My Atlantis - Wild & Woolly May 2015 Pictures!

[eitallent]

They make reflector inserts for the stunners, but I'm not sure if they help or not. LED's are odd. I'm using the 1 watt BuildMyLED 24 inch lights with 1 watt LEDs and individual 90 degree reflectors over my 46 gallon tank and it's still too much light for some corals. I've got both strips running at 25% now to see if I can get any signs of too little light.

 

reflectors:

http://www.marinedepot.com/Ecoxotic_Stunner_LED_Polished_Reflector_-Ecoxotic-XX05020-FILTACRALD-vi.html

 

I am sure they help. I kept the reflector for the original hood. I am not sure if it is as efficient and the ecoxotic ones.

 

Do you still have the original fans? That's what we used. My husband did all the re-wiring for me, and they worked great for the setup.

 

Yes, I have the fans and wiring still. I hate to have to re-do the wiring too. Blegh! Oh well the effort will be worth it I think.

 

Thanks you guys for helping me out.

[eitallent]

Here is a short video of my three superstars enjoying a huge meal of live brine shrimp. Skipper is just so colorful he lights up the screen.

 

Enjoy the weekend everyone! Thanks for visiting...

 

[AdamWest]

Love the video. Your tank looks awesome as always. Interesting song choice btw.

[eitallent]

New livestock!

 

 

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[Spirofucci]

Just saw yer vid....Skipper...what a character!

 

New cow frag??? Very cute!

[eitallent]

Just saw yer vid....Skipper...what a character!

 

New cow frag??? Very cute!

 

Thank you. Skipper is really a ham. They are all enjoying their live food in that video. It is hard to keep them in the frame.

 

The new "bull fish" is named Bonk. He walked straight into a post and bonked his head.

[albertthiel]

Here is a short video of my three superstars enjoying a huge meal of live brine shrimp. Skipper is just so colorful he lights up the screen.

 

Enjoy the weekend everyone! Thanks for visiting...

 

 

Very Nice .... Love Skipper but all the rest too ...

[eitallent]

Very Nice .... Love Skipper but all the rest too ...

 

Thank you, Albert.

[eitallent]

So more pictures today, of the tank this time.

 

Duncanopsammia sp. My little Duncan started with two heads (one mature and one immature) on a branched skeleton. Now each head has its own buds with fully formed heads. I feed them the frozen clams, oysters, Cyclopeeze and live baby brine shrimp. Although I do frequent small water changes I also add trace elements sparingly to ensure they get everything they need. They are mood little things, easily angered into closing for days!

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[eitallent]

Polyp corals are so easy! The added bonus is that they are very colorful and vary in sizes. I still have trouble understanding the differences between Palythoa and Zoanthids (other than sometimes size), but I love them just the same. These little flowers are carnivorous and I see them eating when I add baby brine shrimp to feed the tank.

 

They can deliver a nasty surprise of palytoxin for those who are careless while handling them. We have all read of people who were unaware of the dangers boiling rocks in their kitchen and inhaling the fumes, scraping them with bare hands and cuts allowing toxin into the blood stream, and getting paly juice in their eyes leading to permanent damage.

 

However, they are worth keeping to me and are no risk at all if proper handling procedures are followed. So they are must in my little reef!

 

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[eitallent]

So I was worried about my frogspawn and getting angry with the "usual suspects" the Emerald crabs. It turns out the crab crew are innocent of all charges! I have been seeing a stray piece of frogspawn once in a while floating around the tank.

 

Well as it turns out that is a good thing!

Quoted from http://animal-world.com/Aquarium-Coral-Reefs/Frogspawn-Coral

Euphyllia genus reproduce asexually as well. In captivity, the E. divisa will bud off small groups of polyps with little skeletons attached. They will also pinch off their own tentacles, which then floats off, and being sticky, will reattach and start a new colony.

[eitallent]

My thoughts are with those in Boston. Why do people do things like this some one asked me and a movie quote came to mind.

 

Alfred says to Bruce Wayne:

"Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

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I saw Marty Feldman picking at something on top of the monti cap. I looked closely and found that he was trying to evaluate the tastiness of a clump of closed up, free-floating polyps. I had no idea which polyp it was and pulled them out and placed them in a glass beaker. When they opened up it turned out to be a little clump of yellow polyps. Do yellow polyps do this when they are crowded Like Zoas?

 

Here is Sunny Hill.

 

Here is the ever-vigilant Marty.

 

Here are the tiny orphans.

 

[Spirofucci]

Mmmmm? i don't know if they do.......but that is the easy way to make a frag!

[eitallent]

Mmmmm? i don't know if they do.......but that is the easy way to make a frag!

 

I wish a few of everything would do that! I could start a nice frag tank like Felicia's tank.

