rickjg Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Man I really like your tank. Got any recent pics of it?So what you gonna do with your prize? Nice... Very nice. ya.. the tank looks awesome.. i love the Frogspawn and the Clownfish AND the Xenia Congratz rick, you really deserve this THANKS........ Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 What corals did(are you gonna)get with your prize? Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Hey Rick. How do you like the alife? Is it built good? Link to comment
rickjg Posted April 20, 2006 Author Share Posted April 20, 2006 Hey Rick.How do you like the alife? Is it built good? The ALIFE was the 1st all-in-one tank that I know of. Here is a link to pics of my old ALIFE 7 http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rick_j_g/alb...k_j_g/my_photos The glass was thick, but the hood was pretty bad. The hinges broke off and it only had a tiny fan in the top of the hood for cooling. The ballast was not electronic, so it was heavy & hot and also in the hood. The lens also had cracking & melting issues & was not air/water tight like on the Nano-Cubes. I think most of them had issues with the ballast/light dieing because the fan blew air out the top, which meant the fan was pulling humid salty tank air into the hood, which fried the lighting. I did some DIY changes on my ALIFE. The 1st thing I did was switching the fan for a better one & had it pushing air into the hood. I changed out the ballast for an electronic WorkHorse II. I also slowly added more lighting. The ALIFE came originally with one 27 watt 50/50 bulb and I ended up adding two more 27 watt bulbs for a total of 3.27 = 81 watts. I was happy to take it down & setup the NC6 because it was getting a little hazardous and I was worried about being electrocuted by my own mods. I’d have to say that I’m much happier with the NC6 than the ALIFE 7 because the quality of the hood is much higher on the NC6. All the people that complain about the Nano-Cube quality should have owned an ALIFE first. For the price, Nano-Cubes have great quality, in my opinion. I think I paid $135. for the ALIFE 7 & my NC6 was far less than that, including shipping costs. Rick Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Cool. I am just looking into a small tank for my living room. I was thinking about the NC6 but then I saw an add for the new bio-cube. I was thinking about the 8 gallon. but all new tanks have their faults. so idk yet. Link to comment
EricBrian Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Cool. I am just looking into a small tank for my living room. I was thinking about the NC6 but then I saw an add for the new bio-cube. I was thinking about the 8 gallon. but all new tanks have their faults. so idk yet. New BioCube? Do you have a link? Thanks Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I wish I did. Its by oceanic. Its not on their website.idk why. its on the back of may's tropical fish hobbyist. Link to comment
Fishfreak218 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 they are slow on updating there website... it still doesnt have the Half Circle tank on there.. when they are selling it in stores now.... Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Jeeze. You GOTTA keep us updated??? Pics?? Your the winner. Winners have duties to fulfill Link to comment
rickjg Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 New Pics 4-28-06 Hammer sweeper going to war against an apstasia that popped after I added rics to my tank Two headed Toadstool frag starting to color up and get blue polyps. The right Staghorn branch is doing great. The branch on the left was broken off a few weeks ago and just recovering. Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Very Nice. Did you spend your prize? Link to comment
NanoCube-boy Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 man that one nice hammer. What do you mean war with apstasia? Link to comment
rickjg Posted April 29, 2006 Author Share Posted April 29, 2006 man that one nice hammer. What do you mean war with apstasia? The sweeper is for stinging other corals and it's the first time this hammer has ever had one. I first noticed the sweeper this morning and it was stinging an apstasia that showed up right under the hammer. Coral wars Link to comment
NanoCube-boy Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 is that that long tube looking thing is the sweeper coming out of your hammer in the picture? Link to comment
rickjg Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 is that that long tube looking thing is the sweeper coming out of your hammer in the picture? Yep, that's a sweeper. You can even see the stinging things (I forget the real name) coming out the top. I went into the office over the weekend to do maintenance / water change on my NC6 and I clipped off the sweeper to keep the hammer from stinging other corals, luckily there was only the one. It’s been my experience that once a sweeper develops it pretty much stings everything it can reach. Being stung by the hammer’s sweeper either killed the apstasia or it released & moved to a new location. Link to comment
NanoCube-boy Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 HAHAH I see. That's a nice tank man... really nice. Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 You can even see the stinging things (I forget the real name) The Stingers?? DUH Link to comment
rickjg Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 The Stingers?? DUH nematocysts Link to comment
Obsessed Reefer Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Oh..... STINGERS WORKS TOO!!! Link to comment
NanoCube-boy Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Oh yea, that's right, how is it doing? Link to comment
rickjg Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 How's that xenia doing? Oh yea, that's right, how is it doing? The Xenia is doing great. Every time I do tank maintenance / water changes I scrape off any Xenia that gets too close to live-rock and corals or when it grows up to the water surface. Little pieces sometimes get cut loose and float around the tank when I trim the Xenia, so I also religiously remove any of the tiny starters that attaches to live-rock. The trimmings either gets put into the lower left corner of the tank to start the upward growth again or flushed if I have too much. Rick Link to comment
SanDiegoIllini Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 ... and I clipped off the sweeper to keep the hammer from stinging other corals, luckily there was only the one. It’s been my experience that once a sweeper develops it pretty much stings everything it can reach. This clipping of the sweeper causes no long term harm? Does it grow back after awhile? (Necessitating more clipping?) I suppose if the hammer is being fed non-living supplimental food anyways then I guess it doesn't really need the sweeper to sting prey. Link to comment
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