o2manyfish 750g Tank, 1500g System "Built" Thread

[o2manyfish]

So here is what the tank has been doing while I was busy making plans to get hitched.

After some erratic behavior from the CO2 regulator 1/2 this gorgeous colony was lost. It's still looking good though, and I hope to grow it back.

Hard to capture but this coral is rich deep purple with bright green polyps

Right hand end of the tank

My Oregon tort... Grown from a flat branchless frag,

 

[o2manyfish]

It seems like everyone with some long term experience with Montis eventually tries to get them to all grow together. So here is my collection or red, Seasons Greetings, Idaho Grape, Aussie Blue and the Grafted.

Red planet

I have no idea what this is growing out... Someone this past week saw it and thought Strawberry Shortcake, but I don't recall getting a SSC to start the colony.

I broke my own rule about making sure corals of similar colors aren't next to each other when aquascaping... And look what happens, 2 beautiful blue stags grow next to each other and the uniqueness of 2 is lost into the confusion of what appears to be 1

Sold to me as a Cali Tort

And the whole darn thing

Fish population is stable and doing well. Added some more Dispar to the existing group. Added some Bar Gobies.

And last Saturday night I caught my Flameback Angels Spawning !!!! The Anthias were well fed that night.

Dave B

 

[ingtar_shinowa]

Everything looks awesome. Great venue for a wedding and congrats Dave!

 

[danfeig]

Looking awesome!

 

[screamingibis]

Your thread reminds me of the movie Jeremiah Johnson when at the end of the movie he is asked, Were it worth the trouble? Johnson says, ah, what trouble? You show great perseverence and have a great tank.

 

[acesq]

Wow Dave!! Your tank is chock full of goodness!! I dream of one day getting my tank to look half as good.

 

[o2manyfish]

Macro Lens Came Out Tonight

Macro Lens Came Out Tonight

So 11pm rolls around tonight and I decide to throw a little late night Nori in the tank for the fish. I ordered a bunch of black worms last week and have been feeding them everynight for over a week now. I have somewhere between 4 and 6 yellow assessors. They've been looking pretty beat up for the last few months. After a week of black worms, I was amazed how much better the assessors look. They are brighter, thicker and their colors looked really good tonight. While studying them I was studying my trio of percs and realized that they are sitting on a pile of eggs, and they must be getting close to hatching because I can see all the little eyes. I pulled out the macro lens to try to get a shot.

After a few frustrating minutes trying to get a shot, I switched over to shooting the corals....

My grafted Monti

One of my blue stags

Bali Echinata

Blue Tort-like

Jedi Mind Trick

Lokani

Maxima

Pink Millie

 

[o2manyfish]

Monti

Oregon Tort

Pink Alveapora

Purple Acro

Possible a Strawberry Shortcake

Sunny D

Valida

Things are looking really good. Going to start dosing Triton Zinc and Manganese and see if I can get some more depth/richness to some of the colors.


Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

Hey Guys,

Been awhile since I posted. Not too much has changed. Everything has been left alone and is growing nicely. Tank is running mostly on auto-pilot and I am just responsible for cleaning the glass. My alkalinity has stablized thanks to ACESQ (Art) lending me his CO2 Regulator. I need to buy a new one and haven't been able to either pull the trigger on a Greenleaf, or build my own using a swagelok.

I haven't added any fish or corals for awhile. We had the local club meeting here, and we had a contest to count the fish in the tank. The correct count was 125 fish. I am lazily battling majanos and aptasia. I bought about 30 Peppermint shrimp a few months back. They all vanished into the tank. Then a couple of weeks later while playing with a flashlight at night I find about 15 huddled together in a cave. Right outside the cave are 4 gigantic aptasia which remain untouched.

I had a matted file fish outside in my rock bin, and I have a copper band and there arent any visible aptasia outside. So I caught the filefish and added him to the display tank. He's a neat fish and is cool to watch. He's nice and fat, but I have no idea what he is eating in the tank. I can't see him eating anything.

The majanos are taking over the back wall of the tank by the overflow. I have a majano wand, but am not convinced it's erradicating them. If anyone knows where I can find some large gauge syringes to start kalk injecting them please let me know.

