CruiZe's 40b peninsula - Survived the move- mostly

[cruiZe]

Live Stock updated Nov 2016

2 Ocellaris clownfish (tank bred) 4 years old - April 2016

Yellow Watchman Goby 3 years old

Yellow Coris Wrasse

Hilarious Blenny - bicolor

 

 

Tiger Pistol Shrimp pared w/ YWG

Coral Banded shrimp

2 Emerald Crabs (added 11/7/16)

2.5" Rose Bubble Tip Anenome (added 2/7/16)

 

6" Brittle Starfish (added 2/7/16) - died moving from MI to SC.

Blue Maxima Clam - May till 7/27/16 starved of light and nutrients sadly.

Yellow Cucumber (added 1/24/16) melted away

Royal Gramma added (11/6/10) -

Peppermint (free) 7/6/12
3 Sexy shrimp (free) 7/6/12
2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp added (9/12/09) finally kicked the bucket Jan 2012
Ocellaris "Clown A" Day added (10/23/09) Killed 12/10/10 by infection from Black Clown "Clown F"
Firefish added (11/6/10) MIA Jan 2012
2 Emerald Crabs added (11/22/10) dead
2 Peppermint shrimp added (11/22/10) MIA

 

Corals updated Nov 2016
Frogspawn colony <<< HUGE Jan 2016

Trumpet aka Candy Cane <<< very sick

Tongue Coral

Brown Palythoa colony

Green Duncan

Pink Duncan

Pulsing Xenia (from tiny frag)
few small green and blue mushrooms

Tricolor Symphyllia (11/5/16)

Frags:

Flames from Hell Lepastrea

Green Cyphastrea Japonica

Leptoseris - orange and light blue (bleaching 3/3/16- moved to sand)

Zoas

 

3" Acan Lord (added 1/24/16) Brown Jelly - complete loss 3/14/16

4" Red Lobophyllia eaten by pods
green star polyp chunk melted.

HH Kenya Tree Coral now is an entire forest. melted.
Orange spot zoa colony melted away

Green Wellso (Trachyphyllia radiata added 2/21/16) Suddenly melted and died Oct '16

Montipora died in move

Green Cyphastrea Japonica

small Acan frag

Hardware updated Jul 2016
Custom Rapid LED 36 setup

• 18 Cree XT-E Royal Blue
• 18 Cree XP-G2 Cool White
• 3 Mean Well ELM-60-48P Drivers
• DCC-01 controller - 45 min sunrise, 8.5 hours @ 50%, 45 min sunset - 10 hours total.
• Dual moonlight

MP-10wES Reef Crest 100% day / night mode 50%
glass-holes 700 overflow
29g sump
75w, 100w and 125w Jäger Heaters
Coralife Super Skimmer 65g (rio 1100 pump)
rio 1400 return pump through 3/4"

Apex Jr controller

2 - BRS 1.1ml Dosing Pumps - B-Ionic 2 part

ORIG POST >>>
I've dropped some hints over the last months, but didn't want to show it off until it was running.

my 15g tank thread
My 15g sprung a leak and everything had to be moved to an emergency 10g. Luckily this was at the same time as the petco $ per gal sale !

15g was in the kitchen, new tank is in the basement (no more overheating !)

Custom built stand July 2010 with plumbing through wall to fish room !

Water circulating through fuge early August in 'fish room' under the stairs !

LR from 15g tank... plus dry rock

9/7/10 50lbs of dry rock from John @ reefcleaners !!

Mountian range- scape

[cruiZe]

Aquarium control room; glass-ho 700 overflow, 29g sump, return area with LR rack, Coralife Super Skimmer 65g, 13 gallon fuge area, chemi-pure elite, purigen, rio 1400 return pump through 3/4"

 

Running my 24" T5 SLR Nova fixture for now.

Left FTS 9/12/10

Right FTS 9/12/10

[cruiZe]

9/12/10 candy cane now over 16 heads !

Asterina ripping in half ! (first time i've ever seen it happening)

[bulldogpet]

Looks good

[adam87]

Nice 40b. I am also setting up 40b peninsula.

[jbb]

WOW alot of 40B peninsula's lately.

 

 

 

LOOKS AWSOME

[Arkayology]

Nice!

