jestep Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 Stand went to crap a few months ago. For the record, aquatic fundamentals stands are not waterproof. Just the occational splashes from my return rotted 3 of 4 sides and the bottom of the stand. Have the display fuge and tank on a new stand in a new location. Used 4 people and moved the tank with the sand in it. We emptied it, slid the old stand across the room, and did a quick transfer to the new stand. Re-filled and had the water back in it in about 10 minutes. No fish or coral loses which is great. Link to comment
Deleted User 4 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Love the blue hammer! Where is it? lol Link to comment
jestep Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Here's a few updates. Just turned the MH back on so the coral are a little P'd off. Currently re-thinking the layout of the LPS on the sandbed as it's way too cluttered and random right now. The purple hammer on the right is getting out of hand. Started as a single head, and it's got to be near 40 or 50 now. I also don't like the location of the orange hammer and the little wall-frogspawn in the middle, but I haven't figure out where to move them. 1 Link to comment
Deleted User 4 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Hmm you got quite a few bta's in there Link to comment
matt frizz Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Your tank made me happy man. Good job, that rock is beautiful. Link to comment
jestep Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Saw these guys on AAF's website and couldn't pass them up. Pretty much the first 2 branching orange/pink hammer's I've seen. My other 2 orange hammers are both wall hammers. Link to comment
jestep Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 Added this guy (Fromia) and a Royal Gramma about a week ago. So far I've seen the gramma only 1 time in a week. Unbelievably good at hiding. Hope he gets more comfortable, as right now he's about the least interesting fish I've ever owned.Not a fan of aclimating a sea star. Had to go from 1.021 to 1.026 SG which took about 5 hours. Was pretty easy to tell if I was dripping too quickly as the star got mad in a hurry. Link to comment
jestep Posted April 19, 2013 Author Share Posted April 19, 2013 Was going to wait on adding more but just couldn't help getting the BTA. Link to comment
jestep Posted April 19, 2013 Author Share Posted April 19, 2013 I was on a self imposed hiatus from more coral, which lasted about a week once I saw this. This is one of the few vendors that I actually trust the website pictures since they're local and I've watched them photograph corals for their auctions. Link to comment
jestep Posted May 7, 2013 Author Share Posted May 7, 2013 A few new pictures. Only the actinics on right now. FTS: Duncans: Springer's damsel: Dragon/eagle/whatever eye zoas Royal Gramma peeking through hammers: SPS starting to fill in: Acans, and favia: Orange wall hammer Link to comment
BadCrab Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 Great tank thread, surprised it hasn't gotten more attention! Any pictures of the display fuge?? Also, have you thought about replacing the in-tank overflow with lily pipes? ADA has amazing looking sets. Can't wait to see the new BTA in your tank. You haven't received him yet? Link to comment
jestep Posted May 7, 2013 Author Share Posted May 7, 2013 Yeah, he's been in the tank for a few weeks. Crawled behind one of the rocks in the left corner. Plenty in the open but hard to photograph. Display fuge is still work in progress. Probably need to upgrade the lighting on it as I'm just not getting the growth I want from it. Link to comment
BadCrab Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 RE: New BTA Is his color similar to what was pictured? If so my tank isn't ready for it, but if you put me on a clone list I'd be pumped. I see AustinAquaFarms still has 2 more available, but I'm sure they will sell long before I'm ready. Link to comment
jestep Posted May 7, 2013 Author Share Posted May 7, 2013 RE: New BTA Is his color similar to what was pictured? If so my tank isn't ready for it, but if you put me on a clone list I'd be pumped. I see AustinAquaFarms still has 2 more available, but I'm sure they will sell long before I'm ready. Here's what I shot at lunch: Pretty close to as pictured. They had about 15 of them when I picked this one up, so I imagine they'll have more on their site/auctions for a few weeks. Also, they seem to fluoresce a lot more than the hammers in actinic because the branching hammer above this one is true to color in the picture from about a month ago. Link to comment
BadCrab Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 That is awesome. Beautiful specimen, and (imo) price isn't outrageous like some other morphs. Probably because they just called it what it is (Rose morph) rather then something silly like "Facemelting Super-Cosmic Nova Pinksplosions!" Good vendor I'll keep them tabbed. Link to comment
supermarvin76 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 This is a sweet tank you have! I love the hammers and the Duncan is killer! Lets see some pics of your display fuge too! Link to comment
jestep Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 This is a sweet tank you have! I love the hammers and the Duncan is killer! Lets see some pics of your display fuge too! The hammer has started to send out sweepers so the Duncan's been upset on the lower half. Going to need to move the hammer soon. Luckily will be upgrading this to a 90 gallon rimless in about 2 weeks so there should be plenty of room for all. I'll try to get some of the display fuge. The lighting schedule makes it difficult for me to photograph it. Will likely be taken down as the 90 will take up the entire stand. We'll see though. Link to comment
jestep Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 Got my 90 gallon rimless last week. Should be transitioning in the next month. As of now going to do a straight transfer and not add any hardscape. I really want more swimming space and I'm overstocked with some of my recent additions intended for the larger tank. Link to comment
1.0reef Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Sweet looking tank! I'm sure your rabbitfish will be happy to have some more space Link to comment
jestep Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 Actually, that's an old tank, if you're talking about the scribbled one. I lost that poor guy to a pencil urchin toppling my rockwork in the middle of the night on to the sleeping foxface. I had the yellow temporarily to help with some caulerpa, but rehomed him a few months back. Link to comment
Giga Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Love the scape, over flow kinda distracting but hey what's you gonna do. Nice bta too Link to comment
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