Melev's new Nano!
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InsaneClownFish
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Marc, what's your dosing schedule per total water volume?
This tank is certainly coming along. It looks very nice.
A few questions- Where did you acquire the mini carpet anemones? Do they grow quickly? Their sting is much less than a large carpet I would imagine...so more suited for mixing with other corals/fish?
What are you using for substrate? Any issues with it blowing around with the vortech? What's the distance from the substrate to the bottom of the vortech? Any issues with your substrate and the acrylic?
I just looked at the pics again...is your clam ok?
This tank is certainly coming along. It looks very nice.
A few questions- Where did you acquire the mini carpet anemones? Do they grow quickly? Their sting is much less than a large carpet I would imagine...so more suited for mixing with other corals/fish?
What are you using for substrate? Any issues with it blowing around with the vortech? What's the distance from the substrate to the bottom of the vortech? Any issues with your substrate and the acrylic?
I just looked at the pics again...is your clam ok?
bmorecopper
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Unbelievable! Very Nice. Traveling to Pa anytime soon???? lol
melev
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I dosed Vodka since July 14th. Over time, each week I would ramp up my dosage by .5 ml - and about three weeks ago I stopped and have held it at 6 ml per day. I didn't test NO3 and PO4 today like I'd planned.
The mini carpets are from Bosborn1 in Rochester, NY. He gave me two, which I brought home on the plane in my luggage.
They are VERY sticky. I just put up some information about them in the our club's COOP, so here it is:
Mini Carpet anemone - Stichodactyla tapetum
Mini Carpet on the side of a VorTech pump
Ease of care - moderate (experience reefkeepers will do better due to consistency in water parameters); newbies need not apply. I don't want them to die because you are still in a learning curve. Sorry!
Water quality - normal reef parameters (1.026 sg, Ca 380+ppm, Alk 8-11 dKH, Temp 79F - 81F, Mg 1300ppm)
Lighting - Metal Halides
Aggression - VERY sticky, will catch a fish if given the opportunity
Size - dime to quarter in size
Self-propagating - when about quarter-sized, the anemone tears itself in half leaving two or more where one was originally.
Feeding - target feeding isn't necessary, but is fun to watch. One mysis shrimp is a nice meaty snack per anemone.
Rules: If you receive one of the Mini Carpet anemones, you are free to enjoy it and any more that propagate into your system. You agree to share one with someone in the COOP that you consider worthy, when you have one ready that is easy to extract from your tank. If you can share with more people over time, this is encouraged.
You agree to NEVER sell these Mini Carpet anemones to others. Even if you sell your tank, the mini carpets and the rock they are on is property of the COOP, and should be given to whomever is currently in charge of the COOP for redistribution. If you are caught selling these, you forfeit your participation to the COOP - please don't try to circumnavigate the spirit of the COOP. Again, if you break down your tank, all mini carpets are donated back to the COOP.
As more become available in my tank, I reserve the right to pick whom I want to give them to. I may ask about what kind of system you have as well as your hobby experience. Also, if for some reason my system crashes and I lose all of mine, I would request that one be given back to me whenever it becomes available.
I will update this post to keep this thread uncluttered.
Donated to:
Matt - 11/10/07
Bump1 - 10/14/08
The sand in my tank is sugarfine aragonite from Florida. I put in a single 40lb bag in the tank when I set it up, or maybe part of a 40lb bag to get a couple of inches of substrate. The VorTech MP20 is in Wave Mode, and I've not seen any shifting of the sand at all. It pulses less than every second, and is pretty much at the max speed (revolutions).
Remember my tank is very small, so the pump is a few inches under the surface, and 8" from the substrate.
The sand and the acrylic are fine, but you have to be very careful not to get any fines between the cleaning magnet and the acrylic. I have a few scratches unfortunately, and the majority of them were caused by a trapped asterina under the magnet. By the time I figured out what was going on, the damage was done. :mad2:
Maybe one day, I'll polish out some of those scratches.
InsaneClownFish
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Thanks for the info. I take it they are only capable of trapping small fish? What's your entire system water volume? Isn't it close to 400g?
I forgot to congratulate you on the clown eggs.
The story about the emerald crab is...well...nuts. I do have a theory. Maybe crabs will instinctually remove a damaged limb in anticipation of molting. It might actually be a survival mechanism...leg gets caught or damaged...remove it. This probably happens more often than not when a crab is caught by a predator.
I forgot to congratulate you on the clown eggs.
The story about the emerald crab is...well...nuts. I do have a theory. Maybe crabs will instinctually remove a damaged limb in anticipation of molting. It might actually be a survival mechanism...leg gets caught or damaged...remove it. This probably happens more often than not when a crab is caught by a predator.
melev
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I can't seem to find that crab any longer. I'm guessing he ate the rest of himself just out of boredom. :lol:
My estimate is that my system is 340g of water, partly displaced by rock and sand.
Yes, the carpets are super sticky and will catch a fish if given the opportunity. Little pillows of death.
My estimate is that my system is 340g of water, partly displaced by rock and sand.
Yes, the carpets are super sticky and will catch a fish if given the opportunity. Little pillows of death.
melev
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It drains back into the 280g's sump, as pictured on page one of this thread.
I'm about to pull that pump out and use a Sequence Dart to feed a manifold, part of which will pump up to this tank. A ball valve will limit the amount of water that can travel into the angled tank.
I'm about to pull that pump out and use a Sequence Dart to feed a manifold, part of which will pump up to this tank. A ball valve will limit the amount of water that can travel into the angled tank.
skaterzero22
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Everything is looking great marc
melev
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Picture update
Picture update
So in the past few weeks, I added some new corals. Several are from Zoanuts.com.
Here's a picture that came out nicely.
And my red striped one continues to do well
Here's a Red Planet acro that I brought home from Connecticut.
A frag of Pink Lemonade from the Dallas Coral Farmers Market.
Ryan's super hairy A. millepora looks much better than this picture, but because of its location in the angled tank, I just can't get a good shot.
This is a "Becker Tort" that I got from Steve Tyree at the D-CFM
The tank seems to be doing quite well. The clowns are laying a clutch of eggs like clockwork, and the RBTA is growing a little larger each week.
I got some blue LED lighting from Current USA, which I need to figure out how to secure to my tank. That will help a lot with the coloration of the corals, now that I've had a chance to hold them over the tank myself.
Picture update
So in the past few weeks, I added some new corals. Several are from Zoanuts.com.
Here's a picture that came out nicely.
And my red striped one continues to do well
Here's a Red Planet acro that I brought home from Connecticut.
A frag of Pink Lemonade from the Dallas Coral Farmers Market.
Ryan's super hairy A. millepora looks much better than this picture, but because of its location in the angled tank, I just can't get a good shot.
This is a "Becker Tort" that I got from Steve Tyree at the D-CFM
The tank seems to be doing quite well. The clowns are laying a clutch of eggs like clockwork, and the RBTA is growing a little larger each week.
I got some blue LED lighting from Current USA, which I need to figure out how to secure to my tank. That will help a lot with the coloration of the corals, now that I've had a chance to hold them over the tank myself.
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