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[BJK2]

Starting a little late, but starting! It took a while to get permission for this one.

[Nanomaniac]

Good luck.

[bogart]

Good Luck.

[BJK2]

thanks

[BJK2]

I added some liverock and sand yesterday. Here are some pictures.

[jmorris]

I like the rockwork... good proportions.

[BJK2]

Thanks, I will try and update it often.

[BJK2]

Here are some updates:

 

Candycane and gsp corals added

[BJK2]

I just added some polyps, pictures soon.

[BJK2]

Here are some December Coral Updates:

[BJK2]

Full Tank shots, one with flash, one withouth.

 

Updates on livestock:

The pico now includes: 1 Red mushroom, 1 purple/green ricordia, many various zoolanthid polyps (more on the way!), a type of gorgorian, not extended in pictures, but it does extend during the day until about 7ish, then it closes up. The pico also includes 3 astrea snails, and one red reef hermit. The candycane is out for now, back into the 90 under halides. It wasn't looking to good for about a week, it was off to the side of the 2.5. Now it looks great back where it belongs, but once I make room it might be back?

 

Future additions: I may possible add a small goby down the road, but not yet. More polyps to come, as well as a kenya tree, and other various softies that I stumble upon at work. I hope to have xenia in there soon! One of my favorite softies, but I had a light malfunction in my 90 gallon, and it all melted.

 

Water Quality: All of my water parameters are in check, but I am battling some bryopis algae, and other various algaes. Chemi-pure is on the way!!

 

Review of dry goods: The coralife 2x9 watt light is amazingly intense, great deal too. I also like my aquaclear filter, the flow it creates at its top end is wonderful. The acrylic petsmart tank is alright, but really hard to keep clean! I really wanted glass, but could not find one in the greater chicagoland area.

 

 

Well I know I am long overdue for updates, but thats them, so thanks for looking!!

[Tony]

I like it

[Ann]

Nice, I like the rock layout a lot. Neat caves at the bottom.

 

Best regards

 

Ann

[BJK2]

Thank you very much. More updates on the way! I hope to get some new polyps this weekend, maybe some red zoos??

[Rene]

Coming along nicely

 

Are you going to add some tall corals to the top of the LR, or leave it with that low profile look?

[BJK2]

Coming along nicely

 

Are you going to add some tall corals to the top of the LR, or leave it with that low profile look?

 

Thanks, for now I am going to leave the low profile look, but maybe if I can find a nice kenya tree to add some height, and maybe some taller xenia frags. I am really concentrating on zoos right now because they are easy to get. At my work little frags of zoos fall off of colonies, so I just bring them home and drop them in the pico. I hope to "clean-up" the 2-75 gallon polyp tanks this weekend!

[Rene]

Oh, I see. They just "fall off" the big colonies.

 

I tried that one at the LFS that would let me put my hands in the tank. Nice stuff just fell off the rocks left and right!

 

Isn't it crazy how that happens?

 

Must have pics after you go raid the coral store

[BJK2]

Oh, I see. They just "fall off" the big colonies.

 

I tried that one at the LFS that would let me put my hands in the tank. Nice stuff just fell off the rocks left and right!

 

Isn't it crazy how that happens?

 

Must have pics after you go raid the coral store

 

Actually they do just fall off. I could frag them, but why waste my time if I can just look on the bottom of the bb tank and find all kinds of neat frags. I am the only one at the store that bothers "cleaning" out the loose corals, so there is usually a good amount by the weekend. I will definately post some pics when I get the new zoos. That is pretty awsome that your lfs lets you put your hands in the tank. We only let people put their hands in our liverock tanks.

[Rene]

Actually they do just fall off. I could frag them, but why waste my time if I can just look on the bottom of the bb tank and find all kinds of neat frags.

 

I tease That's pretty much what I was pulling out of the tanks at my LFS as well, the tiny stuff that would die due to lack of light and falling between rocks. Plenty of good stuff there.

 

As for the owner letting me put my hands in the tank, we'd hang out and chat and I'd help with tank maintenance or water changes now and then, if I had nothing better to do. So he pretty much trusted that I wasn't going to muck up his systems. I don't think there's any way any other LFS nowadays would let me do that.

 

So, to get back on topic...how's this tank going? Find anything interesting to add to it?

[BJK2]

As for the owner letting me put my hands in the tank, we'd hang out and chat and I'd help with tank maintenance or water changes now and then, if I had nothing better to do. So he pretty much trusted that I wasn't going to muck up his systems. I don't think there's any way any other LFS nowadays would let me do that.

 

So, to get back on topic...how's this tank going? Find anything interesting to add to it?

 

That's awsome that you help out w/ waterchanges and stuff. We have one customer that does carpentry for us(builds stands, walls, etc.), and he gets the full discount I am pretty sure.

 

The tank is actually starting to clean itself, never thought that was possible, but I woke up today, stuff was moved around, but... it looked really clean. A lot of algae got eaten last night!!! Today I picked up a little frag of yellow zoos, there are only about 6 on the rock, but they are nice. Last week I picked up a frag of red zoos. They are amazing, but I can't get them to stay in one place, any suggestions??? That frag happened to be stuck to an urchin for over a month in our 120ish sps/clam tank, and I fortunately saved it.... Pictures will come soon, now that I am on winter break. I am planning on either buying some frags from a local reefer or online. Don't really know which yet. That is what I am deciding right now at 11:26 PM.

 

Well thanks for the interest

[BJK2]

Well, now that I am on break I have been really working on my reefs. Yesterday, I attached all of my loose zoo frags onto pieces of live rock rubble with super glue. It went really well, and I am happy with how they came out. Yesterday, I also ordered a bunch of zoos from justcoral.com. I ordered some for my 90 gallon, and some for this little 2.5 gallon.

 

Here are some pictures of the new frags, currently all in my 90 gallon, so I can decide what will go in the 2.5 gallon. There are also some pictures of the newly mounted frags that were already in the pico.

 

Here are some more pictures of the mounted frags, as well as some FTS.

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Here are some pictures with my new corals added. I bought them from Justcoral.com

 

Sorry if the pictures are blurry, I wasn't really concentrating. I hope you enjoy.

[Brian da lion]

Did you get those during the sale? I thought they looked strangely similar to mine. Your tank is coming along great, keep up the good work.

[BJK2]

Did you get those during the sale? I thought they looked strangely similar to mine. Your tank is coming along great, keep up the good work.

Yup I got them in the 30% off sale. I didn't know about the $10 new member coupon though.... Oh well, thanks for the support! I like your pico also, did you have to switch to custom?

[Ann]

Looking really good, those zoas are making a nice display. Top job!

 

Best regards

 

Ann