gena Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Looks awesome!!!! Now you can sit back, relax, and not worry about those favites anymore . Link to comment
Eisernes Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Love this little tank. I hope everything is happy again after the deconstruction. Link to comment
_chubb_ Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Hi, I really like your tank. If you are still having problems with your fish getting into the back chamber you could try using plastic mesh to cover the slots. That's what I did with my Evolve tank. Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Wow Daaaaaaang!! I know, right? Jedimasterben said you need about six inches to spare around favites and he is definitely right. What's funny is that those favites have been in the tank for about six months, slowly encrusting. Until about a month ago, their sweepers never got more than about 1/4" long. Then suddenly they decided to go crazy Hi, I really like your tank. If you are still having problems with your fish getting into the back chamber you could try using plastic mesh to cover the slots. That's what I did with my Evolve tank. Thanks! That plastic mesh looks really nice, and it's open enough that it won't trap particles going into the filter. Where did you get the mesh? For what it's worth, I tried putting fiberglass window screen on mine, so there's no way Houdini could have slipped through it. I checked the rest of the tank very carefully last night when it was broken down, and there are no other entry points into the back chamber. So the only theory I have left is that he somehow jumps through the 1/4" gap between the cover and the back chamber wall. Link to comment
markalot Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Great cleanup, I know how much work that is! One of these days I'll get to cleaning up my 29 ... maybe. Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Love this little tank. I hope everything is happy again after the deconstruction. Thanks! I just caught up with your new build thread - it looks great! I was pleasantly surprised to find everything opened back up just fine today once the lights came on. I took a new FTS since the one last night was missing a lot or corals 4g CAD Lights FTS - 02/07/2015 by TeenyReef, on Flickr Link to comment
_chubb_ Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I got from a craft store and it's cheap. It's been working for over a year for me on a freshwater tank. A guppy got into the back and this stopped that. Here's a link to it. http://www.michaels.com/darice-plastic-canvas-%237/M10812487.html Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Great cleanup, I know how much work that is! One of these days I'll get to cleaning up my 29 ... maybe. Thanks, Mark. I have to admit it probably wouldn't have happened without the favites forcing me to do it Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 I got from a craft store and it's cheap. It's been working for over a year for me on a freshwater tank. A guppy got into the back and this stopped that. Here's a link to it. http://www.michaels.com/darice-plastic-canvas-%237/M10812487.html That's a great idea. I bet my wife or daughters already have some, but it's probably not black Link to comment
TigerLily Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Thanks! I just caught up with your new build thread - it looks great! I was pleasantly surprised to find everything opened back up just fine today once the lights came on. I took a new FTS since the one last night was missing a lot or corals 4g CAD Lights FTS - 02/07/2015 by TeenyReef, on Flickr Beautiful!!! I love this tank. Makes me want a little pico to play with! Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 I got from a craft store and it's cheap. It's been working for over a year for me on a freshwater tank. A guppy got into the back and this stopped that. Here's a link to it. http://www.michaels.com/darice-plastic-canvas-%237/M10812487.html Looks like a beautiful planted tank, by the way I don't know if you've seen the beginning of this thread, but this tank started as an Evolve 4 Link to comment
_chubb_ Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Thanks I did. It's giving me inspiration. I bought two Evolve 4's on clearance last year for less then $25 each. I just started my reef tank in December. Link to comment
cindyp Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 it looks great, john! well worth the sweat and heartache. and *i* have a vermatid snails outbreak too. i hate them. the tube ones that shoot stick snot out, right? i'm not sure if/when i can do such a thorough clean up--while still on deadline. augh. but i hate they are spreading. i might try and plug them up with epoxy?? either way, the tank looks great!! congrats! Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 So favites are like some kind of pest teeny? I'm glad that you got rid of them! I see that your tank is back to its awesome self! Great job on the reconstruction. it looks great, john! well worth the sweat and heartache. and *i* have a vermatid snails outbreak too. i hate them. the tube ones that shoot stick snot out, right? i'm not sure if/when i can do such a thorough clean up--while still on deadline. augh. but i hate they are spreading. i might try and plug them up with epoxy?? either way, the tank looks great!! congrats! Another kind of pest? What do they look like? Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 it looks great, john! well worth the sweat and heartache. and *i* have a vermatid snails outbreak too. i hate them. the tube ones that shoot stick snot out, right? i'm not sure if/when i can do such a thorough clean up--while still on deadline. augh. but i hate they are spreading. i might try and plug them up with epoxy?? either way, the tank looks great!! congrats! Thanks, Cindy! Yes, those are vermetid snails. And the longer you let them be, the more of them you will get. And the bigger they get I tried pretty much everything I could find online. Plugging them up with superglue can work but you have to get it on just right so that it really covers up the opening. Otherwise they just work their way around the plug and are back bigger than ever. And they grow on the back and bottoms of your rocks too, where you can't get at them. Like any other pest, the more you keep after them the better, otherwise they get out of control. So favites are like some kind of pest teeny? I'm glad that you got rid of them! I see that your tank is back to its awesome self! Great job on the reconstruction. Another kind of pest? What do they look like? Favites aren't really a pest, they are just too big for this little tank They're a beautiful coral but they don't make for good neighbors. I'll see if I can find a picture of one of the vermetid snails. They are not attractive so they're usually cropped out Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 I took this picture with my cell phone a couple weeks ago because I thought it was funny that the yellow scroll coral was ambitious enough to try to eat a mysis shrimp But there are several vermetid worms in this shot, including one in the back that has got his snot going up onto the corner of the yellow scroll. Their snot is mostly harmless, and in theory they are helping to filter the water. But they can irritate zoas, and the snot is definitely not sexy Blind Ambition (Yellow Scroll Coral) by TeenyReef, on Flickr Link to comment
deadthrone Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I am absolutely obsessed with this tank. Read through everything. Those are some tricky fish!!! Great job on this tank. I'm deff following for the long haul. Link to comment
cindyp Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 blurgh. john, do you have tips? how do you remove them? i know they said just pulling or cutting might not work because the critters retract to below the tube? did you say you actually chipped away on the rock so they'd come off? with what tools? any advice appreciated. i might take a break from revising today to do a major cleaning. Link to comment
cindyp Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 i answered my own question! i did some research and went out to buy a nose plier. it worked beautifully on snapping those tubes right off. killed almost all that i could see in the tank. thanks for inspiring me, john! Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 i answered my own question! i did some research and went out to buy a nose plier. it worked beautifully on snapping those tubes right off. killed almost all that i could see in the tank. thanks for inspiring me, john! Good luck, Cindy! I found that snapping off the tube only works if you get the base too. There's a little blob that tube grows out of that's really hard to get off the rock. You have to crush it or scrape/pop it off to kill the snail. Link to comment
cindyp Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Good luck, Cindy! I found that snapping off the tube only works if you get the base too. There's a little blob that tube grows out of that's really hard to get off the rock. You have to crush it or scrape/pop it off to kill the snail. yes! i used it to chip away the foundation too. hope i got it. there were wormy things i pulled out, so i assume so?? Link to comment
jeremycee Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 I took this picture with my cell phone a couple weeks ago because I thought it was funny that the yellow scroll coral was ambitious enough to try to eat a mysis shrimp But there are several vermetid worms in this shot, including one in the back that has got his snot going up onto the corner of the yellow scroll. Their snot is mostly harmless, and in theory they are helping to filter the water. But they can irritate zoas, and the snot is definitely not sexy Blind Ambition (Yellow Scroll Coral) by TeenyReef, on Flickr Thats some gluttony right there lol Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 yes! i used it to chip away the foundation too. hope i got it. there were wormy things i pulled out, so i assume so?? Yep, you got 'em! I am absolutely obsessed with this tank. Read through everything. Those are some tricky fish!!! Great job on this tank. I'm deff following for the long haul. Thanks! I took both the screen and the sponge away from the overflow. Houdini has stayed put for several days now. I'm mystified Link to comment
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