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Posted by Jason Brazeal on May 7, 2008 at 7:19pm —
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Well, it looks from my last blog on here that I haven't been online in a while. Just been busy with work-related things, and taking care of the tanks.
I have removed the bioballs from the cube tank, and replaced with LR rubble. Now I'm getting daily algae blooms of green and brown algae, which I'm kind of getting tired of scraping off the glass each day. Ugh. And it's covering my pretty coralline algae on the rocks too. Been doing water changes just fine, and added some calcium last week, but j…
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Posted by Leslie on April 24, 2008 at 3:29pm —
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The main reason that I start reefspace is I want to document what happen to my tank.I am not a rich person so every dollar,I will do research before I spend.
After on again /off again hobby for me, I decide to start stocking my tank with something else not just xenia and kenya tree. I bought this tank from Petco (1 dollars per gallon). Transfer stuff from my 30 gallons tank to the new 40 G breeder in December, 07 .
I decided to go bare bottom this time. I like the that no sand storm on the bare…
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Posted by Mak on April 18, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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Finally. That thing has been sitting out in the barn since I got my 92. I don't know how many people have said "I'll be out on (insert day here). And, they never show up. Argh. I hate that. That's one of my peeves. If I tell you I'll be there at a certain time, I'm there. None of this CP time crap either.
Anyways... a buddy of mine from work asked if I still had it. I forgot how much I told him it would cost, he said $50. Then I told him to make it easy I'll take $40... just 2 $20's. :)
I'm tr…
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Posted by Bwlr on April 15, 2008 at 8:30pm —
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Never really bloged but I guess I gotta try everything at least once :P
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Posted by Logan on April 14, 2008 at 10:40pm —
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Since buying 2 new fish on Friday at my Local Fish Store, Orcutt Aquarium, I have been concerned that the fish I bought wont do well. Ok, you can call it paranoia but I am very concerned with all of the life contained in my Reef Tank. I am sure that I stated this in one of the million blog posts I have typed. Regardless, these animals to include Fish, Clams, Scallops, Crabs, Snails, Coral and my anemone are no longer in their natural habitat. They are in an artifical environment and they are 100…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 14, 2008 at 5:53pm —
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Looks like my Prized Maxima Clam committed suicide last week. Unfortunately, it took about a week for it to die. The clam held on as long as it could before the good Lord took him home. Basically, what happened was that the Clam decided to move from a spot on the live rock to a space right below it. Well, it didnt quite make it there and it landed into the arms of my long tentacle anemone. From there, the damage was done, I hate to say it!!
When I got up for work first thing in the morning, I f…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 14, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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Last night, it took me almost 3 hours to acclimate the 2 Blennys that I bought. So far they look really healthy and are very active. They already found prime real estate to settle down at and to hide in. There are plenty of cracks, tunnels and crevices for them to hide in. I decided to try to feed them along with my Clowns, the Clowns were very hungry but then again, they always are!!!
The Blennys didn't want anything to eat and normally that is enough to get me concerned but they are eating th…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 12, 2008 at 6:30pm —
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As with almost every Friday, I take the girls to the Local Fish Store right after work. It is a good way for me to get started on my weekend and really unwind and relax. I was not really planning on buying anything other than a fish for my tank. I just like to stop by and see what new stuff the store picked up earlier in the week, especially before the weekend. That is when most of the fish and goods are sold. So I like to get a step ahead and see if there is something that I want for my tank.…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 11, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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I am still learning more about my digital camera, and am trying different settings to achieve the clearest pictures of my tanks and their inhabitants. Right now, the best setting so far is the Underwater Macro setting, with ISO customized to 800, the flower setting changed to SI1 (I have no idea what this means), and some other lighting setting changed to +0.3 or -0.3, depending on the subject. This provides a fairly clear, close-up picture of my rocks and corals. Still researching the options f…
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Posted by Leslie on April 11, 2008 at 1:37am —
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I went to my first local reef club meeting last weekend - it was nice to meet some people that I have "met" on the reef forums. It was held at a local club member's house and we got to see his 300g tank - really impressive!!!! I began to worry my tanks would never compare.
