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FlamingPrawn

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My name's Robby & I've been reefing on-and-off now since 2010. It all began with my first aquarium when I was younger and visiting my uncle who used to breed seahorses and clownfish.

 

Anyways... I've been on and off due to moving, college, life, etc. But now we are finally settled in our own home, college degree, full time job, and a VERY supportive Fiancé ;) . Also, I don't think Tidal Gardens is very popular on here (yet) but I work for Than sometimes & film the camera for our monthly live sales! I highly recommend tuning in and giving me a shout out if you watch!

 

Equipment:

Cadlights 4 gallon retired

Hydor 200

Finnex 50w

Spinstream

Instant Ocean reef crystals

Nanobox Mini Tide

4lbs of Fiji BRS dry rock

 

Hardware:

Fluval Evo 13.5

Finnex 50w

Lifegard Aquatics Quiet One Aquarium Pump 800

BRS Pukani Rock

Nanobox Mini Tide

Mame Skimmer III

Tunze Nano ATO

 

Livestock:

Black Ice Clown

Premium Snowflake Clown

Ultra Rock Flower Anemones

Acid Rain Bubbletip Anemone

0.2 Sexy Shrimp

 

Corals:

Frogspawn

Living Lava Chalice

Green/Purple Pinwheel Acan Lord

Montipora Spongodes

Flower Petal Montipora

Blue Eyed Blondies

Vampire in Drag

Sunny D's

Candy Apple Reds

Alveopora

 

Tank Maintenance:

Bi-weekly 2 gallon water changed

Weekly rinse of filter sponge

Purigen change every 2-3 months

 


Current FTS 9/6/16

 

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So I got my Prime installed today... Here are my values. Just wondering if they're too low / too high or any suggestions welcome

3am: 20k @ 1%

7am: 20k @ 5%

10am: 14k @ 20%

4pm: 14k @ 20%

7pm: 20k @ 5%

11pm - 3am : off

Tank is going to be strictly Zoa

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Time for an update (finally). Got the light figured out how I like it and the zoas have responded extremely well! To the point where I will feel confident adding new zoas on a regular basis and not have to worry about them! Picture time!

 

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And the Full room shot :) With my job I get to work from home 2-3 days a week. Becoming my favorite room.

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Also wanted to include my light schedule for those curious.

 

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Very cool, I would love to get one of those to go on my desk sometime. IMO you should do zoas and gorgonianss and fill it up with 5-6 Flaming Prawn Gobies, that's what I would love to do with one of these. They do much better as a group I think, it helps them be more social and you'll actually see them more often with multiple.

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Very cool, I would love to get one of those to go on my desk sometime. IMO you should do zoas and gorgonianss and fill it up with 5-6 Flaming Prawn Gobies, that's what I would love to do with one of these. They do much better as a group I think, it helps them be more social and you'll actually see them more often with multiple.

 

I would LOVE to have that many of them (hence the name haha) but thats $500 worth of fish that total 5" haha.

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I would LOVE to have that many of them (hence the name haha) but thats $500 worth of fish that total 5" haha.

Damn that sucks, they are $30 at one of my LFSs lol. I definitely recommend a group though if you go with them, you will never see a single one.

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Damn that sucks, they are $30 at one of my LFSs lol. I definitely recommend a group though if you go with them, you will never see a single one.

 

Uh buy me three of them and i'll pay you $50 for each and shipping :P

Your tank is progressing nicely and I enjoy seeing it in its setting.

Thanks :) Good to finally have a light that supports life + an RODI system. The well water was my biggest issue I think in the beginning stages

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Uhhh did you not hear about the guy that put himself and entire family in the hospital after boiling rock inside their house. Other than that the tank looks like it's off to a great start.

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Like it! Alot. Im feeling the need to go buy a pico now.

 

 

Uhhh did you not hear about the guy that put himself and entire family in the hospital after boiling rock inside their house. Other than that the tank looks like it's off to a great start.

Lol it was all dry rock. I am really against using live rock just because of the chances of creepy crawlys and who knows what else that can be introduced - and i ALWAYS dip before adding coral ;). But no i didn't read that article, I'd be really interested in it if you can find it! Probably some type of palythoa releasing toxic fumes

 

Like it! Alot. Im feeling the need to go buy a pico now.

I LOVE my Cad4. With that being said there are a couple things that need tweaked:

1. return hole is WAY too low. I had to drill it up higher and use a piece of plexi to cover the old hole.

2. Return pump blows (this is with any AIO though haha)

3. Still struggling to find a media basket that fits

4. Dislike the light, but once again that's with an AIO

5. the curved glass makes it difficult to use the glass cleaner to get into the corners. Have to use a brush but that's me being picky

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But no i didn't read that article, I'd be really interested in it if you can find it!

 

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6431a4.htm

 

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/personal-experiences-with-palytoxin-poisoning-almost-killed-myself-wife-and-dogs

 

and apparently more have been documented without paly's present, anything that munches on paly's has the toxin and when you boil rocks with nudi's they are packed with the toxin, so..... id get a turkey fryer so you could boil outside AND burn your garage down at the same time AND you could fry some turkeys once a year...

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http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6431a4.htm

 

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/personal-experiences-with-palytoxin-poisoning-almost-killed-myself-wife-and-dogs

 

and apparently more have been documented without paly's present, anything that munches on paly's has the toxin and when you boil rocks with nudi's they are packed with the toxin, so..... id get a turkey fryer so you could boil outside AND burn your garage down at the same time AND you could fry some turkeys once a year...

 

Lol that turkey might have some extra "zest" to it haha

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Two little fishies makes a magnet cleaner that bends to clean the curved glass.

 

That's what i have... just realized I put mag... oops. It works but only for the light stuff

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Got some work on the frag tank done today. She's ready for some frag lovin' <3

 

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I'll give you that gsp to get the frag tank started. Looking good!
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I'll give you that gsp to get the frag tank started. Looking good!

Lol picking up some other types of zoas this week too hopefully. All frag donations welcome ;)

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Well i'm a dummy and proud to say I've joined an Elite Group of Reefers this morning... Left the RODI on ALL NIGHT LONG. Thankfully the rooms it's in has a drain in the middle. :unsure: . I realized it when I went to take a shower this morning and the water pressure was pathetic and extremely cold.

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Pick up some new stuff at Tidal Gardens today. Couldn't pass on this Mini Maxi <3

 

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Also, the frag tank downstairs finally has two damsels into it as some test subjects... Solara watched them all day long

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Been awhile since an update... some big chances went down. Picked up some new zoas: pink plasmas, purple deaths, green star polyps... and traded my AI Prime for a Mini Tide :D. Below are my settings and i'm curious what everyone thinks. Its a storm controller, no bluefish

 

PMW day: Ch1 - 165, ch2 -58 ch3 - 0

PWM night:ch1 - 0, ch2 - 0, ch3 - 10

Sunrise mode: manual

Sunrise time: 8:00

Sunset time: 19:00

Ramp timer: 90 mins

Ramp delay: ch1-0, ch2-60

Cloud freq :1

Cloud channels: ch2 - 1

Moonphase Adjust: on

Maybe i've just been always doing this wrong but the light settings I provided seemed rather dim at max? or does this seem sufficient?

Oh and the frag tank got a new inhabitant I just couldn't pass up for $20

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Picked up some new corals from the Tidal Gardens live sale. I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend checking them out. Granted they can be kinda expensive but the quality of coral is NEVER up to question.

 

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And a bonus picture of my ferocious Wolves ;)

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Love the maxi mini! And of course the dogs we have two in the same colors!

Love my fur babies :) They're terrors though. Especially the little one.

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