gena Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Looks awesome!!!!!! The kitty is adorable looking up at the tank. Did he/she eventually make it up to the table to peer in? Link to comment
opaquelace Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 Nope never. I made her get off the dining room table the other day (clapped loudly) so I'm hoping she gets the picture of no going on tables/counter tops. Besides, she spends most of the day hiding away from my kids lol. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 Thanks skillz! So good news I have my mandarin eating Nutramar Ova and she's getting plumper. She wasn't skinny, but she wasn't eating the other frozen food options I had. Also, found her sleeping in the sandbed the other night partially covered by sand. If I hadn't seen a picture of another mandarin doing it in the mandarin thread on the fish forum I would have been very worried! Link to comment
gena Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Thanks skillz! So good news I have my mandarin eating Nutramar Ova and she's getting plumper. She wasn't skinny, but she wasn't eating the other frozen food options I had. Also, found her sleeping in the sandbed the other night partially covered by sand. If I hadn't seen a picture of another mandarin doing it in the mandarin thread on the fish forum I would have been very worried!That's fantastic news!!! Do you have to turn all of the flow off for her to eat or will she go after the food with the pumps running? Link to comment
Giga Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 that last shot with the cat is pretty cool Link to comment
opaquelace Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 That's fantastic news!!! Do you have to turn all of the flow off for her to eat or will she go after the food with the pumps running? I turn it off so it settles on the rocks and then she picks at it. I feed the coral and everything else at the same time so it's easier to just flip the switch for the pumps and then switch them back on after 15-20 min. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 that last shot with the cat is pretty cool Thanks! It's a much bigger tank than it seems sometimes. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 So....picture dump time!!! Top down. Notice my photos are getting clearer? I'm finally getting the hang of my simple camera settings lol. FTS under LEDs with the blue turned up. FTS with only the whites on. Middle to top range of the rockscape. Got some new zoanthids and a fresh frag of green sinularia that I'm super stoked about My green star polyps are growing with my purple ones from Lalani and look amazing Clear picture of the ricordeas. Unfortunately my bright green ones are hiding. My mauve/teal rhodactis. Anemone photo dump! The frogspawn in the last picture is touch and go at the moment. It's opening up larger and looking less pissed off, but it looks like the head is coming off the skeleton at the bottom. Some guts were protruding from there a few days ago, but seem to have disappeared since then. Duncans! Octofrogspawn and red tree sponge My sinularia frag. It's a really pretty teal/lime and purple. New zoanthids and some old ones grown in. The ones at the top left corner are super bright and amazing and I can't wait for them to grow in some. $10 frag right there, also came with another frag and the sinularia for free. Palys and candy canes! And done for now. Martha was hiding unfortunately but the other fish loved making an appearance. Link to comment
gena Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 I love all the growth you are getting!!!! Does Martha hide a lot? I have a new green mandarin named Bogart. He recently found the back of the tank and hardly leaves that area. I'm a bit disappointed with that. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 I love all the growth you are getting!!!! Does Martha hide a lot? I have a new green mandarin named Bogart. He recently found the back of the tank and hardly leaves that area. I'm a bit disappointed with that. Yea she hides a lot. We have the cave in the center where we see her, but she tends to stick to the back of the tank at the top where the zoanthids are. There's a crevice where I squirt her food and there is a hole in the rock that she swims up. I'm wondering if one of my clowns gets aggressive with her, although I haven't seen it yet. I can't feed my tank anymore without my female clown biting my hand, and sometimes it hurts! She's so mean to me. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 My rock anemone garden. Pictures don't do them justice, especially not mine lol. My ricordeas. Lost a few, don't know what happened to them...also what is that strange macro algae? Yea, it's purple. Looking down shot! Those RPEs are really nice in real life, but they look so washed out in pictures. My fish are camera hogs. Seriously. They won't get out the way. This is a shot from today. You can see my firecracker favia from Morgan in the bottom right corner. It's so pretty! The coral in the bottom left corner is being baby sat for a friend until this evening. My mandarin. Still trying to get him to eat. I've got cyclopeeze, reproductive organs of oysters, nutramar OVA, I bought a chunk of chaeto and put it in a box to see if I can breed him some pods (from the refugium at my LFS) and I'll probably go and purchase some arctic pods to see if he will eat that. He's been a real pain in my butt, but I've been trying. Feeding him every day (or trying to). He's real friendly actually, so I'm hoping eventually he will take to the tank. He swims all around, comes to the surface when I'm by the tank, but so far no eating when I feed. Maybe he likes leftovers? Full tank shot! Notice the new Vortech MP10? We bought it on black Friday because they had a mail in rebate on that day at the LFS for it. We got the $289 one that can sync up to others for $231 which I think is a good deal. Also, Merry Christmas. IDK why the picture came out so blurry. Oh well! Link to comment
