Our Tbs

[krajacich]

I thought I'd post some other pictures from my tank:

This ones a little blurry but worth posting because it's just funny. One of my clownfish has taken to sleeping in this dead clam....it's hard to get a good pic because he's only really in there at night

Maze Brain:

Sun Coral:

Ricordea & unidentified SPS frag:

 

[BrianPlankis]

Nice pictures everyone! Glad to see more photos as always. The clownfish sleeping in the clam is just too funny :lol:

I went to the frag swap yesterday and 60 of my baby snails found new homes (hopefully to establish other breeding populations).

I went with two coolers worth of frags and came home with a fat wallet and 3 frags:

1. Peach Montipora sp. (possibly digitata, but polyps are small)

2. Turquoise Acropora millepora (with purple tip). GORGEOUS even under my 6500K QT light. I'm hoping now that my Ca and Alk are stable in my main tank it will do well.

3. Unknown species..possibly Montipora sp. BEAUTIFUL under the owner's tank lights. It is mostly gray flesh with a pink/peach growth edge and orange polyps. WOW.

No pics though! Sucks not having a camera.

Brian

 

[Safir]

The recent growth in this thread led me to take some pictures today:

I counted three different porcelian crabs today.. all hitchikers. My friend says he counted 5 last night

full tank shot:

a few of my frags:

a few of my hitchiker corals:

and my maroon clowns.. this is the first time i've seen "him" doing the submissive dance, happened to catch it... female on teh right with the misbars, male on the left, he has a funny little "dot" at the base of his rear bar on both sides... she is only misbarred on one side - both very interesting markings IMO

and the newest member of the family, picked him up from the shelter today:

 

[BrianPlankis]

Safir,

Great pictures! Any idea what that first hitchhiker coral is? Does it eat anything? That is the first time (that I recall) that I've seen that coral as a hitchhiker.

Pretty cat, glad you rescued him/her/it

Brian

 

[krajacich]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7232346#post7232346 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Safir
a few of my hitchiker corals:

Safir- I LOVE this coral! Great shot. Always nice to see someone who rescues other animals too! I'm sure the cat will be a great addition to the family.

 

[patsan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7201161#post7201161 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bkelley02
Blurry pic from 10 minutes ago through dirty glass.

Wow, I missed this picture. Brian, how do you get your rock so bright purple? Is that the way it really is or is it the lighting that brings it out like that?

 

[patsan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7200119#post7200119 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by H2OLUVSME
hi every one. glad to see there are still active contributors to this thread.

its not looking like im going to be getting back into reefing anytime soon, but i wanted to touch base and check things out anyway.

Pat, i like your swallowtail pics. back in Feb you made a comment about wanted a male really bad. im pretty sure that if you put another female in with the one you have one would change over. that LFS i shop at has four females in a display. one of them has been changing over the past few weeks and is almost a male now.

every one else very nice pics/corals/fish/etc...

Wow...another post I missed. I must not have been getting any email notifications that there were posts.
OMG that would be great if that would happen. It doesn't look like I am going to be able to find a male anywhere.....so this might be the only way to try and get one.

 

[Safir]

Sand (was a male, 10 months old) is actually our second rescued cat, and they are both very well behaved

you can see the entire rock that hitchiker coral is on in the lower left in the full tank shot - the polyps open up probbly 1/4" long, bright red and green - the rock is about 2.5" around and 4" tall and is covered on all sides by polyps. as far as what it eats, I do not feed it anything in particular, I feed a little bit of phytoplankton 2/3 days, with "reef chili" (see ebay) on the 3rd day, at teh same time I spot-feed the condy, stars, and any other carnivores with shrimp bits.. the clowns get tiny pinches of brine shrimp flakes 2x a day. I assume it and the many cup corals and tube corals eat the same food the other filter-feeders do, as they have been opening up and thriving from day 1, even through an ammonia spike i had after adding part2 (it sat overnight at the airport) Lighting is a single 175W 10K as far as photosynthetic beings go - the algae loves it (good and bad...)

Joey, our other cat:

 

[bkelley02]

Pat,

Most of my rock is covered with Pink and Purple Coraline. So for the most part, that's the way it looks in person. I have Radium Metal Halide Bulbs on the tank too so I'm sure that helps with how it looks though.

