...I wasn't all the '04 reefer are snotty and need to be put in place.

Really? Thanks man, I feel honered that you would consider me some of your toughest compitition. I have to say I feel the same way about you... your tanks never cease to amaze me. And that you put me above Tigah... well... Tigah can just go play in his little tidepool... we'll take care of the real reefing 'round hear!

Jared

u ladies sure love to smack them gums of yours.

if I'm a leather Gucci jacket, y'all are the cheap PLEATHER, Gucci imitations.


accept no substitute. good day. =)

Haha. Go 04'!!!!

I was given you credit but I'm taken stock!!
Go 05'

Beautiful tank man.

The new guy....




a couple more new additions to the tank, more pics to come:

If you want to see somthing cool get a bristle worm and feed it to your flower or carpet.

I've seen one of the BWs get too close to the flower... it was a bit of a battle but the BW got away.

WOOT! GO '05! I don't care how good tighahs tank looks, he's an '04...

Here are some new zoas that went in this week. They are not so close to the squirt any longer, this was just taken after acclimation and before I decided where to place them.



I've fragged some xenia from my other tank for this display as well. I'm going to attempt to keep it isolated so it does not take over the tank.

New FTS on the way.

I like the white zoa's. Very cool.

Do they look white on your monitor?
They do wash out in the pic a bit, but maybe since I have the coral right in front of me it does not seem so white.
They are a very bright, neon green. Maybe a fts will show the color a bit better.

Another FTS? Yes please!

Best regards

Ann

Slight green tint i guess, but very white/creamish on my screen.

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Laugh it up c.....

Here are a couple of pics, I'll try get a fts shot up soon, I moved some things around and want to wait till things have goten adjusted again.

So far I am very pleased with how this tank is looking.



Here is a recent shot of "lefty", he's still working on that right claw but it is coming along.

Here is the xenia I added, fragged from my other tank.



While this is a "blue" xenia, it's not as deep blue as the anthelia in my other display. I decided to use place the xenia in here instead of anthelia because it will be a little easier to trim back/keep under control than the anthelia (big stalks vs. small ones) and becuse I am a sucker for xenia's pulsing and like the motion it adds to the display.

One more....

Nice tank, can you post up a FTS please, is it mostly soft / LPS or are you doing SPS also? Halimeda can go sexual but will probably never gain enough mass for it to happen in a nano.

-Mike

Still waiting for another FTS, any chance of an update?

Best regards

Ann

I'll try to get an update together.... I've been moving things around and re-dispersing the zoa frags to mix things up a little more. As a result I've not had a chance to get off a decent FTS. The tunicate is not looking too good. I think it's days are numbered, everything else is doing just fine. I've not added anything new.

Hopefully I'll get a new shot up by the end of the week.

im p!$$in my self...tank looks good.....too good

p.s. stupid bad word checker thing..i have to bleep it out

....................amazing.....................................................

I can't wait to see how this tank looks now.

Sorry to hear that the tunicate is not doing too well, what kind of foods have you been feeding?

Best regards

Ann

FTS FTS FTS FTS FTS

Thanks for the interest and comments.
I really wanted to get a FTS off today... but the flower anemone decided that today was pooping day and spent most of it shriveled up and expeling some really gross stuff.

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http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=75621

YOU MUST COMPLETE THE TASK!

You don't make any mention of the Ascidian in your latest livestock listing, did it not make it? I have just got myself a hold of some DTs phyto and oyster eggs to see if I can keep my hitchhiker squirts going. Were you dosing any of that kind of stuff?

The latest fts is amazing, I can hardly recognize the tank. The flower anemone is even more gorgeous.

Any chance of posting some more shots?? Pretty please.

Best regards

Ann

Thanks Ann.


The tunicate is out. It's begun waste away so I've put it back in the 15, though I'm not sure that will help it. I knew the chances of it surviving were slim to begin with, and it looks like you can add mine to the list of failures. I had been feeding both phyto and oyster eggs in the tank... and while sponges and feather dusters seem to be loving it the Ascidian did not fare so well. I doubt it will make it more than four months total.

I've had one loss of zoas, one of the pink zoa morphs. I have no idea why, they just closed and melted. There was no sign of fungus or parasite on them. Even with that loss I'm still sporting twenty something varieties of zoas and palys here. That should grow into a nice looking mix. ...and I am getting some really nice growth so far... almost time to start thining a few things out.

I removed the monti cap from this tank.... traded it for a couple more zoas.

Everything else is looking fine. In particular the crucifer seems very happy and colored up. Looks like crap in the FTS, but it was feeding on something or other... its' constantly snatching up pods that wander within it's grasp.

