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check with seabass on the co2 thing, he's been doing it in his tank.

 

Also why i came by I remembered that I use to have a couple rubber bands around the lower part of the skimmers cup to help cut noise.

 

 

Hopefully he chimes in, if not i'll contact him.

 

I tried the rubber band thing, it works a TON. Still haven't done the paper towel trick yet, but i'm planning on it :P

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Paper towel is a couple degree's of magnitude over the rubber band. DO IT NOW!!! :)

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FTS updated ;D

 

I cleaned out a lot of the caulerpa so you can see the true extent of my red grape colony.

 

I think i'm going to clear a space in the sand for udotea, halmeida, pinecone, and similar calcified algae.

 

Also, here is an above shot so you can see my ochtodes colony and the frag of nemastoma that my friend gave me

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Nice. Thank you for the update, its great watching some of these tanks evolve.

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Nice. Thank you for the update, its great watching some of these tanks evolve.

 

Thanks jp, I'm waiting on my friend to let me borrow his t2i so I can do a REAL update

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fts

 

soon my friend, soon. My tank is being published, so I have to take a good one within the next couple days anyways

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Ok everybody, here's an update. I finally got the chance to use my friends nikon, so they pictures are better quality. I lack photog skills, but they are getting a little better at least. Here are some pics. The ochtodes is so large it's starting to stick to the glass, and the galaxia is super pink. My exposure was a little off so the colors are whatever.

 

http://s1122.photobucket.com/albums/l538/k...nt=DSC_0508.jpg

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http://s1122.photobucket.com/albums/l538/k...nt=DSC_0511.jpg

 

Enjoy! Feel free to comment

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Really great looking stuff!

 

BTW, if you post the IMG code from photobucket, your photos will display inline here instead of us having to click a link to see each pic

 

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Really great looking stuff!

 

BTW, if you post the IMG code from photobucket, your photos will display inline here instead of us having to click a link to see each pic

 

20110628-ntuteubem9wqc3mf76j8m18g3b.jpg

 

 

AHAH. Lol i've been trying to figure that one out for a while. Thanks for the tip and the kind words!

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hi cal

 

Ok everybody, here's an update. I finally got the chance to use my friends nikon, so they pictures are better quality. I lack photog skills, but they are getting a little better at least. Here are some pics. The ochtodes is so large it's starting to stick to the glass, and the galaxia is super pink. My exposure was a little off so the colors are whatever.

 

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Enjoy! Feel free to comment

 

ftfy. beautiful stuff. the halymenia looks a bit pink - how much flow is it getting?

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hi cal

 

 

 

ftfy. beautiful stuff. the halymenia looks a bit pink - how much flow is it getting?

Thanks D!

 

Just the flow of the overflow from my main tank which isn't much, along with a k-nano 420. I think some of my stuff is pinking out a bit on me because I just switched out a bulb from the stock FNI fixture to an 18k bulb that my friend gave me, so I figured i'd try it. I might switch back soon.

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halymenia likes very high flow and medium light ime. mine grew like crazy and turned a deep red w/ orange tips under high flow.

 

left side:

 

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halymenia likes very high flow and medium light ime. mine grew like crazy and turned a deep red w/ orange tips under high flow.

 

left side:

 

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Yeah mine used to be that color, which makes me think it's the bulbs. But then again I sold off most of my colony

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some bad news....all my caulerpa prolifera went sexual. I came home to find my tank SUPER cloudy, I couldn;t even see the back wall. I thought something was spawning, but when I looked at my caulerpa, it was all fuzzy and had little yellow gametes all over, a sure tale sign that it had gone sexual. I had to rip most of it out :(. It will grow back though, i'm not too worried, just glad the tank is ok.

 

I also got a bunch of codium, so that is my green filler until the caulerpa fills in again.

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Lookin great man! All my stuff if growing in, hopefully will look as good as yours eventually.

 

Thanks man! I'm glad all the macros are doing good, has that galaxia colored up for you yet?

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Got some new pics with my crappy 4mp camera...

If your caulerpa starts to look like this....YANK IT

 

going sexual- notice the hairs and gametes

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codium- not sure of the species

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an unidentified- anybody know what it is?

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galaxia macro

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enjoy and comment!

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