finally got my par meter, I was only registering 80 PAR with it at 100% intensity! So blah. I should have made my own fixture. Really happy with the LED strips I made for my main tank.
3) I don't remember what the 3rd reason was, but I didn't want to say I had many reasons and only list 2.
Hurry up and set up a new SPS tank so I can give you your OG corals back!
:strooper:
ChefZilla
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I browned out a lot...tri color valida...my pearl of Pacific mostly stned...garf bansai browned out and stned some.. another bansai browned as well. I was running them in the high 200s on par...backed it off to 250s and more blue spectrum. Things are comming back slowly. The red dragon is doing great. About the size of my fist now. Here's a few horrible pics
mr.lamnguyen
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it look like few thousand dollar Red Dragon right there
jadette
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That's a decent size red dragon colony Brent! Very nice! Mine grew very fast and in a very beautiful shape, but it STN'ed on me a couple of months ago. So bummed.
Sorry for your tank woes. You've probably already bounced back from it. A lot of your colonies still look very healthy and colorful.
Thank you! The coral you are referring to is the very common ORA neon green birdsnest. You frequently see it selling on these forums for $5-10 bucks a frag. I picked up a small frag of it from a fellow reefer about a year ago. Grows very fast. In fact, I just had to move it to a new location in my tank today b/c it was outgrowing a blue millie I had right next to it and it was completely shading it.
I've been searching for a group of Evansi Anthias for quite some time now. Ordered a harem twice before, but was told by the vendor the first time that the group was too unhealthy to ship. The second time, a different vendor told me that the fish were not eating and they wanted to monitor them for a few days first. They called me the next day to tell me that they all died. *Boggle* So when I finally got these babies in my tank, I was elated. They are so colorful, it looks like I just poured a bag of Skittles in my tank. the only negative thing is, they are so colorful that they make my corals look like poop in comparison.
I know they are not the easiest anthias to keep. Really hoping they'll do okay in my tank. Been a week and after a PraziPro treatment, they are still doing fine. They just spook really easily. I had to take this shot from a distance in fear of scaring them away.
I also moved my two clowns from my nano over to the main tank. They haven't found my anemones yet.
Sorry for your tank woes. You've probably already bounced back from it. A lot of your colonies still look very healthy and colorful.
Thank you! The coral you are referring to is the very common ORA neon green birdsnest. You frequently see it selling on these forums for $5-10 bucks a frag. I picked up a small frag of it from a fellow reefer about a year ago. Grows very fast. In fact, I just had to move it to a new location in my tank today b/c it was outgrowing a blue millie I had right next to it and it was completely shading it.
I've been searching for a group of Evansi Anthias for quite some time now. Ordered a harem twice before, but was told by the vendor the first time that the group was too unhealthy to ship. The second time, a different vendor told me that the fish were not eating and they wanted to monitor them for a few days first. They called me the next day to tell me that they all died. *Boggle* So when I finally got these babies in my tank, I was elated. They are so colorful, it looks like I just poured a bag of Skittles in my tank. the only negative thing is, they are so colorful that they make my corals look like poop in comparison.
I know they are not the easiest anthias to keep. Really hoping they'll do okay in my tank. Been a week and after a PraziPro treatment, they are still doing fine. They just spook really easily. I had to take this shot from a distance in fear of scaring them away.
I also moved my two clowns from my nano over to the main tank. They haven't found my anemones yet.
jadette
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I would say yes, it is photosynthetic. This is the ORA blue centered red goniopora. Since ORA recommends med-high light for it, I can only assume that it is photosynthetic.
I also have two more gonis. One is red with a yellow center. Just a frag right now. The other is a pale blue. It was sold to me as a blue goniopora, but I believe it is an alveopora instead.
reef_of_flames
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Do you have pics of the other gonis? Those anthias are beautiful btw!
jadette
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Progression Post!
