The Good The Bad And The Ugly – A Reefkeeper’s Journal

[WDLV]

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The fish may feel differently, but I like the "carpet" the best.

 

[sunhair]

that is awesome walt

I am glad your fish are doing better

 

[WDLV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12517829#post12517829 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sunhair
I am glad your fish are doing better

You and me both.

 

[April540]

Now that's being resourceful! LOL Can't wait to see how this works out. OMG how neat Walt! It's just crazy enough to work.

 

[WDLV]

I was thinking... if it doesn't work on adults, it may work with juviniles looking for a place to hide.

 

[April540]

any luck today?

 

[WDLV]

Not really. They will go in the fake anemones for food when it drops in there but not for shelter.

 

[Slakker]

Hahaha brilliant!

I want to see them in those fake nems...lol

 

[WDLV]

OK then, here you go. The first to adopt one is A. sandaracinos.
I'M STOKED!!!

 

[seafansar]

Haha! That's great!

 

[WDLV]

Last night I also placed the "green carpet" in with a separate pair of sandaracinos. They were experimenting with it this morning.

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12547087#post12547087 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WDLV
OK then, here you go. The first to adopt one is A. sandaracinos.
I'M STOKED!!!

Oh WOW!..that is so cool! I wonder if my Chrysopterus in my QT would adopt one of those.

 

[April540]

LOLOLOLO.. That is too sweet! I bought the Grandkids those balls for Easter, wonder what the chances of them parting with them. Great job Walt.

 

[Joe-ness]

WOW! That is way too cool! lol
I Love it!

 

[WDLV]

I've finally got the inhabitants out of the 210 gallon. The temporary stock tank system is set up. I must admit, I do like the way this is working out. It allows a lot of room for one pair of clowns, coral brood stock and it's VERY energy efficient. I only need one MH to run 100 gallons of water and a single maxijet 1200 is all that is needed for ample circulation. Not to mention I can run probably ten tanks off one return pump. I may leave it like this for the remainder of my stay in this house. I will be adding a few more stock tanks though.

My leucs are in the first tank with a hippo tang.

I'm keeping a latz/polymnus pair and a thiellei/ocellaris pair in the second.

and a percula pair and a nigripes pair in the third. There's also a clown tang and a copperband butterfly in this one.

I think this setup will do very well for my clowns and corals. I'll probably try to keep a CBB and some sort of tang in each tank to help keep algae and aptasia at bay.

 

[WDLV]

I guess you could say I have some good news to report. My 13 year old ocellaris female and thiellei are paired up. I had noticed that they were reasonably friendly but could not see where they slept at night. Well I drained and reconfigured one of the tanks yesterday and made them the permanent residents of this system. Tonight I found them sleeping together. I have a small clarkii inhabiting a RBTA in the same tank. I'm hoping that they will catch on that it's a good place to live and kick him out.

 

[WDLV]

The newest 'gasters....

That makes six.

 

[April540]

Everything looks great. Congratulations...I like the holding tanks.

 

[WDLV]

Several months ago I decided to empty the left side trough and install my old Euroreef CS12-2 skimmer. A few weeks later II closed it in with baserock and liverock for added biological filtration.

 

[WDLV]