Jadette's 140g Rimless Build Thread
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dodgerblew
Team RC
Beautiful. Love the swallowtail angel
dodgerblew
Team RC
Didn't miss it Lawrence. I personally don't get all the hoopla over a black fish
reef_of_flames
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Beautiful!
jadette
Member
Just when I thought my tank was looking pretty good... thanks for makin mine look like poo hehe lookin great Shirley, hopefully ill be able to see it in person one of these days
I think you have way more SPS than I do Brent. We need to do a trade one day. i have been drooling over your red dragon for quite some time now!
Love him too. At least I did. He gets aggressive at times and I'm really not into aggressive fish. May need to give hima time out if he gets worse. He's definitely unique though in the sense that he has been a male without a presence of a female for many years now (at least that's what the previous owner told me. I have only had him for about half a yr).
I was actually waiting for someone to notice the two baby bellus angels in the back.
My husband shares the same sentiment. He thought I should have gone with a convict tang. I admit that the black tang purchase was encouraged a bit by the collectoritis in me. The contrast against the burst of color from the anthias though seems to work out nicely.
Thanks Mike! Hard to keep anthias like evansi and purple queens are tricky in the sense that if you get some that eat right away, they continue to eat. It's rare that I get an anthias that will 'learn' to eat after a week of coaxing. I just have to bite the bullet and expect a certain percentage of the anthias that I get will eventually die. If they make it past a month, then chances are, they'll survive the year. That's my experience.
I only feed the anthias in the evenings since I'm not home until 6p. I'll fill a condiment bottle with nutramar ova, fish roe, mini mysis, and pe mysis (about a total of 4-5 cubes worth). Then for the next 5-6 hours, I'll squirt some in my tank whenever I feel like it. They end up getting about 10-12 mini feedings in a course of 5-6 hours.
Thank you! My tank is 'almost' where I want it. Not going to stock up on anymore fish for about a few more months and *might* add a few more anthias plus one more angel (or a butterfly) if my tank seems stable enough and that's it.
My current tank regret is keeping anemones in the tank. One of them breached my "protection rock" today and stung the tips of my oregon tort. GRRRRRRR.
Tried to remove it with no success. I might just remove the corals on the rocks they are attached to and call it a day.
One day... One day... One day I will be able to just sit back and enjoy my tank... and on that day, I will declare that I am bored and muck around with it yet again.
ianmcalpin
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All I have to say is I adore this tank by far one of the top tanks I've followed I love all the anthies in that tank they really bring out the live in ur tank..
jadette
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The black tang is doing so well in my tank right now. He's such a darling. Very peaceful and model citizen. He even eats bubble algae! He brings a nice contrast to all of the color from the anthias and corals. Love him Love him Love him.
Thank you! I've done so much research and trial/error with raising anthias that I think I have it down now. I would love to try some of the more cold water species (like the ventralis), but that's just too much work/cost that I'm not willing to put in at this time.
And here's the topic of the day:
REEF AQUARIUM MYTHS THAT I HAVE BROKEN
Peppermint Shrimp can not eat large aiptasia. They can only handle the small ones.
This is so not true. After feeding the tank the way that I do, I accumulated quite a collection of aiptasia all over my rocks. Some were as large as a quarter. It was getting out of control when some of my zoas were not opening b/c of the aiptasia stinging. I bought 25 peppermints from Reeftopia (note: only buy peppermints from Florida!) and within 3 weeks, ALL OF THE AIPTASIA in my tank were gone. Even the huge quarter sized ones.
Peppermint Shrimp will eat your zoanthids once they are done with the aiptasia in your tank.
This was not my experience. Again, I'm talking about the peppermints from Florida. I had several rocks with both aiptasia and zoanthids. The aiptasia was mowed down, but the zoanthids survived untouched. This was also true in my zoa nano tank, where the peppermints had nothing to eat but zoas when all the aiptasia was gone, yet they left the zoas untouched. I had to move them out of the tank when the job was done to a tank I regularly feed to keep them from starving to death.
