NanoReefer53 Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 Don't ya just hate it when that happens. I've been discouraged and kinda neglected my reef for like 2 weeks after I lost like 5 of my mini SPS colonies due to a fan malfunction and a high temperature spike. Haha, now I think i'm hooked on SPS again. Time to get some more . . . if i can get the moola Sh1t happens . . . Link to comment
Lunchbucket Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 i am loosing my pink milli and a yellow/pink milli...no idea why. they just started sloughing tissue. salinity is fine, alk is great, chaged 5gal of water added new carbon...hope the little tissue that is left makes it. they were doing great encrusting. now they have red bugs on them AFTER they got sick so i think the whole opportunistic theory is right on those little bastages. which someplace by me had some good acros to buy...i would get one Lunchbucket Link to comment
MacnReef Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 Lunch, maybe too much light? : Link to comment
Lunchbucket Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 umm, NOPE SORRY nothing else looks bad and i don't believe in TOO much LIGHT Lunchbucket Link to comment
MiKeE Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 calv & nanoreefer.. aquarium concepts is once again stocking many, many, many sps... thanks to me..i got the owner to change the crappy looking anemone tank..to a SPS tank... come check it out..you might like it.. cheap prices too, compared to every other bay area LFS Link to comment
MacnReef Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 Originally posted by Lunchbucket umm, NOPE SORRY nothing else looks bad and i don't believe in TOO much LIGHT Lunchbucket Yeah I seen that! Link to comment
NanoReefer53 Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 aquarium concepts is once again stocking many, many, many sps...thanks to me..i got the owner to change the crappy looking anemone tank..to a SPS tank... exxxcelllent (mr.burns style) now time to scrape up some dough. fwak, and i just spent $300 on a new autococker paintball gun, and that's after selling my old one. Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 14, 2003 Author Share Posted March 14, 2003 Cool Mike will have to check it out. Link to comment
palaegic Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Fantastic looking display cal3v. You mentioned that it is about a year old - any nightmare scenarios or heartbreaks in that year? (If you say that all went smoothly I am sure you will admired and despised) Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 24, 2003 Author Share Posted March 24, 2003 haha I wish it was always good going. I guarantee anybody out there always has had problems in the past, if not to personal error but to mechanical errors that aren't the person's fault. Ok lets see here, put in a talbot's damsel that messed with the sand, so I tore the tank down to get him. Also one time I lost a clam and bartlett's anthias due to overflow of kalk water. Recently I had a cyano and algae problem, as well as way too low salinity. I lost quite a few corals. But now that things are squared off again after the addition of new snails and water changes, everything is doing well again. Link to comment
palaegic Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 It wouldn't be quite as rewarding if it weren't equally frustrating. Hope you have smooth sailing for a good long while. Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 25, 2003 Author Share Posted March 25, 2003 Thanks palaegic. Yea if it were easy I wouldnt be in this hobby at all lol. Link to comment
Lebowski Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 it's gotten pretty warmer and it's been a while, got some frags?!! Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 27, 2003 Author Share Posted March 27, 2003 Hi Lebowski, unfortunately as a result of losing some corals, I don't have any to trade as of now. Sorry. Link to comment
Xwhite Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Just keep on growing. It's obvious you know exactly what you are doing. Aside from completely uncontrollable problems, you've succeeded admirably. Great work. I only hope my tank looks this dramatic in a year. John Link to comment
Lunchbucket Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 what happend that you lost some?? Lunchbucket Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 28, 2003 Author Share Posted March 28, 2003 Oh well what happened was that I had a big algae outbreak from dead snails and thus die-off in the water, and this was all due to a minute drip on the new refugium I put, it had a crack I didn't notice near the top. Thus when I checked the salinity it was way too low and thats probably why the snails died and so now that I fixed the crack and have added more snails and took the dead shells out things are doing good. I now keep my hydrometer in my fuge so I can see the salinity at all times with a quick glance just in case something like that happens again. I am going to get some new sps though, probably blue aculeus, pulchra, and maybe a soli frag, but even though they are rare they aren't too nice looking, and for a colony to grow out to show the nice growth form I might not have room in a small tank. Other corals I am looking into are the pink/green rosaria and solid purple cap. Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 Update: Added a purple/orange Hawaiian feather duster, pink/green hammer, and some green star polyps and an encrusting species of green pavona. Also, I few weeks ago I had to frag the neon yellow capnella since it was rotting from the inside out, all frags are now doing well. Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 Full tank pic as of 3/30/03: Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 Blurry pic of encrusting pavona: Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 Purple tip A. nana showing good growth, A. loripes is the light purple acro to the left and front of it for any of those wondering: Link to comment
cal3v Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 Purple/orange feather duster: Link to comment
cal3v Posted April 11, 2003 Author Share Posted April 11, 2003 Here is a current pic of the tank now. I have the refugium overflow so I took that off and moved the tank to a different location in the house. Link to comment
jimmitoman Posted April 11, 2003 Share Posted April 11, 2003 looking good braw selling anything? James in Tracy Link to comment
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