Arkayology
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Nice thread! I really like the fish room. The scape is well done with lots of room for coral!
mpcart's 240G build
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jacek_1970
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nice setup, but i think that you are wasting 50% of the light due to high of the lamp above tank.
mpcart
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Thanks. It could be that I'm giving away too much with the lamps at 14". My club has a PAR meter so it's on my list to do a little measuring at some point. I took a real scientific approach to the lamp height - I mismeasured my threaded rod on the fixture and then decided 14" was close enough.
-Mike
mpcart
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In case it's the beginning of Dinos I decided to take some precautions. The three affected rocks are out of the tank in a closed opaque container and the rest of the tank is in a 72 hour blackout. There is a very light amount of this algae on all rocks so I think it's good to get ahead of it.
-Mike
-Mike
mpcart
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Dave - you are the first person I've heard say not to worry about them. Every other thread makes them sound like the scourge of the tank.
My diatoms took a couple weeks to disappear on their own but I thought Dinos were different.
-Mike
mpcart
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Dinos (or whatever they were) are gone. Did a 72 hour blackout and two weeks of hydrogen peroxide and slowly ramping up the lights.
Latest tank pics.
Made three screens from BRS 1/4" clear netting and cheap frames.
Transferred some SPS from the 58
With the wide tank I have plenty of room around the rock islands.
-Mike
Latest tank pics.
Made three screens from BRS 1/4" clear netting and cheap frames.
Transferred some SPS from the 58
With the wide tank I have plenty of room around the rock islands.
-Mike
mpcart
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It came with the clip and I'm just trying it out. With just the clip the fish end up pulling the nori apart and big chunks float about. I'm seeing if the mesh will help keep it in place so they can just pick at it.
Speaking of feeding . . . after three months my Kole Tang decided to start eating something other than film algae. I couldn't get it to eat a thing and then all of a sudden he's decided that frozen is the way to go.
Crazy fish.
-Mike
Speaking of feeding . . . after three months my Kole Tang decided to start eating something other than film algae. I couldn't get it to eat a thing and then all of a sudden he's decided that frozen is the way to go.
Crazy fish.
-Mike
Look'n really good Mike!
mpcart
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Thanks, guys. I'm happy with the way it has turned out so far.
-Mike
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
The tank is coming along very well. Nice pickups on the frags too.
mpcart
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Thanks. The rock work turned out exactly as I was hoping. I don't know if you can see it very well but there are two islands with a channel running diagonal between them - so depending on the angle you are looking at the tank it could appear as two islands or one island.
Also, the island on the left is held up by four pillar rocks so there is a lot of space under the rocks for fish and critters to hide and also to get good water flow. The island on the left also has several caves and lots of holes to swim through.
-Mike
mpcart
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Here is a nice picture of one of my prized frags - a strawberry shortcake acropora. I've already fragged it several times as part of our club's Coral Donor Program (every club should have one of those).
Also, you learn something new every day . . . like why tangs are known as Surgeonfish. My Kole Tang has what I thought was a bone sticking out of his tail and it had me worried. Turns out all tangs have a 'scalpel' like this on their tails and my guy got his stuck in the 'on' position. Nothing to worry about. You can see it sticking out in this picture.
-Mike
Also, you learn something new every day . . . like why tangs are known as Surgeonfish. My Kole Tang has what I thought was a bone sticking out of his tail and it had me worried. Turns out all tangs have a 'scalpel' like this on their tails and my guy got his stuck in the 'on' position. Nothing to worry about. You can see it sticking out in this picture.
-Mike
