teenyreef Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 Things have been super busy lately, I was out of town for work all last week, and I've been working long hours over the weekend and nights ever since. I haven't had time to do the weekly water change, but I've been keeping an eye on things in the tank, but it's been doing well - I've only had to scrape algae once since getting back last week. I've been feeding only pellets daily, and feeding frozen and coral food on weekends. So far everything seems to like it. Honestly I'm just doing it that way because it's all I have time for, but if the corals continue to respond well I'm not going to change anything. Strangely enough, the STN on the colony frags seems to have slowed considerably. I fully expected the pieces would be completely white by now, but it's barely progressed since the first night after I fragged it. I still have very little hope that any of the frags will survive, but I'm going to leave them alone just to see what happens. In the meantime, I'm still planning the frag tank build. I just realized I should probably start a new tank thread for it. Hmmm, what's more important, doing a water change or starting a new build thread? 1 Quote Link to comment
drgibby Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I had a couple SPS frags that started going but after a week of the tank being stabilized it slowed and they have actually started growing back. It was weird that it just stopped and started to re grow. Hopefully yours will recover, it just takes time. 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 On 1/25/2017 at 1:19 PM, drgibby said: I had a couple SPS frags that started going but after a week of the tank being stabilized it slowed and they have actually started growing back. It was weird that it just stopped and started to re grow. Hopefully yours will recover, it just takes time. Sometimes they do recover, so there's still hope. As of tonight, it looks like they are still deteriorating, but very slowly. I don't know what caused it to begin with, as all the other corals are still doing fine. In other news, I received the Kessil A360 I bought from a fellow N-R member and got it set up. 6 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Yep, you've got light!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 that's bright.... 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 I'm really tempted to go out in the garage and get the submersible pump that use for water changes in the 90g FW tank, and plumb it up so I can get this tank wet. I ordered the pump and skimmer from Fish-street.com so it is literally being shipped from China and will take a while. But the frags in the 4g tank are running with just floss, carbon, and the biobrick. I could set this tank up with the same filtration and just replumb it when I get the new pump and skimmer. Hmmmmm.... Oh and by the way, I didn't do any water changes tonight. So I guess I need to work on a build thread instead 4 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 I'm really tempted to go out in the garage and get the submersible pump that use for water changes in the 90g FW tank, and plumb it up so I can get this tank wet. I ordered the pump and skimmer from Fish-street.com so it is literally being shipped from China and will take a while. But the frags in the 4g tank are running with just floss, carbon, and the biobrick. I could set this tank up with the same filtration and just replumb it when I get the new pump and skimmer. Hmmmmm.... Oh and by the way, I didn't do any water changes tonight. So I guess I need to work on a build thread instead what pump and skimmer did you get from Fish-street.com? 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 what pump and skimmer did you get from Fish-street.com? The DCS2000 pump and the D300 skimmer (which uses a DCS1200). I'm looking forward to trying out the DC motors and people seem to be really happy with the Coral Box skimmers. 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 The DCS2000 pump and the D300 skimmer (which uses a DCS1200). I'm looking forward to trying out the DC motors and people seem to be really happy with the Coral Box skimmers. I hated mine. I got the D700. Way too big for my tank, noisy, and overflows all the time. I am pretty sure it's because the skimmer is oversized for my tank so I am sure the smaller ones are much better. I should have gotten a D500 instead. My D700 is still sitting in the closet. Tried to sell it locally for $150 and no one wants it =(. 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 I hated mine. I got the D700. Way too big for my tank, noisy, and overflows all the time. I am pretty sure it's because the skimmer is oversized for my tank so I am sure the smaller ones are much better. I should have gotten a D500 instead. My D700 is still sitting in the closet. Tried to sell it locally for $150 and no one wants it =(. That was the one thing I read about them, that if you got one that was too oversized it would overflow all the time. I didn't hear anything about them being loud, though, just the opposite. I guess I'll find out, fingers crossed! 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 I finally started a new thread for the frag tank: http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/379846-teenyreefs-db30-frag-tank/ 1 Quote Link to comment
