- Location
- Overland Park, KS
Very little to no aptasia up top. don't look in the overflow box, tho. just put four pepps in the fuge to control the aptasia there. will scrape out the overflow when I have some help with that. I'm not doing it alone.
daisy's tank thread (a.k.a. the everlasting battle against aptasia...)
- Thread starter daisy
- Start date
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
Kathy - next weekend is great! B will be home, so maybe we can have a little gathering.... something to think about...
Chief - I've got an emerald crab in there now. I saw him the first two days he was in, haven't seen him since two days after the swap tho. Hope he's chowing down! what I do is to take off the bigger pieces and the clumps when i'm in the mood (when it really bothers me or is starting to bother something in the tank) and hope the emerald takes care of the rest....
any other advice?
what i'm trying to figure out now is why there are spots where the coralline is browning out. will get on that one soon. gotta test params. maybe tonite!
Chief - I've got an emerald crab in there now. I saw him the first two days he was in, haven't seen him since two days after the swap tho. Hope he's chowing down! what I do is to take off the bigger pieces and the clumps when i'm in the mood (when it really bothers me or is starting to bother something in the tank) and hope the emerald takes care of the rest....
any other advice?
what i'm trying to figure out now is why there are spots where the coralline is browning out. will get on that one soon. gotta test params. maybe tonite!
- Location
- NY
You're going to have to start thinking about bulb changes soon. If I recall correctly, we put your fixture in last February. I normally give my actinics one year. The daylights (Aquablue +) I'd give 12-14 months. So you're not ready yet, but closing in on it.
Plans, plans and more plans = money, more money and money I don't even have
R
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
cool. Let's figure out when and i need to know how much, Russ.
Take care!
tahl
Take care!
tahl
- Location
- NY
I would change the actinics in early February. Then the Aquablue+ in probably mid-late March, early April.
R
R
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
Well, after months of status quo, stuff started to fail, and life imploded, and I started thinking clearly again, and realized it was time to change bulbs!
I am proud to announce that new bulbs are on board, and I've been doing a 5-gal water change weekly. everything i've got left seems to be doing well, but i sustained losses while i was in Israel over the summer and since then. Lost a frogspawn and four of five heads of a pink/green hammer. Lost a LOT of zoas, but many of them are coming back. I lost a torch, acans
I was WAY too busy and WAY too distracted. I won't let that happen again....
now i've got a shopping list of all the new fishies I want - but first i have to get the maroon clown out of the tank!!!! that will leave a yellow tang and crisitania wrasse (Joe). LOTS of space in that 75 for new fish!
This is my wish list - I won't get all of these fish, only some of them. Please comment if you've kept these - how hardy, how friendly, how much personality.... Thanks!
Eibli Angel or white-talied pygmy angel (centropyge flavicauda)
lyretail anthias (female)
Banggai cardinal (black/white)
4-wheel drive goby, citron goby, green goby
orangeback basselet (do these really eat shrimp?)
slasher wrasse
penant fairy wrasse or filament flasher wrasse
yellow wrasse
bar gobie (in group of 3)
Let me know what you think!
I am proud to announce that new bulbs are on board, and I've been doing a 5-gal water change weekly. everything i've got left seems to be doing well, but i sustained losses while i was in Israel over the summer and since then. Lost a frogspawn and four of five heads of a pink/green hammer. Lost a LOT of zoas, but many of them are coming back. I lost a torch, acans
I was WAY too busy and WAY too distracted. I won't let that happen again....
now i've got a shopping list of all the new fishies I want - but first i have to get the maroon clown out of the tank!!!! that will leave a yellow tang and crisitania wrasse (Joe). LOTS of space in that 75 for new fish!
This is my wish list - I won't get all of these fish, only some of them. Please comment if you've kept these - how hardy, how friendly, how much personality.... Thanks!
Eibli Angel or white-talied pygmy angel (centropyge flavicauda)
lyretail anthias (female)
Banggai cardinal (black/white)
4-wheel drive goby, citron goby, green goby
orangeback basselet (do these really eat shrimp?)
slasher wrasse
penant fairy wrasse or filament flasher wrasse
yellow wrasse
bar gobie (in group of 3)
Let me know what you think!
So nice to see you've gotten your arms around your tank once again Tahl!
Good luck getting the Marroon out of the tank, I know you will be happy to see him re-homed. Not sure whata 'slasher' wrasse is, do you have a latin name for this one?
Any of the pygmy angels have the possibility of nipping at SPS and zoas, not to say they all do, but if you want one, best to buy from another member knowing the fish doesn't have that history?
Good luck getting the Marroon out of the tank, I know you will be happy to see him re-homed. Not sure whata 'slasher' wrasse is, do you have a latin name for this one?
