Kimberly63 Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Sorry to hear about your torch. I'll eventually put one in my 40 but I know I have to be very careful with regard to placement. As for your light, you could make a stand from pipe or pvc that the light could hang on. I've seen variations on several tanks here. Pardon my lack of paint skilz: Wow that's a great idea! Thanks! I never would have thought of something like that Yes my torch coral harrassed and stung everything it could 8" or 9" within it's area. Link to comment
Shortie Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Wow that's a great idea! Thanks! I never would have thought of something like that My pleasure! Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Well I just came back from the lfs and I got 2 new additions to my tank. I got a two mouthed light orange ric (which I could kick myself because today I was looking in my tank and thinking that I had too much orange colored corals in there) and I got a green clown goby - both for $23. The goby is hiding behind some rock right now peeking out every once in awhile. lol. he's got beautiful color to him. I had asked if they had a tail spot blenny because I really wanted one but they didn't have any. The guy said he'll special order one for me and it should be there next week but I really don't think I should add another fish to my tank. The guy there has a crush on me I think so he was being overly helpful so I didn't have the heart to say don't bother. lol. oh well. Maybe I'll get stuck doing 50% water changes every week with a 3rd fish. Once my goby settles in I'll try to get a picture of him. Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 Well day two and my green clown goby is still in hiding. How long will it be till he makes an appearance? Messed around in my tank too for a little bit and I'm having problems figuring out where to glue corals. I love my rockwork but I have no places to put frags unless I glue them vertically on the rocks. I'm trying to get my yuma's color back since it's been browned out for awhile so I've been trying to feed it and every time I try I have to fight off my pom-pom with my turkey baster and the jerk still runs up to the yuma and steals it's food. I had to keep giving him food to distract him long enough for my yuma to eat . I now have him trained to hang onto the turkey baster and wait for his food to come out. Link to comment
gulfsurfer101 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 I bought a clown goby that I never seen. I put him in the tank and he dissapeard into the rocks almost immeadiatly. I only saw him come out twice and can only assume he's dead since it's been over four months that I've even thought I've seen him swimming around in there. Then again he could just be hide and seek champion of all fish nano. Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 Wow 4 months? Maybe other fish are harrassing him when he comes out? Not sure why I decided to get such a shy fish. I just hope my clownfish doesn't decide to start harrassing him. Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 Okay so I've been slacking a little. I decided to post up some updated pictures of my tank. My pics aren't the greatest because I'm using my phone. Some kind of tiny purple and blue-ish polyps: My Eagle Eye zoas: green star polyps: Fire n Ice zoas and can't remember what the greens are called: Armor of God zoas: Neon green zoas: Yuma that I'm nursing back to health: My monster-sized chocolate paly: Orange ricordea: Some type of pink paly: Pink and purple ricordeas: New neon orange ric - might be a rainbow: Green mushroom: Hammer coral: Here's my clownfish: And my new green clown goby that never comes out: FTS: Link to comment
Shortie Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 The tank is looking great! Keep it up. Link to comment
Zombo Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Very nice reef! You did a great job with the aquascaping Link to comment
Phixion Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Wow! Great new pics, Kimberly! Keep up the awesome work on your tank!! Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 Thanks everyone for your comments! My tank looks so empty but I've been broke. Figured I'll save money for a few months till the Ohio frag swap in October and really go all out and fill up my tank a lil cheaper than what i'd pay at an lfs. I also thought about either selling my biocube or turning it into a planted tank. I have a small hex tank that I use for quarantine so I really don't need the biocube anymore. I almost hate to part with it though because it's a nice tank. Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted June 30, 2008 Author Share Posted June 30, 2008 Well I haven't posted in a loooong time so I figured I'd do an update: I'm pretty sure my green clown goby has ick. His fins look like they were chewed off and he's all bumpy and he has some white speckles. *sigh* I got him in QT right now. He looked great 2 days ago. Last night I looked at him and he looked like he was covered in warts. I figured he got stung by something. Poor Mr. Goby. I went to my local aquarium club meeting yesterday and I got some nice goodies! My friend Steve gave me a piece of xenia - not sure yet of the kind, some blue snowflake cloves, and a piece of birdsnest SPS to see how it would do in my tank. Its kind of a tan color with bright green polyps. Very generous of him! Then I won 2 heads of frogspawn at the mini-raffle. It's dark green with purple tips - very nice coral! My favorite coral now is the snowflakes. I couldn't believe how tiny they were! I had to rip my tank apart tonight to get my goby out and into QT so my rockwork is a mess and so are my corals. As soon as I get things lookin purdy I'll post some pics of the new stuff. Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted July 11, 2008 Author Share Posted July 11, 2008 I've been having different problems arise for the past few weeks and I'm getting very irritated. First I had a colony of 100+ polyps of zoas and they are slowly dieing off. I've been checking them looking for pests and nothing. water parameters are 0-0-0, all my other zoas look great. Well low and behold, at night, dozens of amphipods were making a midnight snack outta them! A couple days ago I did an iodine dip and it didn't seem to help so tonight I was looking in with a flashlight and they were chomping down in there so I did a FW dip instead and a dozen or more amphipods jumped off the rock. I just did a 15 second dip just to kill the pods so we'll see what happens within the next couple of days. Then I just had to tinker some more so I took a frag plug that had 2 ricordeas on it and tried to break the plug in half between the 2 rics and riiiiipppppppppp there goes a ric -right in half. *sigh* hopefully it'll pull through - I was supposed to give one to my friend Steve next weekend, but he might have to wait a little while... Link to comment
Phixion Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 The ric should recover. But I have heard of coral eating pods before... Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted July 24, 2008 Author Share Posted July 24, 2008 The ric recovered and I just gave it away today to my friend steve. Yes those darn pods ate at half of my radioactive dragon eyes. It was a large colony too. I have to wait till night-time to do a quick fw dip and they all fly off - dozens at least. since I did the first dip and killed most of them off, my zoas have recovered. I only dipped for maybe 10 or 15 seconds. I got some more goodies from my friend again today! He gave me some beautiful zoanthids. I got a nuclear green paly, a zoa that looks like an RPE with a sparkly mint green center, some purple ones with a light green mouth and some green ones with purple mouth and skirt. Also he gave me some tiny tiny bright orange ones that he said are called Happy Samaritans. Each polyp is this big: O no kidding! They haven't opened yet in my tank - I'm still waiting. I got all 5 frags for only $30 which was a very good deal. Now I owe him some AOGs I'm really not satisfied with how my tank looks right now so I'll be waiting to take some pics when everything isn't spread all over my sandbed. Link to comment
lilredneckman Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 PICTURES!!!! Your tank is gorgeous! Link to comment
EnjoiFish Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I got some more goodies from my friend again today! He gave me some beautiful zoanthids. I got a nuclear green paly, a zoa that looks like an RPE with a sparkly mint green center, some purple ones with a light green mouth and some green ones with purple mouth and skirt. Also he gave me some tiny tiny bright orange ones that he said are called Happy Samaritans. Each polyp is this big: O no kidding! They haven't opened yet in my tank - I'm still waiting. I got all 5 frags for only $30 which was a very good deal. Now I owe him some AOGs Wow, I wish I had friends like that. Can't wait to see pics of the new coral. Link to comment
squirrelieygrrrl Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 sweet tank kimberly, we need updated pics! lol. ill be tagging along on your tank thread. once youve gotten an updated fts, i had started a 10gal fts thread. we would all love to have your tank's fts on there. if you cant find the thread just pm me and ill give you a link. we need updates!!!!!! ~squirrel Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 Lol - you brought my tank back from the dead. I agree I need to get some updated shots up. I'll find some batteries for my camera - I can't promise it will work because I've been having problems with it, but if it doesn't, I'll use my crappy phone camera. Link to comment
Phixion Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Phone cams are better than none. Also eager to see new pics!! Link to comment
hxcaquaman Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 +1 on the new pics and the updates, so you are from kiski where do you go for your supplies? I actually go to a private shop in indiana, you have to make an appointment with the guy. he runs the shop outta his basement/garage area... his corals are awesome and cheap, I used to go to gittlers all the time and elmers. I definately like bretts shop better. his site doesn't do the shop much justice but just in case you want to come up to indiana and take a look http://www.coralreefkeepers.com/ tell him Ian send ya haha Link to comment
Kimberly63 Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 Well I'm not from kiski, I went to Apollo Ridge - I just moved to this area last year. It depends on what I need for my tank. If I need salt, I go to Isemans in Ford City or The Fish Bowl in Apollo or Elmers in Monroeville. I never heard of gittlers. I should prob check that place out in Indiana how do you get there? +1 on the new pics and the updates, so you are from kiski where do you go for your supplies? I actually go to a private shop in indiana, you have to make an appointment with the guy. he runs the shop outta his basement/garage area... his corals are awesome and cheap, I used to go to gittlers all the time and elmers. I definately like bretts shop better. his site doesn't do the shop much justice but just in case you want to come up to indiana and take a look http://www.coralreefkeepers.com/ tell him Ian send ya haha Link to comment
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