albertthiel Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Wow Paul .. still snowing !!!! I was in NY a few times when their were heavy snow storms so I know what it feels and looks like Albert Quote Link to comment
atoll Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I am going to Halifax UK of course tomorrow to pick up 2 more Hydra 26s then onto visit my daughter and family in Harrowgate home late evening. Hoping for a fun trip. I have already make 2 more wall mounting brackets for the lights and will be fitting them on Monday all being well. 1 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I am going to Halifax UK of course tomorrow to pick up 2 more Hydra 26s then onto visit my daughter and family in Harrowgate home late evening. Hoping for a fun trip. I have already make 2 more wall mounting brackets for the lights and will be fitting them on Monday all being well. Have a safe trip and enjoy Albert Quote Link to comment
Paul.b Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 The snow is stopping now but it is on top of a lot of snow that didn't melt from last week. But it is warming up and melting. I am a Man and not a Girly Man so it doesn't bother me. 2 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 The snow is stopping now but it is on top of a lot of snow that didn't melt from last week. But it is warming up and melting. I am a Man and not a Girly Man so it doesn't bother me. :) I know Quote Link to comment
Paul.b Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I was just looking at my tank and Wow, I have way to many fish. A couple jumped out in the last few months but the rest of them just keep growing. They are all exuding health which is what they are supposed to do but the amount of food they need is really messing up my water. I don't know what the nitrates read because it is off the chart. I really don't care as I like healthy, spawning fish. I am going to try to count them.............I came up with 20 but I am sure I missed some.I also put a weird pipefish in there last week that I haven't seen but he is the type that crawls around the bottom so he is probably in the back someplace. Yesterday I got a bunch of chowder clams so with those and quite a lot of live blackworms I am good with food for a couple of weeks. The bluestripe pipefish are spawning as is the bangai's, mandarins and fireclowns. The yellow wrasses look like they are trying to spawn and maybe they are when I am not looking.I am very happy with my water cooled LED light and my water cooled lighted algae scrubber. Not that water cooled fixtures are any better, just cooler, in more ways than one. I never liked having the same lighting as everyone else.I have been gradually through attrition changing the tank over from corals to more sponges and gorgonians. I just like them better and think you can get more interesting stuff than the run of the mill corals. I still have a lot of corals and won't be throwing any out but I want to see how many sponges and gorgs I can fit in there.I got this beautiful blueberry gorg a few weeks ago and although I doubt it will live long, it is still extending. These red things are sponges and there is a large blue sponge over that along with a bunch of gorgonians. 2 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Looking great Paul !!!! Albert Quote Link to comment
atoll Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Very nice Paul. BTW how are you getting on with your algae scrubber as that should eventually bring your nitrates down? 1 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Yes and been in the USA since Jan 1980 Albert Glad you decided to stay. I don't know what I'd have done without those hundreds of gallons of Dupla bioballs I bought from you back in the 80's. lol. 1 Quote Link to comment
atoll Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 One of my algae turf scrubbers (my Santa Monica HIG2) harvested just now. 2 Quote Link to comment
Paul.b Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I had to clean the thing twice so far and seems to grow algae pretty well. It doesn't grow nice clean green algae like yours Atoll. Mine grows algae and slime. Disgusting stuff that I am glad I am removing. But my tank is old so why knows what is in there? 3 Quote Link to comment
atoll Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I had to clean the thing twice so far and seems to grow algae pretty well. It doesn't grow nice clean green algae like yours Atoll. Mine grows algae and slime. Disgusting stuff that I am glad I am removing. But my tank is old so why knows what is in there? Yes that's what you get at first Paul so it is working, it might continue growing such algae for some time esp as you tank it so old as it will be pulling all manner of stuff out your water and rock etc. Eventually you will get green hair algae growing it's more a matter of when not if. As long as you have something growing on the screen it is doing a job for you. I got some right YUCK! stuff growing at first and some looked like somebody with a bad cold has sneezed in it. Took me about 6 months to get that green hair algae as you see it now. 2 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Glad you decided to stay. I don't know what I'd have done without those hundreds of gallons of Dupla bioballs I bought from you back in the 80's. lol. Lol indeed Glad you made good use often though Albert 1 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Fluoresccent Friday ............. https://reefbuilders.com/2016/02/05/fluorescent-friday-coral-morphologic-edition/ Albert Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 On stocking a Reef Aquarium http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/9/aafeature?utm_source=nivoslider&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=clickthru Albert Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 On stocking a Reef Aquarium http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/9/aafeature?utm_source=nivoslider&utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=clickthru Albert To all that read that article, it's a Yellow nose goby, not a Yellow rose goby. It's been misspelled on 2 lists I get and it annoys me. 2 call it that, the other 2 call it a banded antenna goby, go figure.They are great little fish if you have a smaller tank, mine paired up with a tiger pistol shrimp and has been doing well for the last 4 years in the 130D. 1 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 To all that read that article, it's a Yellow nose goby, not a Yellow rose goby. It's been misspelled on 2 lists I get and it annoys me. 2 call it that, the other 2 call it a banded antenna goby, go figure.They are great little fish if you have a smaller tank, mine paired up with a tiger pistol shrimp and has been doing well for the last 4 years in the 130D. Yes odd indeed ... Albert Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 If my wife's cleaner wrasse eats one more thing I think it'll explode. 1 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 If my wife's cleaner wrasse eats one more thing I think it'll explode. Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Aquarium Technologies Borrowed from Other Industries http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/aquarium-technologies-borrowed-from-other-industries-6297/ Albert 2 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 The Iwagumi Reef - must see http://blog.coralwonders.com/en/the-iwagumi-reef/ Albert 1 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 My Mistakes as a Reef Keeper by Mile Paletta https://reefbuilders.com/2016/02/06/my-simply-stupid-mistakes-as-a-reefkeeper/ Albert 1 Quote Link to comment
atoll Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Short vid of some of my fish feeding from my algae feeder. http://s541.photobucket.com/user/lesmelling/media/20160207_132201_zpscor2qmev.mp4.html?o=0 2 Quote Link to comment
Paul.b Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Another feeding frenzy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisMeEfLTzI&feature=youtu.be 2 Quote Link to comment
albertthiel Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Another feeding frenzy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisMeEfLTzI&feature=youtu.be A frenzy indeed !!!! Albert Quote Link to comment
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