LITTLE BLUE| IM30L (picking up pieces after the crush)

[KW NANOREEF]

3 hours ago, HarryPotter said:

 

Yes, but I am still in Boston- haven’t seen mah tank or the frags in a while!

Still shipping tomorrow?

[HarryPotter]

48 minutes ago, KW NANOREEF said:

Still shipping tomorrow?

 

Pending flight delays, most likely yes. Will be realllt freaking tired between no sleep and school on Monday, but it should work. 

[A Little Blue]

New home for this lucky pair:

 

And some latest purchases (probably will go on the “middle island rock”) 

 

[specore]

On 8/19/2018 at 2:56 PM, A Little Blue said:

Picked up the algae reactor. It’s not PaxBellum but looks and feels exactly the same. It’s 24” height so equivalent to midsize PaxBellum. Similar size, heat sink, overall design. If anyone knows who made this reactor pls chime in. 

Here are few pics: 

 

 

Also got two fish for my frag tank. Nothing fancy, just good working fish. 

Bookshelf is starting to get crowded 😉

[A Little Blue]

8 minutes ago, specore said:

Bookshelf is starting to get crowded 😉

🤣🤣🤣 Thats what my wife says. 

6g is temporary but I like to use it to store WC salt water. Reactor..... I have no clue how to hide it from Sherlock Holmes of the family. I’ll think of something. 🤫

[specore]

3 minutes ago, A Little Blue said:

🤣🤣🤣 Thats what my wife says. 

6g is temporary but I like to use it to store WC salt water. Reactor..... I have no clue how to hide it from Sherlock Holmes of the family. I’ll thing of something. 🤫

My exact thought looking at the pictures was "my wife would kill me"  lol

[A Little Blue]

Just now, specore said:

My exact thought looking at the pictures was "my wife would kill me"  lol

She’s getting there. Lol 

But strangely, she often asks me to take pics or video to show her friends. So I am getting mixed signals there. 

[specore]

2 minutes ago, A Little Blue said:

She’s getting there. Lol 

But strangely, she often asks me to take pics or video to show her friends. So I am getting mixed signals there. 

Wives are good at giving mixed signals 😎 

[A Little Blue]

Just now, specore said:

Wives are good at giving mixed signals 😎 

Couldn’t agree more. But there is nothing that diamonds can’t fix. 😉

[A Little Blue]

Corals from AquaSD are doing really good so far. With corals on sale and additional %30 off I couldn’t resist getting some blueish acropora pack. 

Should be here on Friday. 

I was shocked how many corals they have sold over few hrs from announcing additional sale. Half of the corals I wanted were GONE!  

Also, my BTA almost committed suicide by getting sucked into the RFG nuzzle. It lost some tentacles but it seems to be OK (I hope). 

Skimmer in 30L  is now on schedule - 12hrs ON and 12hrs Off. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[A Little Blue]

I got this guy as a bonus from fellow reefer a month ago. It was super brown beauty. lol But it starts to color up a bit. Wonder if anyone knows what it is?

Got two more freebies that I can’t identify. One of those came in with AquaSD acro pack. Pretty sure it’s acan of some sort. Not that I really care after all, it’s a freebie. 

[specore]

1 hour ago, A Little Blue said:

I got this guy as a bonus from fellow reefer a month ago. It was super brown beauty. lol But it starts to color up a bit. Wonder if anyone knows what it is?

Got two more freebies that I can’t identify. One of those came in with AquaSD acro pack. Pretty sure it’s acan of some sort. Not that I really care after all, it’s a freebie. 

Beautiful coral.  

[A Little Blue]

On 8/25/2018 at 10:46 AM, specore said:

Beautiful coral.  

TY. It’s always interesting to see what will grow out of those ugly brown corals that nobody wants. Lol

Here is another one from freebie collection. And NO, I never ask for freebies or extras. Just in case someone was wondering. 😏

 

Both look like Millepora to me. 

                         

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8/26 

Rocks seems to be pretty filled up with various frags (mostly SPS). Almost 50 corals altogether and around 10 sponges, Gorgonians and shrooms/anemones. 

Gonna stop adding anything for a while and let the corals get some growth. Eventually, I might add few encrusting Montis and a Chalice or two. Filtration is working efficiently  enough to handle the tank. Light is also sufficient for now. I have one older Kessil 150 just in case shadowing will become more of an issue. 

 

8/27

Cleaned up detritus in new frag tank (gonna need more efficient solution to lift detritus off the bottom and force it into the overflow chamber for polishing).

Added some extra GFO since tank was initially running on a single, small bag of Nano Blue ChemiPure. 

Moved GSP magnet rock and mount it on the back wall.

Frag-mounted some Tonga LR that’s going to be mounted sometime later, onto the back wall GSP rock.  

Hopefully GSP will grow over it. 

Increased the flow of the return pump for better circulation. 

Fans with smart controller are doing a great job at keeping temperature inside the cabinet at 78 degrees. Without it, temperatur goes as high as 84-85, despite room temperature of 72/73. Test frags in this tank are doing good so far. With few more tweaks and a bit more time, I feel that this will make a great mix-coral frag tank (including more difficult SPS). 

