Hey! Summer Summer! Smedric Shmiggory's - an ADA 60-F - reef ledge style!

[milk]

Your tank is wonderful, sir. *tips hat*

 

duly noted, old chap *double taps hat brim*

[masami93]

What lighting are you using now? How do you like it?

[Reef Casa]

nice photo of the snail. he sounds adventurous.

[Paigee]

Your tank is beautiful! It looks much bigger than it really is

[SoFit]

great tank.. cant wait to start my 60-f once i get my lights and sump.

[milk]

What lighting are you using now? How do you like it?

 

 

I have 2 nanotuner par38 3w 2b each.. and one all blue boost LED. I have them rigged on a pvc crossbar that goes over the tank. I love the lighting..... I was skeptical at first because nothing was growing, but then I realized that my tank had only been going for 2 months or so... I've found that corals have a period of adjustment usually a month or two before they start going into reproducing mode. If you move them around often, rescape your tank and disturb them etc... they tend to not grow as fast.

 

But my tank is going on 5 months now and I'm just starting to notice the polyp growth on my zoanthids, palys, duncan and dendro taking off.

 

nice photo of the snail. he sounds adventurous.

 

He is.. and full of energy.. actually just witnessed the first turbo snail sperm party in the tank.... lots of streamers at this party..

 

Your tank is beautiful! It looks much bigger than it really is

 

Thanks! its definately something I keep in mind when I'm placing the coral in the tank...... btw.. I just bought a good size derasa clam, 4" or so.. It seems to scale down the perspective of the tank.. but its soooo oh so beautiful.. i'll post pics soon after I take care of a mishap that happened this morning,

 

great tank.. cant wait to start my 60-f once i get my lights and sump.

 

 

Another 60-f! Welcome aboard the crazy shallow tank odyssey! such a feeling to have thriving reefs in just a few inches of water! - definitely recommend drilling this bad boy

[milk]

Ok - so the rather SHOCKING news that occurred this morning as I started my daily tank routine.... well... I got electrocuted! ahhh.. not once but a few times after!

 

I have several items plugged into a somewhat older power strip that I doubt has a good surge protector on it. Well, I did some rearranging with the derasa clam I picked up last night.. Did a few things around the yard, came back in to adjust things again and WHAM! shocked up my arm and into my shoulder.. wow...

 

immediately unplug everything and try to calm down and think what to do. I had to narrow it down to what was actually producing the current.. had a wire on the 4 pieces of equipment submerged in the water of my tank/sump shorted or come loose??? I don't know, I don't have a current detector and couldn't think of a better way to test then by unplugging systematically and barely touching the tip of my finger in the water to test for a shock... YUP! narrowed it down to the return pump.. but I don't have a backup!

 

When I shut off the return tank.. being that I didn't put a ball valve on the return tubing, the water will drain back out into the sump, exposing some of the higher placed coral. So I unplug everything, plug up the return, run to the store and buy a new pump. Reattach the return hose.. plug it back in.. what happens.. I get shocked AGAIN with the new pump! WTF! So I finally figured out it was the outlet that had to have somehow come ungrounded. The apartment I'm in was built in the 1920s so I'm not sure whats going on with the wiring, but I rerouted all the plug to a few other outlets.

 

Everything in the tank is fine - I think since there's no metal in the tank that my finger completed the circuit of the current which is why I got shocked.. and of course saltwater is excellent conductor. But I thought a 3 pronged plug (the powerstrip cord and the return pump) was supposed to be grounded?

[milk]

Everything. OK! I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cruzin one of her routes

 

 

 

Look at dat vent! ...... dat vent

 

 

 

Blue Side of the Tank

 

 

 

 

Hostess cupcake

 

 

cruisin down under

 

 

wrinkly manatee tail

 

 

look through the forest

 

[dlogfx]

i really like your gold clam. makes me want to get another.

[milk]

i really like your gold clam. makes me want to get another.

 

 

thanks - its a derasa so its going to get huge eventually, I had the perfect spot up front for her... everyone in the tank is interested, especially the snails.

[milk]

Pics of the clown [and chromis] from the evening

 

LOL!!!!

 

 

 

Naked Clowns (although she is a lady of good taste) are truly stunning in the glow of sunlight -

 

 

I really like when clowns get the sleepy/stoned look

 

 

Healing in the light *ambient music*

 

[Paigee]

Awesome pics!

[milk]

Awesome pics!

 

thanks homie firefish!

[milk]

Hey, how bout a video?

 

[Paigee]

Cool video

[JR!]

such an amazing tank. i see totm in the future.

[milk]

such an amazing tank. i see totm in the future.

 

Oh, stop it you!

[milk]

sps on the way - pocillipora, pink birdsnest and 1 or 2 others..

[JR!]

sps on the way - pocillipora, pink birdsnest and 1 or 2 others..

when do we get pics?

[milk]

well - being that tomorrow is supposed to be a rainy day - hopefully tomorrow! I'll try and er.. snap some pics with my ultra sps camera lens .. god where to put them.. no room .. this is where aquascaping truly puts on the heat

 

hopefully they'll do well though - I have a small brown acro frag that was given to me almost all bleached, but has since regained about half the color - although a tiny bit of algae has grown on the crown.. These are very healthy frags however!

 

I'm thinking of putting the pocci on a small rock in the middle by the clam and the 4" birdnest in between the pagoda and duncan on a small rock on the substrate.

[milk]

change of sps plans = unknown acro and digitata gettin picked up tonight

[Reef Casa]

can't wait to see the sps

[milk]

wow - rescaping during a hot day with no AC with HUGE sps pieces and 10 other frags I picked up in a tiny 8 gallon tank thats already stuffed.... had to listen to shakti (look them up!)

 

not teasing - just sayin - pics are going up tomorrow ..... uh... not quite where I want it yet, sps pissed off haha

[JR!]

cant wait to see. gonna have to get more sps too.

[milk]

haha yeah - well I ended up getting *uh hum*..... WAY more than I intended .. like 5+ zoa rocks, 5 sps frags and colonies; hard to pass up a good deal!