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-August Update-

 

Things are about the same, just added a few new corals and replaced the old sandbed. I took most of the pics under blues this time so I could practice tweaking on photobucket's not-so-great editor so apologies if they seem overedited though the changes I made were really minor.

 

Blastos doing really well

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A new pic of the goby. Dunno why his colors look so faded; they're brighter in person.

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I can finally cross rastas off my bucketlist lol. I also had to pay for the unknown red/green zoa that came with it but at 10pp it was worth it :) Hoping it grows in quick.

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Also picked up some dragonsbreath. The red tips are actually bright orange and the faded out parts are red in person.

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My duncan :wub: When I accidentally touch it, it shrinks super fast and its mouth opens really wide to let out water, I presume. It's really sassy when it does that lolol

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The sexies still in isolation :closedeyes: They don't seem to mind though

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Tried my hand at fragging the kenya that sprouted up after I tore out the old one. Easier than I thought it'd be B) Though I doubt anyone's gonna want it haha

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Added an aussie acro recently as well. It's kinda brown/blue under whites and more blue under blues... hm. It's doing pretty well so far and came with a bunch of filterfeeding barnacles which are pretty fun to watch.

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Topdown

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FTS under whites

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And one under blues

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On a side note, the punk rockers have fallen ill to some kind of fungus and I did have an outbreak of gelidium both of which I am treating w/hydrogen peroxide. So far, the gelidium has been turning hot pink/orange and then white and the zoas have begun to open a little so I'm thinking it works. Just as an FYI for anyone with the same problem.

 

Anyways, thanks for looking as usual :D

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Awesome little tank you've got going on man. Seems to be you're having some success with a breeding pair of sexies,did any of the babies survive ? And how are those sps holding up for you ?

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nice and clean..I like it! :D

Thanks! I like it clean too ;)

 

Awesome little tank you've got going on man. Seems to be you're having some success with a breeding pair of sexies,did any of the babies survive ? And how are those sps holding up for you ?

 

Thank you :) Unfortunately no, as far as I can tell. They require a specific environment similar to a jelly tank as well as a baby brine shrimp food source. I might try to raise them in the future though. SPS are doing well, birdsnest in particular has pretty good PE. The acro looked brighter in the store but I assume it's because of the difference in light since it isn't deteriorating in any way.

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Sooo,basically no flow and maybe a air pump ? I don't know the specifics lol. Too bad you couldn't have reared them and sold them to a LFS or gotten store credit man,that would have been awesome !!

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Sooo,basically no flow and maybe a air pump ? I don't know the specifics lol. Too bad you couldn't have reared them and sold them to a LFS or gotten store credit man,that would have been awesome !!

That might work. There are only a couple stories about it on the internet, so plenty of room for experimenting hehe. Here's a link to the one I used when I was panic-researching after discovering the babies. http://reeftinkers.com/forums/topic/2-sexy-breeding-an-illustrated-guide/

 

I might attempt it down the road but I'm unprepared to raise them anytime soon though it would be pretty fun to walk into an LFS with a bagfull of shrimp lol

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Looks very nice Ant

 

Thanks! :)

 

Also thinking of getting a small fighting conch to keep the sandbed stirred... any thoughts?

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Really nice little tank! I'm going to clean my tank tomorrow after seeing this.

 

Hahah thanks! It's the only thing in my room that's clean.. :)

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I love the fighting conches, they're so cute. I dunno if you can keep them in a tank that small but I'd love to know. Considering getting one for my 14 gallon.



Also love your tank :) It's amazing

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I love the fighting conches, they're so cute. I dunno if you can keep them in a tank that small but I'd love to know. Considering getting one for my 14 gallon.

Also love your tank :) It's amazing

 

If I can find a really small one, I'll likely get it. Anything to keep my sand sparkling :) thanks for the kind words!

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If it was Very tiny it would work but it would need to be re-homed pretty quick

 

Yeah I checked for small ones but most were pretty much full sized :/ thoughts on nano conches? The current TOTM utilizes them

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love it! i'm just upgrading from my 3g

accidental saltwater pico to an 8g cadlights.

yours is inspiring. half my stock died when i

left it to be babysat at the LFS (i suspect the

temps got above 85 on many days), so

that was a bit heart wrenching. but happy to

get some new corals and hope new tank does

well.

 

can i ask what you use for media to keep

tank clean?

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I have heard they are pretty much the best snails ever

Daaaaang I gotta find some :closedeyes:

 

love it! i'm just upgrading from my 3g

accidental saltwater pico to an 8g cadlights.

yours is inspiring. half my stock died when i

left it to be babysat at the LFS (i suspect the

temps got above 85 on many days), so

that was a bit heart wrenching. but happy to

get some new corals and hope new tank does

well.

 

can i ask what you use for media to keep

tank clean?

Ah man, sorry to hear about that :( Losing livestock is always hard but at least you're not giving up!

 

I run a bare AC70 with two sponges to catch detritus which I wash and wring out regularly. I keep my tank clean by stirring up the sandbed while doing about 1 gallon water changes.. maybe biweekly? Other than that, no chemical filtration :)

 

I love how clean your tank looks! Cant wait until things grow out :)

Thanks, me too! :lol:

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He will get more soon. He has his 10 gallon that is predator free.

 

Ah cool, I actually just asked justind823 for a few since we're pretty close to each other. Thanks for the help though :)

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~Mini Update~

Picked up a shrooom from LFS :) super colorful in person. Pic doesn't really capture the "pop"

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Kenya frags kept falling off so I stuck em into empty snail shells hahah, attached overnight. Go figure.. looks pretty cool though

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And these are the punk rocker's opening up after the treatment

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How they looked before... bottom right red ones on the sand. Dang my zoas looked way nicer before T_T

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So obviously they've morphed on my because of the treatment... idk if they'll ever look the way they used to again but we'll see..

 

 

On a side note, I managed to convince my old high school bio teacher to start a saltwater tank :D It's a 7 gal. cube from PicO aquariums w/a par38. Pics to come next week

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i absolutely love mushroom corals!

 

yay on purchase and great fotos. thank you

for sharing.

 

ps. is that a ricordea yuma? i've been reading

up on the ricordeas.

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