October 2011
November 2011 (after coral transfer)
March 2012
May 2012
August 2012
December 2012
June 2013
September 2013
I know it's really difficult to show progression in my tank, b/c I'm constantly moving my corals around, and I heavily trim when my corals get too big. I gave away some colonies as well when I thought they outgrew my tank (mostly plating ones). I also had some corals that exhibited almost zero growth through the months (my turquoise stag from Reef Raft for one). One thing really noticeable in growth though is my large squamosa! I'm thinking of getting rid of it b/c it covers so much. Right behind it are at least three corals that have so much potential but never get any attention!
Another favorite of mine is the raspberry limeade, which no one gets to see b/c my pink lemonade was just such a fast grower in comparison (limeade is right behind it).
And the September 2013 growth? I owe that to Mike (Solitude27). Just picked up some staghorns from him today to get that 'height' my tank desperately needed. I can't get staghorns to grow in my tank, so I have to cheat.
I have the small gonis pushed in the back of the tank until they get big enough to be "showcased". Don't have any good pics of them, but give them a few months to blossom and I'll take some pics.
I love my anthias. In fact, so much so that I'm going to get rid of all of my wrasses, and probably my clownfish pair to make more "bioload room" for more anthias. Need to figure out how to catch them though.
Oh! One more thing to note. I'm slowly removing all the sand in my tank and going bare bottom. Figured the less things for cyano and algae to grow on in my tank, the better.
dodgerblew
Team RC
inspiring Shirley. So impressive.
reef_of_flames
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Wow that's beautiful!!! Like the progression shots
waterman78
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Outstanding Shirley!!!! These tank is truly remarkable....great job.
jadette
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Thanks everyone! I had recently focused more on my corals than the fish. I've never had a coral crash (knock on starphire), but have been hesitant to really stock up on the fish I want because of the two outbreaks I had since I set up this tank. I have never had an outbreak in my 40g or 75g setups, so it was quite an emotional shocker for me.
So after laying low with adding more fish in my tank (anthias excluded), I finally add 3 new fishies in my tank. Guess which ones.
Corals are a bit of a mess right now. My two anemones (a flame and a lemondrop) have been on the move since I added more flow in my tank (courtesy of an extra tunze in the back). I lost 1 frag and ****ed off about 4 SPS colonies b/c of their roaming. Tried to get them out, but it looks like I'll need to tear down the entire right side of the tank to do so.
Oh. I also went bare bottom for all of 3 weeks before deciding that it's easier to get algae off of sand than off of a bare bottom tank. Sand rake >>>> Glass scraper.
Row of blue LEDs went out on the back side of my tank. You can tell by the ugly yellow look in the back. Isolated down the problem to a bad solder joint on one of the LEDs. Will just swap it out next week when I throw on another metal halide fixture for the center part of my tank (adding a 250W radium to the existing 2x400W). Figured it's getting cooler now, so I can control the temps no prob. Corals are growing to the sides of the tank, so I really need to add another fixture to get the edges.
My electricity bill won't love me, but maybe this will push me over the edge to just go solar!
So after laying low with adding more fish in my tank (anthias excluded), I finally add 3 new fishies in my tank. Guess which ones.
Corals are a bit of a mess right now. My two anemones (a flame and a lemondrop) have been on the move since I added more flow in my tank (courtesy of an extra tunze in the back). I lost 1 frag and ****ed off about 4 SPS colonies b/c of their roaming. Tried to get them out, but it looks like I'll need to tear down the entire right side of the tank to do so.
Oh. I also went bare bottom for all of 3 weeks before deciding that it's easier to get algae off of sand than off of a bare bottom tank. Sand rake >>>> Glass scraper.
Row of blue LEDs went out on the back side of my tank. You can tell by the ugly yellow look in the back. Isolated down the problem to a bad solder joint on one of the LEDs. Will just swap it out next week when I throw on another metal halide fixture for the center part of my tank (adding a 250W radium to the existing 2x400W). Figured it's getting cooler now, so I can control the temps no prob. Corals are growing to the sides of the tank, so I really need to add another fixture to get the edges.
My electricity bill won't love me, but maybe this will push me over the edge to just go solar!
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