Melev's new Nano!
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Alaska_Phil
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Awwww...what a little cutey. 
You know, All those pictures with a bottle of vodka in the background are going to ruin your reputation.
Phil
You know, All those pictures with a bottle of vodka in the background are going to ruin your reputation.
Phil
melev
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Day 681
Day 681
It's the end of of the month, and this thread needed a new FTS.
Note, most of the Caulerpa is finally gone. I don't know why it is going away, but I'm very pleased to see less of it. Could the three emerald crabs I added be the reason? I don't know.
Day 681
It's the end of of the month, and this thread needed a new FTS.
Note, most of the Caulerpa is finally gone. I don't know why it is going away, but I'm very pleased to see less of it. Could the three emerald crabs I added be the reason? I don't know.
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Kentanner11
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Looks great! Hey is that a Current USA powerbright LED light above your MH?
ALBERTA REEF
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Love the angle tank and your web site. Helped alot when I started my tank. Thank you.
melev
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A few days ago, we had a major storm blow through the area, and my tanks were without power. Within an hour, I decided to pull out the generator and hook everything up so my livestock would remain safe. The power ended up being out from midnight until 9:15am!
Coincidentally, the power supply to one of the Vortechs in my 280g tank burned up, so I opted to borrow the one from this tank to get that pump running again, and installed a Maxijet in the angled tank simply because it was the easiest solution from my choices given.
In doing so, I noticed the Rose BTA was going out of its way to annoy me. I have some SPS frags on Frag-Mags that it was touching daily, slowly but surely killing their tissue.
I moved two frags out of its reach again, which spoils the view of the tank a bit. They are going to just have to move to a different location entirely, like my main tank I guess.
Sometimes I wished I'd just made the angled tank one rock and the Rose BTA, and nothing else. The simplicity would probably be just as effective. But like everyone else, I can't help putting more and more corals in this system.
After I fed the clowns some pellet food, the Rose closed up in hopes of snagging some food apparently. Ah, space at last. It wasn't long before that was gone again.
Here's a June Full Tank Shot (FTS)
Coincidentally, the power supply to one of the Vortechs in my 280g tank burned up, so I opted to borrow the one from this tank to get that pump running again, and installed a Maxijet in the angled tank simply because it was the easiest solution from my choices given.
In doing so, I noticed the Rose BTA was going out of its way to annoy me. I have some SPS frags on Frag-Mags that it was touching daily, slowly but surely killing their tissue.
I moved two frags out of its reach again, which spoils the view of the tank a bit. They are going to just have to move to a different location entirely, like my main tank I guess.
Sometimes I wished I'd just made the angled tank one rock and the Rose BTA, and nothing else. The simplicity would probably be just as effective. But like everyone else, I can't help putting more and more corals in this system.
After I fed the clowns some pellet food, the Rose closed up in hopes of snagging some food apparently. Ah, space at last. It wasn't long before that was gone again.
Here's a June Full Tank Shot (FTS)
melev
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While I had the camera out, I took a few more macro shots. Taking pictures with macro through an angled tank without a tripod is almost impossible, at least with my Nikon D70s and a Tamron 90mm lens. Here's the new Favia I picked up recently.
It had a couple of cool zoanthid hitchhikers, which was even more of a reason to buy it. Tiny, but pretty.
This milli had to be moved because the RBTA was touching it. The tips are a little bit blue.
This is my not-so-purple Purple Monster.
I've always loved the look of these zoas. They are nicknamed Eagle Eyes.
The red favia.
A zoa garden.
And some of my acans.
It had a couple of cool zoanthid hitchhikers, which was even more of a reason to buy it. Tiny, but pretty.
This milli had to be moved because the RBTA was touching it. The tips are a little bit blue.
This is my not-so-purple Purple Monster.
I've always loved the look of these zoas. They are nicknamed Eagle Eyes.
The red favia.
A zoa garden.
And some of my acans.
only1cookie
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Melev, your tanks are amazing! I stumbled onto this thread the other night, & stayed up till 3:00 in the morning reading. Your RBTA is amazing! Is that pom pom xenia in the FTS towards the front left, the soft pink mass? Do you still have the Serpent Starfish?
Keep updating & posting pics, this tank is amazing!
Jackie
Keep updating & posting pics, this tank is amazing!
Jackie
"Umm fish?"
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Hey Marc! I like the new avatar. Did you culture some mandarins?
melev
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It is a type of Xenia, but it doesn't really resemble PomPom to me.
The Banded Serpent Starfish was being slowly attacked and consumed by something in my tank, so I moved it into the 280g reef. It has started to regrow each arm (or leg, depending on how you view it) again. Which is what I was hoping would occur.
No, that's Matt's hard work, not mine. From my signature line, which changes daily along with the avatar: "Today's avatar is of the Mandarin babies that Matthew Wittenrich successfully raised from eggs!(12/365)"
"Umm fish?"
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Sorry. I missed the signature. That's such an amazing accomplishment. I think Matt said somewhere that he even got a run through with rotifers as a first food. Not a great run, but still....
I like the rotating avatar idea. I hope you have it automated.
I like the rotating avatar idea. I hope you have it automated.
melev
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Andy, at MACNA last year, he told us in his talk (and I was not about to miss his presentation on mandarin raising) that he found that Sea Hare eggs was the magic food needed to raise Mandarin fry. It's a great story hearing it from him, but in a nutshell he had breeding seahares, and he would raise some to give to the LFS for credit, and threw out some of the excess egg masses. One day he decided to toss some in with his mandarins, as they were not cooperating with any foods he'd been trying, and they were slurping them up like candy!
A couple of links about it are posted in my other thread:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=15210441#post15210441
It isn't exactly automated, but I do have a system that works.
A couple of links about it are posted in my other thread:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=15210441#post15210441
It isn't exactly automated, but I do have a system that works.
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