My 10g Pic Diary...

GroYurOwn

GroYurOwn

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OK, I know how much everyone on RC loves looking at pics, and I think it would be neat to have an online timeline of how my tank is progressing, so over the next few days i will be updating this thread with pics ad as much detail as i can remember to get it up-to-date on my 10g which was set up in Aug. '05. to stat here it is, junky picture, was taken with a cell phone, later pics will be better. This was about 2 months in, its the earliest pic i could find. at that time i had two maroon clowns, and a velvet damsel, along with an anemone of some kind, and a rock of reddish shrooms.
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stay tuned for more....
 
BTW with the exception of about one poundofrubble that i bought from a LFS all of the LR in the tank was taken from a tank i tore down about 1 year ago, dead rock....so it'll be interesting to see this rock come back to life!
 
ok, i looked back on it and forget the back stories, i dont have enough time to tell it, and its not very interesting any way. i will post as many pics as i have up to now.
 
i helped my friend setup the tank back in august, this was her first SW, but she was limited on space, so we had to go with a 10g. she didnt have enough time to take care of it because her work and school schedules just took too much of her time, so i told her she could bring to my place, and we could do it together. so this is what the tank looked like when i got it.

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we had a serious slime algae problem, and a couple of tufts of hair algae were getting ready to explode. there hadnt been a water change done in at least two months...be easy on her, shes a sweetheart. so we did a 10% water change per day for about four days, using nature's ocean nutri-seawater, which is fantastic stuff BTW. the algae started dissapearing off the rocks, hair and slime, but we still had a problem with the sand.
 
btw, we have a 28w coralife aqualite pc for lighting, waiting on delivery of current usa 2x40w orbit fixture today! pics later tonight on that... she had some kind of sand-sifting goby in the tank, cant remember the name of it, but it wasnt doing a very good job, and it didnt make it in the move so we replaced it with one i knew would go to work!
 
and here he is...
digger!
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orange spotted sleeper goby, if you have some sand you want to clean up in a hurry, this is your fish! working on getting him to accept pellets, i've done it before, so i am confident i can again.
 
amazing what a few water changes, and a good sand-sifting goby can do to a sand bed. one word of advice though, dont expect your tank water to be crystal clear for about two weeks after putting the goby in. good thing is that all that detritus settles on the rocks, and is in the water column, so what i did what take my rocks out and give them a quick fresh water rinse a couple times a week, got a lot of crud out of the tank that way.
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ok, so water quality is A+ now, heater was fluctuating a lot, fixed that, thoguht the rock-work was too cluttered, took some out. now the fun stuff. we bought a small green-pimple mushroom colony, that isnt doing very well to date, about two weeks ago. we put in a rock/flower anemone, which is doing fantastic, two very small colonies of zoos, which will not open for the world (hoping that the new light will help with that). and a purple mushroom colony thats doing fantastic, also just got a feather duster last night along with three big fat turbos. and about a week ago a black brittle star that i hardly ever see. so here are some pics...
 
the purples and greens expand like crazy, but i dont see any reproduction in the greens, so i have started dosing oyster eggs along with the DT's to see if that helps...
 
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