Lunchbucket
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what ist that nasty creature in the last pic!??
Lunchbucket
Lunchbucket
My 54G Mixed Reef (pic intense)
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Avast Marine
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Sphaeromatid Isopod. http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-05/rs/index.php
I thought it was a parasite until Travis L. Stevens pointed me in the right direction. This is good though as I was waiting until they died off until I added my first fish.......choices, choices, choices.
I have had a longhorn cowfish in hyposalinity for three weeks and he was going to go in the FO system but, I may put him in here for the next year as the only inhabitant while I build the 280!
Dan
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I hope some of you guys are still following along......
On to the photo journal.....
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On to the photo journal.....
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Avast Marine
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Thanks ChinChek, I keep having to stop myself at times and think about the growth that will come with time. Right now I mainly have smaller sps frags with the obvious exception being that giant blue stag at the top and a few lps to add color and size until the sps grows in. Everything seems to be coloring nicely and I am seeng growth on everything I have put in so far. The S. tapetum pair I was very excited to get. I just put them and that last red lobo in today so in a couple more days when they open up I hope to get some better pics.
I will probably be changing out the stock sunpaq lamp with a xm10k in the very near future. Other than that I'm thinking about adding a pink and green stylo, a couple more zoa varieties and then letting it all sit for the next six months
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I will say though that I have still been feeding phyto at least 2-3 times per week and the pod population is ridiculous. Whenever I do add fish (maybe I wont) they will be FAT.
I will probably be changing out the stock sunpaq lamp with a xm10k in the very near future. Other than that I'm thinking about adding a pink and green stylo, a couple more zoa varieties and then letting it all sit for the next six months
.I will say though that I have still been feeding phyto at least 2-3 times per week and the pod population is ridiculous. Whenever I do add fish (maybe I wont) they will be FAT.
Avast Marine
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I don't know exactly. I will have a better idea when it colors a bit more. The guy I got it from had it very low in the tank so it's not real brightly colored. You can see the placement I chose should help bring that color back. Then maybe I can get a more specific ID on it, but right now I'll just stick to blueish purplish stag.
NORTHBAY(707)
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Great set-up,everything looks realy great. Just got the same tank from petco a one hell of a price $54. I love the stand that you bluit for it.
You put alot of work into the hole thing great job.
:smokin: later.
You put alot of work into the hole thing great job.
:smokin: later.
Acronana06
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nice looking setup bro
Avast Marine
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Thanks for checking in guys. I'm not real big into specific ID's so I'll just keep this stag here . I did want to post a couple better pictures of the S. Tapetum mini-maxi carpet anenomes I got yesterday.
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They ate some mysis this morning and have taken a very strong foothold. On another good note, my No3 and Po4 both hit zero last week and the lime green look to the tank is slowly turning to pinks and purples.
The GEO reactor is holding the alk and ca like a champ, and right now the autowater change system is changing about 1/2gallon everyday and I have been changing about another gallon a week by wet skimming. So that is giving me about a 5% waterchange per week. This seems to be enough right now and I can increase the change volume at any time pretty easily. I can also do a very simple manual change by turning off the return pump and just syphoning from the display to the fuge and that water simply overflows out the drain. I know some people may think that this system is a little over the top but, I have essetially turned the task I hated to do the most into something I actually enjoy doing and therefore my tank is happy
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Dan
. I did want to post a couple better pictures of the S. Tapetum mini-maxi carpet anenomes I got yesterday.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58279226@N00/224167975/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/80/224167975_5a75f15155_o.jpg" width="600" height="449" alt="anen5" /></a>
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They ate some mysis this morning and have taken a very strong foothold. On another good note, my No3 and Po4 both hit zero last week and the lime green look to the tank is slowly turning to pinks and purples.
The GEO reactor is holding the alk and ca like a champ, and right now the autowater change system is changing about 1/2gallon everyday and I have been changing about another gallon a week by wet skimming. So that is giving me about a 5% waterchange per week. This seems to be enough right now and I can increase the change volume at any time pretty easily. I can also do a very simple manual change by turning off the return pump and just syphoning from the display to the fuge and that water simply overflows out the drain. I know some people may think that this system is a little over the top but, I have essetially turned the task I hated to do the most into something I actually enjoy doing and therefore my tank is happy
.Dan
Lpabsolute
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Hey, nice looking tank. It appears that we have the same tank and fans.......different everything else though.....
reefinmike
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very nice... one of my favorite tank builds yet. love the auto water change. i have a setup so i only have to open and close two valves. makes taking care of the tank super easy!!!
Avast Marine
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Thanks guys, and thankyou Mr. Calfo . We are almost done with my new workshop so I should be working on the canopy and rest of the enclosure by September deending on how long it takes me to get my tools out of storage (I'm thinking not long.....I miss my tools ).
. We are almost done with my new workshop so I should be working on the canopy and rest of the enclosure by September deending on how long it takes me to get my tools out of storage (I'm thinking not long.....I miss my tools ).
Avast Marine
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Sweet Mary! I finally have a shop after way too many years of working in the yard/driveway/stoop/basement/livingroom(when my wife wasn't home).
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Woot!
OK reef tank.
I no longer have a fishless system. I decided that I was going to put my juvi yellow longhorn cowfish in the tank for now. Don't start hatin quite yet. I have a monster system planned in less than a year and he is going to be the center of attention. He has not nipped on anything in the tank yet (watching closely) but he does seem to enjoy knocking snails off the glass. I have had him 6 weeks now in QT treating ich with hypo and he is healthy and strong now.
I felt I had some dead spots in the tank even with the CL on the squirt and 30x turnover so I added a 3/4" seaswirl on my return and now flow is kicking butt! I took a 90 out of the plumbing and switched to spaflex for the retun line and that helped me get quite a bit more out of the Ehiem1260.
I've been trying to get a few new tank shots as I've picked up little frags here and there but they have all looked like crap so you'll just have to wait until my camera likes me again.
:lol:
Actually I'm having a hard time getting fish shots so I just need to work at it a little more.
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Woot!
OK reef tank
.I no longer have a fishless system. I decided that I was going to put my juvi yellow longhorn cowfish in the tank for now. Don't start hatin quite yet. I have a monster system planned in less than a year and he is going to be the center of attention. He has not nipped on anything in the tank yet (watching closely) but he does seem to enjoy knocking snails off the glass. I have had him 6 weeks now in QT treating ich with hypo and he is healthy and strong now.
I felt I had some dead spots in the tank even with the CL on the squirt and 30x turnover so I added a 3/4" seaswirl on my return and now flow is kicking butt! I took a 90 out of the plumbing and switched to spaflex for the retun line and that helped me get quite a bit more out of the Ehiem1260.
I've been trying to get a few new tank shots as I've picked up little frags here and there but they have all looked like crap so you'll just have to wait until my camera likes me again.
:lol:
Actually I'm having a hard time getting fish shots so I just need to work at it a little more.
Avast Marine
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Keith I had been considering just waiting for the nanostreams to come out and add one of those in the back corner, but I was extremely happy by the random flow created from the combo of the squirt and seaswirl. This kind of shot my plan for using the nanostream for a backup pump when I lose power so now I need to give that some thought, I really don't want to have to use 60ish watts to power the return pump.....
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