TheRope Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Pic 1: acans on a magnet! Pic 2: these zoas came back eith a nice bang! They were vlosed forever in the 2 gal and noe finally opened up and reproduced well. Pic 3 4 5 6 : growthrate of the jf captain jerk palys!! Insaneeeeeee i love them! Pic 3: current Pic 4: exactly one month ago Pic 5: exactly one month ago Pic 6: current 2 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 My pom pom is a lady! Look at those eggs! Paly literally eating a zoas (sunny d) face... 2 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 Little update on the baby wrasse! 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 Wrasse feeding! 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Hey all sorry for lack of updates. Soooooo i almost crashed my bowl this happened the day after I brought the wrasse back to the lfs heres the pic of the last day of the wrasse in the tank : the reason for the crash was me rescuing a cocoworm without a tube that then released toxins and alone all while rotting in the bowl. Pic below. Then I proceeded to do 1 w.c per day (100%) and remove the worm. And after two days the tank was back to 100%. After all that my pom pom crab released her fry into the water and my purple feather worm spawned in the tank! 3 2 Quote Link to comment
NuisanceAlgaeCultivator Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Nice to see it bounced back so quickly, I’d have probably thrown in the towel and picked up a chia pet lol. 2 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 11 hours ago, NuisanceAlgaeCultivator said: Nice to see it bounced back so quickly, I’d have probably thrown in the towel and picked up a chia pet lol. Hahaha yeah it was impressive! I picked up some new coral yesterday Some more palys, a gorgonian and a pipe organ! 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THIS MONSTER PALY!!!! ALSO some backleftangled shots XD 2 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 Top down shot + cloves spreading. You can see the cloves growing on the heater and one made a bridge to the rock over (I dremoved that arm, they are my background coral so I trim them to remain there) 1 1 Quote Link to comment
NuisanceAlgaeCultivator Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 22 hours ago, TheRope said: What's this big purple one? I've never seen it. Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 23 minutes ago, NuisanceAlgaeCultivator said: What's this big purple one? I've never seen it. That would be my orange rhodactis eating some pellets XD 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 Soooo i bought a nuke! 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted March 29, 2019 Author Share Posted March 29, 2019 Wooops, forgot to update on the nuke, it moved about 1 inch to the left of where I placed it and decided it was happy there! 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 I passed by the lfs again today and got these 3 : (so excited) 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted April 5, 2019 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 As coincidence has it, right after receiving the totm I went to the lfs and found a coral I liked, bought it, and proceeded to crash my bowl! It was a toadstool. And I'm not even sure why ive done 2x 100% w.c and it did nothing. So after work tonight I will salvage some corals for a new build. 6 Quote Link to comment
Tempestas Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 Oh no!! So sorry to hear about that. Yours was one of the main inspirations for me embarking on my fishbowl build. Hope that everything manages to pull through. Quote Link to comment
kimberbee Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Sorry to hear this! 😰 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 No worries guys, its part of the game! I just transferred all survivors to the 2 gal cube! 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted April 7, 2019 Author Share Posted April 7, 2019 Unfortunately things are still on the downside ... Gonns take a while for the coral to recuperate... Its a weird feeling seeing these corals that ive cared for for over a year die in a single day, due to another coral. Toadstools really are powerful in small spaces! Anyways, I'm not sure if ill ever recreate something as nice as the bowl but I guess well wait and see... 2 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 Slowly reviving the bowl, I brought all surviving coral (except for one species) back to the lfs and got myself more live rock covered in that same species. This is gonna be a species only bowl! I cant wait for it to cle@r up (new sand) I want to scape this thing properly and start feeding the coral! 3 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted April 9, 2019 Author Share Posted April 9, 2019 Alrighty. Update time but little story I came up with to cope with the loss of the original bowl! So as we know in natural reefs there occurs the rise and fall of coral, where one dominant/resilient species comes to the forefront and ends up taking over the vast majority of an area until something either outcompetes it or a natural disaster happens and another coral comes out on top! That's the idea behind where I took this bowl. Throughout the last two disasters my large Palythoa's were the only ones that thrived throughout the entire ordeal. So I look at this bowl as a fast forward into the future and I'm really enjoying it ! 4 Quote Link to comment
Ratvan Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 That looks amazing, it's been a real journey in this thread from start to now (even just reading) 1 1 Quote Link to comment
TheRope Posted April 10, 2019 Author Share Posted April 10, 2019 12 hours ago, Ratvan said: That looks amazing, it's been a real journey in this thread from start to now (even just reading) Haha yeah to say the least XD On that note I was cleaning out the holding cube and I found the bubnle tip. So he's now recuperating in the reefbowl! 5 Quote Link to comment
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