However, my biocube is beginning to sprout the nice coralline algae on the rocks everywhere. I am getting the pretty neon green, pink, and bright red versions. It's beginning to look a little like a rainbow in there, which is…
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Posted by Leslie on April 8, 2008 at 2:16pm —
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After I got home from work, I checked the chemistry on my tank and everything is very stable and going quite well!!! One thing that I noticed when I finally fixed the salinity issue in my tank is now the Calcium Levels and the Hardness are quickly being depleted. I was not having this problem when my salinity level was out of wack. Now since it is stable, the corals and clams seem to be soaking up the calcium like a thirsty camel in an oasis!!!
I was at a constant Calcium level of about 480 and…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 8, 2008 at 1:00am —
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Well, I couldnt find the poor Forktail Blenny anywhere in my tank for almost 3 days now. So It is safe to say that the little fella died. Sure enough he did!!! I tried to get him out of my tank but my siphon hose wouldnt reach, neither would my net. Well I got some of my feeding tweezers and was about to pull him out until my Arrow Crab (Sal) snagged him right out of my hands!!!
Well, I let nature take care of things and Sal had one hell of an expensive meal!! I was not about to pull food out o…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 7, 2008 at 11:00am —
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I woke up this morning, made some coffee and sat down to look at my tank. I have to admit that the Corals, Inverts and Fish look great!!! With the Exception of the Forktail Blenny!! I know that this poor guy will not make it!!! I will keep a close eye on him to see for sure!! I fed George and Gracie and they were super hungry this morning!! So at least these guys are doing well!!!
The Corals are looking fantastic and I have to admit that the colors on the Zoanthids that I had in my tank prior t…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 5, 2008 at 11:30am —
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When I came home today to put my fish in the tank to acclimate them, I decided to use my new refractometer to check out the salinity level in my tank. When I check my aquarium in the morning before I left to work, the Salinity level was right between 1.024/1.025. The chemistry looked really good with the Ammonia/Nitrites and Nitrates at 0.0ppm.
I used the refractometer and I was really shocked as to how innacurate the swing arm hydrometer was!!! The swing arm hydrometer said I was at a steady 1…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 4, 2008 at 11:00am —
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Thankfully, I was able to get out of work a bit early today!! So I went and picked up my daughters from daycare early. I promised them that I would take them to the Local Fish Store Today. I was going to pick up some more coral, salt and some supplies. As I stated earlier, going to the local fish store is my bonding time with my daughters, I know they really enjoy going with daddy, thats for sure!!!
Well, when we got there, we spent plenty of time looking around and what not. I bought what I ne…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 4, 2008 at 10:30am —
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Just kidding.
Yesterday I had to move the next weakest blue damselfish into quarantine, as like the previous weakling, its tail was almost gone. This one luckily dove right into the net without much fanfare, and seems to have survived the night in the other tank just fine.
Oh, and I did notice that there are still very small acoel flatworms in the quarantine tank, but they are like a millimeter across and few in number. What, me worry?
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Posted by Jay Exner on April 4, 2008 at 6:03am —
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My goodness, the Aquatic Gods must be very unhappy with me!!! I bought some of that Epoxy Putty for bonding corals and rocks together. While I was doing that, A rock that I thought was secure fell on my new Open Brain Coral (yellow one). There were nicks all over the edges of the coral. The membrane didnt seem torn or ripped but it didnt look very good. As you can tell, I was pretty upset!! It is not because of the cost, it was only $35.00, it has something to do with me being a good steward to…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 3, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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Well, my package from Marine Depot finally arrived!!! It got to my door right at 9:55am with a cut off time of 10:00am. Not too bad huh??? Well I spent part of the morning trying to open the package and pick up all the packing popcorn!! That stuff can be quite a mess!!! I took off the old cover with the PC lighting and then I took the Current Sunpod and opened her up and replaced the bulb with the Phoenix 250 watt 14000K bulb. I was a bit worried that the problem was more severe than I thought,…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 3, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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Well, its April 1, 2008, and my tank arrived on the exact date that James said it would when he quoted me my price way back in January... Now that's professionalism. I went to the trucking company to pick the tank up, and the crate itself was nothing short of impressive.... No wonder it cost $150 just for the crate! Notice the careful attention to detail. Perfectly packed with a 3" boarder of memory foam. The whole deal was perfect! I really couldn't ask for anything more from start to finish wi…
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Posted by LivingTheDreamLife on April 1, 2008 at 7:48pm —
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Ok, I placed my order before 3:00pm, 3:00pm is the cut off time for over night delivery. So I thought everything was good to go. With that said, I went to bed. When I woke up around 5:30pm to get ready for work, I got online and checked my email. I was hoping that I got an email froom marine depot with my FedEx tracking number and I was expecting an email from Marine Depot saying that the items have been shipped. That never came!! Now I am getting a bit hot under the collar!!
