Withers Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 Will your bleached colors regain there colors? or is that how corals adjust to brighter lights God I hope so. Normally they should, but it might be a completely different color than they were to begin with (lets hope not though). Corals only bleach if they aren't acclimated slowly enough to brighter lights. Once I saw them bleach I moved all my zoanthids under a ledge to acclimate them the right way. I just had no idea these lights were that bright. Link to comment
kismetsh Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Your tank is stunning! I love cowfish, I may wind up building a tank around one someday. Link to comment
Withers Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Your tank is stunning! I love cowfish, I may wind up building a tank around one someday. Thanks! And you definitely should, they're 100% worth the effort, easily my favorite fish. I took some new pics tonight. Nothing has been added as far as corals are concerned, but I did manage to get a couple of some that hadn't opened fully before. Mean Greens Zombie Eyes, these are growing well despite bleaching: AOG, still trying to recover from the bleach And my Lunar Eclipses, these have finally opened up fully and they've produced 2 new polyps, but they're somewhat bleached as well Thanks for looking! Link to comment
Gerber77 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Nice tank. That clown looks so small in your tank. Link to comment
andykee Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 i love this tank... it is one of the most "natural" looking tanks in terms of aquascaping that i think i have ever seen. i love the light use of rock! Link to comment
Derby Reefer Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 I am so very much in love with your tank. Link to comment
Withers Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 Where's all this traffic coming from? adin is behind this, I know it. Thanks guys Link to comment
aquakevem Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 your tank is coming along nicely, i like Link to comment
xmen0075 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Your tank is awesome!!! It looks nice and clean--not too crowded! More pics!! Link to comment
Needreefunds Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Killer tank Jason!! Very sweet. Yes, please keep up with the pics! Those are some awesome corals you picked up. Link to comment
Monkeyrobb Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Don't worry about your arrow crab. As long as it gets enough food, it should be cool. If not, get a coral banded shrimp. My shrimp pulled most of the legs off of my arrow crab. I put the crab in a peaceful tank in hopes that he'll grow his legs back! Don't cowfish get way to big for a 75? Link to comment
Withers Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Usually, there's one kind that supposedly doesn't grow past 6", which is the kind I requested, but not what they got in. Unfortunately, I lost the cowfish last night anyway. He had gotten ich, which was expected, and since he seemed to be getting worse I decided to quarantine him in hypo-salinity. I figured since the powerhead I was using was only 120 gph he could handle it, but I woke up to find him stuck to the intake Whats amazing is that he liked to pick algae off of my nano streams 6045s which were pumping out 1,200 gph and he never got stuck on them. So I'm back on the search for another cowfish (or maybe a boxfish if I can find the right species), but first I need to rid the tank of ich. Link to comment
jimbro Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 First off, love the tank Vic. It's going to look amazing once you get some sps in there and they grow out a little. Sucks about the cowfish though. How's the tang doing in the 'ichy' environment? Link to comment
Withers Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Its the one that brought it in, but its fine now. It shrugged it off in under a day. I wasn't going to buy the tang because I know how big he gets, but my fiance wanted him, and since he would technically work for a couple of years, I yielded. Besides, that'll give me a good excuse to upgrade in a few years Link to comment
mattyice Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 i sure hope thats a big upgrade lol, sailfins get HUGE, dude i love the corals and the lights, im getting rid of my halides soon to upgrade to the constellation from Aquatinics, something like 545W of light is what it puts out, i really really love the tank though everything looks great and will look even better when everything starts growing out Link to comment
stallen Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Great tank! I hope to have something like this someday. Where did you get the fixture? I saw that you changes the lights around. What bulbs do you have now? Link to comment
Withers Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 Thanks! The fixture I got from Reef Geek. The bulb combination I'm running now is: Actinic Blue+ Aquablue+ Aquablue+ Blue+ Actinic I'm not sure which actinic bulbs I have, but I know one is a Giesemann and the other is an ATI. In person it looks about like a 14k MH would. The corals seem to like it better. Link to comment
kismetsh Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 I am bummed about the cow, they are such cool fish! Link to comment
Withers Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 I know, and that was such a stupid mistake on my part. I looked but couldn't find anything to block off the intake of the powerhead, but its still unacceptable. It took me forever to find one too. Link to comment
nano-paul Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Sorry about the your fishy vic. But that tank is amazing!! Link to comment
Derby Reefer Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Sorry to hear about your fish. Link to comment
kismetsh Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 There was a cow in the Diver's Den this morning but it was on the larger side. Link to comment
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