metrokat Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 That is bubble algae! kill it with fire immediately. If you cut very carefully with a sharp blade/scalpel you can remove them without bursting but do it outside of the tank. You can dip it in peroxide after removal to be sure to get any bits left over. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 I thought that is what that was, but the bubbles are huge and have bright orange spots. It's limited to that area so I can scrape it off real easily. Also I forgot these gems. Silas. He looks like a little boy now. No more babies for me! Also Marilou wanted to show you guys how she cries. Link to comment
llama roadkill Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 That is bubble algae! kill it with fire immediately. If you cut very carefully with a sharp blade/scalpel you can remove them without bursting but do it outside of the tank. You can dip it in peroxide after removal to be sure to get any bits left over. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 Lol, I'll do that later when I feel like putting my hands back in the tank. Link to comment
Lalani Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Everything looks great, that gsp really took off, lol. The kids are adorable Link to comment
JackInTheBox Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Love the coral set up, clean looking tank! Link to comment
gena Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 I thought that was Lani GSP!!! Looks awesome, everything!!! You've had a lot of growth too. I love the orange/red sponge and the firecracker favia, and, and, and . Your kiddos are getting soooo big. I still remember them as babies. Pretty Christmas tree . Link to comment
opaquelace Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 I thought that was Lani GSP!!! Looks awesome, everything!!! You've had a lot of growth too. I love the orange/red sponge and the firecracker favia, and, and, and . Your kiddos are getting soooo big. I still remember them as babies. Pretty Christmas tree . I miss them being babies sometimes. Probably because my sister had her baby 10 weeks ago an I wish I could have another...then I remember how miserable I was and I'm glad they can walk and talk (most of the time, when it's not working against me). As for the tank, I think I'm going to focus on acan lords next and special zoanthids/palys. I'd really like to have some Sunny Ds. Maybe a purple photosynthetic gorg. Then I think we'll just let everything grow. Link to comment
opaquelace Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 Top down FTS with the new pagoda cup It brings something to the tank we didn't have and I love it. The favia resting in the macro algae basket until we catch the Elton John and return him to the LFS. For that story click here: http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/337574-elton-john-is-a-jerk-can-my-favia-be-saved/ Mushrooms, rics, and new monti cap. My red sponge and my new hulk clove polyps from Reef Gardener. I love them <3 My zoanthid/paly area is filling out nicely. Next maybe some Sunny Ds and some other fun, crazy polyps! My huge colony of red people eaters. They're really starting to color up under my Kessil A350. They were sorta brownish at the LFS. What will hopefully turn into a flower rock garden eventually. I love them, and I love the color variations they have. They like being by each other a lot...oh and then there is the lonely rhodactis mushroom on the side. Pretty self-explanatory. GSP and PSP. The new pagoda cup! Open and happy already And now two FTS because I feel like it. As you can tell I'm still trying to get the colors right with my camera. I had it set for underwater/blue water which makes everything a little bit too red but takes out the blinding white of the sand. Thanks for peeking! Link to comment
markalot Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Nice! Keep us updated more often! Link to comment
opaquelace Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 More updates...yayyyy! So, nothing much has changed. We bought a new flower anemone though and I got some cool photos of it eating (and a video I'll be sure to post). The favia is now in the display since we got rid of Elton John, the coral nipper. Also I got an iPhone so I can take a lot of pictures, upload them easily, and they look better than they do with my real camera. So be prepared for a lot more updates/fun shots! Here we go! My best shot of this tank yet. The pagoda cup is a beautiful color and I love how it waves in the flow from my mp10. The favia with the feeder tentacles out. I had fed the tank about 15 minutes before and I guess it sensed the food so I spot fed it and got a few snapshots. (Also pardon the chaeto, I took it off after it ate ) It's a little blurry but still looks nice. Inside my "in tank refugium" Look at Lalani's red people eater Full tank shot with my blue turned all the way down. Rock anemones with the tiny newbie that I love. It has smooth fingers <3 The zoanthid/palythoa garden. Notice the green birdsnest frag? It was a cheap frag from the LFS ($10 ORA frag whattttt) and it's starting to color up really nicely. It had bleached out quite a bit at the store. Side FTS. The frogspawn is huge, and the hammer is getting larger Right side FTS. Sponge and yellow tipped clove polyps and my hulk green clove polyps. And ricordea/mushy side. Top down shot of frogspawn/hammer/sinularia Going to load the videos to Youtube and then I'll post them here. Ty for looking. Link to comment
gena Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 It looks awesome!!!! Everything is filling in so beautifully!!!! Now I'm really sad I didn't get two firefish. Yours hang around each other????? Great video too. You can turn your phone sideways to get a full screen video, for next time. Since you'll be posting a lot of pictures and videos now . Link to comment
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