ninjafish Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 whats the rubble for? Filtration, natural-style Link to comment
Haagenize Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Filtration, natural-style does it work amazingly Link to comment
deacon hemp Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Semi x you need to read up a lot. Link to comment
Haagenize Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 read up a lot.. yeah Hey fish, i found your lamp.. http://www.lampsplus.com/products/Function...Desk-Lamp/14209 lol. How did you put the MH's on there? BTW im prob using something else Link to comment
ninjafish Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 Semi x you need to read up a lot. Lol Hey fish, i found your lamp.. Actually that is not the same lamp as mine but it will still work fine. The key is to find a double ended halogen lamp because it will be built out of the proper materials to withstand the heat of a halide and the length of a 150w halogen is the same as a 70w halide. I just took the guts out of the lamp and bolted the halide reflector inside... - Chad Link to comment
Haagenize Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 lol, that is the only like that will make the tank look good... Canopy- ruins the whole idea of a equiptment-less tank. Link to comment
ninjafish Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 Hello everyone, Lately I have noticed my sandbed to be a kind of grungy with little clumps of hair algae growing on it. I do very frequent water changes and have the chaeto in the filter so I don't know where this unwated algae growth is suddenly coming from. I think that it is from junk trapped in the sandbed. Tomorrow I am going to siphon out the whole sandbed when I do my water change. I the plan is to put a thin layer of new aragonite back in, or leave it BB... depending on how it looks to me at the time - Chad Link to comment
deacon hemp Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I'd lay down some white starboard,drill holes for the returns.I'd say Ike puts a decent bioload on this tank.Do you get a lot of detritus in the canister when you open it every week?Your tank might have a harder time naturaly filtering without the sandbed.All of the BB gurus say if you go BB you should have a massive skimmer. Link to comment
Haagenize Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 oh man... Ike might have left some food in his cave or something. Link to comment
ninjafish Posted March 1, 2006 Author Share Posted March 1, 2006 I'd lay down some white starboard,drill holes for the returns.I'd say Ike puts a decent bioload on this tank.Do you get a lot of detritus in the canister when you open it every week?Your tank might have a harder time naturaly filtering without the sandbed.All of the BB gurus say if you go BB you should have a massive skimmer. Hey Deac, There is a fair amount of mantis poop produced in this tank. My sandbed is made up of less than 1 cup of sand and I do not believe that it contributes to the filtration at all - I think all its doing is trapping detritus. Often BB users will use large skimmers in conjuction with lots of watter current, the idea being to keep the detritus suspended in the water column so that the skimmer can pull it out. I am looking more at being able to siphon the detritus off of the bottom when I do my water changes... I don't know. Maybe I'll just try replacing the sand with new stuff first. - Chad Link to comment
ram man Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 the only poo i see in my smithii's tanks is from the hermits... i also noticed he lets some of the hermits live and kills others. he even uses the shells to cover his burrow at night even if a hermits is living in it. Link to comment
ninjafish Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 the only poo i see in my smithii's tanks is from the hermits... i also noticed he lets some of the hermits live and kills others. he even uses the shells to cover his burrow at night even if a hermits is living in it. Ram Man, Ya, I actually asked Dr. Ron about why I haven't seen mantis poo in my tank - even though I have fed a ton of krill and $100 worth of hermits and snails. He told me that mantis excrement is very fine, almost like dust, and is dispersed very quickly through the water. After I knew what to look for, I noticed this waste whenever I do a water change. I ended up just rreplacing the sandbed with new sand. The old stuff was really dirty and now the tank looks awesome! I will take a couple pictures today. - Chad Link to comment
ram man Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 what kind of camera are u useing? i try to take pis of my mantis and he looks like a green blob... Link to comment
Haagenize Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 new sandbed? sweeet =D take some pics and post them $100 worth of food... can i say OUCH? =D Link to comment
ninjafish Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 what kind of camera are u useing? i try to take pis of my mantis and he looks like a green blob... Ram Man, I'm just using an older model Fuji Finepix 3800 digital. For every good picture I take, I delete about 10 of them Semi X, You asked for it: Hope you enjoy, - Chad Link to comment
deacon hemp Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Amazing as usual! Have you noticed any color loss from the sps frags? It looks japanese almost with a really zen look to it. My goal. Link to comment
ninjafish Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 Deacon, Thanks! Actually now that you mention it - I think that the blue acro frag has faded more to brown . I don't know if it will color up again or not but I did take it out of a tank with 400w halides. This 70w is a lot of light for a small tank... but it's nothing compared to that! - Chad Link to comment
Haagenize Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 hey where did Ike go? and i see you added and removed some stuff, i like the candy in the middle Link to comment
ninjafish Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 Ike came out and looked around when I was taking pictures but then he just went back in his cave. He acted like it was all a big inconvenience for him. The candycane in the middle started out as a single polyp but has now split into three! - Chad Link to comment
Bluelegs Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I noticed that you were on N-R on your laptop in the backgroung of on of the pics! Link to comment
ninjafish Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 Haha, good eye Bluelegs Ya, between the site and the tank it's a wonder why I get anything done! - Chad Link to comment
Haagenize Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 thats cool, you cant see all the epoxy anymore! =D Link to comment
Carinya Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Beautiful pics & tank. Love the aquascaping. I think it's hard to do a cube (not to mention a 4-side-viewable cube) well & yours is an inspiration. Link to comment
ninjafish Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 Carinya, Thank you. It was nice to hear from you again - especially since you now have a link to that cool 6gal you are building. I will have to check that out! - Chad Link to comment
Leonardo <Nano-Reef> Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Hey Fish, first my comliment for your beautiful tank! Truly inspiring (kept me awake a couple of nights ) I want to setup an mantis tank in your style too but than a 33 Gallon tank (20x20x20) I have a couple of questions. Do you use any suplements like calcium or trace elements cause your corals are growing so well in this relatively small volume of water. And do you use live sand aragonite or just plain aragonite? My mantis will arrive saturday, can't wait! - Leonardo (sorry for the crappy language-I'm Dutch) Link to comment
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