The Xenia are thriving in the tank. I am pruning out about 150 heads of xenia a month. I have given them away to anyone who wants locally.

I finally added a few new corals, so I thought it was time to take some photos. First up is an Efflo that I picked up about 3 weeks ago. I got it and it was pretty brown, but i like the fact that it wasn't flat and had some nice growth nodules in the middle of it. It's starting to get some color to it.

I also got the opportunity to grow out what could be a really special coral. This is a piece of a monti, that is Gold, Orange and Green with blue polyps. This photo was taken when the coral had only been in the tank for about an hour. The deal was I get the coral, and as soon as it triples in size, I give back the new growth.

So those are the new pieces, here are some growth update photos of some of my favorites:

My Grafted Monti

This is part of my clustered cap growth

My Jedi Mind Trick

My Oregon Tort

My shortcake

 

[o2manyfish]

Here are some shots of the tank

This is looking down the length of the tank

Left side of the tank

Right side of the tank

Center of the Tank

Whole darn thing

 

[RJT]

Your tank is filling up nicely with coral growth.

There's a lot of beepin fish in there, how much do you feed them each day?

 

[o2manyfish]

RJT,

I use a 'SuperFeeder' connected to my Apex. With it's unique hopper I am able to mix a variety of different pellets, flakes and powders. My favorite food is the Salifert 'Energy' but it's becoming more and more difficult to find. I also liked being able to mix freeze dried cyclopeeze with the food but that can't be found any more either.

The super feeder feeds the tank 4x a day. I feed a Nori Sheet about 2-3x a week. I feed Chefzilla's Chowdown Reef food about 3x a week. And when I get off my butt I feed live black worms as frequently as possible.

Also about once a month I get fresh oysters at the market. I blends them for several minutes and then poor them in the tank.

Dave B

 

[cFloor]

Your tank is looking great! Lots of growth since your last update

 

[FishM8]

wow just love that tank!

 

[RJT]

Excellent diet. I never thought of blending oysters, that's great for fish and corals.

Thank you for sharing.

RJT,

I use a 'SuperFeeder' connected to my Apex. With it's unique hopper I am able to mix a variety of different pellets, flakes and powders. My favorite food is the Salifert 'Energy' but it's becoming more and more difficult to find. I also liked being able to mix freeze dried cyclopeeze with the food but that can't be found any more either.

The super feeder feeds the tank 4x a day. I feed a Nori Sheet about 2-3x a week. I feed Chefzilla's Chowdown Reef food about 3x a week. And when I get off my butt I feed live black worms as frequently as possible.

Also about once a month I get fresh oysters at the market. I blends them for several minutes and then poor them in the tank.

Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

Camera back out

Camera back out

Got the urge for some top down shots tonight...........

Randon Acro

Nice Blue Polpys

Efflo Starting to color up nicely

Aussie Elegance

Yellow Hammer

Jedi Mind Trick

Aculeus

Monti

Crazy Monti Healed over nicely

 

[o2manyfish]

Monti Mountain

Some cool Mushrooms - Orange Rhodactis

Oregon and Millie

Pocilli and Millie

Red Millie

Another Millie

Red Planet

Don't know what it is but it gets prettier and prettier

From the Solomon Islands

I think this was also from the Solomon Islands

 

[o2manyfish]

The Macro Shots

The Macro Shots

Macro of the crazy Monti

What could it be, but pretty

Valida

Macro of Echinata

Macro of Efflo

My Grafted Monti

Yellow Micro Hammer

 

[o2manyfish]

I like my dwarf angels. I've been wanting one of these for awhile and they don't come around that often... This isn't the easiest fish to keep, it's deepwater and relatively shy. I was planning on putting it in an acclimation box for a few days, but got home with it late last night and realized being the selfless reefer I am I realized I had let a friend borrow it. So 11pm last night after drip acclimating for a few hours I'm trying to clean out a Costco Cashew Container, but the label wasn't coming off cleanly..... So off she went into the tank. No congratulations yet, let's wait and see if I have a good update in a month....

And then here is an updated shot of my Bellus with the mis-bar

Here is the misbarred Bellus from June of 2014

Misbarred in Dec of 2014

 

[cFloor]

Very nice pickup on the Colins angel. I actually just got one today as well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.