Any of the pygmy angels have the possibility of nipping at SPS and zoas, not to say they all do, but if you want one, best to buy from another member knowing the fish doesn't have that history?
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
Kathy - that was a finger misfire. should have been
flasher wrasse
oops.
who would want a "slasher" wrasse? sounds a little scary to me!
i'd rather go with the Eibli angel anyway.... and i would definitely want to buy it from someone who had had it for a while.
on the other hand, i've got no SPS at this point.
I do, on the other hand, have and want to keep collecting gorgonians.
flasher wrasse
oops.
who would want a "slasher" wrasse? sounds a little scary to me!
i'd rather go with the Eibli angel anyway.... and i would definitely want to buy it from someone who had had it for a while.
on the other hand, i've got no SPS at this point.
I do, on the other hand, have and want to keep collecting gorgonians.
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
oh yeah - and i want a copperband butterfly.
i know i probably shouldn't get one, and i probably won't, but i'm tired of Kalking aptasia.
i know i probably shouldn't get one, and i probably won't, but i'm tired of Kalking aptasia.
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
i took the day to work on my tank!!! nearly all the anthelia is out (and awaiting its new home in Zander's school's new tank!). I uprooted maybe 50 red mushrooms and removed a few mushroom-covered rocks - which are now for swapping
I brought some more rock in to play that had been in the fuge the past year and a half so that I have lots of base for all the pretty new corals i'll be adding to my system over the next few weeks. Here is the new fts - it's pretty bare, but watch it grow!
(the rock in the middle on the sand is a mushroom rock i'm getting rid of, too...)
I brought some more rock in to play that had been in the fuge the past year and a half so that I have lots of base for all the pretty new corals i'll be adding to my system over the next few weeks. Here is the new fts - it's pretty bare, but watch it grow!
(the rock in the middle on the sand is a mushroom rock i'm getting rid of, too...)
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- Location
- Overland Park, KS
Well, nearly two years later, and this tank is no more - set up a different 75 gallon in my living room. Reasons for the change - mostly because I was not happy in the end with the location of this tank, and partly because I was never satisfied with the look of the tank I have replaced. The base was grey, and I really wanted wood... So as soon as a 75 with a wood stand came up for sale, I grabbed it, and the pics below will tell the story... or at least part of it...
What I have learned in the past two years has been invaluable. I am simply better at everything than I was two years ago, and I've been in the hobby for about 10 years... My MR friends have taught me more than I ever thought I didn't know And I know there is still so much to learn - particularly now that I've entered the world of the mixed reef (FINALLY!!!)
And so now that I work at Pratt, have intimate reefing friends, and am generally hooked, I hope to supply you with pics and success stories that will encourage both you and myself!
Thanks to Kathy, Jim, Frank and Chris for this most recent tank move - and also to Joe for all the WONDERFUL SPS (which, as Chris will rant, is NOT a good classification, though we all do it!)
Fuzzy sticks, my ARSE - I'm a convert
What I have learned in the past two years has been invaluable. I am simply better at everything than I was two years ago, and I've been in the hobby for about 10 years... My MR friends have taught me more than I ever thought I didn't know
And I know there is still so much to learn - particularly now that I've entered the world of the mixed reef (FINALLY!!!)And so now that I work at Pratt, have intimate reefing friends, and am generally hooked, I hope to supply you with pics and success stories that will encourage both you and myself!
Thanks to Kathy, Jim, Frank and Chris for this most recent tank move - and also to Joe for all the WONDERFUL SPS (which, as Chris will rant, is NOT a good classification, though we all do it!)
Fuzzy sticks, my ARSE - I'm a convert
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- Overland Park, KS
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
(...it must be Jim, not Russ.... )
I think the improvement is due less to Russ and Jim's prayers and more to my improved sense of how to do this right!
...though don't get me wrong - Russ and Jim have been two of my principle teachers!
Thanks for the compliment though
)I think the improvement is due less to Russ and Jim's prayers and more to my improved sense of how to do this right!
...though don't get me wrong - Russ and Jim have been two of my principle teachers!
Thanks for the compliment though
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
It looks great!!! I love the aquascaping.
- Location
- yonkers NY
this is very! very nice!!
- Location
- Ossining, NY
Tahl,
spectacular is all I can say - what a difference a little time and much reading and listening can do for you.
As always, we're glad to help you help yourself. Our favorite kind of reefer is the one who looks for assistance, listens, applies it where appropriate and then basks in the glory of their creation.
That tank is officially HOT!
Jim
spectacular is all I can say - what a difference a little time and much reading and listening can do for you.
As always, we're glad to help you help yourself. Our favorite kind of reefer is the one who looks for assistance, listens, applies it where appropriate and then basks in the glory of their creation.
That tank is officially HOT!
Jim
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