FlowerMama Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 What girl would not want a huge bouquet of pink flowers! Yep, I'd be there! 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 Happy One Year Birthday to my tank! I can't believe it has been a year already! I have enjoyed every moment making plans for it, working on it and watching it. I appreciate all the advice from all of you and encouragement. More than you know. This mornings FTS. Left Island Right Island Watchman Goby he has a Randall's Pistol shrimp in that cave with him The love birds. My clowns still are hosting the pink palys. The female was in there this morning while I was taking pictures and the male was in the ones under the over hang. Top down of the valley Top down of some of the right island Top down of some of the right island 7 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I love the way the zoas are cascading down the rock. This tank is becoming so lush. Must be fun watching it grow in. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 I love the way the zoas are cascading down the rock. This tank is becoming so lush. Must be fun watching it grow in. I have enjoyed this tank very much. I have had to frag some things now and then because they have gotten to big. I took some frags down to atlanta last Sunday and got 90 dollars store credit. I used it and some birthday money to get a bubble coral, some blue mushrooms and two candy corals with it. They are in my 10 gallon. Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Happy 1 year birthday! Your tank looks wonderful and very healthy. Great job! 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I've always wanted a bubble coral actually. Seems like it's hard to find them. When I start up the 40 w/ the rock flowers I'd like to have one and put some leathers in there. I've taken a liking to some leathers, add some height. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 Happy 1 year birthday! Your tank looks wonderful and very healthy. Great job! Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 I've always wanted a bubble coral actually. Seems like it's hard to find them. When I start up the 40 w/ the rock flowers I'd like to have one and put some leathers in there. I've taken a liking to some leathers, add some height. I had my first bubble coral about eight or ten years ago in one of my tanks. They were way to expensive for me to buy and in a ten dollar tank at the LFS, was a huge skelaton of one with just two or three little bubble pieces of flesh on it. I bought it and took it home. It grew till it almost took up half my tank. I never did figure out how to safely frag it. I loved it and my clowns hosted it for a while. It never seemed to mind. I hope you can find one. I am still looking for the perfect priced white pipe organ. A few months back I sold my neon toad stool. I miss him. Cant wait to see what you do with your tanks! 1 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Happy 1 year anniversary! 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 Happy 1 year anniversary! Thank you so much!!!! Quote Link to comment
Lizzie1324 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 The tank looks amazing!!! Happy one year!!! Definitely something to be proud of. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 The tank looks amazing!!! Happy one year!!! Definitely something to be proud of. Thank you so much!! Quote Link to comment
gena Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Beautiful . Happy Birthday to your tank . 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Beautiful . Happy Birthday to your tank . Thank you Gena! 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 I recently had to go to Atlanta for a specialist appointment, for one of my children. When that happens, I always try to stop at a few of my favorite fish stores on the way home. I stopped at two stores. I bought this little porcelain crab. He took up residence on the top of my left island under one of my pociloporas. I love it, as he is very visible all the time and he is always fanning the water. I call him king of the mountain. I also bought a good sized frag of duncan for my 10 gallon. The guy threw in one free single head and I put that in my 20L. I missed the colony I lost to brown jelly. I got two new blue porcelains since my other both passed away over the last year. They went to work on some algae and diatoms right away. I have been wanting white pipe organ for a long time. I have been keeping my eye out for some and never have found a colony I could afford. I found this rescue while at one store and had to cut a huge chunk of dead away before putting it in my tank. I hope it recovers and spreads. I bought some new food called V20 NanoV Soft Freeze. You keep it in the freezer and it stays totally soft. Comes with a little scoop. No need for rinsing just scoop and put directly in the tank. No water in it so it stays soft. My fish and corals really seem to like it a lot. I bought several kinds. One was mini mysis and the other fish eggs. My blasto really liked it a lot and has been extra happy and fluffy since I started using it. My grandis palys are spreading! Here they are looking happy after feeding and reopening again. And here are a few good shots off my camera. 2 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Your pocis are so pretty and the color of your urchin is a sweet pink. Everything is looking so healthy, all the time. Sadly my little porcelain did die. Found him last week, Don't know what happened. Your post made me remember. Glad you were able to get a few more things while out n' about. Your tank is so pleasant to look at. