kudoras 84 gallon thread
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kudora
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i should post my current numbers
ph is at 8.2
alk is at 7.7/2.74
calc is at 390(little low)
mag is at 1200(low so it was boosted already)
zero nitrates temp 78.6, salinity at 1.024
my current pet project
30 gallon
26 pounds of live rock
purple firefish
tangora hifin goby
diamond goby
5 cernith snails
2 asternia snails
1 tongan nass snail
aqua c with maxi 1200
koralia nano
stealth heater
40 pounds of seaflor special grade reef sand 1.0 to 2.0 mm
(i am not too happy with the sand, its a little bigger then what i wanted)
it was cycled for 3+ months before i put anything in it.
i have a lifereef hob overflow i have been meaning to put on the DT instead of the cpr overflow i have, will prob switch them out and add a sump to the 30 eventually.
ph is at 8.2
alk is at 7.7/2.74
calc is at 390(little low)
mag is at 1200(low so it was boosted already)
zero nitrates temp 78.6, salinity at 1.024
my current pet project
30 gallon
26 pounds of live rock
purple firefish
tangora hifin goby
diamond goby
5 cernith snails
2 asternia snails
1 tongan nass snail
aqua c with maxi 1200
koralia nano
stealth heater
40 pounds of seaflor special grade reef sand 1.0 to 2.0 mm
(i am not too happy with the sand, its a little bigger then what i wanted)
it was cycled for 3+ months before i put anything in it.
i have a lifereef hob overflow i have been meaning to put on the DT instead of the cpr overflow i have, will prob switch them out and add a sump to the 30 eventually.
kudora
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these two guys(guy and gal?) have been hanging out in the left front glass corner since i got them. it looks like the pep shrimp(all 6) have been taking care of my aiptasia since i can only find 2 or 3 large ones(i missed) the other day with joes juice. going to give them a couple more days so they are large enough to kill(bigger ones are always easier).
pic of the peps
pic of the peps
kudora
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got a couple of things today
first is a tri color acro
a little guy but fully encrusted, had great PE after 15 min
next is a ora birds next that had live tissue in at the bottom was either dead or dormant in the middle then was growing well at the top. so i cut off around 1/4 of an inch of dead area between the two and got left with this
all live tissue under the cut
and the top portion i put on a piece of rubble
quick update on my BoP
doing well and it looks like its starting to grow,
i call it the shag monster
can you see the tiger tail in the last pic?
all new additions were dipped in a iodine reef dip and ReVive
first is a tri color acro
a little guy but fully encrusted, had great PE after 15 min
next is a ora birds next that had live tissue in at the bottom was either dead or dormant in the middle then was growing well at the top. so i cut off around 1/4 of an inch of dead area between the two and got left with this
all live tissue under the cut
and the top portion i put on a piece of rubble
quick update on my BoP
doing well and it looks like its starting to grow,
i call it the shag monster
can you see the tiger tail in the last pic?
all new additions were dipped in a iodine reef dip and ReVive
kudora
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got a nice sized (around 15" long, 1.5" thick or so) tonga branch this afternoon. will post pics when i figure out what i did with it, i want to connect my 2 islands and put sps frags on it but we will see how it works out.
other things done today:
changed some of my filters on the ro/di
changed the carbon on the DT tank(around a cups worth)
moved some of my corals around since my favite decided to send tentacles out and touch my encrusting monti. poor monti is hurt atm
other things done today:
changed some of my filters on the ro/di
changed the carbon on the DT tank(around a cups worth)
moved some of my corals around since my favite decided to send tentacles out and touch my encrusting monti. poor monti is hurt atm
2frosty4u
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Nice corals you posted in your pics. Two weeks ago I was given a small 3 headed fragplug of candy cane and tried simply sticking it's base in a crack in my rocks, but something kept knocking it off into the sandbed. I figured then I would simply stick it into the sandbed like your pics show until I decide eactly where I want it to end up. What ever kept knocking it out of the rocks then kept uprooting it out of the sandbed. I finally gave up and built a magnetic frag rack and it hasn't been bothered since. Do you have any coral movers in your tank or are they staying where you put them?