I called Marine De…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 1, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Right before I crashed for the day so I could go to work tonight, my Metal Halide Blub went tits up on me!!! I just added all of my live stock about 3 hours prior. As I was walking out of the front room to go to bed, I saw the light abruptly shut off!! I tried several things and nothing worked. So I looked at the bulb and yes, it was toast!!! As you probably know, I was really ticked off!!! I just bought this Sunpod a few days prior, then this happens!! Man o Man, I was seeing red, thats for sur…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 1, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Today I got off of work early along with my wife due to us having to work overtime tonight for a Missile Launch. If you didnt already know, we are scientific and technical photographers for the Department of the Air Force (Civil Service). So our job is to take pictures of Space Launches here on Vandenberg AFB. So when we have to work overtime, they give us crew rest, this allows us to catch some Zzzz's before we have to go to work and work all night long into the wee hours of the morning.
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Posted by The Noble Savage on April 1, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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The Flatworm eXit was only ~95% effective, it turns out. The flatworms that survived that treatment also didn't appear to be affected by a double-strength treatment last night, although by morning it was hard to identify many of them. I suspect that, like antibiotic resistant bacteria, I might be at risk of harboring a new, Flatworm eXit resistant strain of super-flatworms that will soon terrorize my entire neighborhood, but maybe I just have a few weakened stragglers that will need to be manual…
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Posted by Jay Exner on April 1, 2008 at 6:48am —
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My ricordea mushroom has finally attached to a rock! :) He has graduated from the plastic cup to the main tank, and appears to be pretty happy with his new surroundings and increased water flow. I need to research more about how large these 'shrooms can get, and see when/if I should frag in the future.
I re-did the rockscape in the main tank, and it looks a LOT better. Pictures to come soon. During the smelly rock clean-out, I found a large bristleworm and removed him - about 4 inches long and…
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Posted by Leslie on March 31, 2008 at 5:08pm —
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So far, so good when it comes to the Zoanthids that I bought yesterday. They opened up right away, after I added them to my tank. Ok, an update on what I wrote about yesterday in regards to the issues I was having with the heat of my lighting system. I added the fan yesterday and that seems to have done the trick!!
Before I was having a fluctuation of 3 to 3 1/2 degrees due to the heating from the metal halide lighting. With the addition of the fan, this solved the problem!! Now there is only a…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 31, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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I dosed the one quarantine tank with Flatworm eXit last night. That is scary stuff -- very fast results! Anyway, maybe after work tonight I'll be able to tell if there was any collateral damage, but so far it seems to have only killed flatworms. I can see snails, amphipods, isopods, and even an Asterina starfish seem to have survived.
I'm hoping to catch the one abused damselfish from the main display tank and put him into quarantine, because otherwise I think it's a goner.
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Posted by Jay Exner on March 31, 2008 at 2:01am —
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I haven't checked in here for a while. The tank is doing great. I went back to changing one gallon per day for a while then remembered why I stopped, ...it's a pain to remember each day. I'll go back to one day per week, 10g change.
Gail and I are buying a new home to house a larger aquarium. The tank is going to be 96x36x30tall. I plan on a coast to coast overflow. I am going with a Tenecor acrylic. I'll use my current 75DT as a refugium, and use one 100 gallon rubbermaid tub as a sump and ano…
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Posted by Greg and Gail on March 30, 2008 at 5:20pm —
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Sunday afternoon, we decided to go out and have a great time with the family. On the way home, we stopped by the local fish store, Orcutt Aquarium
. I wanted to try out some Zoanthids, they seem to be hardy and easy to maintain. So I picked up 3 small frags of Zoanthids. Two of them is called Radioactive Green, it is super cool looking. It is a fluorescent green center with fluorescent yellow edges. It glows really nicely under the actinic lunar lights in…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 30, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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James called me and the new 150g tank is on its way home! It should arrive on or about March 31st... I'll keep you guys posted.
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Posted by LivingTheDreamLife on March 30, 2008 at 9:29am —
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It's a
Cryptocentrus leptocephalus, or a Pink Spotted Watchman Goby.
