My 1 Year Old Via Aqua

[littlec]

Just thought I'd share some updated pics of my tank.

It's hard to believe that it's been a year already!

In the past year, this tank has seen power outages, heat waves, hair algea and most recently flatworms and I definitley know that I wouldn't have made it without the gang here and @ RC.

 

 

Full Tank

 

Green Candy Cane

 

My First Clam (since 4/03)

 

My Favorite Clam (since 6/03)

 

Some hairy mushrooms

 

Finally, a reprsentative sample of the flatworm problem that I just went through with the aid of Flatworm Exit.

[littlec]

Tank Specs:

18 Gallon Via Aqua (680)

Drilled w/ Eheim return pump through SCWD

150W DE Aquastarlight MH

 

Inhabitants:

 

FISH

1 Black Cap Basslet

1 Midas Blenny

1 Possum Wrasse

 

CLAMS

1 Gold Maxima Clam

1 Purple Maxima Clam

1 Green Maxima Clam

1 Bluish w/ tan streaks Maxima Clam

 

LPS

Neon Green Candy Cane Coral w/ 10 heads

Orange sun Coral w/ 27 polyps

Brown w/ bluish green center candy cane coral w/ 5 heads

Pagoda Cup Coral

 

SPS

Orange Montipora Capricornis

2 Orangish Pocillopora

Orange Montipora Digitata

Brownish Millepora (started off purplish)

 

POLYPS

Green Button Polyps (large) w/ approx 50 polyps

Zoanthid rock – green w/ orange, green w/ light green, orange w/ tan

Zoanthid rock – yellow polyps and burgundy zoanthids

 

SOFTIES

1 Tan (started off neon green) Sinularia Finger Leather Coral

 

MUSHROOMS

Discosoma rock 5 mushrooms – 2 brown on green, 3 brown on brown

1 Elephant Ear Mushroom

4 Ricordia Mushroom

2 red mushrooms

2 blue mushrooms

 

INVERTS

1 Fighting Conch

1 Sally Lightfoot Crab

Scarlet Leg Hermit Crabs

Turbo Snail

Cerinth Snails

2 Feather Dusters

[mememe]

Very Nice, do you have any shots of the MH hood.

 

Thanks,

[Korbin]

Pics don't work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

go green!

[1fish2fish]

Hmmm, they work for me.

Might be browser issue Korbin.

[nanocat]

Just curious but exactly how fast do flatworms multiply ?

 

You sure got a ton of them...I'd be so freaked out. I found 2 white ones (not red planaria thank god) and turkey basted them off the glass. So far no more...but your pic has me paranoid.

[greatwit]

what 150w bulb are you running littlec ? i think the white/clear flatworms ok...i even saw one eat a red planaria one time

[supernip]

just curious, what did you do with the via aqua hood?

[littlec]

supernip - I still have the guts of the Via Aqua hood but mine had a defective ballast so en route to getting my current light fixture I gutted the original hood and tried to retrofit it with stronger PC's.

 

greatwit - The flatworms that I was dealing with were the red ones. I'm using a 10K bulb.

 

nanocat - the flatworms in my tank had mulitplied over the course of a couple of months. I tried to siphon them out during water changes and wipe them away with my cleaning magnet but nothing worked. Unfortunately I saw a few more this morning... looks like I'll be doing another round of FWE before they get too bad again

 

mememe - I don't have any shots of the light in use but I do have this pic that shows what the light was like before I "modified it"... basically I bought the wrong pendant and decided to cut it down to size and re-position the electronics inside (the markers show how much metal was removed from either side - about 2.5" each way). IMHO, the hack job looks very good - most people couldn't tell that I cut it unless I told them.

 

[mememe]

Thanks for the reply littlec,

I'm getting my 28/g Via Aqua today and don't know if I should do PC or a single MH. The tank is 24" in lenght so the 24" 2X65/W PC would fit perfectly. I'm still looking at the MH options...very confused.