Kylebeano Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Started this tank several months ago when the corals were getting pretty big and water quality was getting too difficult to manage in a 4 gallon.Its a cheap 12g aquapod that I bought with a 70w sunpod. The tank has a bunch of scratches i didnt know about before traveling to purchase, and the light proved insufficient for what I wanted out my corals. So I have had a 150w sunpod with phoenix bulb over it for a few weeks, and im in the works of upgrading to a deep blue 30. Now with an ATO and better light the corals are looking good and color is great.[/url][/url][/url][/url][/url][/url][/url][/url][/url] Link to comment
AFellowReefer Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Very nice! I love the idea of sticking some frags on the wall, so as they grow you will have a back drop. I will have to try that! Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted August 27, 2013 Author Share Posted August 27, 2013 Very nice! I love the idea of sticking some frags on the wall, so as they grow you will have a back drop. I will have to try that! Thanks, yeah they seem to grow well onto the plastic of these AIOs. But, when transferring them to my new tank ill have a hell of a time getting them off in one piece unfortunately. Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 4, 2013 Author Share Posted September 4, 2013 New addition, I will hopefully be getting that 24" x 24" deep blue soon! Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Another new addition today, a mate for the SA black ice clown above, a FEA birdshot clown. Jonathon from FishEye Aquaculture was pleasant to deal with and hand picked out a nice clownfish for me. Its a bit more juvenile than I expected, but he assured me that it will color up and darken like the batch of clowns that he has pictures of here on NR. And honestly, I'm really looking forward to documenting the clownfish's growth and transition. Its no doubt going to be the male, and im glad that I wont have to put up with any aggression. FEA Birdshot Clown: He's going to have a cool spot on his head: Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 What a beaut! Thanks a lot, hopefully he will color up well and have bolder lines and pattern with age though Link to comment
chachew Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Very nice tank you have there Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Thanks chachew, it's pretty good for a few months, but I'm really itching to get it all moved into a deep blue 30 soon Very nice tank you have there Link to comment
MikeTR Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 tanks lookin nice kyle.. that favia is nice.. some of your sticks lose color or just the pics? Speaking of color.. I bought a blue milli off ya when you were in fort myers.. son of a bitch has been brown ever since.. but it grows.. wth were your params like to keep it? Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 tanks lookin nice kyle.. that favia is nice.. some of your sticks lose color or just the pics? Speaking of color.. I bought a blue milli off ya when you were in fort myers.. son of a bitch has been brown ever since.. but it grows.. wth were your params like to keep it?Thanks man, some corals are getting lighter, while others are getting more contrast colors. It really depends on how they are adjusting to their position under the light and flow. I do water changes pretty frequently, but think they are going through calcium pretty quickly. I do remember that milli, it was sold to me as a palmers blue by an old member here on NR. It was directly under my 150w pheonix bulb. I had it in another place of the tank and it started getting a green rim to the new growth. If I werent at a work computer I would dig through my photobucket for pics of it. But, I do not know what my parameters were. I never test anything, really, except for salinity. That tank was special. Link to comment
MikeTR Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 That tank sure was a beauty.. maybe i'm not giving it enough light... it's the only brown one in the bunch. It's probably the nicest blue milli i ever seen and I been tryin to bring it back for years now.. it's PE is outrageous.. but only the newest growth is blue. Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 A few recent top downs taken with my phone. Blue is starting to return to the tort finally, although it's still the slowest grower. I'll be drilling the new tank soon, have the overflow and return kits, and found the leds I'm going to retrofit into my T5 hybrid fixture. Things are getting rolling with the build! Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 40b is almost completely set up. I'm transferring livestock besides most of my sps, a lot of my acros have LRB. A friend who was breaking down his tank gave me a free chunk of acropora, unfortunately it was infested with red bugs (isn't see them until a couple days after I put it in my 12g. Anyway here are some shots of the new tank, and update on the FEA birdshot. Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 Small update, got another clown to go with the FEA Birdshot, and ORA b/w snowflake with some spots. Also added a wrasse for pest control and I've always been fond of their activity. All corals are now transferred over, and doing well. The eshopps s120 skimmer has been pulling some nasty stuff out of the water. Also upgraded the LEDs to 24 3w cree royal blues, tank is now really blue, I may change up the T5 bulb combo. Link to comment
tran Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 nice. really like the minimal aquascaping on this tank Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 nice. really like the minimal aquascaping on this tank Thank you, I want to try out the aquamag rocks soon and stick them to the back wall to use the upper water column without distracting too much from the asthetics Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 6, 2014 Author Share Posted September 6, 2014 Had some set backs with this tank. It was doing pretty well, then a friend moved away and gave me a nice acro colony, it looked great in his tank. After being in mine for a couple days I noticed most of my spa not looking so hot, my girlfriend pointed out LRBs infested all over the new acro colony, it could handle the bugs, but my frags couldnt, I lost several nice pieces before being able to dip and treat all of them. I started to get things looking good again, then my retrofitted leds fell into the tank one day, killed almost everything except a few LPS and my clowns. I must have done hundreds of gallons of water changes in the following weeks. I also rebuilt the light, safer, with an orbit pro marine unit instead of Cree diy. It turned out great, better, controllable. Tank is now on the rebound. Made some replacement purchases and going a new direction with the reef. Link to comment
BattleAthletics Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Thats shitty luck with the RB's and the led incident, where did you get the 40b? Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Thats shitty luck with the RB's and the led incident, where did you get the 40b? Live and learn, the new retrofit is failsafe. Its a petco $1perGallon tank which I de-rimmed Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 Found a worm in the tank last night crawling in and out of the sps rock, I took it out since I had never seen one like it. Found out it was a type of Medusa worm, and that they are great detritivores, so I put it back in. I did further reading and research, later to find that they are very toxic if stressed or killed, and have been known to nuc tanks, kill all fish. So I removed it again, fish are all still alive! It survived over night in its container, I may start a species tank with an emperor shrimp for it. Although it's only 2-3" at this time, and they need a pretty established tank... Link to comment
Rehype Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Found a worm in the tank last night crawling in and out of the sps rock, I took it out since I had never seen one like it. Found out it was a type of Medusa worm, and that they are great detritivores, so I put it back in. I did further reading and research, later to find that they are very toxic if stressed or killed, and have been known to nuc tanks, kill all fish. So I removed it again, fish are all still alive! It survived over night in its container, I may start a species tank with an emperor shrimp for it. Although it's only 2-3" at this time, and they need a pretty established tank... Any pictures of it? Link to comment
Kylebeano Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Any pictures of it? Yes, this is prior to adding sand and macro with some filter floss from my sump for it to crawl around on. It's still slithering all up in that stuff now. The 'mouth parts' for lack of better word escaping me right now, look like an anthelia polyp, constantly waving and bring for in, are hard to make out in the pictures because of their delicacy and my phones camera limitations Link to comment
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