New Start

[M Woodhill]

Looking good! Despite the corals being frag sized they still have very good colour. Zeovit is working well for you.

It's my first time to start zeo as opposed to the instruction with dry rocks. I've learned quite a lot and will apply the acquired knowledge to my next setup ;-)

 

[M Woodhill]

wow, so much better with those coraline is scraped out. its gonna nice when those corals grow. hope ur finger is ok by now.

Thanks dude. The finger is so fine and wasn't that bad. The family doc should've simply given me a tetanus shot rather than sent me to ER.

I'll get the front side cleaner. I'm wondering how those 3 sided clean tanks were cleaned.

 

[M Woodhill]

My fetish of love for change kicks in--as usual. I ditched the t5 for mh and will reaquascape this weekend. will thoroughly clean up the front glass. the biggest concern is my anemone--which hates change and my meter shower--which has encrusted on the bottom glass

 

[M Woodhill]

Ok, new light new look

I return to my tradition lighting and everything seems way happier. T5 is great but I have yet to master it so MH+actinic stays as my choice insofar. It looks actually bluer than my t5

will bring some better fts later

totally browned under t5

way fuller pe:

some faster growers:

red planet--basically grow under any lighting

ora purple stylo

my favorite--whatever lemonade

and two versions of ssc. both are still acclimating

ora ssc. when it came, it completely browned out

original uniquecoral ssc. this one goes by contraries, totally paling

both of them throw out lots of slime at tips when I feed my fish frozen Mysis. Don't know. anyone has any ideas?

 

[M Woodhill]

i ditched my t5 for hamilton cebu. i'm liking it way better. no comparison though, just a personal preference. but my corals are liking the bright illumination from xm10k too

2 fts i really have to improve my photo skills or the frags are shadowed in a big framework because of their size?

some sps

color and pe really improves on my ora purple plasma

pink lemonade now looks like what it's supposed to

fire and forest digitata looks more orange now

unidentified big purple acro with neon green polyps

 

[M Woodhill]

like the fuzzy green polyps

ora purple stylo

these ones need to color up

pink and green pocci--neither pink nor green. long way to go

the ora panope totally browned up and now its started to come back

superman, supposed to be red and blue. now it has only blue tips

ssc mini colony. it slimes heavily after me feeding my fish--no matter what i feed with

ora ssc, started to lighten up

thank you guys

 

[M Woodhill]

it sucks i guess through macro lens i figure out there are some red bugs on the unidentified acro ugh

will go with tropic marin pro coral dip first. hate full tank treating and i really run out of that thing

 

[deeznutz1]

Great shots you have there. Great colour as well.

I'm interest in you schooling group of cardinals. Can you give us some more info on them.

Species
Care
Schooling characteristics
Hardiness
Etc

thanks

-dan

 

[Tweaked]

it sucks i guess through macro lens i figure out there are some red bugs on the unidentified acro ugh

will go with tropic marin pro coral dip first. hate full tank treating and i really run out of that thing

Was just about to post I saw on the last piece in page one. Macro shots are very informative good and bad. Good luck with the removal.

 

[M Woodhill]

Was just about to post I saw on the last piece in page one. Macro shots are very informative good and bad. Good luck with the removal.

Dipped already. Will dip all the acro's one by one today ugh I hate seeing bugs

 

[tripdad]

No big deal on the bugs, easy enough to treat. Great selection of corals, totally jealous of that NEM, my tanks just not big enough for one.:thumbsup:

 

[M Woodhill]

No big deal on the bugs, easy enough to treat. Great selection of corals, totally jealous of that NEM, my tanks just not big enough for one.:thumbsup:

just dipped all the acros. fortunately the infested one is the last i put in so the bugs were only found on that

what an entire day!!!

more dreadful news come in that one of my smooth acros shook off some transparent slug/flatworm things :mixed: unfortunately they were only found on one frag and really no eggs. should be the mildly aggressive aefw

Was just about to post I saw on the last piece in page one. Macro shots are very informative good and bad. Good luck with the removal.

i also bought a tupperware, a small bag of live sand--no small bag of aragonite sand--darn, and a yellow wrasse. now i have a pink streaked wrasse and a yellow wrasse--work guys work

Great shots you have there. Great colour as well.

