eitallent Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 Oh, Thanks for the clarification Ben. Gena thank you for your discretion. I appreciate you lookin' out for me. Yes, the growth has been great. I am really happy about this. I took out all the carbon and sponges three weeks before I left. I wanted to see if it would be okay to do b/c I did not want my tank sitter (father-in-law) to have to mess with that if he didn't have to. It worked out well with just the water changes. Nothing died and everything grew very well. I just put back the floss and sponge filters to filter out the algae I scraped off the dividing glass. BTW There was no algae growth in the back chambers what so ever! I will try running it media-less for a while longer to see if I can get away with this! Woo hoo! New page picture re-post You may click to enlarge. Right hand side of the arch. The sympodium has exploded across the top of the rock. I thought the dot daisies were goners a few months ago. Mark pointed out the may just be spreading out. He was right . I had baby daisies spread out all over the place. Here they are on their original rock getting bushy again. The Duncans are doing really well. I divided the original colony. These started out as four heads. I have lost count now.You can also see the tentacles are out on the Trumpet coral.Love it! The Toadstool Mushies from Morgan are spectacular! The LR rubble on the back wall worked out better than I expected. Here are the Frogspawn that I divided. Each head is now splitting. I hope the GSP will not be too much trouble to trim back when the time comes. Right side of the back wall. The feather duster is so spectacular. The Coco worm is behind it and not visible on the picture. The baby Hammer I took off the Momma Hammer's skeleton looks really great. So wonderful that it survived! Two birds nests made it! Some close-ups! I love the blue and green on the Sympodium. I really am in love with those pink speckles on the Paly. One of the Duncan colonies is lighter than the other. IDK why. They are both on the sand but here is the darker twin. Feathery! Forest of neon dots Gorilla Nipples (?) Fluffy, puffy mushroom with speckles too! Rock anemone on the front of the tank. More to come. Here are some pictures of the fuge side of the tank. I call these the ET Fingers macro. Here is the base of the ET Fingers with coralline algae on it! I place the Kenya branches that have dropped from the tank into the fuge. They are surviving well! Tiny nem ... Whitish tunicate on the nem rock Cool shot of a tiny Keyhole limpet with water bubbles streaming past it. Best close up of it yet ... Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Miss E! Welcome back, you were missed. Link to comment
eitallent Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 TY Kat! Love your new avatar. Very pretty and eye catching. I just realized that I forgot poor Skippers date of arrival to MyAtlantis! I am such a bad Clown Goby Mommy! LOL I brought Skipper home on September 21 of 2012. A naked baby picture ... Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Glad to hear all is going really well. Welcome back. Your pictures are stunning as usual! My new thread awaits you. Link to comment
RollaJase Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Good to see the tank fared well in your time away. Link to comment
Felicia Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 I am glad to see the tank is looking so beautiful even after you were gone so long! Great photos! I always love all your macro shots of interesting things in the tank. Oh, and Skipper is one of my absolute favorite fish on nano-reef! Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Hello, everybody. Holy cow! It has been too long since my last post. Here is an update! I am loving the growth in the tank! The fish are happy and make me laugh with their antics. I have to take extra care with Skipper because he is a slow eater! He is worth it though. I found a huge flatworm in the fuge. I did not get a pic of it but it looks like this one: Pseudoceris pardalis I left it in the fuge because it is so cool looking. I do not think it will slither over to the DT. I read it eats detritus, briozoans, and soft corals. the only thing in the fuge coral wise is some Kenya tree volunteers and a few extra zoas from pruning back the DT. Should I take the FW out? Here are some pics from yesterday. Click to enlarge. A few more... Could not get focus from above. The monti has colored up from brown to green. It must like the Maxspect Razor. Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Sorry, over exposed! Beautiful new orange clove polyps and yellow clove polyps from Polarcollision! Thank you PC. Love this Coco worm. The color is off in this pic. The main body is blue and the bubbles are speckled white. Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Can you believe the growth on these Birds Nests? I love it. Momma Hammer and the baby to the left. From two heads the frogspawn is now four. The back wall is filling in. I love these colors. The nuclear palys above and the rock anemone are from Morgan aka ReefGardner. Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Hey Felicia look at the color on your Monti! It went from purple background to a turquoise (shows up more blue on the pic) with little red polyps. Love it. The Candycanes have completely divided now. They were two now they are four. Skippers sit-upon is doing well. Chili pepper shroom is so cool. (from PEA) A little white softie. The polyps are a light jade color. Green polyp softy from Morgan. That is all for now friends! Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I wish I wasn't firewalled at work But all works on my phone! Beautiful pictures, glad your tank is doing so well, and glad to have you back! Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 I wish I wasn't firewalled at work But all works on my phone! Beautiful pictures, glad your tank is doing so well, and glad to have you back! Thanks, Jedi. I am glad to be back. The people on this forum are so great. I feel soooo guilty for dropping out for so long. Link to comment
