My 55g reef :)

Haven't updated in awhile. Getting a pistol shrimp on Thursday!! Tanks been good love the new set-up makes feeding all the zoas way easier. Also stoked to go down to reef-a-pooloza next week in southern cali
 
HOLY S**t oh I mean HOLY SNAP

HOLY S**t oh I mean HOLY SNAP

Didn't know adding the pistol shrimp would be so stressful! Put him in the tank and of corse all my fish wanted to see what it was it was a snapping frenzy that's what it was!! Almost caught all my fish so I decieded that I would throw so food in as a distraction worked awesome all the fish forgot about him plus the watchmen came outta his hole so I was able to kinda skoot the pistol in, once in he began digging instantly. The the goby went back in and they paired up right away!! Over all that sucked haha but a good outcome :)
 
Congrats on the shrimp! I've not read much on them but it's another one of those symbiotic type relationships that fascinate me!
 
Yeah he's become one of my favorites in the tank now! Although I fear I will never have crystal clear water again. He digs alll day long so sand is constantly entering the water column :debi:
 
Does he dig just in one spot - my diamond goby is methodically working his way across the tank and I notice when he is back at places he's already been there is very little "dust up" that comes off unless I have the power heads on high, it just dumps right back down.
 
His burrow is about 12 inches long in the middle island of my tank, he has about 5 different openings which he opens and closes throughout the day.
 
A great weekend planned free cruise tomorrow for my birthday out to Catalina Island!! Hopefully we will be able to get onto the submarine tour where they do a fish feeding!! Then reef-a-poolza sat/sun can't wait they've got some great speakers lined up and a ton of demonstrations should be a awesome birthday weekend:) thanks to my girlfriend!
 
What's reefing if there's no problems to over come right?!?

What's reefing if there's no problems to over come right?!?

Well after doing a water change I somehow unplugged my heater for at least 18 or so hours haha ooooops anyways water dropped to the low 60s before I caught it. Aftermath was pretty bad lost some corals and now battling a cyano outbreak pretty much my whole sandbed got covered in 2 days!! Anyways reduced feeding going about half the normal feeding every2-3 days also busted out a series of 5g changes over the last 4 days. Going to do a ten gallon change tomorrow let that settle for 4 days then bust out another 5g change. Also adding another small powerhead towards the sand to get alittle more movement. Well that's my rant for the day!
 
Oh man - I didn't realize it got that low! I'm sure it's frustrating when things were looking so good! Good luck with the cyano and keep us updated on how things are going.
 
Things a but better on the reef!

Things a but better on the reef!

Well just got back from a mini 3 day vacation! And from the looks of the tank the cyano seems to be retreating!
 
Maintenance business

Maintenance business

Good news started a maintenance business and we just got our first client, a sushi restaurant! The tank was soooo bad I've been working one it before work everyday for 4 hours and it is still a mess. It is well established but that comes with alot of problems. Skimmer litterally has never been cleaned... But over all I'm excited and my client even said I can't believe what you have down with the tank in in 4 days:beer:
 
Nice got A few new zoas today including some watermelons and fire and ice pics up soon. Everything in the tank is doing good besides a batch of montipora that took the heater problem pretty bad.
 
Well something is eating my zoas as far as I can tell it is the astreia(spelling?) starfish, I've been watching the last couple of days and I'm no expert but these starfish seem to be just sitting on top of my zoas until the disappear. I've looked for other culprits a but can't find any. So I started the manual removal of these guys, within 5 minutes tonight I pulled out 30 wow that's alot maybe it's just a huge population and the next food source is the zoas!?
 
Well 4 days after buying my season pass I tore my mcl and meniscus good news for the tank though! I need a whole tank cruiser though maybe a kole tang? suggestions I'm bored on the couch and the tank is one of my main get away from the tv things to do !!!
 
Current stock list

Current stock list

Fish:
Kole tang
Scotter dragonette
6line wrasse
Yellow corris wrasse
Sailfin blenny
Yellow watchmen goby

Inverts:
Tiger pistol shrimp
Queen conch
Cowrie
Random hermits and snails

Corals:
Montipora red and green caps
Ora green toadstool
Zoas
Torch
Hammer
Acans green and orange
Ricodas
Yumas
Random mushrooms purple/red/green


Prob forgetting a fee things but this is the updated stock list
 
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