Felicia's 20g Lair

[jphilip813]

I'm really happy with this light!!
How long have you had yours? tank looks beautiful! What settings do you keep it at, btw?

I just went back to check my purchase date, it was in September of this year.
I like the blue look, Settings are as follows:

CH A 10
CH B 75
CH C 50
CH D 30
CH E 1
CH F 0

 

[OrchidMiss]

Before walking out the door for work this morning, I made my rounds and said good morning to all the animals and fishies and give them all a little breakfast, When I noticed what I thought looked like a little rainbow BTA sitting next to my skimmer in the return chamber of my AIO.
I didn't really have the time to check it out, as I'm a procrastinating perpetual night owl who abhors mornings; and I roll out of bed as late as time will allow, throw myself into the shower & find some clean scrubs in as little time as I possibly can while still trying to make myself look "work presentable" because, let's face it, looking "cute" take too much energy for some of us...

ANYWAY!!!
Came home from work today and needed to check it out.
I was right!

I think when Felicia's rolling palace went for a little stroll, part of it may have been sucked into the overflow baffle?
I safely removed it from the return chamber and it has been placed in a safe lower/darker section of my 55g for it to settle in.

Sorry for the terrible lighting, poor thing is a little bleached.

 

[Melanie Fish]

Before walking out the door for work this morning, I made my rounds and said good morning to all the animals and fishies and give them all a little breakfast, When I noticed what I thought looked like a little rainbow BTA sitting next to my skimmer in the return chamber of my AIO.
I didn't really have the time to check it out, as I'm a procrastinating perpetual night owl who abhors mornings; and I roll out of bed as late as time will allow, throw myself into the shower & find some clean scrubs in as little time as I possibly can while still trying to make myself look "work presentable" because, let's face it, looking "cute" take too much energy for some of us...

ANYWAY!!!
Came home from work today and needed to check it out.
I was right!

I think when Felicia's rolling palace went for a little stroll, part of it may have been sucked into the overflow baffle?
I safely removed it from the return chamber and it has been placed in a safe lower/darker section of my 55g for it to settle in.

Sorry for the terrible lighting, poor thing is a little bleached.

That little guy will color up in no time. Someone gave me a fully bleached white nem and it colored up in a few months.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Just stumbled upon this thread and will now stalk it

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Now that you've had the light for a little while so you still like it? Those have been on my list of lights to consider for my 75.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Now that you've had the light for a little while so you still like it? Those have been on my list of lights to consider for my 75.

I do still like it! I'm still trying to figure out what settings I like the best and will give the best growth.
Tested the water last night and my mag was pretty low, 850, so I'm working on that with magnesium chloride as well as bringing the nitrates (3) and phosphates (0) up a bit. I'm thinking of turning off the skimmer for a while or maybe just removing the media basket from the back.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Cool. What I liked initially with the light you've got is all the channels to control. The light I have now the white channel, even on 1% is so stinkin' bright is like you've turned on a flood light. It grows algea like a champ though, lol.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Update coming soon.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Update coming soon.

Well...

 

[william Lutman]

Anyone with this, or similar tanks upgrade the return pump?
If so, what did you upgrade to?
I'm thinking I need a little bit more flow in there, but don't want to add a powerhead..

I upgraded to the MightyJet 266 on my IM 15

 

[OrchidMiss]

 

[Mhamilton0911]

So many bubbles....

 

[OrchidMiss]

Felicia is the bubble queen.
I need to get another arrow crab in there. That guy was so neat!

Maria the ywg still lives under the rocks on the left with Snippy Snappy the pistol shrimp. Lorna, my firefish, was banished by Felicia to my return pump section of the AIO.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Felica's bubble fortress is out of control. The MP10 is back at vortech bc is stopped working, so all the bubbles have become a bit flacid and less than bubbly.

The dragon herself.
Beware to any hand that enters her lair.

New alien crab!

"Peppermint" shrimp that wants nothing to do with aiptasia.

Lorna is still banished. I think she likes it back there though.

Maria the ywg vanished, and there are actually 2 snippy snappies, so I need a goby or 2 to pair with them.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Oh! And this is Miko.
Miko and the alien crab were both added a couple weeks ago when my daughter was home. She picked them out

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Sorry I’m confused... You were going to start with a 10g QT tank and now it turned into a 25g lagoon or something?

 

[OrchidMiss]

Sorry I’m confused... You were going to start with a 10g QT tank and now it turned into a 25g lagoon or something?

Started with a 10g tank that was previously used for QT, and upgraded to a 20g, yes.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Felica's bubble fortress is out of control. The MP10 is back at vortech bc is stopped working, so all the bubbles have become a bit flacid and less than bubbly.

The dragon herself.
Beware to any hand that enters her lair.

New alien crab!

"Peppermint" shrimp that wants nothing to do with aiptasia.

Lorna is still banished. I think she likes it back there though.

Maria the ywg vanished, and there are actually 2 snippy snappies, so I need a goby or 2 to pair with them.

looks great, the alien crab looks cool

 

[OrchidMiss]

Felicia isn't very thrilled with me.
While the MP10 was out of the tank, the majority of the btas migrated to the back wall. This made their removal extremely easy!
She still has 4 or 5 left that she is guarding very carefully from me, attacking and biting and thrashing to rip flesh from bone.

I removed about 15 nems and was lucky enough to make an awesome deal with @tsmaquatics and Josh looking for a pair of yashas to go with my pair of pistols.

This was this morning.

 

[OrchidMiss]

also, Lorna is still banished to the return and seems rather happy back there.