Tank of the Month - May 2005
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reefpeep2004
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Having lived in Valencia, I can vouch for the fact that it's just this side of Hades in the summerAnemone said:
I'm sure that doesn't help the heat factor any.Lovely anemones and tank
alphaferret
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
congrats-love the pix-very nice totm-not too big!-
i have a rbta also -first night it split-i call them spike & chester from the cartoon 0 lil guy followed big guy around- both are hapily at home now. anyways yours are beeeeautiFULL!
i will check your gallery for pix of your other most likely nice tanks too!-alpha
i have a rbta also -first night it split-i call them spike & chester from the cartoon 0 lil guy followed big guy around- both are hapily at home now. anyways yours are beeeeautiFULL!
i will check your gallery for pix of your other most likely nice tanks too!-alpha
alphaferret
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
i love that purple rimmed monti
JHReef
New member
Gawain1974 said:
Yes, I can also vouch for the need for a chiller, since I live out that way too. It so close to the desert that some of the streets deform and melt under heavy trucks in the summer. Great tank Anemone, glad to see your submission didn't get you banned for life!:mixed:
Felix Mata
New member
Kevin: great job you have done, thank you for sharing the pictures, article and everything else. Congratulations.
rjwilson37
New member
Very Nice Anemone!
I tried the BTA's a couple times and was just not successful. My tank was not really mature at that time though like it is now, I just wonder if my water chemistry was just not right for them yet. I am not really sure if I will try it again, I mean I just love BTA's, but I don't want to be responsible for another BTA death.
I tried the BTA's a couple times and was just not successful. My tank was not really mature at that time though like it is now, I just wonder if my water chemistry was just not right for them yet. I am not really sure if I will try it again, I mean I just love BTA's, but I don't want to be responsible for another BTA death.
FunkieReefJunkie
Member
Dedicated species tanks are rare and your tank is awe inspiring. Maybe in the next few years I'll give an anemone a try.
maxvan1
New member
WOW! Thats awsome! How many anemones do you have total?
What do you know, I have the same tank, but its 75 gallons... (or maybe its 65 with that overflow thing being 10 gallons?) anyways, I will try that method to get them to split (the feed heavy then do big water change)
Do you think raw cocktail shrimp would be bad for an anemone (just because they are cheaper if I am going to feed alot)
are you running skimmerless, just a fuge right?
What do you know, I have the same tank, but its 75 gallons... (or maybe its 65 with that overflow thing being 10 gallons?) anyways, I will try that method to get them to split (the feed heavy then do big water change)
Do you think raw cocktail shrimp would be bad for an anemone (just because they are cheaper if I am going to feed alot)
are you running skimmerless, just a fuge right?
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
MMMMM.....a species TOTM! Anemones to boot. NICE! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Carl_in_Florida
Active member
Its great to see something different as Tank of the Month. While I will not go in this direction, I also will not go in the direction of the 200 gallon 4 billion watt sps tank.
Kudos to RC Staff and Anemone for showing the diversity of this hobby.
You really get a sense in this article that Kevin enjoys this tank.
Carl
Kudos to RC Staff and Anemone for showing the diversity of this hobby.
You really get a sense in this article that Kevin enjoys this tank.
Carl
SpaceFish
Premium Member
Sweet looking tank! I bet it looks very busy and action packed in there.
Two questions for you:
Are any of the other fish in there stung from the RBTA's or harassed by your GSM?
Do any of your RBTA's ever go swimming around in the current? I find mine doing that every now and again. Is stays in one spot for a long while then it'll be on the move, then in notime its floating/bouncing all around in the current for 5-10 minutes.
Two questions for you:
Are any of the other fish in there stung from the RBTA's or harassed by your GSM?
Do any of your RBTA's ever go swimming around in the current? I find mine doing that every now and again. Is stays in one spot for a long while then it'll be on the move, then in notime its floating/bouncing all around in the current for 5-10 minutes.
Carl_in_Florida
Active member
[welcome]
rbdesigns
rbdesigns
LEt's see if I can hit on most of the questions:
I modified the rear-bioball area by putting a piece of acrylic at the bottom of the divider just before the pump chamber (in my system, the water flowed into this chamber through an opening in the bottom of the final divider). I drilled a hole in the acrylic a couple of inches from the top to allow the water to flow through to the final chamber (without overflowing the top). This slowed the turbelence down quite a bit thorough the bioball chamber.
- I think I have 12 or thirteen clones right now, I had a problem with my heater sticking on - couldn't figure out why my chiller was on all the time when the room temp was low 70's. So, the tank was getting up to 82+ degrees. I checked, and the heater was still on at this temp. Cranked it down a bit and finally got it dialed in again (until I can pick up a new one), but the temperature spike seems to have caused a couple of splits...
Dinner time.... more in a bit.
Kevin
I modified the rear-bioball area by putting a piece of acrylic at the bottom of the divider just before the pump chamber (in my system, the water flowed into this chamber through an opening in the bottom of the final divider). I drilled a hole in the acrylic a couple of inches from the top to allow the water to flow through to the final chamber (without overflowing the top). This slowed the turbelence down quite a bit thorough the bioball chamber.
- I think I have 12 or thirteen clones right now, I had a problem with my heater sticking on - couldn't figure out why my chiller was on all the time when the room temp was low 70's. So, the tank was getting up to 82+ degrees. I checked, and the heater was still on at this temp. Cranked it down a bit and finally got it dialed in again (until I can pick up a new one), but the temperature spike seems to have caused a couple of splits...
Dinner time.... more in a bit.
Kevin
- Fresh table shrimp, cut into smaller pieces, is a fine meal for a BTA. Just make sure it's uncooked and not spiced in any way.
- none of my fish have been stung by my BTAs - at least not to my knowledge. My GSM only really harrasses me when I'm in the tank. The rest of the fish he-she (and them, back when) pretty much ignores.
- my anemones don't go swimming. Mine pretty much move from solid object to solid object. Sometimes they will release a part of their foot like they're "reaching," but they generally don't release the whole foot until they have a hold on something else.
- currently, I am running skimmerless, but I'm reconsidering putting a chinsy one back on the tank -the lack of skimmer has been the only real difference (as far as I can tell), between the first spawning event (where I only lost the hree snails) and the last two spawning events (where I lost fish). The thing that makies this strange and not an exact correlation, is that I actually shut off my skimmer the first time the tank spawned and didn't turn it on until a day later, and even with the fish kills in the later spawnings, all of my snails survived (when they all died in the first spawning), so I'm still confused....
Kevin
- none of my fish have been stung by my BTAs - at least not to my knowledge. My GSM only really harrasses me when I'm in the tank. The rest of the fish he-she (and them, back when) pretty much ignores.
- my anemones don't go swimming. Mine pretty much move from solid object to solid object. Sometimes they will release a part of their foot like they're "reaching," but they generally don't release the whole foot until they have a hold on something else.
- currently, I am running skimmerless, but I'm reconsidering putting a chinsy one back on the tank -the lack of skimmer has been the only real difference (as far as I can tell), between the first spawning event (where I only lost the hree snails) and the last two spawning events (where I lost fish). The thing that makies this strange and not an exact correlation, is that I actually shut off my skimmer the first time the tank spawned and didn't turn it on until a day later, and even with the fish kills in the later spawnings, all of my snails survived (when they all died in the first spawning), so I'm still confused....
Kevin
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