kudora
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if the frag is closer then 2 1/2" to the glass my turbos will knock it down, like wise it cant be that close to a rock either. i have a good amount of nass and tongan nass snails in the tank, so i have seen them come up and slightly uproot it.
my powder brown has his "lanes" that he likes to run and if the frags are tall enough he will knock them over.
after awhile i picked the current spot they are all in only my largest turbo can knock them over so its not often i have to put them right side up.
i took out my biggest offender of coral moving months ago, my GSM. he would pick up my new frags for the first couple of days and drop them in random places, letting me know it was his tank.
after he killed my long tentacle plate he was banished to the sump untill i found someone to take him.
my powder brown has his "lanes" that he likes to run and if the frags are tall enough he will knock them over.
after awhile i picked the current spot they are all in only my largest turbo can knock them over so its not often i have to put them right side up.
i took out my biggest offender of coral moving months ago, my GSM. he would pick up my new frags for the first couple of days and drop them in random places, letting me know it was his tank.
after he killed my long tentacle plate he was banished to the sump untill i found someone to take him.
kudora
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rofl murphy in action after i made the last post;
i wake up late last night and get something to drink, i turned on the living room light slighty and see my tiger tail knocked over all the frags i had in the sand and is laying on them.....
i will be working on a little eggcrate frag area for the tank this week. altho i did see this on the foster and smith website...http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3728+18976&pcatid=18976
doesnt look like it will fit an ORA plug tho, i could take a drill and make the holes larger. anyone have one of these?
my skimmer has not been working great over the last few days. my acro verde had a "burned" tip so i did a water change and cleaned out the mag 3 and cleaned the injector part on the remora, working great now and pulled around 1/4 of a cup of nasty last night.
i wake up late last night and get something to drink, i turned on the living room light slighty and see my tiger tail knocked over all the frags i had in the sand and is laying on them.....
i will be working on a little eggcrate frag area for the tank this week. altho i did see this on the foster and smith website...http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3728+18976&pcatid=18976
doesnt look like it will fit an ORA plug tho, i could take a drill and make the holes larger. anyone have one of these?
my skimmer has not been working great over the last few days. my acro verde had a "burned" tip so i did a water change and cleaned out the mag 3 and cleaned the injector part on the remora, working great now and pulled around 1/4 of a cup of nasty last night.
kudora
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dont think i have mentioned it but i have done the switch to reefcrystals, took advantage of the sale Dr. foster and smith was having. doing small water changes since it new salt water, there is a difference in my alk and reefcrystals so i have been slowly raising the alk in the DT to match them.
i am taking advantage of the small water changes and siphoning the fuge out, i have alot of rubble and silt from the GSM moving the sand around over the last year.
no real pics lately since nothing has been going on
i am taking advantage of the small water changes and siphoning the fuge out, i have alot of rubble and silt from the GSM moving the sand around over the last year.
no real pics lately since nothing has been going on
2frosty4u
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I know exactly what you're saying. After building the magnetic frag rack and putting the candy cane on it, it stayed there until 2 days ago. I figured it would be safe there but somehow I must have put it to close to the edge and it disappeared. I have no idea how it was pushed out of the rack but when I came home it was gone. It took 20 minutes with a high powered flashlight to find the spot it ended up in, down between the rocks covered in mushrooms and paly's. Luckily I have a 10" curved surgical tweezer clamp type tool that made extraction fairly easy and I put it closer to the glass this time....lol.
That frag plug holder looks really interesting and gives me an idea. I think I would just take a suitably shaped and sized piece of live rock and drill some holes in it with a concrete drill bit and have one that blends in nicely with my DT to sit on the sandbed. You can usually buy inexpensive concrete bits in large sizes for a couple of bucks.
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