Nixperience Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 That BTA corner is awesome! Quote Link to comment
pal Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 17 hours ago, Nixperience said: That BTA corner is awesome! THANKS.One of the favorite parts of my tank. Quote Link to comment
pal Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 My clownfish are now regularly spawning . Crappy phone photo 1 Quote Link to comment
samnaz Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Beautifully natural-looking tank, I love it. I hope my 30L looks this good some day... Got any recent pics? 1 Quote Link to comment
pal Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 2 minutes ago, samnaz said: Beautifully natural-looking tank, I love it. I hope my 30L looks this good some day... Got any recent pics? Thanks for the compliment. I didn't know my photos were still working. I though photobucket shut me down. I will upload some when I am in wifi land. Quote Link to comment
pal Posted November 27, 2017 Author Share Posted November 27, 2017 Haven't updated in a while. Tank has been running smoothly for most of the summer. With a few hiccups Last month channel one on my light stopped working. Turned out it was a bad relay. I also accidentally unplugged my fan and didn't notice for a week. Some of my sps started to bleach, but are now coloring back up 2 Quote Link to comment
FISHnChix Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 11 minutes ago, pal said: Haven't updated in a while. Tank has been running smoothly for most of the summer. With a few hiccups Last month channel one on my light stopped working. Turned out it was a bad relay. I also accidentally unplugged my fan and didn't notice for a week. Some of my sps started to bleach, but are now coloring back up In that last picture in the middle top .. is that a goniopora??? Looks like it to me . I was wondering bc looks like you have had it for about a year now and most say they barely last that long...just wondering how you have kept your looking good.. Quote Link to comment
pal Posted November 27, 2017 Author Share Posted November 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Weikel said: is that a goniopora? Nah not a gonipora, I know my pictures suck,A DSLR is on the x mas list. I think what you are looking at are neon clove polyps or behind it is pipe organ. 1 Quote Link to comment
FISHnChix Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 2 hours ago, pal said: Nah not a gonipora, I know my pictures suck,A DSLR is on the x mas list. I think what you are looking at are neon clove polyps or behind it is pipe organ. Dang I was hoping for another gonipora success story.. just got back into the hobbie after a 10 year break and first coral I grabbed was a Goni lfs said it wasn’t hard to keep haha suckers.. have had it close to six months now and is doing good so maybe I will get lucky because I really like this coral. your photos look great I’ve been trying to find a good app on Android for photos but have yet to find one.. dslr is supposed to be nice but seems like a pain in the butt to me , but if I can’t find a decent app soon I might have to snag my wives for a photo shoot.. just don’t want to hassle with the camera , lenses , and then transfer photos seems like a pita. Quote Link to comment
pal Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 So something bad is happening and I am not sure what is the cause. Two weeks ago I woke up to see a head of my hammer missing, one acro losing flesh at tips ,digitata looking sick,and monti caps bleaching. I did a water change and changed my carbon. My guess was alk spike.I was out of reagents so I dialed back my dosing until they came. Tested today Alk is a little low from me dialing back 7.7 normally 8.3 and phosphate is .07 Tissue loss has stopped on the acro .hammer looks ok clowns are still laying eggs,but my monti caps are getting worse.. I don't know what to do. Before photos november After whatever happened photos Dec 14 Anyone got any ideas? 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Nixperience Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Sorry dude. Same thing has happened to my monti and I think it was light. Even after I dialed down the intensity, the descent continued and my monti didn’t make it. Alk was a reasonable guess, but if not that, probably the light too strong. Our tanks are really shallow. Quote Link to comment
samnaz Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 That is quite strange. IME montis can survive anything, even knocking a Frag face down on the sand bed for 4 days, still alive. Tank looks AMAZING, always been a fav of mine. Quote Link to comment
pal Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 43 minutes ago, Nixperience said: Sorry dude. Same thing has happened to my monti and I think it was light. Even after I dialed down the intensity, the descent continued and my monti didn’t make it. Alk was a reasonable guess, but if not that, probably the light too strong. Our tanks are really shallow. I thought of lighting also ,but It has been under this light for over a year. I changed the bulbs in August and was careful and did two at a time over two weeks. 45 minutes ago, samnaz said: That is quite strange. IME montis can survive anything, even knocking a Frag face down on the sand bed for 4 days, still alive. Tank looks AMAZING, always been a fav of mine. It is strange this monti is almost two years old and usually grows like a weed. My green monti has always been finicky though. This is maddening not knowing what happened, normally when something goes wrong it is my own dumb fault. Quote Link to comment
Nixperience Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 1 hour ago, pal said: I thought of lighting also ,but It has been under this light for over a year. I changed the bulbs in August and was careful and did two at a time over two weeks. It is strange this monti is almost two years old and usually grows like a weed. My green monti has always been finicky though. This is maddening not knowing what happened, normally when something goes wrong it is my own dumb fault. Maybe the new bulbs are that much stronger? Quote Link to comment
pal Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 12 minutes ago, Nixperience said: Maybe the new bulbs are that much stronger? Maybe, but it went bad overnight during lights out .I am stumped. I am going to dim it a little increase the flow do some water changes and see what happens. Checked out your build thread all the softies look nice. I might go that route if I cant figure this out. 1 Quote Link to comment
Nixperience Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, pal said: Maybe, but it went bad overnight during lights out .I am stumped. I am going to dim it a little increase the flow do some water changes and see what happens. Checked out your build thread all the softies look nice. I might go that route if I cant figure this out. Thanks. I’m in the same boat. Softies are doing great, some stonies doing ok. I keep trying them, but I’m not going to change my routines to make stonies work when everything else is working. I’ll keep trying lol. Quote Link to comment
pal Posted December 28, 2017 Author Share Posted December 28, 2017 Ugh..So after a a bunch of water changes and testing I still have no idea what happened to my monti cap ,digi ,and acro. Two weeks of staring at sick corals I decided to do something. The plan was to trim sick parts off the cap frag what I could of the digi and acro. Monti cap trimming did not go as planned so most of it was removed. On the bright side my clowns are still spawning and now I have space to add something new. 1 Quote Link to comment
Nixperience Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Woah that’s a lot of gsp! Quote Link to comment
pal Posted December 29, 2017 Author Share Posted December 29, 2017 6 hours ago, Nixperience said: Woah that’s a lot of gsp! Ha ,it grows so fast! It covers and stops my spinstreams ,every month or so I have to peel it off them 1 Quote Link to comment
reefrook Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Sorry bout the casualties. But I still love the tank. I like how everything looks so large and matured. Great job! 1 Quote Link to comment
pal Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Haven't updated for a while. Haven't had much to update. Since losing my monti caps and acros tank has been on auto pilot.. to motivate myself I joined the grow out contest here. Hanna reagents came today along with a new return pump.. 4 Quote Link to comment
samnaz Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 beautiful. hey did get that DSLR for xmas? we want closeups and lots of em. Quote Link to comment
Indiana Reefin Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Really nice tank! I can only hope to have a successful tank like this one some day 1 Quote Link to comment
vlangel Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 The tank is beautiful. Good luck in the grow out contest! Quote Link to comment
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