It's been at the LFS in Chillicothe for a couple of months. I was in there the other day and the girl that was back there in the fish dept. kept walking by me... oh well... I'm used to it.
So, today I we…
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Posted by Bwlr on March 30, 2008 at 12:06am —
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I forgot to mention this in my last post yesterday but since I was off of work on Friday to wait for my new lighting system, I asked my wife to do me a favor. I asked her to stop by and pick me up some more snails and hermit crabs for my tank. Well, she really had no clue as to what I was talking about but she wrote down what i was talking about and would give it to the guys at the local fish store. Well, I got a call from my wife and she said she was able to get me what I needed, which is great…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 29, 2008 at 11:30pm —
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Well, it's been over a year since posting my last entry here.
Life is pretty much the same, save all the mammoth changes that have gone on.
My tank is now well established. The move from my 4yr old 55 to the new 120 went well. I had the 120 cycled for about a month before replacing 15 gallons from the 55 into the new every 2 weeks or so for about 1 1/2 months..... ok you figured me out, I'm anal.... hahaha!! So basically every water change from the 55 went into the 120. I was hell bent on not…
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Posted by Kimmy on March 29, 2008 at 8:06pm —
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Ok, where do I start? Well, by the time I got up this morning, my Anemone was all over my Xenia, stinging the hell out of it!!! So I quickly moved the Xenia to another location of the tank, this is not good!!! The Xenia, looked pretty messed up and the arms were all sucked up inside its body. I have a feeling that these guys will not recover!!! Anyways, I did a 4 gallon water change and hoped for the best.
While I was watching highlights from last nights hockey games, the doorbell rang, "DING D…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 28, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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Doh! What do you get when you put five blue damselfish in a 28g nano-reef? A mess, if there aren't enough bolt holes!
Last night when I got home from work, the two smallest ones were wedged between the front glass and the front of the in-tank refugium. When I get home tonight, if the one with the most frayed tail is still alive, it's coming out and going into solitary confinement in the one quarantine tank. I'll try to prepare another suitable repository for the other(s) as time permits. I do h…
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Posted by Jay Exner on March 28, 2008 at 9:32am —
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After reading several articles, PC lighting really is not the best type of lighting for keeping corals and anemones. I want to make an environment that best mimicks the real ocean and having bright sunlight is very important for corals and anemones. So after lots of research I decided that I would do the right thing and buy Metal Halide lighting. I had a bit of a hard time finding the lighting that I needed for the tank. I needed something in the 20 inch range and I would like to have it with a…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 27, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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After work, I decided to stop by the fish store and get some Xenia coral. I got a nice size frag for under $30.00. To say it was a frag is really not totally true. It was actually a chunk of old coral about 7 inches in length with several groups of Xenia. So I was excited to at least start out and see how these guys will do.
When I got home, I did the typical acclimation, that took over an hour to do. I made sure the chemistry was good before I even started the process. All is well and I am hop…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 25, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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So far, so good!!! All my critters are doing well and the Cleaner Crew are doing their job by helping reduce the garbage in the tank. The unfortunate thing is that there is so much work and not enought critters to do the job. So I wont to another pet shop to get some more snails and crabs. Orcutt Aquarium is closed on Mondays, so I had to take my chances and go to this other store.
I have to admit that the salt water and reef section is not as well kept as Orcutt Aquarium. So I made sure I didn…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 24, 2008 at 4:30pm —
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WOW! Didn't realize it's been that long since I've posted anything out here. My biocube has been up for a little over a year now (my how time passes). Many things have changed along my learning curve of my first tank. Both of my clown gobies, so how decided to go kamakaze on me and jumped over into chamber 3 of my biocube ... I tried my best to save them, however to no avail. SAD SAD DAY! My fireshrimp also decided he didin't like the tank anymore and took a leave of absense, we'll call it.
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Posted by Lynnette on March 24, 2008 at 2:01pm —
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So far so good!! Everything is going great with the Anemone, Clowns and the Waste Management Crew. There was a lot of brown algae all over the live rock and sand, before I bought the Cleaner Crew. By this morning, The Trochus Snails completely cleaned off several large rocks in my tank. They must be the Goats of the Aquatic world. These guys do nothing but eat all day long!!!
