Olasana Lagoon: High Energy SPS Nano Build Thread
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I got sick of the bare bottom look, so I added a thin layer of crushed coral right after the $25 efflo went in.
The samoensis patches ultimately look too weak to survive. Same with one small frag from a mother colony (the mother colony has new growth margins).
Anyway, here is the tank last night, before lights out. The efflo has obvious new encrusting growth after only 6 days in the tank. You can see the encrusting margins where the acro at the beginning is regaining ground. Starting to see much better polyp extension in everything.
That Aiptasia dies tonight when I bring home a syringe and needle from the lab.
The samoensis patches ultimately look too weak to survive. Same with one small frag from a mother colony (the mother colony has new growth margins).
Anyway, here is the tank last night, before lights out. The efflo has obvious new encrusting growth after only 6 days in the tank. You can see the encrusting margins where the acro at the beginning is regaining ground. Starting to see much better polyp extension in everything.
That Aiptasia dies tonight when I bring home a syringe and needle from the lab.
Thanks Shawn! I like the aesthetic of it and it does a respectable job staying put with the mp10 blasting.
mr.wilson
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Maybe that's the part he was warning you about
I'm a loose cannon Shawn!
mr.wilson
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Me too. Sometimes I really wonder about that George Costanza theory of doing the exact opposite of what I think you should do. Maybe you can fit another 20 gallon on the wire rack and set up a polar opposite system. After a month you can drain the tank that isn't working
reefsurfing
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The issues he suffered didn't pertain to his lighting or the quantity of rock in his tank.
Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see the efflo color up.
Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see the efflo color up.
vitz
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allsps40
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Well having a small setup with only minimal live rock and a Vortec no skimmer, no filter of any kind just screamed "issues" to me. Its like trying to keep a goldfish in a bowl, it just does not work. I ran a 20G sps tank years ago with success however I had a 10G sump, small fuge and a skimmer. It is just sad to hear the OP had a crash and lost some of his and other people's frags in the process.
finding out how it might work is ok in my eyes, as most of us do this with bigger tanks.
I think the discussion is fired with strange arguments from both sides.
IMHO with this special tank, you should have been very careful with changes and only use waterchanges. great that you still post and even post your your struggle to success, this makes me think you will succeed over time. i think this could work and i really want to see it work. although, i would ditch the fish as soon as there are no worms anymore.
greetings martin
I think the discussion is fired with strange arguments from both sides.
IMHO with this special tank, you should have been very careful with changes and only use waterchanges. great that you still post and even post your your struggle to success, this makes me think you will succeed over time. i think this could work and i really want to see it work. although, i would ditch the fish as soon as there are no worms anymore.
greetings martin
That is odd because I kept a goldfish in a glass milk jug for several years and then a bowl for several more as a kid.
I don't really understand the whole this is going to have issues debate. Every tank has issues and all you have to do is simply look at TOTM tanks or the world class ones we look at everyday here.
If you have never had an issue then you are either extremely gifted with a blue thumb or you have not been in this hobby long enough. The difference is what happens after the issue has occurred.
vitz
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THIS!:thumbsup:
I think this sums it up nicely. allsps40 posted about his own issues IIRC.
naterealbig
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I always chuckle at folks who can't help but spew useless and time wasting banter. Allsps40 did not tell you anything, except his opinions on doing something different (AKA not like him); opinions which have been proven wrong many times over, by several popular tanks on RC.
Please continue to post your successes and failures, as these are the real gems in the learning process we call 'reef-keeping'. Very few actually do this, we only like posting pictures and boasting while things are going 'well'.
Speaking of pictures, it seems as though allsps40 is the authority when it comes to, well, everything. Allsps; please post some links to your current tank, to show us all how it's done!
Please continue to post your successes and failures, as these are the real gems in the learning process we call 'reef-keeping'. Very few actually do this, we only like posting pictures and boasting while things are going 'well'.
Speaking of pictures, it seems as though allsps40 is the authority when it comes to, well, everything. Allsps; please post some links to your current tank, to show us all how it's done!
naterealbig
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