Mr. Microscope Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 Ooh, yikes! I forgot about horseshoe crabs. I was clamming on Friday and a couple blue crabs (?) skittered across my toes. I about jumped out of the water! Link to comment
yoshii Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 I only had time to read a couple pages of your thread, but wow! Your tank is pretty awesome! I just set up my new 3gal yesterday, and I'm wondering how you made your ATO? It looks like a hamster water bottle thing lol Thanks, Christina Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 I only had time to read a couple pages of your thread, but wow! Your tank is pretty awesome!I just set up my new 3gal yesterday, and I'm wondering how you made your ATO? It looks like a hamster water bottle thing lol Thanks, Christina Here you go: ATO This links to an entry on my thread talking about my ATO. In that thread, there are two other links to follow. I hope this helps! Link to comment
yoshii Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Here you go: ATO This links to an entry on my thread talking about my ATO. In that thread, there are two other links to follow. I hope this helps! Thanks! Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 So, in addition to the zoa garden, I started a branch like rock with some higher light zoas. The Pink and Golds on the left have always had plenty of gold, but no pink. I've been trying to work on that by positioning them more towards the center of the tank. I think it might be starting to work. I've got the Horizons in the middle, and two polyps of Magicians on the right. Also, towards the bottom, I mounted the Blue Spotted mushroom and the Red mushrooms. They don't react well to the LEDs. I'm hoping they can get more indirect light down there and do better. Finally, to the far right, you can see the feather duster. I mentioned earlier about how fast it has been growing. It seemed to be making a circular turn. Well, it only took a month to make the complete loop! It's upright again. Up close on the zoas: Link to comment
.Newman. Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 it really looks as if your light is very bright for your tank...i would expect the zoas to get used to it by now o_o Link to comment
racechase Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 dude the black pearl called and wants its treasure back. those things are gold! Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 it really looks as if your light is very bright for your tank...i would expect the zoas to get used to it by now o_o I agree. You'd think after a while they'd get used to it. Some zoas only seem to open half way and stay that way. We'll see how they fair in the long term. dude the black pearl called and wants its treasure back. those things are gold! Haha! Thanks! Link to comment
racechase Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 i like em though my zoas are all lame, i need some more fo sho Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 Hey! That's kinda neat. It seems like just yesterday that I started this thing. I'm sure only 19,000 of those views were me. Link to comment
friar1 Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Hey! That's kinda neat. It seems like just yesterday that I started this thing. I'm sure only 19,000 of those views were me. HAHAHa Link to comment
ParanoidObseshun Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Thats a neat idea with the branch rock for your higher light zoas. Things are looking nice! Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 Thats a neat idea with the branch rock for your higher light zoas. Things are looking nice! Thanks! Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 Say hello to my new fishy! I'm not sure about a name yet. I'm open to suggestions. It's a female Blue Damsel. The acclimation went incredibly smooth. I took my time with it. The LFS had their water near SG 1.020. It took a while to gradually bring that up. She stayed her black color the whole time, but I saw her nipping at stuff in the water while it was in the acclimation chamber. So, I thought, "what the heck!?" and tried feeding her some arctipods and cyclope-eze. Sure enough she ate it during acclimation! This was a nice change from the yellow clown goby that took several days to get interested in anything. Since this fish is an omnivore, I'll have to find some sort of vegetable protein to feed her in addition to the actipods and cyclope-eze. Perhaps some nori or basic flakes will do the trick. The LFS said that they were only feeding them flakes and pellets. Here's a video of her in her safe spot about a minute after I got her into the tank. You can see she's still black. 'Just starting to peak out and explore her new territory before darting back. Another video. Getting a little more daring now, but still on guard. Since everything went so well, I decided to try to feed her a little something before leaving my tank for the day. I turned off all the pumps and went to get some food. When I came back she had changed color to brilliant iridescent blue! I couldn't believe it. She looked about 10 times better than she did in the LFS. The blue is so bright that it's red lining my camera! I wish I could capture how beautiful she is. This fish is a real show-stopper! Best $5 I ever spent. Here's a couple more videos. She's fast too! Blue Lighting! I guess I need to post a new FTS and come up with a new banner now. Link to comment
.Newman. Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 lol yes blue damsels are very blue ;P Seen some at the store the other day and my eyes hurt after looking at them xD Link to comment
ParanoidObseshun Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Nice new addition. Very colorful. Link to comment
molsen187 Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 nice addition. they are cool little fish as long is there is no one for them to bully haha Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 12, 2010 Author Share Posted July 12, 2010 For my own reference and for others, here's a link from RC on zoanthid care. Some of the links on this page are dead, but there's some good stuff. Zoanthid Information Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted July 12, 2010 Author Share Posted July 12, 2010 Here's a brief update: New FTS 2010.07.12 Not much has changed in the last month. The zoa garden is coming along nicely along with the branch rock. Aside from adding the Blue Damsel, the only major change made in the last couple weeks was to my Toadstool. I got sick of it being on the square platform frag thing. So, I mounted it to a rock I found at the beach. While I was at it, I decided to mount all of my zombie eyes (that were also on an ugly frag plug) to the sides of the rock. Most of them are not facing the camera. Before: After: You can see it's closed here. With all the light from the LEDs, I hardly ever see it open anymore. Oh, that reminds me; you can't see it in the FTS, but I have moved my light up as far as I can get it now. I'm hoping everything won't be getting as zapped. It's a good 14 inches from the water line. Link to comment
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