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RIP Curly.  Somehow he found the crack between the factory net and glass.  He was tiny, so it wouldn't have happened in a year from now.  We watched him last night while changing our boy's diaper,  and my wife says they saw him earlier today, too.  He is crispy like a potato chip!  Must have happened before noon to be so dried up.  Maybe we'll try another?

 

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This tank is so easy compared to my 75g planted fw.  I will be tearing that one down and storing it.  The LFS will take the angels for credit.  Hopefully I can setup a 7g de-rimmed fluval first and save a few of the plants.

This little sw tank has been funded with black bar endlers breeding in a sunken child's pond in the back yard.  I need to be more judicious in my time and hobby $, and the 75g is nothing but algae problems, Co2 problems,  etc.  There are a lot of jobs coming up the 2nd half of the year I can spend 10 + hs a day working, and that tank is not worth the emotional and physical effort.  

Cheers for nano-tanks!

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The tank had a tuft of bryopsis several months ago on the rock wall, which I treated in the air during a water change with h2o2.  It has not come back there, but has appeared in about 5 other places in the tank since. I've hit all these but one (for control) underwater with h2o2 tonight with the pumps turned off.  One rfa really reacted to it nearby by curling its tips and changing colors on that side.  Lets see what happens

 

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Update on the shrimp bucket from page 4.  We have had an outbreak of goop, algae, and red tide (maybe from the Piney Point spill in Tampa Bay?).   Most of what was on the bucket in the last pic was smothered and died, but some new, beautiful growths are on the bottom of one side, and on the inside.  2 tiny 3/4" gobies and a few shrimp are on the inside.  Also my sister caught a neon green 1/2" shrimp and pipefish with a childs dipnet in a grassflat a few weekends ago.  My boy got 2 barnacle cuts across the bottom of his foot at the same time, so I don't have pics.  Hoping to do more collecting this year.

 

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Just found this thread! Pretty cool tank you've got here, I really like the rockwall concept. It's definitely an underexplored approach to home reefkeeping. That encrusted shrimp bucket is super cool too! 👍

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The bubble algae all appears to be on an acan frag which has been overtaken by an rfa.  Just popped it off and pitched it.

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My blue ricordea seems to have split, and may have 3 or more mouths!

 

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This "orange" one has not grown in 6 or so months, so I snipped it halfway to the mouth after this pic.  It is about 3" lower than the blue, but refused to attach to the rock, so I let it go where it wants on the sand.

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I have a small blue ricordea that simply wouldn’t attach to anything I put it on so it floated around the sandbed for a few days lol. It finally settled down in the back left corner of the tank, still on the sand, but at least it’s bot bothering anyone else. 
 

Tank is looking great!

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Traded 4 fw angels for a new clown, Curly 2.0.  He's slightly bigger, so probably he can't fit between the screen and glass.

 

75g planted is going into storage.  This tank takes far less time and is more enjoyable.

 

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34 minutes ago, growsomething said:

75g planted is going into storage.

But what if you converted it into a 75g reef instead? 😍

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31 minutes ago, billygoat said:

But what if you converted it into a 75g reef instead? 😍

I've got a 200 g acrylic peninsula, never used, sitting in the garage!  Saved from a demo crew's clutches on a jobsite.  That is for another chapter in our family's life.

Right now we have the opportunity to contract kitchen and bath remodels, and it may get very busy, too busy for a 75g fw algae farm or the fever dream of a 200 g FL biotope reeftank.  

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Pump off, polyps closed feeding time, fts.  Frogspawn is going to fill the entire middle of the tank in 6 mo.

 

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This tuxedo rfa doesn't like it but refuses to move.

 

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These 2 red rfa were very close in color when put in here.  The one on the floor has spectacular color in person, and the one high on the wall is more orange.  It is partly shaded though.

 

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Yellow sponge on top of the wall is noticably bigger and yellower.

 

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Tuxedo rfa finally couldn't take the frogspawn anymore and moved to the side of the tank.  A much better viewing spot as it was in the back.

 

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Xenia is acting strange.  Stringy and detached.

 

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Herrrre's the new Curly with Fargy the tsb.

 

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Fargy owns him!  Here she turns and pecks him, since they think they're getting fed.

 

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Creepy thing started climbing up the front wall, then decided to head back down...

 

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I put that green sea lettuce at the bottom right in the tank more than a week ago, for the tsb.  I think it is growing.

Also, the blue ricordea decided to formally split, with the smaller piece with 2 mouths falling to the sandbed.

 

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I believe the tsb, Fargy, ate a chunk of the sea lettuce?  Never saw him with a protruding belly, and found part of the lettuce in the random flow nozzle.

 

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But, he keeps pecking hard at the 2 far whip gorgonians.  They haven't opened polyps in about a week.  No change in feeding this week.

 

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I'm afraid the rfa relocation has fried a frag of silver eye lepto.  You just can't win.  I moved it from the back wall bcs it will be overrun with a fast-growing zoa shortly.  It was completely encrusted just last week.  The large tuxedo rfa I irritated to expose the lepto and then took a pic. There are still 3 similar sized or larger pieces growing on the back wall rock.

 

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Found red grape washed up on the beach today.  There is red tide now, a few dead fish were in the wash.   Maybe the algae will live?

I need to get an emerald crab again,  lots of bubble algae popping up all over the tank.

 

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The red grape is looking a little pale, maybe it won't make it.  It was washed up on the beach, but it was getting wet with each wave.

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Crab has a white new coat after molting.  He gets a little dingy with algae before he molts.

 

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During feeding I came around the corner and found my boy licking the netting.  Needs more salt in his diet I guess 😏

 

I'm not too concerned about palytoxin with my zoas and the netting very rarely gets water from a bubble popping on the surface, plus he swallows plenty of saltwater when we go to the beach.

 

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Took down my 75g fw blue/green cyano tank Sunday and haven't felt this free in a while!  No more 40g water changes every other week.  Nano tanks are so much more enjoyable imo.

 

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