I've re-scaped, though it may be hard to tell everything has been moved around just a little. I moved the open brain to the other side of the tank. The blue shroom and ric don't seem to want to stay out in the light, I may yank them from the display all together. The mini carpets have moved to a spot at the top back right which makes them less than visible all the time (unless you are looking at the tank top down).
Here are some updated pics:

What a shame. So you tried dosing phyto/egg on yours, hmm that's not very encouraging for me then. Still your tube worms do look great on it, I'd really like some more of those in my tank so I'll give the stuff a go anyway. I think that the worms make a tank look more natural and diverse. How often were/are you dosing the phyto and eggs?

I'm loving the new pics, the zoas seem to have really filled in nicely. Has the flower anemone reached it's maximum size do you think or does it still have some more growing to do?

Keep the pics coming (sorry I'm a self confessed picaholic ).

Regards

Ann

Looking great! Love the zoa selection, how often and what are you feeding the flower anemone?

Yep Ann, every other filter feeder seems to go bonkers with the mix I'm feeding... there may have been other factors to the tunicats dislike of the tank that I have not figured out. ...the tube worms are kinda reaching plauge levels though (there are more on the back of the rock work, I'll try to snap a pic of that)... if you were a bit closer I would be happy to send you a bunch.

...all the anemones and LPS in the tank are getting krill,scallop,silverside or a general carnivore frozen cube I feed the clown in my other tank. I alternate what it is and feed the anemones twice a week...the LPS every other week.

ummm.... when is this contest supposed to be over? I think I'm going to bail on it. I've gotten my hands on a new 24 gallon aquapod, and I really want to get it set up. I'm going to transfer the contents of my 15 to it.... and I might as well transfer the contents of the pico into it as well. I originally intended to set this pico up at my office, but thats not going to happen and it does not make much sense for me to keep both tanks around the house. I'll be breaking down/setting up sometime in the next few weeks when I can set aside the time to get it done (it's gonna be a major project). I would also like to figure out what mods I may make to the pod if any and get'em done before I transfer everything. ...but that is going to happen before this contest is up sometime in March.
I think I'll be offering up the pico's Matt Gecko oak hood/36wlighting/two fans and base combo for sale here and I'll include the AQ 20 filter and AGA 50w heater as a package. ...if I hold onto it I'll be too tempted to set it up again after the 'pod gets finished.

It is a bit of a shame, because the pico has been doing so well. Aside from the tunicate and the pink zoas there have been no losses. Growth has been really good, the number of polyps has just about doubled on everything. The macro is going gangbusters and while the anemones have not split yet they have all grown considerably.
I am in general very pleased. ...but I'm taking it down anyway.

Sorry to hear that. Have fun with the new 24 though, it's a beautfull tank!

That's a bummer. Still I can understand you wanting to upgrade. Any chance of posting some pictures of the tank before you strip it down?

Best regards

Ann

that's disappointing, ice. can't you hold off just a while? the contest is probably just 6-weeks away from finishing. i would support an early cut-off date so that you can bail then.

c'mon, it'll take you a couple of weeks just to cycle the addtional rock (if you hard cycle it).

Wow this tank has come a long way!! beautiful!!!

Thanks for the comments... I'll try to get one last flurry of pics up before I break it down.

yeah, i want to see the final pics =D, what do you guys do with all your extra tanks? since you people get new ones every month lol..

Well.... aquapods stink.
The pico is gonna live on. I'm staying in.... and I just re 'scaped the tank too.

why do u say aquapods stink??? what went wrong???

The second 'pod I got (the one that was not cracked) developed a leak.

Hey, guess what?? This tank has been up and running for almost five months. As an anniversary present I've moved everything in it to a larger tank. It's down.
Here is where everything got moved to:

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...ic=51000&st=160

I didn't really start the pico for the contest.... and decided to break it down for other reasons as well. I was thinking to sell the set up... but now I think I will keep it on hand. ESP since Matt Gecko has kinda "retired" from hood building. It may make an appearance again sometime soon. ...picos can be a real challenge, but I think I had it figured out pretty well.

Good luck to everyone still in it!

The new home:

New tank looks good. I'm thinking about getting a flower anemone for my next nano as well - really nice colors on that one.

How have your Mini Carpets been doind and have they split at all ?because I think Mine is going to soon.

They are doing well... about the size of half dollar when they are fully expanded... but no splitting as of yet, still the original two. There are new pics in my tank thread.

by the way your the most well spoken and level headed thinker I've seen in the license forum.