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 Your pocis are so pretty and the color of your urchin is a sweet pink. Everything is looking so healthy, all the time. Sadly my little porcelain did die. Found him last week, Don't know what happened. Your post made me remember. Glad you were able to get a few more things while out n' about. Your tank is so pleasant to look at. Thank you. I really like Pocis and have that whole top of the mountain dedicated to them as they dont sting each other. Sorry about your little porcelain. He was the tinyest I have ever seen when you posted your pictures. Maybe that had something to do with it. Sometimes things make it and sometimes they just dont thru no fault of our own. Those cascading green zoas you said you liked are slowly melting away for no reason I can see. All the others in my tank look great. sigh. Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Strange thing zoas, they would get to where they're finally taking off and then it morphs and goes south. I don't have a great history with zoas. What bothers me about them is you will do nothing different, you see they like where they are and you have no way to account for the difference in behavior. 1 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Yay! You got a porcelain crab . He looks fantastic at his top perch!!!!! I wonder which coral he'll attach to??? You may find him in a completely different place than he is now. They tend to choose soft corals, from my experience. Once they find something they never leave it. I love those crabs . Everything looks beautiful!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 Strange thing zoas, they would get to where they're finally taking off and then it morphs and goes south. I don't have a great history with zoas. What bothers me about them is you will do nothing different, you see they like where they are and you have no way to account for the difference in behavior. Yup. Exactly what happened here. I am at a loss and will miss them. Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 Yay! You got a porcelain crab . He looks fantastic at his top perch!!!!! I wonder which coral he'll attach to??? You may find him in a completely different place than he is now. They tend to choose soft corals, from my experience. Once they find something they never leave it. I love those crabs . Everything looks beautiful!!!!! I have often admired yours and saw this one at the LFS. I had to have him. So far I have had him for six days. I remember you saying that where you put them, they will usually stay. So I put him, after acclimation, in my ricordia garden. He left there and went to a fluffy Acan that same first day. The next day he was at the top of the left island enjoying my poci garden. He has been there every since. I cant wait to see where he chooses to settle. I really have enjoyed him already. Thank you so much! 2 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I have often admired yours and saw this one at the LFS. I had to have him. So far I have had him for six days. I remember you saying that where you put them, they will usually stay. So I put him, after acclimation, in my ricordia garden. He left there and went to a fluffy Acan that same first day. The next day he was at the top of the left island enjoying my poci garden. He has been there every since. I cant wait to see where he chooses to settle. I really have enjoyed him already. Thank you so much! Sounds like yours is an explorer. I guess I got a not very adventurous one . I literally dropped him on the fox coral and he never moved. He loves that thing . 1 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Looking really good m2m. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 Looking really good m2m. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
Mom2many Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Spring has sprung here in the North Georgia mountains! It has been just wonderful weather for all kinds of out door projects and work. The trees are flowering and budding and the tulips are up. Now for pollen season. Being outside has not stopped me from snapping some photos of my two nano tanks. Here are a few better ones from the last download of my 20 Long. My tube anemone is huge at night. Probably about 7 inches in diameter. He is on the side/back of my tank, where it is darker and nothing else grows to well, so he can spread out all he wants. He glows a very intense neon green in the center with a light orange tentacles. I can not capture how pretty he is in any pictures I have taken of him. My new white pipe organ/rescue is looking happy. I really like him a lot. My one head of duncan, that was thrown in as a free be from my last LFS purchase, is growing a second head already on the back side. So pretty. I don't like things in my sand bed but this acan is doing so well there..way better than the ones I have glued to my rock work... I have left him in the sand where he seems very happy. My very pink flowerpot, that a friend gave to me as a gift. It has double in size since I got it. Last but not least...I can never get enough of watching my clowns host my pink palys. She thinks I can't see her if her face is buried. Just a note and observation...I have had, growing on my left island, a huge patch of green zoas. I had gotten them as a small frag and they have spread to cover a huge area of my rock work. They have thrived and spread for a whole year. I recently replaced my Hydor nano with a Tunze...The flow was changed in my tank and the Tunze was to powerful for my tank. It had to stay in there till my order for a smaller powerhead came in. Nothing in my tank was really happy with the increase in flow but my zoas started to melt away. They stopped opening...got smaller...lost their faces and turned into just grey flesh and slowly started receding. the bigger powerhead was in my tank about two weeks. About a week ago my new lower flow powerhead came in and so the flow is much better and closer to what I had before. They are slowly recovering and some have even grown and started opening again. I was stumped why they would all of a sudden die. I had changed nothing in maintenance. I thought they were lost and didn't realize flow would or could do that to them. It was not a direct hard flow either. Just more than what they had. Anyways just wanted to share that in case anyone else started losing any and had just adjusted their flow. Happy reefing! 2 Quote Link to comment
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