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rDr4g0n 25, Male United States: rDr4g0n; Share

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Hometown:: Brownsville, TX

Tank Size:: 30 gallon display, 10 gallon display "fuge", 10 gallon sump

About your tank:: My 30 gallon display tank will be a coral tank once i get the lighting for it. It is currently home to an Antennata Lionfish, about 20 nassarius vibex snails, 3 mexican turbos, an emerald crab, a small colony of red tunicates, a sponge or 2, and some cup corals.

The 10 gallon display "fuge" is a 10 gallon TALL aquarium! It is currently home to 2 bang gai cardinals, 1 pajama cardinal, and one completely crazy false percula. It's not really a fuge since there are other fish living in it, but it should develop pods quite nicely.

Finally, the sump is a regular ol 2 chamber sump that was created by modifying a 10 gallon tank.

Favorite Music:: Instead of my favorite music, Ill list what i hate: 99% of all Rap, Country, and Spanish music.

Favorite TV Shows:: I dont believe in TV. not since reality shows killed it.

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My Lion has died

sucks. im sad.

Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 3:37pm — 3 Comments (Add)

my lionfish lost his tail again... based on the nature of the wound, id say something got ahold of it. either the mantis shrimp that MAY be living in my aquarium, the newly added button polyps, or my large hitchiker anemone. The thing that really bugs me is that the nassarius snails are starting to try to eat him... i guess they smell the fresh meat.

today i will get an extra 10 gallon, and set up a… Continue

Posted on April 9th, 2007 at 2:37pm — No Comments (Add)

Algae turf scrubber

Steve and i were tossing around ideas to control cyanobacteria, and he came up with a good one: grow it in one place so it doesnt grow someplace else. Well this got us to doing our crazy DIY thing and before ya know it, we had a device to grow algae. its basically an acrylic sheet that water runs across. the sheet should serve as a home to algae and hopefully cyano.
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Posted on April 9th, 2007 at 2:31pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Some Updateage

Well, this weekend i did a few things on my system. I added a deep sand bed. its about 3 - 4 inches now. I also added the button polyps that i mentioned in an earlier post. Finally, i messed around with my sump. I pulled the extra divider out (the one that used to be for the refugium) so the return pump chamber is about 8 gallons now. Now i accidentally did something pretty cool in there too.

I have a HOB filter that i placed in the sump. The thing i did though is have the intake of teh… Continue

Posted on April 2nd, 2007 at 7:41pm — No Comments (Add)

So i added some ugly brown button corals

There were 7 polyps and the frag was $10. i couldnt say no.

In other news! ive had cyano probs as of late. what ive done is first to dose with some red slime remover. then i bought some phosban and have that running in my sump currently. the red slime remover killed teh cyano, and hopefully the phosban will keep it dead.

also soemtime today or tomorrow im going to add another few inches to my sand bed.

Posted on March 31st, 2007 at 2:05pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 7:35am on May 30th, 2007, rDr4g0n said…: ehhh.. just fighting cyano and nuisance algae... thats about it.

actually been brainstorming a new project.... but not ready to share it with teh world just yet.

At 10:21pm on May 29th, 2007, Steve said…: Wheresss johnnnnnyyyyy!! hows it goin?

At 7:59am on May 17th, 2007, rDr4g0n said…: hey viking man man! the place is www.tampabaysaltwater.com i recommend that you get the tank cycled with a little but of LR if you have any in other displays before you put this liverock in. that way more stuff LIVES! also you will get gorilla crabs and mantis shrimp with the rock, which is bad. so be ready to spend hours catching them. oh and heres taht thread link

http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/reef-hitchhiker-id/16061-explosion-live-rock-tons-pics-careful.html

At 10:26pm on May 16th, 2007, Victor said…: Hey John, Hiya.
Couldn't locate the post, but where did you get your liverock from? You had some awesome hitchhikers and I want to get something interesting in the 30.

At 10:26pm on April 26th, 2007, rDr4g0n said…: lol i posted it on reefsanctuary. it was that hood i made for my 10 gallon. for thsoe of you who dont visit RS, heres the link http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/diy/18918-diy-hood-go-my-diy-tall-tank.html

At 8:12pm on April 26th, 2007, Steve said…: done yet, come on were crying over here

At 10:31am on April 22nd, 2007, rDr4g0n said…: im actually workin on a small project, nothing crazy. ill post pics once its done.

At 9:57am on April 22nd, 2007, Steve said…: Hey John , long time no hear,no see, whats going on!

At 9:47am on April 22nd, 2007, rDr4g0n said…: there was not growth on it. the main problem i think was seeding it. i guess its too hard for free floating algae to grab onto the sheet while the water is rushing past. i plan to use the tub and make a slightly different one that use sand as a substrate since i KNOW cyano and diatoms love sand lol

the problem is, i dont have an extra powerhead right now to run the algae scrubber.