[gutterguy]

Looks great, wish i had the space for a fish room

[cruiZe]

WOW alot of 40B peninsula's lately...

thats cuz they're the best ! jk... i really wanted to show off two separate and different FTS's eventually. Thats where I was going with the 'mountain range' scape. Also with the powerheads and return, water circulates around very well, in a big circle kinda like the gyre tanks.

 

Looks great, wish i had the space for a fish room

thanks! It worked out really well using the space under the stairs for the fish room.

 

Frogspawn and Candycane under moonlight

[cruiZe]

Last Saturday I picked up some new critters !

 

Firefish, Royal Gramma, Lobo, Tongue Coral, closed brain and some GSP

 

 

Fuego is a little crazy. Jumped out of the acclimation cup into the tank after only 30 seconds ! Seems like he's fine now. Keeping the egg crate on the tank

 

All 3 LPS were on sale, they were looking pretty thin, but are coming back after only a week and generous feedings.

gramma acclimating

GSP on the sand

[SpringFever]

Looks good! Did you ever get an algae bloom? All of you rocks look super clean.

[cruiZe]

Close up of the new closed brain... any better ID on this piece?

It has puffed up a lot in the last week. When I got it I noticed a couple tiny tiny crabs burrowed in holes in the skeleton... at first I though they were cool, then did some research and found they were Gall Crabs (or something similar) Iodine dip and scraping out their caves did the trick... the flesh of the coral is now growing over the holes the nasty crabs dug out.

 

 

sometimes I think I'm the only one who understands everything that's going on here.

 

Looks good! Did you ever get an algae bloom? All of you rocks look super clean.

Thanks ! Not really, a small amount of diatoms on the sand and some film on the new dry rock, but I haven't even upgraded my CUC yet from what was in the 15g !

 

here are some tiny florida cerith babies and some egg looking things (all about 1-2mm) I have also noticed nerite and even nassarius babies !

[cruiZe]

purple coralline is starting to come in on my reefcleaners dry rock ! about 2.5 months only. This is quicker than last time.

[cruiZe]

2 emerald crabs added 11/22/10

 

firefish doing well

 

weird water pic from my wifes phone

[cruiZe]

Thank God for egg crate !! Looking at the tank from a distance I saw the gramma swim through the rocks into the firefish 'zone'... firefish FREAKED OUT and bolted skyward, smacking the egg crate, hydroplaning accross the surface then smacking it again. 100% chance of it being on the carpet without the crate.

[cruiZe]

I have officially given up on Peppermint shrimp (again.) Over 16 months and 2 tank I have had 12 of them. Big ones, small ones, single, pairs, whatever.

 

Many of them have eaten some aiptasia, but none have eliminated it and ALL have disappeared within 1-3 months despite the fact that my cleaners live on. Saving up for Berghia Nudibranchs.

[adam87]

Nice tank.

 

That sucks that your Peppermint shrimp keep dying.

[Arkayology]

Things are looking pretty good here. What other corals are you looking to put in?

[systemtool]

Any updates? I kept losing peppermint shrimp too, but I had a sixline wrasse with them. haha. I since put my sixline in another tank, and had 2 pepp shrimp clean all of the aiptasia out of my tank (I havent had any aiptasia for about 6 months). My peppermint shrimp eventually went missing though too. Maybe they just dont have a very long life expectancy! haha

[andru24]

This is a really nice setup. Wish I had a room or a closet that i could dedicate for a sump.

[jprime84]

Where did you get your base rock for the reef structure?

[cruiZe]

Where did you get your base rock for the reef structure?

 

reefcleaners dry rock !!

[cruiZe]

picked up a peppermint shrimp and 3 sexy shrimp FREE yesterday ! Thank you liongirl She also included a huge nassarius and the leather coral the sexies were hosting.

 

 

 

 

 

Pep hanging out under the frogspawn

 

New snail already making friends !

[Singlefin]

How bout a new FTS? Tank must be pretty established by now.

[cruiZe]

I feel like it's really hard to photograph the tank. I think my camera just sucks.

 

Over the past year my tank has had a tough fight. Frogspawn got brown jelly disease and we lost about 50% of it - but now i have some frags that are growing well.

 

The Candycane took it even harder - only 4 heads survived. Peroxide and vitamin C helped the tank get through.

 

Now I am running the old T5's and also a 12 LED setup- will eventually have 3 -12 LED heat sinks.

 

again sorry for the bad pics.

 

Left side

 

Right side

 

End view - MP10wES

 

LED setup - in progress. from RapidLED