 

 

 

 

[A Little Blue]

 

 

☝🏻Few updates above if interested.☝🏻

 

Spot with Nr.6 make a cute pair. Hunting together side by side. 

Nr.6 for pods and Spot for fresh algae. 

 

 

Decided to use SeaGrape algae as a compost for my home plants. That’s a 2 weeks worth of growth. 

 

[A Little Blue]

Keep finding this s**t stars in my frag tank. 

 

Also posted short vid on fellow reefer thread so I though that I might as well post it here. Lol

 

And finally, I assume that my Circus Goby is gone since I haven’t seen him in months. I figure that I could move SixLine from quarantine tank to the main 30L but I am afraid that Tailspot might become super lonely (they make cute team). So, I ordered Curacao Chromis. Cool, harmless, reef safe fish. 

I promised myself not to buy more frags and these coral vendors keep teasing with good sales. Was thinking about something from WWC but holly crap.... those guys are expensive. Perhaps I’ll get something from somewhere else, place I have good experience with. 

[specore]

6 minutes ago, A Little Blue said:

Keep finding this s**t stars in my frag tank. 

 

Also posted short vid on fellow reefer thread so I though that I might as well post it here. Lol

 

And finally, I assume that my Circus Goby is gone since I haven’t seen him in months. I figure that I could move SixLine from quarantine tank to the main 30L but I am afraid that Tailspot might become super lonely (they make cute team). So, I ordered Curacao Chromis. Cool, harmless, reef safe fish. 

I promised myself not to buy more frags and these coral vendors keep teasing with good sales. Was thinking about something from WWC but holly crap.... those guys are expensive. Perhaps I’ll get something from somewhere else, place I have good experience with. 

Cool fish.  Don't have to lookup many, but wasn't familiar with those.  And those coral vendors are sneaky bastards, aren't they?

[A Little Blue]

12 minutes ago, specore said:

Cool fish.  Don't have to lookup many, but wasn't familiar with those.  And those coral vendors are sneaky bastards, aren't they?

I am telling you.... as soon as I think that I’m out, they pull you back in. 😏

Yeah, this Chromis is kinda rare and I need something like that in my tank. 

Sixline would have been a better working fish. They go after pests of all kinds.... including nudis (hint,hint). But I can always move him from quarantine tank for few week to 30L if needed. 

You should look into wrasses to keep your tank pests free. Mystery Wrasse perhaps? You would like that fish. 

[mitten_reef]

On 8/25/2018 at 11:30 AM, A Little Blue said:

Both look like Millepora to me.

Neither one of those freebie acros are Millie’s, IMO. Millie’s have very distinct scale-like corallites. I can’t really tell you what they are, ha. 

 

The pinkish one looks really nice, 👍. 

 

 

[specore]

4 minutes ago, micoastreefing said:

Neither one of those freebie acros are Millie’s, IMO. Millie’s have very distinct scale-like corallites. I can’t really tell you what they are, ha. 

 

The pinkish one looks really nice, 👍. 

 

 

Missed that milli comment, but agree 100% that they don't look like millis

[A Little Blue]

20 minutes ago, micoastreefing said:

Neither one of those freebie acros are Millie’s, IMO. Millie’s have very distinct scale-like corallites. I can’t really tell you what they are, ha. 

 

The pinkish one looks really nice, 👍. 

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, specore said:

Missed that milli comment, but agree 100% that they don't look like millis

Really? I though that this pink one could be a Milli. The second one might be one of the tabling types perhaps? But I am not stressing over it. I like them both. Strangely, they started encrusting within few weeks while other frags that came in around the same time, went into hibernation or went up and out as far as growth is concern. Thanks for your input. I’m really bad with coral names or families. My philosophy is simple, if it grows, than fine and if it doesn’t like my tank, so be it (don’t let the door hit you on the way out). Lol 

[A Little Blue]

And longer video of both tanks (30l and frag tank)

 

[specore]

13 minutes ago, A Little Blue said:

 

Really? I though that this pink one could be a Milli. The second one might be one of the tabling types perhaps? But I am not stressing over it. I like them both. Strangely, they started encrusting within few weeks while other frags that came in around the same time, went into hibernation or went up and out as far as growth is concern. Thanks for your input. I’m really bad with coral names or families. My philosophy is simple, if it grows, than fine and if it doesn’t like my tank, so be it (don’t let the door hit you on the way out). Lol 

I don't pretend to know these things either.  IME though milli's have a very organized and distinct scale-like (as MICoast put it) look, which these both lack.  Similar to this:

[A Little Blue]

11 minutes ago, specore said:

I don't pretend to know these things either.  IME though milli's have a very organized and distinct scale-like (as MICoast put it) look, which these both lack.  Similar to this:

I see what you’re saying and you’re right. Perhaps Monti digi? 

[specore]

18 minutes ago, A Little Blue said:

I see what you’re saying and you’re right. Perhaps Monti digi? 

They both look like acros to me.  Of course, the term acro can mean just about anything 🙂.  The second one almost looks like a bottle bruch acro to me, just from the growth pattern.  Like I said though, I'm far from an expert. 

[mitten_reef]

The pink one looks a lot like this Formosa stag from LA. 

 

Its really hard to tell on the other one, but def still an acro.