I'm interest in you schooling group of cardinals. Can you give us some more info on them.

Species
Care
Schooling characteristics
Hardiness
Etc

thanks

-dan

i can't tell you its latin name. never a big name rememberer. but i've been having em for a while:

1, species--please google out red spot cardinalfish and you'll have its scientific name in latin form :spin1:

they're available on dd from time to time

2, they're perfect schooling fish--when lights on, they always school. they're sure nocturnal, so i guess they stay together in daytime for the sake of safety. you can switch on a flashlight and watch them at night then figure out they don't school at all at night

3, they're hardy but they sometimes die without an apparent cause. usually one part of its body becomes opaquely white rather than transparent as it normally is and you know they're doing bad. sometimes they recover from it and sometimes they go down. and the one kicked out of the school sure dooms. they must be fed 4-5 times. i feed them with flakes at night with an auto feeder, morning mysis with my hands, noon flakes and pellets auto feeder, evening mysis and flakes hands, and right before lights off mysis and piscine

UGH, feeding is the biggest problem. without proper feeding, they go down very fast, faster than roller coaster going down

they have a problem of accepting pellets. they would never accept dry food before i figured out they could learn to accept it at night. they're way more active at night so it's easier then to persuade em to accept dry food

hopefully the info helps

 

[M Woodhill]

some updates after the first round battle of bugs

the green candlelight coral. the flatworm havin infected it was very transparent and big. now the green tips are comin back

the red bugs are gone and the color is returning

these corals are coloring up

the superman mille. mine looks a tad purple now. is it supposed to be blue tips and red polyps?

reefgen mika stylo. it now looks cool. half of it died all of sudden and i sealed that part with coral glue

ora shortcake. I'm happy green is looming and brown is fadin

this unidentified aussie stag now looks nice

the aussie fat mille is showin its potential now. green body and gold tips

ora purple plasma was very bad. i unplugged it coz its base was bleached and now its back on track

fuzzy pink mille with green polyps and yellow tips. its so fuzzy that its pink skeleton's so covered unseen

 

[M Woodhill]

the 2 fast growers are really my fave

red planet basically adds 1 snub every 3/5 days

under the new lighting fire and forest looks more orange

2 problem corals

the original uc shortcake mini colony. you can see that after me feedin my fish, the tips totally slime up. don't know why and i dipped. it seems to be acclimatin though. anyone has ever come across the problem?

ora hawkins enchinta. it was a fast grower then its rtn and stn. I dipped and found some aefw. but after 3 dippings it still seems kinda bad.

 

[M Woodhill]

ok, now after bug fight and daily maintenance, everything seems to be coloring up. excuse for including my anemone and two reef fish

this green candlelight now:

2 ssc. ora claims under lower lighting ora ssc does better but i insist under stronger lighting ssc develop greener body. it's now greening up ;-)

the uc original ssc. less shedding after feeding and the base branches start to show green and red

the half bleached mika stylopora is doing better and better

purple polyp monti cap

ora purple stylo. i purchased it as backup of reefgen stylo which i had totally lost hope of. its getting nice now, too

no more red bugs. the chunky purple with neon green polyps now starts to encrust

aussie fat mille starts to show green body and gold tips

new addition ora pink birds nest

 

[M Woodhill]

my anemone, onyx and ruby dragonet

I'm more and more into this piece. any identification guys?

my purple and green ritteri

my onyx female. her male picasso partner is scared into the anemone

thank you guys

 

[M Woodhill]

guess time to update a bit:

somesps shots:

totally colored up