New Tanks Pics
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Thanks guys. Future plans are:
* Clean/disinfect RO/DI tonight
* Try replacing all current power heads with 2 Tunze 6045s, which arrive tomorrow
* Redo plumbing so that I can push more water through the tank. My return pump is cranked WAY down, and I don't get a lot of flow through it right now. I did this to prevent it making any noise, but I'd like to get a little more flow. Someone suggested a herbie, which I'll look into. I have a second drain line that I am not using in any event.
* Clean/disinfect RO/DI tonight
* Try replacing all current power heads with 2 Tunze 6045s, which arrive tomorrow
* Redo plumbing so that I can push more water through the tank. My return pump is cranked WAY down, and I don't get a lot of flow through it right now. I did this to prevent it making any noise, but I'd like to get a little more flow. Someone suggested a herbie, which I'll look into. I have a second drain line that I am not using in any event.
Couple updates:
I raised the light up a few inches because I had a bunch of SPS that seemed to be bleaching. For whatever reason the lighting seemed much bluer when I did this. I worked the purple+ back in and am kinda liking it. It feels little warm to me sometimes, but the red cyano in the tank could be causing the feeling of too much red. Currently I'm running (back to front) Coral+ Blue+ Purple+ Coral+ UVL SuperActinic Blue+.
Cyano continues to be a problem. I can actually see cyano fibers flying around in the morning. I've decided to handle this four fold:
(1) Beef up CUC - 65 gallon quick crew from reef cleaners shipped Monday. Should be here tomorrow (kinda expected it today)
(2) Cut back feedings. I'm on every other day now and rotating between TLF seaweed sheets, pellets and frozen
(3) Plumb the second return for my tank so that I can turn up the return pump and get more flow through my sump, and through my filtration.
(4) Chemi Clean - I'm going to start by nuking the current outbreak and trying to keep it away.
Got a bunch of frags today. Not all are opened up, but here's what I got. The unopened zoas are tangerine dream, wolverines, and my clementine
This is a shot of one of the acans I got from Mr Coral. It's now mounted on the rock work.
I raised the light up a few inches because I had a bunch of SPS that seemed to be bleaching. For whatever reason the lighting seemed much bluer when I did this. I worked the purple+ back in and am kinda liking it. It feels little warm to me sometimes, but the red cyano in the tank could be causing the feeling of too much red. Currently I'm running (back to front) Coral+ Blue+ Purple+ Coral+ UVL SuperActinic Blue+.
Cyano continues to be a problem. I can actually see cyano fibers flying around in the morning. I've decided to handle this four fold:
(1) Beef up CUC - 65 gallon quick crew from reef cleaners shipped Monday. Should be here tomorrow (kinda expected it today)
(2) Cut back feedings. I'm on every other day now and rotating between TLF seaweed sheets, pellets and frozen
(3) Plumb the second return for my tank so that I can turn up the return pump and get more flow through my sump, and through my filtration.
(4) Chemi Clean - I'm going to start by nuking the current outbreak and trying to keep it away.
Got a bunch of frags today. Not all are opened up, but here's what I got. The unopened zoas are tangerine dream, wolverines, and my clementine
This is a shot of one of the acans I got from Mr Coral. It's now mounted on the rock work.
eternalreef
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I have a par meter if you need help dialing in the height of you light.
Have you ever thought of adding a cucumber to your cuc?
Have you ever thought of adding a cucumber to your cuc?
As you can see, I got teh anthias from Shane a week or so ago. The mail died a few days ago. He never really settled in, and went into reclusion. Once I noticed he wasn't eatig anymore, I figured it was only a matter of time. I never really noticed him being bullied, and the female is going great wit the other fish in the tank.
justin_cutri
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Those polyps in the 4th pic down on post #48 are pretty nice. Ones with the green mouths, those a type of PE?
I'm not sure I got a frag of it a Caesars a while back, and it wasn't named. I've been referring to it as a Black PE, because that's what it looks like to me. I'm not sure what has to be established to make a name "official" for a frag, but you and I both think it looks like a PE, so that's enough for me 
eternalreef
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Looking good. You have any wrasses in there?
AMAYEU
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Leopard wrasse for the win!
Thanks Grant. I think I'm going to try and get the Olympus tube extender for my camera instead of these $8 eBay ones. The Olympus one is $100, but it will allow my to control aperture and auto-focus while it is connected. I lose all automated lens control when using the eBay ones because they are just aluminum tubes with no electronics. The Olympus one appears to have a pass-through for the digital control of the lens. I have a b-day coming up, so I'll start pestering my wife for that...and a Matt Cain jersey.
