HammerLover Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Congrats on the one year Nathalie! Glad also that your bowl got through all of that 1 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Congrats on the reefbowl's one year birthday! I'm glad it made it through the power outage unscathed this is such a beautiful and inspiring tank, it gives me the itch to give a pico a try. Now how do I convince my mom to let me convert a vase into a reef? I have the perfect vase (temporarily housing a betta)... 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 March 9, 2017 , 5:45 pm Departed Post Office Can't wait to get some reef bowl corals in my tank! 3 Quote Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 23 hours ago, teenyreef said: March 9, 2017 , 5:45 pm Departed Post Office Can't wait to get some reef bowl corals in my tank! 2 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 23 hours ago, fishfreak0114 said: Congrats on the reefbowl's one year birthday! I'm glad it made it through the power outage unscathed this is such a beautiful and inspiring tank, it gives me the itch to give a pico a try. Now how do I convince my mom to let me convert a vase into a reef? I have the perfect vase (temporarily housing a betta)... Thanks I still can't believe the new air pump and heat packs arrived the day of the outage. We got lucky, our power was only out about 7 hours. Cherry Corals is still running on generators. tell your mom it's cheap and easy and beautiful. And vases are better for corals than bettas anyway 23 hours ago, teenyreef said: March 9, 2017 , 5:45 pm Departed Post Office Can't wait to get some reef bowl corals in my tank! I'm on pins and needles, I hope they get there early and intact! Now that I've shipped out Teeny's frags, I've taken one of the frag racks out so the snails could clean the filthy glass behind it. They are very efficient, it's already clean! I noticed the LFS has some tiny pom pom crabs. Wondering if one of them would do well in the reefbowl, and not harass the corals. Would a feeding once or twice a week be enough, with scavenging in between? 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 My pom poms never bothered the corals in my 4g tank. 1 Quote Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 From everything I've seen, I think a tiny Pom-Pom would do fine in here. I can't speak to whether or not they'd do fine with one or two feedings a week though, hopefully some experienced Pom-Pom owners can chime in on that. 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 Yeah, that's my worry. I wouldn't want them to get really hungry and start munching corals. I am probably going to increase the frequency of feedings a little because nitrate is so low, but still not sure if that would be enough for a crab. Quote Link to comment
brandon429 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 I consider them to be the ideal crab for picos. ive used pom poms since 2001 they do stand on corals but not predate them they can go up and yank a bit of food out of an acan, but that's par for a reef its not kid gloves world lol! Ive never seen my boxers do anything wrong to cause any loss, and, Ive lost two in my bowl unable to retrieve them and the system digested them without a cycle or spike. my longest captive boxer/pom pom crab was 5 yrs in the reefbowl. the will adapt to the feeding you already provide just fine. their only negative is crawling on the corals, youll see some closed up time to time because of that and Ive never lost a coral because of them. open and close is a coral's life. 4 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 Holy cow, five years! That's fantastic. okay, I'll probably pick one up in a week or so. I'm adding something else today 5 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 You guys make me want to set up a pico bowl . It won't happen, but I love them! 4 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 26 minutes ago, gena said: You guys make me want to set up a pico bowl . It won't happen, but I love them! They definitely are fun, honestly the most fun I've ever had with a reef tank I'm right there with you though, i have (almost) no desire to have more than one tank! 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Here are some pix of the reefbowl from earlier today, before the feeding and water change. I like having the front sandbed a little more open. It's easier to clean too. Went to Cherry Corals today. I bought something during their post-live-sale sale. Will post pics of the new acquisition tomorrow by the way, I really had to hunt to find any hair algae. Several strands of it turned out to be cat hairs This is day 28 at the full dose of flucon. Added another full dose after the WC. 10 Quote Link to comment
hedgeclipper2 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 7 hours ago, gena said: You guys make me want to set up a pico bowl . It won't happen, but I love them! Just do it!!! I love my Pico. I hope you have more luck with YCG by the way, my GCG unfortunately didn't make it. Same problem, never ate and was malnourished directly from LA. Also, what is everyone feeding their Pom Pom's? @natalia_la_loca Bowl is so pretty! 2 Quote Link to comment
pappadumplingz Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Jeez what a lovely looking bowl! 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 I love those acans in the last picture Fluco is PFM 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 I had to look up what PFM stands for. It is, it is 1 Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Shelby says YES your bowl needs a pom pom. My first pom I kept in a 1.5 gallon with my original rics, St. Thomas, and D. carlgreni. The only holy terror in that tank was the zebra hermit. I didn't feed that tank and had the pom pom a bit over a year. Once the zebra hermit got banished to solitary confinement, the pom pom actually came out once in a while, looking adorable. I'm trying out some Hikari crab pellets but have only offered Shelby one so far lol. 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 I'm so getting a Pom Pom 7 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 16 minutes ago, natalia_la_loca said: I'm so getting a Pom Pom Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 The bubblegum digi you sent me looks fantastic!!! 5 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Excellent so glad it's doing well! 1 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Here are some quick cellphone pics of the new frag. Cherry Corals calls it an orange rainbow goniopora. The polyps are very little compared to the other two gonis. I wonder if they'll be compatible with one another. My hope is to have a little goniopora garden on this frag rack. 10 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Those look fantastic! I've never kept goniopora but I've always liked them. 1 Quote Link to comment
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