Nook's Reef!!
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stunreefer
Reef Hugger
Nook, tanks look great man! :thumbsup:
Whats up with your male Lyretail, I've never seen one of this morph (certain collection area?)
It looks like Vader has drawn him to the dark side. :strooper:
Whats up with your male Lyretail, I've never seen one of this morph (certain collection area?)
It looks like Vader has drawn him to the dark side. :strooper:
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tigerarmy40
New member
oh yeah, he def looks guilty!! lol
very nice start, Im going to be following along for sure.
very nice start, Im going to be following along for sure.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13091865#post13091865 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Nanook
I had a very hard time keeping this ones nose outta the rock:
Man the house smells bad today:eek1: :eek2:
drgabe
Premium Member
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14127373#post14127373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Nanook
I worked all day and work tomorrow tooThanks for keeping me aware of my needs though. We are having a Pizza Night here in Saint Louis for the SLASH Club and I am going to be having folks over afterwards, maybe someone will bring a camera.
Well, I was going to come up with some excuse not to come... but I do need to get out with my camera and take some pics.
Hmmmm....
Question on your live rock curing method. Did you cure it in complete darkness to kill every thing off? I thought the purpose to cure quality live rock was to get rid of the organisms that died of during shipping (heavy skimming, frequent water changes) , then get it into a tank type environment to keep as much alive on/in the rock as possible? Don't you want to keep all those colors and not have it turn stark white?
Thanks
edit: Oh ya KILLER set up!!!!
Thanks
edit: Oh ya KILLER set up!!!!
drgabe
Premium Member
'Nook had the local reef club over at his house last night. I had a great time, and appreciated the chance to play around in the mini-ocean(s) (especially since it was -20 with windchill outside!!). Here are three that I put up this morning before heading off to work. They needed almost no touching up- unlike all the rest will need. Not because of my amature camera skills, but because some 'fraidy-pants didn't want to turn his pumps off for a few minutes. 
Word of warning- these pics are hosted on Flickr and clicking the pictures takes you to my Flickr feed.
Any criticism on the images is appreciated since I still learning how to take aquarium pictures.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngusry/3199391502/" title="IMG_2315 by ngusry, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3522/3199391502_c6cae34f4b.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="IMG_2315" /></a>
-'Nook in his room with the bigger of the two skimmers. He is a big dude... and can take that whole bottle in about 2 hours and still feel like a champion!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngusry/3198543553/" title="IMG_2298 by ngusry, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3198543553_48696e9115.jpg" width="500" height="301" alt="IMG_2298" /></a>
-Clown in the long "softy" tank.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngusry/3199389448/" title="IMG_2278 by ngusry, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3199389448_6c15759d24.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="IMG_2278" /></a>
-Butterfly checking out a rock in the cube "SPS" tank.
I'll have more later on tonight.
Word of warning- these pics are hosted on Flickr and clicking the pictures takes you to my Flickr feed.
Any criticism on the images is appreciated since I still learning how to take aquarium pictures.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngusry/3199391502/" title="IMG_2315 by ngusry, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3522/3199391502_c6cae34f4b.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="IMG_2315" /></a>
-'Nook in his room with the bigger of the two skimmers. He is a big dude... and can take that whole bottle in about 2 hours and still feel like a champion!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngusry/3198543553/" title="IMG_2298 by ngusry, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3198543553_48696e9115.jpg" width="500" height="301" alt="IMG_2298" /></a>
-Clown in the long "softy" tank.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngusry/3199389448/" title="IMG_2278 by ngusry, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3199389448_6c15759d24.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="IMG_2278" /></a>
-Butterfly checking out a rock in the cube "SPS" tank.
I'll have more later on tonight.
SaltwaterChris
New member
GOOD pics wish I could have been there but instead I was at work 
wish I could have been there but instead I was at work 
I started dosing vodka per the instructions in the recent Reefkeeping article just 8 days ago. I have 1000 gallons total water volume, my nitrate hangs about 8-9 on Lamotte kit and my phosphate is anywhere from 0.04-0.07 with my Hanna meter.
I started with 0.1cc of Absolut Vodka per 25 gallons, so, 4cc for the first 3 days, then 8ccs for the next 4 days and today I added 0.5cc which is 8.5cc for the next week.
As of today, my nitrates and phosphates have not changed. The reason I started dosing vodka is because I have two huge skimmers and overfed with Rod's Reef over the last 9 months of having a new tank. Cyano has been an issue on the sand and rocks and I siphoned the sand pretty thoroughly with 8 water changes of 30 gallons in a week or two. I have went through a lot of GFO and carbon the last 9 months and it is pricy!
My goal is to stop feeding the Rod's which is pretty heavy in smaller particles that just collect in my sandbed, rock, etc. I am cutting back on feeding somewhat as I have a heavy hand. I am hoping to avoid adding a refugium with the vodka dosing method.
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