ChickenoftheC Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Please delete this thread. Link to comment
tibbsy07 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Welcome! Cool tank Looking forward to seeing it set up Link to comment
DC5 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 I have been looking for a tank like that! The curved glass now scares me though. Link to comment
NYR Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Should be sweet! What do you plan on keeping? Link to comment
spazizz Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Eunicid worm, I think.. They are predators, maybe they eat feesh I never had one so I dont know the details. Try a doing a search on them and see if it matches. Thanks everybody for the welcomes! Completely curious why the curved glass scares you dcmix5? Have I missed some incredibly scary post about someone's tank busting open? Lol On a positive its up and not leaking! Threw in my salt water a day or 2 agoand put in my rock and sand today. There were some awesome little green zoas on a piece im hoping they make it through the next few weeks. Is there anything special i could do during it cycling to try and keep any little coral alive? I saw a thread saying to throw in a piece of raw shrimp to kick start things cycling. Good idea to do so or no? Not sure what im going to put in just yet so feel free to inspire me! But I am very partial to my zoas But anyway here is a pic of the cloudy mess right now. Oh and what the heck is this worm thing? Yep I chucked it in the tank. Have I just given my tank a deathly case of nasty worms? Link to comment
seabass Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Curved glass just distorts the view and makes taking pictures more challenging. There is nothing inherently unsafe about it. I started with a bow front tank and it never bothered me.Definitely don't add a dead (or live) shrimp while the cycle is becoming established. A dead shrimp will pollute the water and overwhelm the biofilter (causing excess ammonia and lessening the chance that your zoanthids will make it).If the rock was already fully cured locally, there shouldn't be an ammonia spike (so don't try to force one). Just wait about a week and test for ammonia. If there is ammonia, wait until it's undetectable for a week straight before adding a cleanup crew. Then wait another week before adding anything else. Add livestock slowly, in stages (waiting a week between stages, and testing for ammonia to make sure the biofilter is keeping up).Don't do a water change until you can detect that the ammonia level is starting to fall. But do one before adding each stage of livestock. Link to comment
Tropi Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Welcome to NR I agree with the curved glass and pictures, I have a curved glass tank and find it irritating when I want to take photos of corals near the corners. Link to comment
Dramad1 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Welcome to NR! That's some really nice looking rock. What kind of light is that? T5 or led? Hard to tell. Looks like its making a nice shimmer Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 to Nano-Reef! Nice save catching that eunice worm. That could be been a huge deal later down the road. Link to comment
CrazyEyes Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 The first pic looks like it might be spongodes, which is an SPS coral in the monti category, the third pic looks like either xenia or clove polyps. Link to comment
spazizz Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I think the first pic is porites. You have some very nice rock. Link to comment
Spiderguardnano Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 super nice rock where did you pick it up from? Link to comment
bubba-san Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Yeah, curved glass is a pain to take pix with, especially in the corners. Nice hitch hiker corals! Link to comment
AWillroth Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 The first pic looks like it could be leptastrea to me. Link to comment
Tropi Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 I love your rock, it's so colourful Link to comment
cuber14 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Great rock !!! NIce Tank Is there any room to move the heater to the back chamber? Link to comment
seabass Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Not sure if you know (being in the Beginners forum), but you have to feed each polyp (as they don't collect energy from the lights). The feeders should come out just after lights out. Eventually you should be able to entice them to feed during daylight hours. Sun corals aren't extremely hard to keep, but they do require a lot of work. Nice Fungia. I find that you have to regularly feed these too (even though they are photosynthetic). Link to comment
spazizz Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Wtf, did you just suck up the ocean into your tank? Link to comment
hryder77 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 wow I've never seen so many amazing hitch hikers before! Wish my rocks came with such interesting specimens. definitely watching what comes next Link to comment
NorthGaHillbilly Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 The "fingers" on the tentacles don't look like aptisia to me Link to comment
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