Ogre's SW Tank v. 2.0
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13021889#post13021889 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by OgreMkV
Here are the translucent white things, I've been talking about.
near center with a small kind of tan brown stuff on the rock?
is that the location ... if so can you count the number of arms?
if it has 8 arms and if it's rising from the brown stuff then it's a tiny start of a gorgonian colony.
at least that's what it looks like at this point.
when I first got my tbs rock in like 2003 ? I had tiny buds that at one point I thought they were anemones .... today they are giant colonies that I have to chop back at least 1 time a year or they would fill up my tank.
redwarrior77
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Neat stuff, Ogre...it's really looking good so far! 
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Let me know what works best for you..I think they all have good and bad points,
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Long trip to the Keys and back... but more progress on the marine life laws here. Was a good meeting and much accomplished for making the Marine Life laws better.
Was a good meeting with industry and the state folks ..
Things seem to be going well for your tank...whats going on in your sand bed?
sea ya
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Let me know what works best for you..I think they all have good and bad points,
BTW
Home again!
Long trip to the Keys and back... but more progress on the marine life laws here. Was a good meeting and much accomplished for making the Marine Life laws better.
Was a good meeting with industry and the state folks ..
Things seem to be going well for your tank...whats going on in your sand bed?
sea ya
Richard TBS:rollface: :rollface: :rollface:
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OgreMkV
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Doesn't seem to be too much. Three of the six giant ceriths have died. A white turbin top snail has been scooting the top edge and there's about 5 green nassarius snails hauling a** around. I haven't seen any bristle worms or stars. I big ole crab that I saw once and haven't seen again. And the pistol shrimp.
That's about it.
That's about it.
OgreMkV
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OK, Ammonia is starting to trend down. I checked it about 30 minutes ago and it was .5ppm. No bad smells. My skimmer is producing way less foam and skimmate, but it's much darker... oops need to go check that before hitting the bed.
When the lights go out, the ceriths come out. Another one appeared and I think I'm up to five living ones. Each an inch long or so. I think these are the kind that are supposed to burrow in the sand bed, but it's one of those things that I didn't really believe that they could disappear seamlessly into the sand like that. It was a pretty startling revelation.
Just goes to show, book learning ain't all that. I'm starting to get excited about trying this again. There are plenty of the tiny little 1/4" feather dusters, but there's also a pair of large tube ones. The tubes are about 1/4" in diameter. It's amazing how these things can tell when you're looking at them and retract suddenly.
I've got a pair of yellow masses of wavy thin sheets. Not sure if they are sponges or something else, but they definitely move.
When the lights go out, the ceriths come out. Another one appeared and I think I'm up to five living ones. Each an inch long or so. I think these are the kind that are supposed to burrow in the sand bed, but it's one of those things that I didn't really believe that they could disappear seamlessly into the sand like that. It was a pretty startling revelation.
Just goes to show, book learning ain't all that. I'm starting to get excited about trying this again. There are plenty of the tiny little 1/4" feather dusters, but there's also a pair of large tube ones. The tubes are about 1/4" in diameter. It's amazing how these things can tell when you're looking at them and retract suddenly.
I've got a pair of yellow masses of wavy thin sheets. Not sure if they are sponges or something else, but they definitely move.
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YEA!! Sir Richard is back :rollface:
Progress on the marine life laws. . . how will that benefit the folks who practice aquaculture for business and/or research?
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YEA!! Sir Richard is back :rollface:
Progress on the marine life laws. . . how will that benefit the folks who practice aquaculture for business and/or research?
OgreMkV
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Had to do another WC today. Changed about 13 gallons. I'm not sure how, but my SG had gone up to 1.026 since the last WC. I've been adding small dollops of RO water when it got low (almost daily). Weird.
Doesn't seem to matter, everything it running pretty good. Tons of snails still cruising.
The ammonia was a shade over 1ppm when I did the change, so id should be about .75 now.
Doesn't seem to matter, everything it running pretty good. Tons of snails still cruising.
The ammonia was a shade over 1ppm when I did the change, so id should be about .75 now.
divemonster
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It's good to hear that everything is running well for Ogre's v2.0 tank!
Did you check the ammonia after the water change? (you said "it should be about. . . " so didn't know if you were guessing or if you ran the test again)
divemonster
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the color match thing does take some practice...well it did for me. I stopped asking husband what he thought because he said the same thing you did about the colors
A good part of my day was spent doing "ongoing maintenance." I tested all of the water parameters, did a 10% water change, cleaned the skimmer (BLECH), trimmed the caulerpa, scraped the glass, checked the ammonia after the WC, filtered more RO/DI water into the aerated holding container, cleaned the light fixtures, etc. *whew* strangely enough it was the most relaxing afternoon i've had in at least 2 weeks.
AlaskaWolf
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Yeah, those color charts can be confusing; I've found that standing in the sun or other bright light, taking the cap off the tube and then looking straight down through the tube generally helps me differentiate the colors better.
My tank is now 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite, but the nitrate is creeping up. And, I'm getting a diatomous bloom now, time for another water change.
My tank is now 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite, but the nitrate is creeping up. And, I'm getting a diatomous bloom now, time for another water change.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13035770#post13035770 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AlaskaWolf
Yeah, those color charts can be confusing; I've found that standing in the sun or other bright light, taking the cap off the tube and then looking straight down through the tube generally helps me differentiate the colors better.
My tank is now 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite, but the nitrate is creeping up. And, I'm getting a diatomous bloom now, time for another water change.
the Salifert kits actualy say you should use "natural light" to read them, I set them on a glass lid on my tank to read them.
that way I am using strong even light.
and for some of them it says which way to view them to get the best read, some are "from the side" others are "from the top"
also I forget which colors but a perecent of the male population is color blind to a few colors .... ask an eye Dr. about that.
If I was not clear: I am not saying anyone *is* color blind
just that a percentage of men have a trait of color blindness to a limited range of colors.
nothing personal etc... Just a known fact.
I am not sure if the color is Green,Red,Yellow etc... been a while since I took the color chart test.
what brand of test kit are you using?
that color chart *SHOULD* have different colors, but I know that some of them are not easy to tell apart.
biomekanic
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OT: Red/Green colorblindness, IIRC passed on from the mother. Very, very rare in women not so rare in men.
Your salinity might be creeping up because of evaporation? I've had that happen. I put a little more SW in than I planned on a change, and over time that builds up.
Your salinity might be creeping up because of evaporation? I've had that happen. I put a little more SW in than I planned on a change, and over time that builds up.
