New tank. ADA 60-F Bommie style! 9 gallon shallow
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DopeCantWin
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What does the little guy eat?
Dave Harms
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Your tank looks great! What are you using for substrate now?
well he's ORA, so when I first got him he was already eating pellets, but I trained him to eat everything else (rod's food, cyclopeeze) while keeping him in a breeders net in my tank to be sure. I really don't have to feed him that much anymore - plus I still find tons of pods that probably come up through the sump in my display.. he's so fat though that he sometimes passes up pods for pellets and stuff (wonder if he finds these tastier, or just was trained?)
Its the nature's ocean larger grain substrate (not quite crushed coral but a little smaller) - i REALLY like fine sand, but in such a shallow tank, the flow, even low flow, seemed to blow it around (I actually believe thats what killed my first cup coral) too much sand in the polyps.. YOUCH!
thanks man - they seem to have that effect on people, hmm.. these dimensions make any scape look incredible - really I've seem some what would normally be horrendous scapes look mighty fine in these 60 fs
here's a vid of the tank before I added the sps and such (think from late april) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aV6FaGyWkA
so, off topic- but besides reefkeeping, I also produce music... here's a recent indian fusion track I finished that I'm proud of!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSTELKPnduI&feature=relmfu
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Thank you very much!
clownfish has completely healed after added garlic supplement to her rations..
and! Tank is officially 6 months old, yeehaw! celebrated with a shave, some exquisitely aged brie cheese and a nice big water change today!
woohoo!
I've decided against upgrading anytime soon (thank gaaawd) and instead did a little updating recently - recscaped my tank slightly ( now 7 months old! ) - sold the GIANT pagoda cup that was taking up a cloud size area of my tank. Somebody convinced me to sell this beloved, 8 year old coral.. but I had to because, well I bought a coral I've been thinking off dropping in the tank since the original plans on post #1 of the tank thread -
the mighty torch coral! - it was stinging the sin out of the pagoda cup on a part of its lip and justice had to be served.. but it was awesome because since the cup took up so much room, removing it freed up a lot of space that I will keep open for the new scape. The torch sits in front as kind of a magical, hippy bead entry way to the cove beyond! Yay!
here's some photos of the new upgrade .. also picked up some new friends, a really cool slow pulsing xenia with long floppy polyps ... several peppermint shrimp to hopefully drain the aiptasia of their demon spawn and a burgundy linckia star that a wonderful man who I assemble in my head as the willy wonka of coral absolutely insisted that I purchase. Apparently they are terribly difficult to acclimate when he gets them shipped, and out of a batch of 25, only a few survived the travel, which he stated as rare.
Needless to say, the star is wiping out my astrea star population, and growing new arms. I find it cool that the area where they grow new parts of their arms are white at the tip very similar to some SPS growth points! - I've fed the star a few pieces of clam that it seemed to gobble down (well, as fast as a starfish can "gobble")
Here are some new shots - oh yeah - one of my par38s burned out - I purchased this as used from a reefer here - but not his fault - he was selling as is at a good price. I've since purchased a replacement Rapid par38.. the extreme blue from the all blue par30 I have on the left to the par38 i have on the right looks really cool for now though! the coral don't seem to mind the reduced light that much.
area where the cup used to be
the mighty torch coral! - it was stinging the sin out of the pagoda cup on a part of its lip and justice had to be served.. but it was awesome because since the cup took up so much room, removing it freed up a lot of space that I will keep open for the new scape. The torch sits in front as kind of a magical, hippy bead entry way to the cove beyond! Yay!
here's some photos of the new upgrade .. also picked up some new friends, a really cool slow pulsing xenia with long floppy polyps ... several peppermint shrimp to hopefully drain the aiptasia of their demon spawn and a burgundy linckia star that a wonderful man who I assemble in my head as the willy wonka of coral absolutely insisted that I purchase. Apparently they are terribly difficult to acclimate when he gets them shipped, and out of a batch of 25, only a few survived the travel, which he stated as rare.
Needless to say, the star is wiping out my astrea star population, and growing new arms. I find it cool that the area where they grow new parts of their arms are white at the tip very similar to some SPS growth points! - I've fed the star a few pieces of clam that it seemed to gobble down (well, as fast as a starfish can "gobble")
Here are some new shots - oh yeah - one of my par38s burned out - I purchased this as used from a reefer here - but not his fault - he was selling as is at a good price. I've since purchased a replacement Rapid par38.. the extreme blue from the all blue par30 I have on the left to the par38 i have on the right looks really cool for now though! the coral don't seem to mind the reduced light that much.
area where the cup used to be
well - did some renovations and new scaping on this tank here - chopped the main rock and half and rearranged everything - daps to miller for the macro!
eggcrate is temporary for a holding a few frags as is the other pump until hydor pico gets here....... wooo hoo!
will get pic of lights too!
still decieding whether i should leave the left size bare with minimal macro algae, slope it with more sand and plant some mangroves there with a lot of macro algae, make a third rock formation, or put a bigger colony of sps there like a birdsnest
eggcrate is temporary for a holding a few frags as is the other pump until hydor pico gets here....... wooo hoo!
will get pic of lights too!
still decieding whether i should leave the left size bare with minimal macro algae, slope it with more sand and plant some mangroves there with a lot of macro algae, make a third rock formation, or put a bigger colony of sps there like a birdsnest
