Smoq's 34g Solana- it tastes like salt for the first time!

[smoq]

Thank you guys for all your comments. And Marc, I wouldn't be posting those pictures without your stuff
Anyway, since I found there was some new interest in my tank thread, I thought of posting some new pictures. Be aware, I'm still in learning process

First, I stocked my tank with 3 new fish and I'm full fishwise for now. I think I'm gonna add one more fish in the future and that will be it. It's gonna be either a firefish or a neon goby, that's my choices as for now. What do you think?
So here are my new inhabitants:

I bought a pair of two-spot gobys. Great fish and very entertaining, the only drawback is that they tend to create a sandstorms in the tank. I couldn't catch bought of them, but they usually swim together and already built their home under one rock

And finally a fish I wanted- Lubbocks fairy wrasse. His name is (given by my GF) Purpel and he is a little bit shy but very active guy. Difficult to photograph, too

And my "old" fellas, pair of ocellaris clownfish (still didn't shot a nice picture of them though).

Finally, some pictures of my new and older frags. I still suck when it comes to id'ying so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Zoas

Leather I got from James (thanks man)

Orange cup and hermit crab enjoying it

I'm still crazy about monti cap corals, so if anyone will be selling some green and blue with purple edge montis on the swap, sign me in!

Some other shots of frags in my tank

I recently thought about starting to dose some two part solution to raise my calcium level (currently I test it at 360) so I'll be able to keep LPS and maybe sps in the future. What will be the target calcium level for my tank in your opinion?

Thanks for all your help people, I'll try to keep up with updates and pictures.

 

[smoq]

I posted a video of my cleaner shrimps, soon I will try to make a tank video. Here's a link

http://s196.photobucket.com/albums/...-29-10/?action=view&current=cleanershrimp.flv

 

[jcolon2]

Get a cleaner shrimp or both. I have both a blood shrimp and a cleaner shrimp. The blood shrimp is aesthetically pleasing however, it hides in the caves all day, and is territorial. technically he cleans because he eats all the leftover flakes my fish don't consume. However, my cleaner shrimp not only eats the leftover food, he is constantly out and about the rockwork cleaning my fish.

 

[smoq]

I just shoot some new pictures and so I can share with you. Some frags are new (picked at the swap) and some old ones I'm a ricordea fan now, so if you have something for sale and live nearby, I'm more than interested. I picked up a neon goby today but it hides so I couldn't take a picture yet.


Zoas I picked up at the swap (you tell me what it is from I don't remeber who

Rose nebulas. I'm so looking forward for them, I hope they'll thrive for me.

Yuma I bought from wetthumbfrags at the swap. I so regret I didn't grab more ricordeas from Tina, she was so nice and had great prices too

Blastos from crazymadcorals. Arent they great? Regret I didn't reserve the other ones

Christmas favia I picked up from Marc some time ago. I glued a rock next to the frag and it starts to grow onto it

TThose are watermelon zoas I think?

And finally, a coco worm, also from the swap. I feed it rod's coral food, I hope I'm doing the right thing and it won;t die on me.

And last one- two spot goby. Dirty glass ruined it, but here it is anyway...

 

[adamt]

gorgeous tank all the corals are very pretty and unique, and the pictures are awesome.

 

[dubs]

that tank is cumming along nice ..nice corals u pic up at the sway and great pics

 

[smoq]

Thanks guys, as for now everything in my tank seems to be fine and growing slowly. We'll see. BTW, I posted two videos of my tank in photography section, you may wanna check it out and comment on coral placement. Thanks in advance. Here's a link to that thread
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...deos-my-reef-discus-tanks-playing-camera.html

 

[Reef Greek]

Great looking tank. Wish I had read this thread before you got the twin spots though. They need lots of live food to do well or else they slowly starve. Tigger pods are a good way to supplement your tanks natural supply and a good idea would be to add a bottle of them to the sump. I have blood shrimp in my tank and they're fairly active and even clean my naso and watchman goby. Good luck and keep the pics coming. Promise to post some of mine soon.

 

[ctxmonitor]

Nice zoas and fish. Great picture too.. Seems like you are getting better and better at the pics..

 

[h2o]

Tank looking good Marcin

 

[smoq]

I've done some pictures so I thought of doing a little update. Some things changed, some stay thesame. The two spot gobies are no more, they've perished some time ago. It's my fault, I shouldn't get them, they need a large tank for they nutrition needs. They've been eating mysis but that was not enough for them. Anyway, learn from my mistake and don't get them unless you have a lot in your sand for them to eat.
One big change in my tank is switch form T5's to LEDs. I am very happy with that decision as the tank looks way better now. The shimmering effect from LEDs is amazing and I found that some of my montis started to morph and look more colorful. We'll see
Also, the Rose Nebulas are the only zoas that melted and I'm so sad about that, I liked them so much. If anyone have them for cheap, please PM me.

OK, here are some pictures I took

This is some LPS I bought from a LFS in Florida. I've got another one like this if anyone wants to trade.

Here's another one from him, this one is a keeper

Zoas from my small collection. I am a zoanthid collector now

Please note that I have a frag of the ones in the center on the picture above. I will give it for free if anyone is interested. The frag contains of about 12 polyps

Goniporas under actinics

Ricordea Yuma close-up

Some tank shots

And my fish:

Clowns pair and female in the second picture

A new guy, firefish

And the sweet picture of my other new guy, blenny. This fish is my new favorite, has so much personality, eat from my hand and he is so funny to watch

Thanks for watching my thread

 

[jadakiss]

wow very nice

 

[CDANN76]

very very nice pics,really cool close ups..

 

[bruce922]

Looks like your getting some good advice. Good luck with it and keep us posted with any new pics you take.

 

[ctxmonitor]

Nice closeup!! You have a good collection there..

 

[ClosetFishGeek]

Nice pics buddy.....Love the way the tank came out. Great job......:splitspin