I honestly think that peppermints are THE BEST choice for aiptasia control. I've tried berghia, and although it was mighty fun seeing them multiply and I made a decent return in selling them once my aiptasia infestation was eradicated, they can not clear 100% of the stuff from a large reef tank, and eventually, the aiptasia will come back (long after the berghia have starved to death). With peppermints, they become part of my regular clean up crew after the aiptasia are "gone". They'll continue to scavenge for leftover food and are ready for any reappearance of aiptasia.
And here are more myths:
Emerald crabs are not effective in removing bubble algae since they will just propagate the spores.
I had a terrible bout of bubble algae in the last year. Again, this was due to heavy feedings. It got so bad that I had to take out one 6" piece of flat rock that was covered in at least a thousand algae bubbles. I wish I kept a pic of it just to remind me how bad the infestation got. So I made an effort to get rid of them once and for all and purchased 25 emerald crabs from reeftopia.com along with the peppermints. Yes, I said 25. All I can say is that after just 1 month with the emerald crabs, I am COMPLETELY bubble algae free. Maybe they do pop spores. Maybe they're floating around in my tank right now. But who cares? I don't see any bubble algae. If any more grow, I am confident that my 25 emerald buggers will take care of it.
Large emerald crabs will hunt and kill your smaller fishes at night.
My emerald crabs are pretty big now, after demolishing a tank full of bubble algae. They're so big that they scare me and I will not dare try to pick one up with my bare hands. Yet, I am not randomly missing my small fish (and believe me, I have A LOT of small fish in my tank). Maybe it's just a matter of time, but so far so good. I'll update this thread if in the future I'm proved wrong.
So there you have it. Peppermint shrimp and emerald crabs from Florida. Two things that I think every clean up crew should include.
And since I don't have that bubble algae infest rock photo to show, here's another one of those oh so popular growth shots:
Remember this random milli frag photo that I took in June?
This is where it is 6 months later:
I recently added a row of ultraviolet LEDs, and boy did it make this little gem pop! It's forming a nice plate, and is actually a lot bigger than the pic shows. Couldn't get a good angle. Wish I can take decent top down shots.
dodgerblew
Team RC
I had an emerald crab and it didn't touch bubble algae but did enjoy picking at zoas. Might have been a fluke. Shirley, thanks for the info and I subscribed to reeftopia newsletter
reef_of_flames
Member
Very nice! Those UV lights made a whole lot of difference!
I have a avast photo box you can borrow. Makes top down picture easier
jadette
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No picking at my lps or zoas. Though now that my tank is clear of any algae, I might have to supplement my tank with algae wafers or something to keep them content.
You owe us pics!
They actually do. I wish I was better at soldering so I can put more supplemental LEDs up. Figuring out the electrical stuff is easy for me, but I can't solder properly for the life of me. Just big ol' globs of solder to make a connection. I'm facing bad solder joints now that my fixture is 2 years old.
Thanks! All those years learning solid state electronics and laplace transforms in college have really improved my writing style!
Thanks for the offer Sanh. I'm actually in the market for one. Do you recommend the avast one?
Hope you had a Merry Christmas Lawrence! Though it has not been a very merry week for me.
Decided to pull out all the anemones from my tank to place in hubby's anemone tank. While I was at it, I decided to aquascape a bit. "A bit" didn't really quite happen and in my aquascaping rage, I broke a lot of colonies. I would post pics, but it would make you cry. Mishandled my HUGE purple digitata and now it's on my sandbed in about 5767643 odd pieces. Note to self: Don't start aquascaping late at night in the middle of winter. Got so tired and cold that I ended up letting all the frags waste away in a cold bucket. I really should take photos just to remind myself how lame I can get in this hobby. My tank looks like it just got a really, really bad haircut. Ah poo!Then again, all I have to do is watch the Anderson Silva fight and it puts everything back into perspective.
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