Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[12gallonsofhex]

Platygyra? It's beautiful.

Jinks! I love platys but dont see them much. I had a fist sized 'maze brain' back in '99 to '01 that was green and a silver looking color

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I didn't think they could get any bigger... kept swelling up as the day went on.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Jinks! I love platys but dont see them much. I had a fist sized 'maze brain' back in '99 to '01 that was green and a silver looking color

I'd like to have one but agreed on not seeing them much. Might have to order one online when I get some coral money.

 

[sfin52]

Macropharyngodon ornatus... maybe, pic is kind of blurred.

I blame my daughter alexia

 

[sfin52]

is this any better

 

[Why-Me]

Platygyra? It's beautiful.

Want one so bad!

 

[living_tribunal]

See what happens if you tickle one of them...I bet it snorts a pellet right out of the water!

I was messing with flow again after feeding, the poor guy looked like a fat kid on a roller coaster.

 

[living_tribunal]

Platygyra? It's beautiful.

It’s a poor Symphyllia wilsoni. The previous owners didn’t take the best care of it so I’m nursing it back to health.

I really need this 25 soon, it’s getting so hard to get the flow right in the 10.

 

[living_tribunal]

Is that second pic a Platygyra?

Symphyllia wilsoni.

 

[living_tribunal]

This guys whole body is moving with the flow, I’m still dying smh. He’s like a bag of charcoal! I mean I got to give it to the favias...

This is like a coral double chin

(Last pic of this but I’m crying here)

 

[living_tribunal]

I could use some flow tips from y’all. Something just changed in both tanks. The flow is too intense.

It’s like it ricochets off each other and hits everything too violently. Been spending hours trying to get it right.

 

[living_tribunal]

I didn't think they could get any bigger... kept swelling up as the day went on.

Did you feed him?

 

[Why-Me]

I could use some flow tips from y’all. Something just changed in both tanks. The flow is too intense.

It’s like it ricochets off each other and hits everything too violently. Been spending hours trying to get it right.

Can you try using just one?
Or maybe one on one side wall and one on the opposite side and back glass facing forward?

 

[living_tribunal]

Can you try using just one?
Or maybe one on one side wall and one on the opposite side and back glass facing forward?

When I use just one for the 10g, the flow is not enough. I just tried lowering the pump on the left side which surprisingly decreased the intensity on my higher flow demand corals.

I still don’t know what to do with the display. I can’t master slave it on else mode because it’s way too intense, nearly knocked the polyps off my monti. It’s like it goes full speed now which is 2,250gph. I’m not sure changing the speed helps when they are set to else mode (random flow).

Right now, I have the back pump on the second lowest speed making waves and the front on else mode. It looks alright but not getting those hurling wave motions that have the nice smooth flow and wave motion.

 

[Why-Me]

When I use just one for the 10g, the flow is not enough. I just tried lowering the pump on the left side which surprisingly decreased the intensity on my higher flow demand corals.

I still don’t know what to do with the display. I can’t master slave it on else mode because it’s way too intense, nearly knocked the polyps off my monti. It’s like it goes full speed now which is 2,250gph. I’m not sure changing the speed helps when they are set to else mode (random flow).

Right now, I have the back pump on the second lowest speed making waves and the front on else mode. It looks alright but not getting those hurling wave motions that have the nice smooth flow and wave motion.

I would move them higher up the glass to make the waves further up the water column where there aren't as many corals and the deflected slowing action will make it down to most of the corals, much more gently.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

is this any better

Yep, that confirmed it. Female ornate leopard wrasse. Macropharyngodon ornatus.

 

[living_tribunal]

Yep, that confirmed it. Female ornate leopard wrasse. Macropharyngodon ornatus.

Envious of the fish in your other pics. It’s beautiful.

 

[Why-Me]

Speaking of how's that betta doing? @Robin Haselden

 

[living_tribunal]

I would move them higher up the glass to make the waves further up the water column where there aren't as many corals and the deflected slowing action will make it down to most of the corals, much more gently.

They are pretty high up. Here’s the current set up. I have to point the pump pretty high up or he murders that monti. He also generates too much flow on the bottom and hits the fat favia.

The back pump on slave mode and else goes wayyy to hard and generates too much flow coming around to the other side and smashes those cloves.

I don’t know what happened!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Did you feed him?

They haven't been fed by me in 6+ months. I don't feed my LPS unless they are struggling.

The rainbow came to me injured as it was stung by a scoly. Wrasse hole of a red coris wrasse(Coris gaimard, beautiful fish, flips everything over looking for food) flipped a master scoly over on top of it. I think the scoly ended up dying, never was brought to me for rehab. Anyway, I nursed the rainbow trachy back to health by feeding what I call Reef Roids ice cream. It's just Reef Roids and water, but mixed thick like soft serve ice cream. Just thin enough to suck up in a 1ml syringe and squirt right in the mouth. Trick is to get some really thin, lots of water and a little roids and spray right on top. Onve the coral sends out feeders then you load it up with the ice cream. All of this has to be done with all flow off.

Once they look healthy, I do not target feed.