Loudeyes Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 So someone told me that you keep sps under stock biocube lights. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=303601 just was wondering if that was true? If so what species, and what placement thanks! Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 So someone told me that you keep sps under stock biocube lights. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=303601 just was wondering if that was true? If so what species, and what placement thanks! Yes that is true. If you look at the pics of the first page you can see they are pretty high up on the rocks. As for species, I have Seriatopora guttatus, Seriatopora hystrix, Montipora digitata, Montipora spongodes, Montipora capricornis, and Montipora aequituberculata. Pretty much any coral of the genera Montipora or Seriatopora can be kept under biocube stock lights. I believe Pocillopora species can be kept too, but I have yet to try it myself. Link to comment
metrokat Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Wow you're good. I'm getting two of them today My quarantine is up and ready to go for these babies! They are so cute but also jerks, the barnacle blenny at my LFS attacks everything, even pistol shrimp. Nobody has bought him in over 3 months. Link to comment
jstuver Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 So someone told me that you keep sps under stock biocube lights. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=303601 just was wondering if that was true? If so what species, and what placement thanks! I was keeping purple rimmed monti cap, another green monti cap and a green birds nest under stock jbj nanocube lighting just fine they were growing well also. Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 They are so cute but also jerks, the barnacle blenny at my LFS attacks everything, even pistol shrimp. Nobody has bought him in over 3 months. I'm giving them their own little section with a bunch of dry barnacles so hopefully they'll play nice. Link to comment
Jacob042426 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 how do you take care of your flame scallop? what food? Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 how do you take care of your flame scallop? what food? I feed it live phytoplankton as many times a day as I can manage. I go through about $40 worth of phyto a month feeding it and the feather dusters. Once or twice a day I turn off the return and turn the mp10 onto feeding mode then pour in enough phyto to cloud the water a milky green color. It takes about an hour to be eaten up then I turn the pumps back on.Then in between those mass feedings, I dump phyto into the back chambers so it slowly gets pumped into the display over the next half hour. I try to do that 4-5 times a day. He's in a spot that gets very good flow so all the phyto gets pushed right into him. Let me tell you it's a pain to feed the tank that much phyto. I highly advise against getting one, and honestly they shouldn't even be collected. Link to comment
Jacob042426 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 well, i impulsly found one in my backyard and put it in my tank. it was extremely dumb, and now i cant put it back because it was exposed to my tank and could carry diseases with it. ill move it to my 40b because i dont want to crash my 3 gallon with phyto. Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 well, i impulsly found one in my backyard and put it in my tank. it was extremely dumb, and now i cant put it back because it was exposed to my tank and could carry diseases with it. ill move it to my 40b because i dont want to crash my 3 gallon with phyto. Trust me, you need to re-home it. Give it to someone with a dedicated NPS tank. You will either go homeless with the amount of phyto you have to buy or you'll kill it by not feeding it enough. The untrained eye can't tell if it's starving until the day it dies. Link to comment
Singlefin Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 I feed it live phytoplankton as many times a day as I can manage. I go through about $40 worth of phyto a month feeding it and the feather dusters. Once or twice a day I turn off the return and turn the mp10 onto feeding mode then pour in enough phyto to cloud the water a milky green color. It takes about an hour to be eaten up then I turn the pumps back on.Then in between those mass feedings, I dump phyto into the back chambers so it slowly gets pumped into the display over the next half hour. I try to do that 4-5 times a day. He's in a spot that gets very good flow so all the phyto gets pushed right into him. Let me tell you it's a pain to feed the tank that much phyto. I highly advise against getting one, and honestly they shouldn't even be collected. How do you get anything else done with that feeding schedule? Link to comment
Jacob042426 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Trust me, you need to re-home it. Give it to someone with a dedicated NPS tank. You will either go homeless with the amount of phyto you have to buy or you'll kill it by not feeding it enough. The untrained eye can't tell if it's starving until the day it dies. do you want it? Link to comment