The Hermit crabs were busy having a "Poo Party"!! They seem to have a good time hanging out, partying and eating. That w…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 23, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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Well, today is the day I go to the fish store and buy some snails, hermit crabs and what not, so they can clean the tank and get it prepped for a few fish and corals. I went to the fish store with my uncle and daughters to look around and see what we can get!! I could actually go with a fish or two to get the system kicked into gear. We went into the back room and checked the cubes to see what kind of fish they had. Well, they had a mated pair of Clown True Perculas and a purple/pink Long Tentac…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 22, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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I don't know if I like this new layout or not?
Seem kind of backwards to me... probably just take some time to get used to it.
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Posted by Bwlr on March 22, 2008 at 12:15am —
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03/16/08
03/20/08
It was mostly the top of the right side of the tank. I think it started with the rock that the purple Monti is on (first pic, upper right, just above the clown), because that rock was on the bottom. The rock with the GSP was pushed up against the front glass, and the rock with the Frogspawn was on…
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Posted by Bwlr on March 20, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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My friend had a couple fragments of Pulsing Xenia that he didn't have a need for, so he gave them to me last night. When I got home, I drip acclimated them for an hour before placing them in the main tank, but only one of them stayed where I put it (the smaller one). The other fell out of the plastic acclimation box and into a nearly totally inaccessible hole in my rock work. Doh! I used my gravel cleaning hose to suck it out of the hole and tried putting it on the same rock as the smaller one,…
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Posted by Jay Exner on March 19, 2008 at 5:01pm —
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Knocked several corals off, and broke one of my purple montis... but I think I've got everything glued back.
I don't think I got them all back in the same place, but it looks half way decent.
I'll get a pic as soon as the water clears up.
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Posted by Bwlr on March 19, 2008 at 3:57pm —
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Yesterday after work, I was driving home and I received a phone call from Billy @ Orcutt Aquarium. He said that my new CPR S3 Protein Skimmer arrived. I told him that I was going to pick it up on Friday, since I was going to be off. Well, on the freeway, I convinced my wife to stop off at the store so I could go ahead and get it.
So I taked to Billy (owner) and said I might as well get it today and start running it. So I threw down my debit card and paid for the skimmer. Of course I had to ask…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 19, 2008 at 12:23pm —
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"...all welcome and good fast help."
Yea... if you fit in their little group. Otherwise they ignore you for the most part. There's a few on there that I consider friends, but the rest... nah.
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Posted by Bwlr on March 19, 2008 at 11:41am —
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...this evening.
I haven't even started to look up what it is. I posted it on a couple of "Helpful" reef sites.
Probably get to googling and giong through my bookmarks to see if I can find out what it is.
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Posted by Bwlr on March 18, 2008 at 6:50pm —
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Ok, I know that there are mixed feelings about Petsmart. Well, I had to go today to get some enzymes for a cycling tank because I am completely out of Stability by Seachem. So at lunch time, I left work to see what kind of stuff they had there. Unfortunately, there was no Stability there, so I had to go for something else called Biozyme instead. I heard it is pretty good stuff but I never used it before and it is a bit harder to administer to the tank.
Since I am looking at a way of getting bet…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 18, 2008 at 5:10pm —
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While I was getting ready to turn the lights off on my tank and torn on the Moon Lights in my tank, I found some pretty cool stuff on my live rock.
As I was looking at the rear of the tank in the little caves that are between the rocks, I found some Feather Dusters. The 2 largest ones are about 3 inches long and fully open. I have not had a Feather Duster in a tank since 1990, so it was super cool looking, thats for sure. Around this particular rock, I found an additional 5 more Feather Dusters…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 18, 2008 at 1:01pm —
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I look at others' tank pictures and they seem so nice compared to mine. Why did my coralline algae disappear from my rocks during the cycle? They were a pretty pink and green, and now they are simply brown or capped with white.
I also have had LR in my 29 gallon since Nov 07, with no significant coralline algae expansion occurring. I have used Purple Up in the past, but have stopped since finding out it is probably the cause of my dropping pH. I also used to add phytoplankton for the mushroom,…
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Posted by Leslie on March 18, 2008 at 11:05am —
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So have grown weary and a little leary (hehe sorry) of my ghetto style PC lighting strips on my tank and have just purchased via EBay a Coralife 24" 380W Metal Halide Aquarium Light New . Sweet huh?! And also it was only $180. Yeah... Awsome find! Now I can def, grow some stonies.
