VannReefer87 Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 thanks a lot proraptor...your tank is amazing by the way. Like he said, I'm doing 2g water changes once a week faithfully and I bought a peice of glass to cover 3/4 of the top of the tank to minimize evaporation. Looking into getting a small auto top-off unit as well. Other than that I'm happy with the set-up. Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 SPS is doing well, the color has increased and the one peice is showing some growth on the base and tips! Picked up my fish, an obligued-lined dottyback...very cool!! Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 2, 2007 Author Share Posted April 2, 2007 Just put about 10 more frags in the tank!!!!...pics to come soon as I get them on the comp!! Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 Here's some new pics of the tank... Not bad so far...now I just need this sucess on larger scale! Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 picked up a few new peices for this baby...2 micro frags and a nice 3'' peice of Alien eye watermelon echino!!! Link to comment
seahorsejl Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 *whistles* Looking nice! Sure will be super when some of those corals fill in. Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 thanks seahorse! Here is the pic of my new echino...was sold to me as a watermelon...pics seems to add more blue to it though, much more pink in person. One of my favorite new pieces!! .....will try and get better pics later on! Link to comment
Rene Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 That's a nice tank you've got there! I like the way you have it aquascaped. You might have some coming problems with those two fish, though. The red one is an oblique lined dottyback (Cypho purpurescens) and though they are hearty and suited to small tanks, they eat things on the liverock and are known to be aggressive to small fish like gobies, small wrasses, firefish, cardinals etc. Your other fish is a spotted mandarin (Synchirops picturatus). They tend to be very difficult to keep alive, as most of the ones imported will only take things that grow on the liverocks and sand, and in tanks under 1 year old and with less than 70 lbs. of rock they tend to slowly starve. The very small number of them that do accept prepared food still often perish for unknown reasons far before their natural 10-15 year lifespan. Please think very carefully about keeping this fish in this tank. It's not impossible, but they are very difficult for even experienced aquarists. Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 haha thanks Rene....I also appreciate your concern and have also read up on the my fish choices. The dottyback is my favorite fish and has so far been kept in check. My mandarin is eating pellet food! But yes, I wouldn't recommend doing what I'm doing to someone without any exp. The mandarin in a few months will prob end up in my 125g, he can eat as much as he wants. Link to comment
m1enbo1 Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 ur tank came out looking very nice. i have been trying to get rare zoanthids in my tank. got a nice find on a blue claveria polyp. hows the glow in the enchino w/ moonlights on? Link to comment
the_anti_honda Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 S#!T this is a nice little tank! Link to comment
TR3XX Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 that watermelon looks crazy! i like it! Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 haha thanks everyone, since I have no work tonight at school, I'm gonna clean my tank a bit and take some pics and post them, I've gotten some peices of SPS that have grown over a 1/2'' in less than a month, and the echino has colored up a lot more and its only been in my tank for a week. Pics coming soon... Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 13, 2007 Author Share Posted April 13, 2007 Hey seastar, the rio works really well for me, its pulled some nice skim and for the price I couldn't think of a better investment......Sorry more pics coming ASAP Link to comment
Gerber77 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 That echino you picked up is rad. Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 Here are a few new pics for everyone! pics 3 and 4 are at night with just the flash on Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 just picked up an emerald crab for some clean up action Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted May 2, 2007 Author Share Posted May 2, 2007 new pics comin soon....I have to move this thing home sooon Link to comment
alexmurovec Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 looking forward to some more pictures. wish the best for your move. Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 Well..I finally got back to college...my tank is coming up in a week when i go home to get it....things have changed over the summer in this tank...so I'll just inform everyone of the changes... Livestock: The Obliqued Lined Dottyback and mandarin where removed and put into my 40g display...and were replaced by a pair of oscellaris clowns and a yasha goby! All the SPS was removed as it became a pain and put into my display, and seems to be growing faster....they were all replaced by LPS (rare micros and acans). Hardware: The tank set-up is working very well, so the only thing I do is maintain what I already am using..although I did add another 150gph of flow to the tank. As of now everything is doing very well...except for the grape calurpa outbreak I've been battling for months now! Pics will arrive as soon as the tank is set up and settled..thanks for lookin! Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted October 8, 2007 Author Share Posted October 8, 2007 New Pics of acans/micros that I've had/added to the tank New Zoo Frag/Purple & Green Micro Orange Crush Frag Red/Blue Micro Mint Green/Red Micro Aussie Red Acan Angel Eye Micro UFO Micro Rainbow Micro Green Centered Aussie Acan Green Meanie Micro New Blue Aussie Acan Let me know what you guys/gals all think P.S. please ignore the algae..my mom let things get a little crazy while I was gone...but she did help me out a lot! Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted October 8, 2007 Author Share Posted October 8, 2007 bump for the new pics... Link to comment
VannReefer87 Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 starting dosing b-ionic once again...hoping to get more growth out of it Link to comment
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