Louis' Cubic Adventure
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louist
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Some update:
I have stocked the tank with these corals this weekend:
1x Sinulria sp.
1x green+orange zooanthid
1x orange Dendronephthya
1x corallimorphian (came attached to the zoos)
The Dendronephthya will be fed the 5-50micron golden pearls with other mixture of food much like the Gorgonia.
In addition, the litle Mandarin is now feeding with earnest! I add garlic to his frozen food and he loves it! Now I know how parents feel when their skinny kid is eating! Smile
I have also done a quick rearrangement of the rocks to provide more estate for corals.
Lastly, I have wired up a cold cathod for a moonlight, this allows me to see what no good my hermit gets up to during the night. The snail ate the beautiful red macro algae that came with the dendro, I was quite upset with him!
#1: FTS!
#2: A hitchhiking worm, looks more like a coral snake to me! Guy's tiny
#3: The unsung heros of reef aquarium! He does produce a lot of waste though.....
#4: Dendronephthya
#5: Green/orange Zooanthids
I have stocked the tank with these corals this weekend:
1x Sinulria sp.
1x green+orange zooanthid
1x orange Dendronephthya
1x corallimorphian (came attached to the zoos)
The Dendronephthya will be fed the 5-50micron golden pearls with other mixture of food much like the Gorgonia.
In addition, the litle Mandarin is now feeding with earnest! I add garlic to his frozen food and he loves it! Now I know how parents feel when their skinny kid is eating! Smile
I have also done a quick rearrangement of the rocks to provide more estate for corals.
Lastly, I have wired up a cold cathod for a moonlight, this allows me to see what no good my hermit gets up to during the night. The snail ate the beautiful red macro algae that came with the dendro, I was quite upset with him!
#1: FTS!
#2: A hitchhiking worm, looks more like a coral snake to me! Guy's tiny
#3: The unsung heros of reef aquarium! He does produce a lot of waste though.....
#4: Dendronephthya
#5: Green/orange Zooanthids
louist
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Good reading right here on RC:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=524097
SY: Thanks!
I received the golden pearls today. My little Mandarin isn't interested in it, but the Dendro showed strong feeding responses to the 5-50micron one. Today I also scrapped down the glass, to which the tank looked like a phyto reactor
This elicited strong feeding response from both the Dendro and the Gorgonia.
louist
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The Zooanthids are growing a few new polyps and the Sinuria is getting bigger too (I hope it doesn't get toooo big).
Got 2 new pieces of coral today:
1x Favites
1x Tubastraea
It's a Favites sp. rather than a Favid sp. because some coralites share the same wall.
#1: FTS:
#2: Tubastraea, I am still open to suggestions regarding what this one is, might not be a Tubastraea, but the colony structure looks right.
#3: Upd photo of my Gorgonia with a rapidly expanding Goniopora in the foreground.
#4: The new Favites
Got 2 new pieces of coral today:
1x Favites
1x Tubastraea
It's a Favites sp. rather than a Favid sp. because some coralites share the same wall.
#1: FTS:
#2: Tubastraea, I am still open to suggestions regarding what this one is, might not be a Tubastraea, but the colony structure looks right.
#3: Upd photo of my Gorgonia with a rapidly expanding Goniopora in the foreground.
#4: The new Favites
hooterhead
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thats a nice pagoda you got there! sweet tank mate.
louist
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Quick Update:
I decided that frozen gut loaded brine isn't making my little mandarin as fat as I want him to be, so I changed him to a frozen mysis diet (Hikari). He loves the mysis!
I also added 3 small shrimps, but they all disappeared
They are not eaten, but probably all hanging out in the caves. That's a waste of money :doh:
Last but not least, welcome the new tennant! A tank bred Hippocampus barbouri, she's on mysis as well.
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#3: She's yawning, getting bored of the photo shoot. Who would have thought that seahorses have a 2nd mouth?!
I decided that frozen gut loaded brine isn't making my little mandarin as fat as I want him to be, so I changed him to a frozen mysis diet (Hikari). He loves the mysis!
I also added 3 small shrimps, but they all disappeared
They are not eaten, but probably all hanging out in the caves. That's a waste of money :doh:Last but not least, welcome the new tennant! A tank bred Hippocampus barbouri, she's on mysis as well.
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#3: She's yawning, getting bored of the photo shoot. Who would have thought that seahorses have a 2nd mouth?!
louist
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WSC: I am using a Canon EOS 10D with 180mm macro lens for these shots.
Aural: Thanks! The Favites is growing back now, it was handled very roughly at the LFS and the edges were all bleached. It loves mysis though!
Alien: I have my AC50 turn right down, with the "reverse flow" thingie on slightly, further reducing the flow. The PH is aimed directly at the Dendronephthya. I find the SH handles it well, in fact she likes to "hitch" a ride on the current when she wants to move from the Gorgonia to the Sinularia, then to rear right, then back to Gorgonia in a clockwise fashion.
Photo update!
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Aural: Thanks! The Favites is growing back now, it was handled very roughly at the LFS and the edges were all bleached. It loves mysis though!
Alien: I have my AC50 turn right down, with the "reverse flow" thingie on slightly, further reducing the flow. The PH is aimed directly at the Dendronephthya. I find the SH handles it well, in fact she likes to "hitch" a ride on the current when she wants to move from the Gorgonia to the Sinularia, then to rear right, then back to Gorgonia in a clockwise fashion.
Photo update!
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louist
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My first Gorgonia is growing well, so I added the second one. With daily target feeding, I hope they thrive!
Here are some tank updates:
#1: Some sort of cool looking macro algae
#2: My hitchhiking Goniopora, growing well. Its stalk is very short.
#3: My female Barb, doing well, she's fattening up nicely.
#4: Closeup of Duncanopsomia
#5: FTS after adding more sand and WC
#6: Left side
#7: Right side
#8: New zoanthids, a couple of different ones in there, including a cool fluro orange skirt + fluro orange center.
#9: Old zoanthids
#10: Same macro as #1, and Gorgonia
Here are some tank updates:
#1: Some sort of cool looking macro algae
#2: My hitchhiking Goniopora, growing well. Its stalk is very short.
#3: My female Barb, doing well, she's fattening up nicely.
#4: Closeup of Duncanopsomia
#5: FTS after adding more sand and WC
#6: Left side
#7: Right side
#8: New zoanthids, a couple of different ones in there, including a cool fluro orange skirt + fluro orange center.
#9: Old zoanthids
#10: Same macro as #1, and Gorgonia
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