gena Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Oh my....yay...you are back!!!!! I was just thinking about you the other day . The tank has had AMAZING growth!!!! I don't like when people are MIA...but it's so fun to see the growth they've had while away. That birdsnest is soo pretty!!!!! Everything looks so happy . Link to comment
markalot Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Great to see an update! Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Oh my....yay...you are back!!!!! I was just thinking about you the other day . The tank has had AMAZING growth!!!! I don't like when people are MIA...but it's so fun to see the growth they've had while away. That birdsnest is soo pretty!!!!! Everything looks so happy . Thank you, Gena. I am glad you see the growth too. I am amazed at the growth spurt. Sorry for being MIA. I just get so busy. I do not like it when life gets in the way of my posting! Great to see an update! Thanks! I am trying to catch up on my required reading. Your thread is one of those on the required reading list, Mark. Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Love the update! Thanks, Fred. I am so glad you stopped by. Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Hey there! Thanks for all these awesome pics. I look at everyone's tanks and imagine pieces of theirs in mine. Window shopping. I'll buy this coral from that tank, and oh, that one from his, this from hers. I too love your coco worm. Made me realize how much I need a coco worm or nice feather duster in my 34. Link to comment
Gusbus696 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Wow eitallent! The aquarium looks amazing. Awesome growth. Link to comment
eitallent Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Hey there! Thanks for all these awesome pics. I look at everyone's tanks and imagine pieces of theirs in mine. Window shopping. I'll buy this coral from that tank, and oh, that one from his, this from hers. I too love your coco worm. Made me realize how much I need a coco worm or nice feather duster in my 34. I got this Coco worm from reefs2go when they were on sale. It is very pretty. Thank you for the kind words. Wow eitallent! The aquarium looks amazing. Awesome growth. Thank you, Gusbus (love the name)! It is full and I will let the stuff I have in there now grow in. I would really love a clam but it looks like a bit of a squeeze. I have had one little piece of leather coral on a small bit of rock plug for over a year. Three weeks ago and all of a sudden hair algae started to grow on that plug. I unglued it from the main rock and dipped it in peroxide. Where the plug was attached more HA started to grow. Plus HA is growing again on the same rock plug. Today I will be taking out the main rock that forms the arch. I will dip it in peroxide and rinse it with water from the WC and put it back in there. We will see if it grows back. That is some hardy stuff. Any other suggestions on how to kill that HA? I would have thought the peroxide would do the trick. Nope! Link to comment
Gusbus696 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Thank you, Gusbus (love the name)! It is full and I will let the stuff I have in there now grow in. I would really love a clam but it looks like a bit of a squeeze. I have had one little piece of leather coral on a small bit of rock plug for over a year. Three weeks ago and all of a sudden hair algae started to grow on that plug. I unglued it from the main rock and dipped it in peroxide. Where the plug was attached more HA started to grow. Plus HA is growing again on the same rock plug. Today I will be taking out the main rock that forms the arch. I will dip it in peroxide and rinse it with water from the WC and put it back in there. We will see if it grows back. That is some hardy stuff. Any other suggestions on how to kill that HA? I would have thought the peroxide would do the trick. Nope! I've read about peroxide working wonders. What percentage are you using? I have a huge HA problem in my 190 and I've been dosing 20ml of 3% peroxide directly into the tank daily, but there isn't much of anything in there besides the HA. All of the SPS frags Mark gave me are gone. I noticed a little bit of it go away, but not enough. I've also read that turbo snails work, but idk how they would do in a smaller aquarium because they get really big. I recently stumbled upon some mini turbo snails on ebay. They might do the trick. I have a small amount of HA growth in my NC12 and might order some if things get out of hand. Also, I've read about lettuce slugs eating HA, but its sort of a hit or miss thing. I wouldn't want to watch a cute little slug perish in my tank because he couldn't find the food he liked. Link to comment
Gusbus696 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Thank you, Gusbus (love the name)! It is full and I will let the stuff I have in there now grow in. I would really love a clam but it looks like a bit of a squeeze. Thank You. Lol. I always wanted a cool little blue maxima in my NC12. It would've added much more cowbell to what Mark had given me. Lol I like them a lot and still want one. Link to comment
zhuangcg Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Wow, your aquarium is looking great! I love how it's filling out. Link to comment
metrokat Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Full aquariums look wonderful and yours is no exception. Link to comment
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