Hello tulip.
Well, I finally did it.
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Such an awesome fish. Have you had it long? Is it hard to care for?
Beware the Shallows! jedimasterben's 80g shallow reef!
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Such an awesome fish. Have you had it long? Is it hard to care for?
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Had him about a week. That's his first feeding since leaving the LFS. They will eat anything and everything that moves up to their size, but are otherwise 'reef safe'. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone just starting out or without some experience. They typically only eat live fish and never eat frozen or dry foods, but some can be weaned. I'm going to work on getting him trained to eat from my hands.
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I suggest getting it off guppies ASAP, if you need to do live feeders do glass or ghost shrimp, damsels if you have to. You can look back into my post history and I give a good run down on weaning lions but it typically works with just about any pred. I believe the title of the thread had "fuzzy dwarf lion" in it
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I can get plenty of penaid shrimp, but I have these on hand right now. They are not his food, but simply a vessel for it to get to him.
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I'm actually buying rock to do something like that. Tonga branch will take at least 200lbs to make a similar structure in my tank (which is quite a bit smaller than the one in the pic, which is 61x32x24), since it is so dense, but that will cost me $750 in rock alone. *** that. I'm making my own psuedo-structure out of standard rock from Reefcleaners. It will broken into pieces and epoxied together to form meandering 'branches'.
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It's gonna be a pretty ridiculous amount of work, but I think it will be well worth it!
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New toy.
All numbers were taken from the Apogee SQ-110 sensor, sun calibrated, connected to a digital multimeter. All results were taken in millivolts, multiplied by the correction factor for that wavelength (1.05 for NW, 1.38 for RB, 1 for OCW, and 2 for TV), and then multiplied by five to get the reading in micromols of PAR. All readings were at 100% on a single channel, calculated, then combined with the other channels.
LEDs are run without lenses and approximately 15" from the water's surface at the time of measurements.
My tank looks like garbage. One of my issues with stuff dying was that my salinity was a bit... off. By the time I figured out my refractometer calibration fluid had evaporated out, my tank's salinity was somewhere around 50-60ppt. I did a 40g water change and added 10g of fresh water on top of that, and a week later it's sitting at 40ppt. I added 5g of water today, but most of that was evaporation, I've really been slacking. I have my glass for the new sump baffles, so I need to take the sump offline very soon to get that taken care of. Once I get my LED array done, I'm moving the tank.
I also ordered the rock to start on a new scape. New scape, new light, new sump. May just be the refresh I need.
All numbers were taken from the Apogee SQ-110 sensor, sun calibrated, connected to a digital multimeter. All results were taken in millivolts, multiplied by the correction factor for that wavelength (1.05 for NW, 1.38 for RB, 1 for OCW, and 2 for TV), and then multiplied by five to get the reading in micromols of PAR. All readings were at 100% on a single channel, calculated, then combined with the other channels.
LEDs are run without lenses and approximately 15" from the water's surface at the time of measurements.
My tank looks like garbage. One of my issues with stuff dying was that my salinity was a bit... off. By the time I figured out my refractometer calibration fluid had evaporated out, my tank's salinity was somewhere around 50-60ppt. I did a 40g water change and added 10g of fresh water on top of that, and a week later it's sitting at 40ppt. I added 5g of water today, but most of that was evaporation, I've really been slacking. I have my glass for the new sump baffles, so I need to take the sump offline very soon to get that taken care of. Once I get my LED array done, I'm moving the tank.
I also ordered the rock to start on a new scape. New scape, new light, new sump. May just be the refresh I need.
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So Bitcoins are selling for about $230-235 each... guess who looked in his wallet file and found 2.36 Bitcoins? 
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Bitcoin is a digital currency. Bitcoin
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Got some new toys. An ORA derasa clam, a blue spot sea hare, a juvie yellow belly hippo tang, and a sebae anemone, Heteractis crispa. The anemone is unlike any I've seen previous - it is bleached out, a light tan color, but the base of the tentacles is a neon color, the tentacles are a tan color with bright blue tips, but a few of the tentacles are purple, so this thing will color up like MAD! I'm so happy I found another that I like, sebae are my favorite anemones.
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Note to self: itty bitty hippo tangs can't swim too well. Found it stuck against one of the Tunzes. Probably only been there for a minute or so, as it seemed unharmed, and once it was free of the suction, it was swimming around normally.
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I paid about $250 for it. This is the Deep Blue Edge 80g.
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Shelf piece attached!
All that's left of the molly.
Rainbow goniopora from Reefchicks is starting to open up now.
Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddd a video.
My reef, post-salinity mishap - YouTube
Music may or may not be added in at this point, it's taking forever to apply the change. I think my wife is watching 'Bones' or something.
Things are a bit closed up, I cleaned the glass and accidentally bumped a few things, and moved some stuff around.
All that's left of the molly.
Rainbow goniopora from Reefchicks is starting to open up now.
Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddd a video.
My reef, post-salinity mishap - YouTube
Music may or may not be added in at this point, it's taking forever to apply the change. I think my wife is watching 'Bones' or something.
Things are a bit closed up, I cleaned the glass and accidentally bumped a few things, and moved some stuff around.
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