Weetabix7 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Holy WOW, this bowl is gorgeous!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 4 hours ago, Lula_Mae said: Hope it's turned up! Just wondering how it's possible to lose something in a bowl that small lol Haha, apparently it is fortunately Lawn sent me two fruit loop frags 2 hours ago, gena said: Wow, natalia!!! Your reefbowl is looking phenomenal. So many vibrant colors. I've always wanted one of the red goniopora. Maybe one day . Thank you Gena I'm all about the color, i want this bowl to look like a candy jar. a red goni would look fantastic in your tank. I was nervous about adding them to the reefbowl, but they're doing really well. 2 hours ago, Weetabix7 said: Holy WOW, this bowl is gorgeous!!! Thank you Weetie It's easy to look after too! So I went to a frag swap today 4 Quote Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Ooooh, Ooooh, whadja get????? 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 I was good today, only picked up a couple of new zoas. I'll get some pix up shortly. 4 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 Ok, here's one. I've been talking about how I missed having petroglyphs. These look pretty much identical to me, and at $60 for this huge frag (comparatively speaking), they were a steal (comparatively speaking.) Also picked up this frag of "supergirls." They're a little grumpy because I treated them with peroxide for some nuisance algae. 10 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Nice additions! 1 Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 ^What teeny said. Nice finds! And cheaper than ordering a couple polyps online lol. 1 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 I might look for a small red goniopora at my LFS. Not sure I actually have room for one though. I love your new pickups! I have petroglyphs from LC. They lost their color somewhere along the way. I think when I did the switch-over. But the color is coming back now. THey really are stunning. Glad you got some more...that's a nice size frag! 2 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 Haha, there's always room for one more Just a little goniopora! I can't say enough what a delight it is to have some petroglyphs (or something very like them) again. They're so big and exuberant. I can't wait to feed them. 4 Quote Link to comment
holy carp Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Feeding Petroglyphs -> the YouTube 2 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 I couldn't find a Youtube vid of anyone feeding petroglyph zoas, but here are some pics I took a couple years ago of my old petroglyphs eating Fauna Marin zoa food in the Nuvo 8. 1 Quote Link to comment
Rain24 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Hi there! I just returned to Nano Reef today to have a look around and get some inspiration. I've been wondering whether a little reef will be in my near future again or not. After seeing your reef bowl setup, I totally want to get into it again! Can I be one of your bowl padiwans? I spent the whole day reading your thread! 2 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 2 hours ago, Rain24 said: Hi there! I just returned to Nano Reef today to have a look around and get some inspiration. I've been wondering whether a little reef will be in my near future again or not. After seeing your reef bowl setup, I totally want to get into it again! Can I be one of your bowl padiwans? I spent the whole day reading your thread! Hey I'm honored to be an inspiration to you. I can definitely say this bowl has rekindled my love of reefing. I can't wait to see what you come up with! 2 Quote Link to comment
SeaFurn Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 2 hours ago, Rain24 said: After seeing your reef bowl setup, I totally want to get into it again! Can I be one of your bowl padiwans? I spent the whole day reading your thread! Join the club quick before she starts charging us franchise fees! https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/379565-seafurns-reef-bowl-build/ 2 Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Pictures are showing up now (they weren't the other night lol) and the petroglyphs look so cool when eating! I've yet to see zoas eat...hopefully in my near future. 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Yeah, the new site has been wonky about showing photos. Glad they're visible now. Petroglyphs (and zoas of similar size/morph) show a great feeding response. True palythoas (like Purple Deaths, Nuke Greens, Captain Americas) also have a very obvious feeding response. Ditto for Miami Vice zoas and other large Caribbean morphs. But for most zoas it isn't readily apparent whether they actually eat, IME. Even with some of the bigger ones like utter chaos and people eaters, I could never be sure whether they were eating. But they did grow and reproduce, so there's that. 1 Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 That's good to know. I really like the look of Captain Americas and the grandis palys (both cinnamon and green varieties) but wonder if they might be a little disproportionately large for my little tank lol. I never fed previous tanks (well, I tried on my last 5.5 but between infrequent water changes and the Hydor Theo trying to cook everything, it didn't work out too well lol. Stopped so I didn't totally wreck the tank) so it will be interesting to watch and hopefully see things grow better! 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 So this is the other zoa frag I picked up at the swap. They remind me of pink and golds, but they also have some green in the centers. I'm not totally sure if I want to keep them in the bowl because they look a little brown compared to my other corals, but at the swap they were so beautiful I had to pick them up. I really like Mr Freeze. The price on them has gone down at Cherry Corals--last i checked, they had one available for $40. FBS from today. Still a few stubborn strands of hair algae and I spotted a baby aiptasia on the witches' wheel acan, so I'll have to glue it today. Otherwise all is well. 11 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 That fbs shot! I love clicking the link to Flickr and panning and zooming up close. There's so much to see 1 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 This reef bowl is amazing! I'm loving all the zoanthids, to this day those are still my favorite coral! 2 Quote Link to comment
Rain24 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I keep coming back in here. Every time I see pics of your bowl I think that maybe I can do it too. I have to ask though - is there something special about the shape of the bowl/jar? Or is it just that it's a small system that's easy to maintain? 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 Thanks you guys I know Teeny, I really love pasting the pics directly from Flickr, what an improvement! CM, I totally agree! Zoas are my favorites too. Lately the gonioporas are giving them some competition though--they are SO colorful and are less temperamental than zoas, at least in this reefbowl. But zoas have many more color varieties! Rain24, I don't think there's anything special about the shape, although the roundness may be good for flow. The bubbler seems to give it a really nice random flow that the corals respond well to. 1 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Those gonipora really are quite spectacular too, you don't see those every day. Quote Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Natalia, I have a question about your PAR 38 lighting. I'm wondering about the reason for you covering some of the whites. Did you do that because of responses you noticed in the corals, or because of your own aesthetic preferences for how the corals look under the light? These spotlight LED bulbs are so suited to Pico tanks, but I tried LEDs over Picos several years ago and found that they seemed too strong for the Softies & LPS I prefer. However, it's been a few years and I know there have very likely been improvements, so I'm trying to educate myself about what is available now. Thx in advance!! 1 Quote Link to comment
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