kimberbee Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 I finally started a new thread for the frag tank: http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/379846-teenyreefs-db30-frag-tank/ You and FlowerMama with your new frag tanks! I'm jealous! I know I could set up another tank if I really wanted, but it would have to be in my tiny office/fish room/cat room that is already way too crowded. The dogs can't be trusted! 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 27, 2017 Author Share Posted January 27, 2017 You and FlowerMama with your new frag tanks! I'm jealous! I know I could set up another tank if I really wanted, but it would have to be in my tiny office/fish room/cat room that is already way too crowded. The dogs can't be trusted! 5 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 The remaining frag bits of the colony that STN'd have now finished disintegrating. And now one of the other two colonies is STN'ing. #nomorecoloniesever #wasteofmoney #stupidstupidstupid On the other hand, I'm going to a local reefers get together tomorrow at the best LFS in town. And I've already talked to a guy who is bringing some nice SPS frags to sell/swap. So I may end up getting some nice stuff to make me feel better for losing the colonies. #coralbuyingtherapy 1 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Sorry about the colonies but yea, that's typical. It's really upsetting until you realize lots of other folks go through the same thing. I still have two frags of one I managed to save after I lost 90% of it ... and it's still poop brown brown brown. Of course I also have that pink one. Talk about pure dumb luck. I complained about the light choice in your new thread. I feel bad, but not bad enough to remove it. I want to see what you can do with T5's in the mix, it's a selfish want but I'm sticking to it. 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 Sorry about the colonies but yea, that's typical. It's really upsetting until you realize lots of other folks go through the same thing. I still have two frags of one I managed to save after I lost 90% of it ... and it's still poop brown brown brown. Of course I also have that pink one. Talk about pure dumb luck. I complained about the light choice in your new thread. I feel bad, but not bad enough to remove it. I want to see what you can do with T5's in the mix, it's a selfish want but I'm sticking to it. Thanks, Mark. I still have hopes the third colony will make it, although it's basically poop brown right now. It really does seem to be just luck, probably based on how different conditions were from the natural environment that the colony came from, and how much stress it went through in shipping. I appreciate the comments about the light, you shouldn't feel bad at all! We reefers need to push each other to get out of our comfort zones sometimes 1 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I LOVED this, it made my day! :-) 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 I went to a local reef club meet today hosted at an lfs. It was great, they had a raffle and even set up a grill. Oops, I bought some corals, too 6 Quote Link to comment
jack1978 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I went to a local reef club meet today hosted at an lfs. It was great, they had a raffle and even set up a grill. Oops, I bought some corals, too Well.....post some pics, slacker! 3 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 Well.....post some pics, slacker! Hey, I posted that on the way home, so it was a little early But I'm home now... 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 So I literally bought corals from a guy selling from the back of his van today! He's a semi-local reefer, about two hours drive away, who sells high end frags to local reef community members. The owner of the LFS was super supportive of the community get together, and welcomed him to come down and set up sales from his van. He even let him use the store's wifi. I was only going to buy one frag, but of course the guy didn't want to take too many corals home so he kept offering cheaper prices, and the more I bought the more he lowered the prices. I ended up buying five and then after I paid him he gave me one more for free. I just finished dipping them and putting them in yet another frag rack, this time up in the nosebleed seats. I can't wait to get the new frag tank going, and get the 10g stabilized so I can get all the extras out of this tank, and start gluing up the ones that are staying. I took quick picture of the new frags right after putting them in the tank: Tyree Pink Lemonade, PC Rainbow, JF Fox Flame, ORA Pearlberry, Blue Stag, RR Tropic Thunder Monti by TeenyReef, on Flickr From left to right: Tyree Pink Lemonade, PC Rainbow, JF Fox Flame, ORA Pearlberry, generic blue stag, RR Tropic Thunder Monti. 7 Quote Link to comment
4x5 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Beautiful new frags! So jealous. 2 Quote Link to comment
Slowtwitch Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I wish i had a local reef community...? 2 Quote Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I wish i had a local reef community... you and me both. though, I would absolutely be divorced by now, so there is that 3 Quote Link to comment
Slowtwitch Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 you and me both. though, I would absolutely be divorced by now, so there is that I'm thinking i'd likely be as well.. lol 1 Quote Link to comment
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