It's been a month now and the bugs are still gone! Those monti caps are growing good now so not too much longer.

I wish I wasn't so afraid to frag one of my other monti's. I have a Rainbow monti that's probably tripled in size in 2 months. It's already grown off it's own piece of broken rock and is now starting to cover the rocks around it. :eek1:

Brian

 

[patsan]

Got a picture of it? No excuses....cause we know you have a nice camera!!

 

[patsan]

Safir.....is that an entire TBS tank?

Danielle, your sun coral is so nice. Mine never really opened fully. It barely opens at all now.

I can finally say that all the gorilla crabs are finally out of the tank. Haven't seen one in 4 months now. I only see porcelins and lots of them.
The orange pistol continues to molt every couple of weeks and is still crackling along.
So far all the fish have survived.
My zoas look like crap since putting them in that tank. The orange flower anemone, frogspawn and hammer is thriving. The candy cane is holding it's own, although I haven't seen any new heads. The brain coral is thriving also. The only sponge that's doing great is the brown and grayish color. There is a yellow ball sponge, but it's positioned underneath a cave, so you don't really see it unless you are closely examining the tank. The orange monti cap is growing too, but not a quickly as I anticipated. Most of the tube corals have perished. The lone surviving peppermint shrimp recently was discovered in the overflow. There are still hermits in there too.

 

[bkelley02]

Rainbow monti. Can't get the colors right. Need to spend time to get the WB right.

Frogspawn. Can't see it from this pic, but I started out with 2 heads. Now there are probably 4-5 new heads growing off/under each of the originals.

 

[krajacich]

Great pics Brian!

Pat- Are you still happy to just have the one tank or do you miss having his & her tanks? Glad you've been able to rid yourself of gorillas...I still have about 4 of them

 

[Safir]

Pat - it is 40 lbs of arag-alive LS-in-a-bag 4 lb of sand from a local tank, 54 lb of "live" rock from a local, I use the term live loosely, as it had come from an established tank, but had been in a roughneck container with water and a powerhead for about a year, so while it still had a good amount of denitrifying bacteria ther ewas no coralline or any other hitchikers on it - once my cycle was complete with that I called richard and ordered just "part 2" of a 46G kit, so only half the rock and the critters are TBS

of course the soft corals/zoos/palys and my clowns are from local sources.

FWIW i got a mantis AND some gorilla crabs - lucky me.

 

[patsan]

I do miss my tank....but am glad I sold it. I think everything did better in my tank than Bob's....but I was also a fanatic with it...and that I don't miss.

Safir...you pretty much have what we have now in our 90g. I wound up selling my tank, and sold some of the TBS rock, and took some of my Marshal Island rock, and put it into the TBS tank.....
I have the bagged sand in my tank too. I didn't put any of that sand in the TBS tank, since we have so much in there to begin with. Richard had to have given us more than 90lbs. I also added 20lbs figi pink, so that tank should have 120lbs sand....I do think it has more than that.

I had gotten a mantis with each shipment of TBS, but was lucky and they didn't make it into the tank ever.

 

[Safir]

So Sand discovered the fish tank...

Next time we have some extra money I want to pick up a 12G nano-cube, stock it with just the TBS package and an "extra" piece of our base rock left over from teh big tank - nice and low-maintenance, but super interesting nonetheless

 

[krajacich]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7233756#post7233756 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Safir
So Sand discovered the fish tank...

Too funny :lol:

 

[tspfish]

That looks so nice Tom! Looks nice and colorful.
As far as the picture size, try opening up an account in photobucket. It's free, unless you decide to take out a premium account, which is only $25 a year, and you can put your pictures the size they come out of the camera without worrying about having to scale them down as much as you need to in RC's gallery. You can also resize them right within photobucket if you need to.
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Thanks a ton Pat, now you can accually see my pics.

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This is a great thread, I will post new pics as I get them.

Tom

 

[skippy2]

Safir: Your tank looks great. I love the pic of your new kitty with the tank. I wish my cat would wake up enough to notice my tank. lol
Meet Sid. My new yellow clown goby.

 

[drk70]

Don't feel bad Pat, all these posts and I only got one e-mail.

Nice pics everyone!