[eitallent]

Gena asked about the fuge on my other thread. I posted a reply there and thought it would also be appropriate here for MyAtlantis since it is part of this reef. The fuge is pretty cool and I like it cause I made it from plastic containers.Really nothing too exciting happens in there.

->I have a few pieces of LR .

->it is lit with Marineland submersible LEDs and air stone combo.

->When I rearranged the nano DT I moved the rock with the anemones that have no ID into the fuge. I call them the Little Green Nems from Mars. I sent a couple of those to IslandofTiki for his nifty pest tank.

->Of course I have the macros in there; chaeto, titan, red grape and dragon's breath.

->I put in there my lone Green Chromis survivor ( I call him oneofseven in the Star Trek: Next Generation tradition).

->I also have Zig the Blue Neon Goby that jumped overboard into the back chamber because of aggression from his buddy Zag.

->Now I have the rescued pair of Clowns. They are very cute together and sleep on the sand by an orange rock that used to be the plug of the long gone Goniopora.

 

There is a video I am uploading and when it is ready I will post it here.

[eitallent]

Here is the video of the fuge. I forgot to turn off the air stone until two thirds of the way through the video.

You can really see down to the bottom, that is how clear the water is. When I first got the clowns they spent all day swimming down to the bottom of the fuge and then riding the bubble curtain all the way to the top. And just like kids at a water park they would rush down to the bottom to ride up again and again!

Oh, I forgot to say that I put Cheese Puff in the fuge after the DT re-arrangement. There was no room for is big round self. He is really liking it in there. He has become very 'holey'.

 

[gena]

Awesome! Thanks for posting the video!!!!!

[eitallent]

Awesome! Thanks for posting the video!!!!!

You are welcome.

 

 

Tank update:

 

Temp 82.5 F :: pH 7.9 :: SG 1.024 :: Ca 450 :: dKH 8.1 :: Mg 1300

 

Spring is more like summer already. The water temperature is rising along with the outside temperature. The tank has been running over 80 F for the last week and it has been hard on the Knopia, Jasmine coral aka Green Dot Daisy which the literature says 72 - 78 is their preferred range. The less intense light may also have a negative affect although they are supposed to be in moderate light not bright. It has shrunken to half what it used to be. Poor thing, it is not happy.

 

The panorama pro just arrived and I will be working on that tonight.

[eitallent]

The Panorama Pro is in! I replaced the 8K white Stunner with this 12k white/blue Pro. So now I have the following lights:

 

>1 white 12K (8 leds)/magenta (16) - 6w

>1 403nm ultraviolet (24) - 6w

>1 445nm Royal Blue (24) - 6w

+ now 1 white 12K (8)/ 445nm R. Blue (4) - 16w

 

Hubby wired the fans for me and the temp on the tank so far is back down to 77. Now I just have to acclimate the tank back up to a brighter light environment.

 

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Duncans: They must be eating b/c I saw them expelling wastes this morning

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Stressed Knopia sp.

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Leggy Zoas

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[albertthiel]

So more pictures today, of the tank this time.

 

Duncanopsammia sp. My little Duncan started with two heads (one mature and one immature) on a branched skeleton. Now each head has its own buds with fully formed heads. I feed them the frozen clams, oysters, Cyclopeeze and live baby brine shrimp. Although I do frequent small water changes I also add trace elements sparingly to ensure they get everything they need. They are mood little things, easily angered into closing for days!

 

 

 

 

 

Yes it sure looks like it ... nice ... !

[eitallent]

Yes it sure looks like it ... nice ... !

 

Thank you Albert! Duncans are a great coral. I enjoy them very much.

 

I would like to share with all of you my new phytoplankton culturing station.

I set this up on Monday past.

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The culture is becoming darker green or more opaque. You cannot see through the liquid at all. It will be ready to split on Sunday.

 

Here is a close look at the stopper with the rigid tubing. I have one short segment of tubing to allow air exchange.

 

A green bubbly brew...

[jedimasterben]

Keep in mind that those Ecoxotic LEDs need significant cooling if you're keeping them in the hood of the tank, more than the stock fans provide, otherwise the LEDs will start popping.

[gena]

Tank looks great!!!! Including the disco fuge

 

A green bubbly brew...

I'm tempted to brew my own JUST cuz I love the color so much!!!!!!

[eitallent]

Keep in mind that those Ecoxotic LEDs need significant cooling if you're keeping them in the hood of the tank, more than the stock fans provide, otherwise the LEDs will start popping.

 

Thanks JMBen! I am keeping a close eye on them. I do not want fireworks in the nano!

Tank looks great!!!! Including the disco fuge

 

I'm tempted to brew my own JUST cuz I love the color so much!!!!!!

 

LOL I like Le Disco! Better disco than fireworks in the nano.

 

Ooh, brew your own! Then we can compare notes.

I will be putting some phyto in the tanks today.