wwildcats04 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Here is the side of my fox coral... I moved it and noticed this thing on the side, it looks kind of like a sea squirt. pictures from left to right a FTS a picture of my sump Some skimming The plumbing Please Leave Comments! If you have questions... ask Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 yes it is... I like a lot of the lower light corals personally so instead of getting those and bleaching them with high light I just use PCs Link to comment
bdare Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Awesome! I have PC lighting too. It's nice to see what a good looking tank I can aspire to have! Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 why thank you :-) yeah, the forums make you feel a lot more limited than what you really are when you have PCs just because they all have HO T5's and Halides and the works... we just cant keep acros or clams and a few others but for the most part thats it Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 I'll go ahead and post a few specs now that I have time 40 Breeder (36x18x18)- actually holes 45g of water though... weird 20g long H/Q tank Oceanic Model 1 Sump (roughly a 20g) Mag 7 return pump, used to be a 12 but temperature ran high Reef Octopus NW 150 Protein Skimmer 5g kent Liquidoser topping off w/ RO and eventually Kalkwaser once I get the drip figured out so I dont OD Micron Sock upon entry to sump and another sponge upon exit with carbon Plumbing 1.5" drain 3/4" return Lighting- 196w of PC Everything in the tank is DIY, I drilled it and made the over flow box and did the plumbing etc. Live Stock Inverts- Fire Shrimp, Skunk Cleaner, 2 Strombus Conch, Astrea, bumblebee, tongan nassarius snails, blue leg, red leg, cortez hermit crabs, porcelain, pom-pom, and emerald crabs, feather duster Fish- Blue spot jawfish, Chevron tang, Ocellaris Clown Coral- Blasto, Acan, Hammer, Torch, Fox, Zoas, Shrooms, Rics, Favia Having some temperature issues so i have a fan blowing on the sump and it sits at 80 than but with out it sits at approx 84 degrees. I cant decide whether or not to get a different skimmer (ASM G Mini) or constantly keep the fan blowing on the sump and fight evaperation like crazy or to get a chiller. Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 I finally have found a rate to drip that keeps up pace with my fan evaporating the water... Its prety quick Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 Here are some updated pictures of new corals that I have gotten New blue ricordia that my girlfriend had to have and the new blasto that I had to have Now just some pictures of some of the inverts The above picture is of my porcelain crab, you have to look kinda hard and than the next one is a picture of my fire shrimp w ho is always out Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 tonight I started to drip kalkwasser into the system since I found the speed that I must have the drip at in order to keep up with the fan so I'll be sure and keep you all posted with how well I think it works. Also I noticed the ricordia is dividing into two. Another thing I would like to point out is how much better I like using instant ocean rather than red sea salt. I dont seem to be having nearly as many algae problems as before. kudos to IO Link to comment
beyondtheblue Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 tonight I started to drip kalkwasser into the system since I found the speed that I must have the drip at in order to keep up with the fan so I'll be sure and keep you all posted with how well I think it works. Also I noticed the ricordia is dividing into two. Another thing I would like to point out is how much better I like using instant ocean rather than red sea salt. I dont seem to be having nearly as many algae problems as before. kudos to IO I hope you realize that kalwasser has a ph of over 12. Be careful in that size of a tank. Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 yeah, Im aware... thats why I waited to start dosing until I took note exactly of the rate at which it should be dripped in at. it really isnt that small of a tank, including water from the sump and skimmer and such it winds up being about 60 gallons. It takes approx a whole day to drip in a gallon of the water so Im going at a slow enough pase to where I will not shock the system thank you very much for the concern though... I honestly do appreciate it Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 RIP Chevron tang, he didnt make it through crypt... the tank will never be the same with out him. He passed away after a week spent at the brothers house dog sitting and the temperature went sky high and developed a case of crypt so I yanked him and put him in a hospital tank for a couple of weeks and treated him and I came home from work today and he passed Link to comment
Anachronos Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Pictures look great, and I'm sorry about the tang. Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 thank you, now Im just basically trying to figure out what fish to put in there... all I have is an Ocellaris. Im in no hurry though. I got a bunch more LR and a few more corals since then and will post pictures soon Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted July 29, 2006 Author Share Posted July 29, 2006 the corals i've gotten since were a large colt coral, zoa rock, and clove polyps and another that i forgot the name of... Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 much has been done since my last update and many of decisions have been made since than... I have come up with the executive decision that my tank shall be a red sea biotope just because the fish are not common and I just think it will be pretty savvy... now Im not going to take it as far as only having red sea native critters down to hermits,LR,shrimp, sea stars and corals but the fish all will be. This all started when I purchased my baby red sea purple tang I began to fall in love with the RS. I started doing research and decided that a nice pair of Amphiprion bicinctus because no one has those... Im also a huge fan of dottybacks so I will most likely go with a fridmani and than a RS mimic blenny and call it quits... but I have gotten some RS native corals such as a nice favia and an acan lord. now just to find some pulsing xenia Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 I upgraded my lighting tonight from the PCs to this lighting fixture. Im excited to see how good my corals do, I just love the shimmer effect, I figured it was a good time to do the upgrade since the summer is almost over so heat issues should not be quite as good. I went with this fixture because I will still be able to have select areas that will be good for my lower light corals. I am going to start to save up for a chiller though, just in case things get out of hand, but im pretty confident in the fixture not producing to much heat, its about a foot over water. I am going to have to re-arrange the rock work so that I do not have all of my low light corals (blastos, acans, fox) under the MH. I am going to work on this later on today when I wake up for a little while. I will take updated pictures at this time as well.... until than Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 Some pics, most corals still have to adapt to the light such as my blastos and heliofungia and fox Link to comment
Six Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 looks good kyle. i like your oulophyllia. one of my favorite corals. when you are ready to frag it, let me know. good looking echinata too. we should trade morphs sometime. Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 lol the oulophyilia is almost dead... Travis gave it to me to try and bring back. thanks though. what acans do you have? I still need to get some of those eagle eye zoas from you guys Link to comment
msn711 Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Looking good. Have you considered changing the stock coralife bulb? I've always heard that they're garbage compared to other bulbs, and now that I've got one next to a Phoenix 14,000K, I'd have to agree. I'm saving up to put another phoenix bulb in my other light. Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 I may have to look into it, first things first though lol. I really like the light a lot, the cool thing is, my tank actually runs cooler than before! weird. I think when it is time to upgrade bulbs I'll look into the phoenix but I just got the light so I cant see spending more $ yet on a bulb that is still better than the old lights. My next big spend is going to be a refractometer. Link to comment
msn711 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Good idea on the refractometer. Link to comment
wwildcats04 Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 I just picked up some DTs oyster eggs and DTs premium phyto to really start spoiling my corals Link to comment
Six Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 the ouli looks alive in the pic... too bad if it's dying. those are awesome corals. I told dan they have red skeletons and he didnt believe me until he saw a half dead specimen one day. you should make fun of him. you dont get many chances. muhahahaaaa. otherwise we have a couple A. echinata colonies (rainbow, orange mottled, and light blue mottled) and a candy colored lordhowensis from PB. Link to comment
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