Day #101

[GHill762]

very cool. ball nems are cool critters, I've got one larger one and several little baby ones in my tank.. hungry little guys too, easily accept food..

 

[melev]

Ha! I thought that 60gal was a Nano tank!!!
400gal?!?!
Also your coral colonies are huge for less than 4 months of growth!

They've been growing for some time waiting for the 400g to show up. Frags became colonies as they simmered in a "temporary" 215g. I am seeing good growth already in the 400g.

Here's what the tank looked like last October.

 

[melev]

Full tank shot last week:

 

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And dang that's a crazy fuge under there!! That is max bio filtration! I bet there will be a POD army in there of mass proportion

 

[melev]

The reason it doesn't pop with color in my image is because that is the 10,000K time of day. When the tank is 20,000K it looks more like your image. Or this:

 

[melev]

And dang that's a crazy fuge under there!! That is max bio filtration! I bet there will be a POD army in there of mass proportion

The refugium is a big part of my sump. 58" x 6" x 12" full of feather caulerpa with a DSB.

 

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I need to make some shields for my fuge light too.

 

[melev]

That is some black foam that I found at Hobby Lobby for $0.99 a sheet. They are the size of placemats, and I have them affixed to the light with velcro.

 

[Pete polyp]

very cool. ball nems are cool critters, I've got one larger one and several little baby ones in my tank.. hungry little guys too, easily accept food..

I didn't know what these were until I saw this post. I have several, and have removed a few that I could get to. I guess they're not that bad?

 

[melev]

I didn't know what these were until I saw this post. I have several, and have removed a few that I could get to. I guess they're not that bad?

They are pretty nocturnal in my tank, although I can find a few that are open during the day time. They seem to share the space in the tank and don't appear to harm other neighboring corals. I've had some that lives in zoas and would open at night when the zoas were closed, and vice versa.

 

[GHill762]

I didn't know what these were until I saw this post. I have several, and have removed a few that I could get to. I guess they're not that bad?

No they aren't bad, they're more closely related to mushrooms than anemones. They don't move (they aren't photosynthetic), don't spread or grow very fast, and really don't do much stinging that I've seen. They're also more of a night critter, they dwell in dark areas.. Cool to have, but I wouldn't say they are bad or good, just there.