From snakes to fish

CanuckReefer · Oct 26, 2021

dvgyfresh said:
There are two on the left , one under the Xenia and one fell off the rock into the sand. And thanks man! Much appreciated I still have a long way to go , the quick way to fill a tank is with pest corals! The good news is that at this point the tank takes care of itself , mostly all my corals are trades from other reefers plus with Xenia growing so fast lfs gives me credit of 5$ a frag (sells for 20) so I’m able to get more frags

I am seeing a lot of softies and LPS with flow. Love it. Some Xenia, bright Toadstool Leathers, Zoas or polyps ( not sure) , BTA, fighting or Strawberry Conch? Love it. What is the one top right? Kenya or something else. I like the flashes of orange and green. Need more orange or red in my setup.

dvgyfresh · Oct 26, 2021

CanuckReefer said:
I am seeing a lot of softies and LPS with flow. Love it. Some Xenia, bright Toadstool Leathers, Zoas or polyps ( not sure) , BTA, fighting or Strawberry Conch? Love it. What is the one top right? Kenya or something else. I like the flashes of orange and green. Need more orange or red in my setup.

My fiancé picked the Xenia and I like the movement , Xenia withstanded being right infront of gyre I’m convinced they can take any type of flow. Not sure on conch either it was fiancé bought and picked, but it has grown huge. Top right is pink anthelia with Xenia with Kenya tree , three weed corals. The Pandora zoas add nice color and also grow like weeds I started with 5 polyps on it’s taking over the whole rock same with the green ones

dvgyfresh · Oct 29, 2021

First ever live sale from @Pieces of the Ocean , sorry for the blue lights will get white pics later. Purple dragon eyes and magician zoas still ticked just put into the tank. Sadly didn’t get the free frag from the live sale , hoping these grow nice

dvgyfresh · Oct 30, 2021

POTO pieces opened up! Looking good so far! Also recovering anemones looking better , mouth closed and gaining back color- haven’t tested all week, will on Sunday! Lol

Lost in the Sauce · Oct 30, 2021

Everything looking pretty darn happy my man!

dvgyfresh · Oct 30, 2021

Lost in the Sauce said:
Everything looking pretty darn happy my man!

Thanks! Wish I could show the other gbta but two of them like to live under a ledge that I can barley see

elorablue · Oct 31, 2021

Looks great!
Did you get the Dragon Acro?

dvgyfresh · Oct 31, 2021

elorablue said:
Looks great!
Did you get the Dragon Acro?

Yes I did get it , it’s pictured here I’m not sure if I should move it up further lol

dvgyfresh · Oct 31, 2021

It’s pretty low in the tank

elorablue · Oct 31, 2021

dvgyfresh said:
Yes I did get it , it’s pictured here I’m not sure if I should move it up further lol

I would recommend moving it up slowly over a week or more. It’ll be happier in the long run.

fishguy242 · Oct 31, 2021

and sump that crab !!!... ;Blackeye

BeltedCoyote · Oct 31, 2021

Got some catching up to do, but I’m following along!

dvgyfresh · Oct 31, 2021

fishguy242 said:
and sump that crab !!!... ;Blackeye

Have to get the energy / rocks out to catch him, so maybe next month ! Lol

dvgyfresh · Nov 1, 2021

One of the baby BTA, attached to snail shell and now is dangerously close to gyre

dvgyfresh · Nov 1, 2021

dvgyfresh said:
One of the baby BTA, attached to snail shell and now is dangerously close to gyre

Update , couldn’t let nature take its course near my gyre lol hopefully he moves next to the other nems there is another baby one there

dvgyfresh · Nov 4, 2021

Some anemone spam , one of them just split in the third pic had 10 nitrate and 0 phosphate reading today so turned off gfo and fed extra nori, and alk 8.7 / ph 8.4

dvgyfresh · Nov 5, 2021

TWO current issues I am dealing with :

1.) caulerpa - starting to take over DT , it accidentally got in a while back when I setup the tank and is flourishing - taking it off the rocks does not work due to rooting. Sea hare? Dose vibrant? Not really sure how to combat this. I’ve heard that bristle tooth tangs enjoy caulerpa but I don’t think I have the space.

2.) aptasia - gulf live rock brang me aptasia and I ignored for too long and now it’s in the 100’s . I have a six line so I think berghia nudibranch are out. I tried a peppermint shrimp before and it ate a BTA - retry? These are like supercharged aptasia lol getting huge

I am thinking of saying screw it and getting 5 peppermints and praying and then dosing vibrant to kill off caulerpa in DT and cutting off my sump for the time being cuz it’s a refugium so it’ll be two separate tanks for a bit. Thoughts?