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Posted by Mummichog on March 18, 2008 at 9:37am —
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I had one of my new SPS knocked over. Probably a snail.
There are a few mushrooms coming back on this rock that I took out of the tank to get them off of. There's only like, 2 or 3... I'll get them this afternoon.
I need to move my prop tank. It's on my wifes scrapbooking table, and she's not too crazy about that. The only thing bad about moving that 10 gallon tank, I'm going to have to run a new outlet for it. We live in an old house, and I guess electricity wasn't in use when this place was…
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Posted by Bwlr on March 18, 2008 at 8:51am —
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I traded off my large Devils Hand leather to Norm from CORA. He gave me some beautiful SPS.
Now I've got to look into setting up my tank for SPS.
I think I've got the lighting for it. Just not sure what to feed the tank. Someone said that Cyclopeeze is too large for SPS, and phytoplankton can mess up you tank. I'm going to research rotifers now.
I was asking on ReefSanctuary, but they would rather answer other questions, or, no one knows anything about SPS.
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Posted by Bwlr on March 17, 2008 at 7:11pm —
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I can't remember who told me, but Thank You!
I'm doing this for myself.
If you want to post on here, go ahead... If not, then don't.
I'll be on here, and a few other sites... but, I'm not going back to that one. I'm done.
I know it's part of this site or vice versa, but I don't care.
I'm not asking questions on here... just kinda thinkin' out loud.
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Posted by Bwlr on March 17, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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Quick - before I type a novel again and lose it to timing out online!
Biocube has cycled (finally) and sadly looks like all coralline algae is gone from my rocks. :( I had some really nice-colored ones, too. I have moved my snails and 3 hermit crabs over to this tank, and took a chance by adding my 6-line wrasse to the tank too. He did very well yesterday, and ate himself silly last night during feeding time. Will need to monitor daily to make sure he stays ok. Cycled lighting up too.
Other fi…
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Posted by Leslie on March 17, 2008 at 4:09pm —
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I fly to Hong Kong frequently and am able to bring back Tridacna Clams. I'm looking for people interested in sharing the cost of my re-export licence. I can get 4-5 inch clams for $40-$75 depending on species/grade. That includes my licence costs. They are far superior to the 1.5 inch juviniles you can usually get that require a lot of phytoplankton until they reach a larger size. Delete Comment
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Posted by Stephen L. Kidder on March 17, 2008 at 3:51pm —
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After I got home from work last night, I decided to test the water of my Cycling Nano Reef Tank. I had assistance from my 2 daughters, they are just as excited as I am with the whole Reef thing!!! The first thing I did was test the Specific Gravity and so far so good!! No changes at all, which I am very happy to report!!
Specific Gravity: 1.024/1.025
The tank temperature is also staying quite consistant with a +/- of 1 degree. I have two digital thermometers in my tank. One of th…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 17, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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This morning when I got up, I went to the tank and shut off the moon light and put on the Actinic 03 Blue and 10,000K light. WOW!!! The water was crystal clear and looked really great!!! Eventhough I am not using a Metal Halide lighting system, the Power Compacts seem to be doing the trick for now. I can see the reflections of ripples in the water. Ok, it isnt as obvious as it would be with a metal halide lighting but it is still pretty apparent.
The tank looks really nice and the Specific Grav…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 16, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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I went back to Orcutt Aquarium
to get some more Live Rock. My wife and daughters walked around and looked at all the different fish, corals and what not. My wife seems a little bit excited about this Reef Tank and all the neat stuff we can put in it.
So as I was getting my hands all wet with the water out of the Live Rock tanks at the store, I bought a few really large pieces for the tank with nice yellow, green and red highlights. Some of these look li…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 15, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Since yesterday, I added water and live sand to my tank and I left it running all day Thursday and Friday. So far, there are no leaks, cracks and everything seems to be working well, knock on wood!!! Off to work I go, I will be picking up my daughters after work and we will be going to the Aquarium Store. This has been our little Father and Daughter project. They just love going to the Fish store with Daddy and looking at the fish, coral and invertebrates.
Well, lucky for me, I got off of work…
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Posted by The Noble Savage on March 14, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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Wow have I been busy!
My reef tank
Might be getting rid of my AGA 75 gallon.
New to it all :)
My Thoughts On The Responsibility Of Having A Reef Tank...
The Eagle Has Landed....
Been a while
New lighting
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