Reefiness's 120RR upgrade

[reefiness]

lmao pete. first post since you joined nov 2013. you lurker.

 

[reefiness]

New FTS with the fish added.

 

[reefiness]

wow my camera sucks at rendering colors. imagine if blue hippos looked like that

 

[reefiness]

so I changed the light on the refuge to a brighter white cfl from a much dimmer red/blue led.

The light bleed is causing algae to grow inside my protein skimmer chamber, is this something to be worried about? should I try to shade the skimmer some how?

 

[SIReefer]

Cool looking setup. I see the cloudiness cleared up nicely.

 

[jkidd155]

Want kind of lights r u using on ur tank?

 

[reefiness]

Cool looking setup. I see the cloudiness cleared up nicely.

Thanks, and yes it did.

 

[reefiness]

Want kind of lights r u using on ur tank?

These are the reefbreeders photon 48

 

[reefiness]

Like a boss :lol2:

Yes, thats a bristle worm my cleaner shrimp is eating for a midnight snack

 

[reefiness]

New full tank shot... and a new massive batch of green reef chromis eggs. Just started feeding home made food this week and looks like it got the fertility juices flowing.

(edit: just realized the egg mat looks small compared to what it is... its shaped like a triangle with about 5" edges)

 

[ENB]

Nice tank
And just curious what is your homemade food made of?

 

[reefiness]

Lets see... I kinda looked up some recipes then just started throwing stuff stuff together from packages of various frozen seafood i had.

The only 2 ingredients i purchased particularly for the food was 0.5 lbs of bay scallop, and 1 lb of squid.

So the approximate recipe is....

1lb squid
0.5lb bay scallop
~2-3lb cod
~1.5lb peeled shrimp
~6 sheets of dried seaweed
~1.5 cups of pellet/freeze dried krill mix
~3tbs vitachem
~1/4 cup seachem garlic guard
~4 full bulb squeezes of selcon
juice of 1 lemon

blended the holy jesus out of it. ill admit i did a horrible job blending. the cod was pretty much blended into a whip. most of the shrimp ended up the size i wanted it, and a good amount of the squid ended up way too large. So when i defrost the food i try to separate the squid pieces that are too big and feed those to the anemones. The acans and duncan love this stuff as well.

 

[reefiness]

And to remedy the blender issue, im going to try to blend up smaller batches of stuff next time, keep all the different things blended separate because they break down at different rates, and also going to try to cut the fish into smaller pieces before blending... rather than just throwing 1lb of whole shrimp, 1 lb of whole squid, and 0.5 lb of whole scallop into the blender and hope for the best.

And another note... I kept about 1/3 of the shrimp out of the blender and just sliced it into the smallest pieces my knife skills allowed me to which are perfect sizes for the larger fish

 

[ENB]

Cool! Thanks for the info gotta try this.

 

[Mark2480]

Tank looks great.

 

[reefiness]

Tank looks great.

thanks mark. Still no where near what my end game goal is... *cough* *your tank* * cough*. lol

 

[reefiness]

updates coming soon. stay tuned.

 

[reefiness]

What is this... my tank had a baby??

 

[Mark2480]

That's just awesome, congrats. System is looking good.

 

[reefiness]

That's just awesome, congrats. System is looking good.

Thanks... Just need to start filling the 120 with sps but still have some more rocks to sell unfortunately