Euphyllia Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 do you want it? You mean the illegally collected scallop? I think one could be bought for much less than shipping would be. Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 How do you get anything else done with that feeding schedule? Lol well I don't just sit there and watch the tank during the hour long feedings. I just turn off the pumps and walk away to go do something else. As for the feedings that I don't turn the pumps off, I just dump in some phyto whenever I'm home, like in between errands, before and after work, after school, etc. It's not as crazy as it sounds. do you want it? I wish I could take it, but I can't. Eupjhy is right, overnight shipping would be $40-50 plus that's an extra $40 a month for phyto. I just don't have that kind of money. Pretty sick tank Thanks bro, I like to think the work I put into it shows. Link to comment
yoshii Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 I hate your wrasse I think you took at least 2 of those pictures Alto And here's Irwin Link to comment
tinctorus Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Thanks I really need to take new pics so you guys can see the new corals The fireworm was in a tank at work, not in my tank. I think we got it out with a stick Lol I pulled a HUGE fireworm out of the main display reef at my old job and we had a new guy who was just the most annoying S.O.B you could ever meet, 28 years old and only got as far as 6th grade but SWORE he was the smartest person in the shop...Anyways one day I pulled a solid 11" long and about pencil thick firework out of the tank and I obviously used a pair of forceps and right as I got the thing out of the water he walked over and shook the ladder I was standing on so I swung the forceps and smacked him right in the face with the whole length of the fireworm and let it go, well after it hit him in the face it dropped right down into his shirt It was absolutely HILARIOUS and all day he was #####ing and moaning about how it hurt, so just to be a even bigger dick I told him to clean the area that hurt with HOT HOT water "incase you dont know hot water opens the pores up on your skin and causes the little fireworm hairs to go even deeper into your skin LOL" He never bothered me again after that though HAHA Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 Lol I pulled a HUGE fireworm out of the main display reef at my old job and we had a new guy who was just the most annoying S.O.B you could ever meet, 28 years old and only got as far as 6th grade but SWORE he was the smartest person in the shop...Anyways one day I pulled a solid 11" long and about pencil thick firework out of the tank and I obviously used a pair of forceps and right as I got the thing out of the water he walked over and shook the ladder I was standing on so I swung the forceps and smacked him right in the face with the whole length of the fireworm and let it go, well after it hit him in the face it dropped right down into his shirt It was absolutely HILARIOUS and all day he was #####ing and moaning about how it hurt, so just to be a even bigger dick I told him to clean the area that hurt with HOT HOT water "incase you dont know hot water opens the pores up on your skin and causes the little fireworm hairs to go even deeper into your skin LOL" He never bothered me again after that though HAHA Lol that's one way to put someone in their place! Beautiful pics yoshii/alto Thanks Hype Link to comment
CarrillXXP Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Still looks awesome and overgrown! Time to frag? Link to comment
tinctorus Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Lol that's one way to put someone in their place! Thanks Hype Lol yeah if anyone ever deserved that it was this dip####, I mean its fine if school wasnt your thing and you dropped out, whatever its your life and your decision...But to only have a 6th grade education and think your as smart as a friggin college professor is something else LOL Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 Still looks awesome and overgrown! Time to frag? Yeah it's getting to the point again where if I don't frag soon, I'm gonna have a war on my hands. That damn giant birdsnest needs to be fragged every couple months to keep it from shading my other sps. I may just start giving away frags of it Link to comment
metrokat Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Wrasse and mandarin are awesome. Whose bird is Irwin? Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 Wrasse and mandarin are awesome. Whose bird is Irwin? He's mine. I've had him for 12 years Link to comment
metrokat Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 He's mine. I've had him for 12 years He's pretty, love his colors. Link to comment
CAmor07 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 What kind of bird is darwin P.S i named my scooter darwin (: Link to comment
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