tetraodon Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 wow, i was just guessing, cool, Link to comment
jjaro Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 and another question, can i have too many corals in this 2 gallon tank? Link to comment
otest82 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 and another question, can i have too many corals in this 2 gallon tank? Yes. In a tank that small I would have one or two varieties and let them grow out. That Sphinx would have looked cool with coralline algae and other sea life encrusting it. Link to comment
jjaro Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 Yes. In a tank that small I would have one or two varieties and let them grow out. That Sphinx would have looked cool with coralline algae and other sea life encrusting it. oh yeahh, thanks! it will be in my next tank, i have a 20 tall, and hoping to make a very unique tank around the sphinx lol. and i have a bunch of zoas, and just put those star polyps in there, and 2 mushroom polyps... i hope that isnt too much Link to comment
tetraodon Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 i have lots of coral in my evolve 4, its cramped in the tank, i also plan on fraggin the coral, i agree that sphynx will look cool Link to comment
jjaro Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 hey guys, its been a while, here is a updated FTS , i work entirely too much right now, so i havent had much time to set up my new 20 gallon. so i continue with my fluval shoebox. added a few more zoas, red and brown shroom, a finger leather and some gps!!! now i will buy a monti this weeknd or nexxt to see how that works out!! Link to comment
tetraodon Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 looking real good, i just plumbed a spec to my evolve, using it as a refugium Link to comment
jjaro Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 looking real good, i just plumbed a spec to my evolve, using it as a refugium niceeee! do you have a thread for it? with pics? cuz my brother and i were thinking of plumbing a 3 gallon type spec aquarium to our 8 gallon biocube Link to comment
tetraodon Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I don't have a thread for it, I can post some pics later on Link to comment
jjaro Posted October 20, 2013 Author Share Posted October 20, 2013 I don't have a thread for it, I can post some pics later on yea if you dont mind, im interested on how youve done it Link to comment
tetraodon Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 the "u" tube at the bottem of the pic pulls water by siphen from the display tank to the spec. and the "u" tube at the top of the pic pumps water from the spec to the display tank. in this pic you can see the pump i use is just a small fountain pump. the only issues ive run into so far has been getting the display tank at the right level, which i found depends on the level in the spec, and the tube from the display to the spec, the tube at the lower edge of the first pic, needs to be at least the same size if not a little bigger than the tube with the pump Link to comment
jjaro Posted October 22, 2013 Author Share Posted October 22, 2013 ahhh i see, yeah i was thinkin about it being below, idk if that will be a nightmare or not with the water level! thats pretty neet though!! Link to comment
tetraodon Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 not really there are ways to do, i think you need an over flow box and it should help, check this site out, it goes through alot of it, http://www.melevsreef.com/ Link to comment
jjaro Posted October 23, 2013 Author Share Posted October 23, 2013 thats a pretty damn good site, thanks for sharing that, ill definately bookmark it!! Link to comment
tetraodon Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 i know right, its helped me alot, Link to comment
jjaro Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 update: the tank has been doing great slow growth though for everything, but everything is very healthy looking and colorful. i guess zoas grow kinda slow. idk about the finger leather its still the same size, but opened up and seems to be very happy! it is the new post spot for my yellow clown goby anyway i do a cup a day water change, and dose kent marine essential elements every 3-5 days, just 5 drops, im not sure if the softies use up much of the elements anyway, but im sure they are happy with it lol. so lately ive been on the hunt for sps or lps in my local area, and found a cool guy thats usually at my lfs when im in there, he sold me a chalice coral today, originally i thought it was an encrusting montipora, but this works out better since the chalice might be a little more hardier for me in the nano than the sps lol... i will have a fts tomorrow! i also found a micro algea glass cleaner, very happy about that , using a broken clothes hanger and a piece of filter floss was getting old!! Link to comment
jjaro Posted November 3, 2013 Author Share Posted November 3, 2013 FTS: i will take another when everything is open too lol.... the new chalice coral is doing quite well, this is the first hard coral i have ever owned, im proud its doing good. everything else is doing fantastic as well!! EXCEPT the green star polyps, they have some sort of hard algea growing on them, im not sure how to fix it, the hermits and snails dont touch it, and i did my best to pick it all off with tweezers but it just stays there. its not on anything else which is the weird part! Link to comment
tetraodon Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 you might have some phosphates in the water if there is hair algae growing Link to comment
jjaro Posted November 3, 2013 Author Share Posted November 3, 2013 not hair, its hard crystally brown stuff... its the wierdest thing ive ever seen. and like i said since the day i bought the frag it has not spread from it.. it was keeping the polyps from opening, so i used tweezers to get some of it off, it helped, but its still all over the thing Link to comment
tetraodon Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 hhhmm try some algae id guide online might help, tanks looking good by the way Link to comment
jjaro Posted November 3, 2013 Author Share Posted November 3, 2013 thank you!! and yes i will have to find some algea catalog site. it only bothers that one frag. Link to comment
tetraodon Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 your welcome, and yea i understand i had green hair algae on my star polyp for a long time, it sucks, but i finally got rid of it, good luck with the chalice, i never kept one, not much more room in my tank to put anything Link to comment
jjaro Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 just bought a 3 polyp candy/trumpet coral! pink dominate color, looks pretty nice, its on the bottom of the tank new FTS mostly everything open Link to comment
jjaro Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 what is everyones thoughts on keeping a montipora capricorna? i heard they are the easiest of the sps, and i know they are hard to keep reguardless, the plating corals seem to be the ones with the least amount of upkeep compared to the acropora and birdsnest sps, i thought id get my feet wet with the chalice and i think it is doing quite well! i add drops of trace elements to help with calcium, its at 450-500ppm at all times, i only have a few hard corals, but i wanted to see how good i was at keeping the chemistry at a balance as to not stress out the corals.; Link to comment
tetraodon Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Personally I'd wait a bit longer, and see how you do in a bit longer term. but everyone has to start somewhere and you got good practices so it's up to you, just don't get into the gotta get more and more mind set, either way is good Link to comment
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