Sarah's 28g JBJ

revhtree · Aug 31, 2012

Looking good! You need to keep it exciting for her!

Mike&Terry · Aug 31, 2012

revhtree said:
Looking good! You need to keep it exciting for her!

+1

And LOVE that clam!

skinz78 · Aug 31, 2012

Yeah, she keeps saying she wants more color in there, after the wedding we'll be adding more.

Mike&Terry · Sep 26, 2012

Any updates? :bigsmile:

skinz78 · Sep 26, 2012

Yep! Her fishy's and clam are doing great, just needs a few more to top it off. The tank is pretty much coral less though. The SPS's I put in there in a mad dash to try and save some of mine in my DT didn't make it through the transfer, they were super stressed so I didn't have much hope for them to begin with.

I do have a shipment supposedly coming in today though. I bought in to a group buy about a year and a half ago for $100 and it's going into this tank.

This is the list of what is coming:
Pilti Purple chalice from LBA, Jedi Mindtrick Monti, tri color valida, a frag of PPRPE, Blue Agave, OPE, Utter Chaos, and Bloodshots.

skinz78 · Sep 30, 2012

So the strangest thing is going on right now. Two nights ago all the fish were there and fat and happy.. Last night I couldn't find a single fish anywhere, not even on the carpet. There one night and gone the next.... I did all dry rock so I would be suprized to find a Mantis or a Crab, but today I'm gonna take all the rock out and see what I find.

For the record there were:

4 Gobies, 1 Bicolor Blennie, 1 Psuedochromis, and 1 Damsel. All gone now without a trace.

The clam and frags are all looking awesome though.

skinz78 · Oct 12, 2012

I still can't figure out what happened with all the fish in this tank. I completely removed all the rocks and dipped them in some FW to see if there were any crabs or predators in them "which is silly to assume because the rock was dry when I started the tank" and so I found nothing. But in the process I ripped the back wall out of the tank because I had no filtration in there and it took up too much space for my liking. I'm glad I did it, sure I can see the heater but who cares right? LOL.

Speaking of the heater, I am thinking the tank got hot and killed the fish but not the corals and clam. When I did the work on the tank I noticed that it was up to 84 degrees. The heater was turned all the way down but yet it was still on, so I replaced it with a back up and now it's been about 78 degrees.

Shouldn't fish in a hot tank show signs of stress first before dieing? I'm stumped, I have a bunch of corals and the clam in there and they all look great.

weaponsofmassdesign · Oct 12, 2012

My tank got up to 89 recently. Killed several coral but the fish were perfectly fine. My three year old pair of clowns have experienced 94 when a heater stuck with no trouble also.

skinz78 · Oct 12, 2012

Strange, I mean the fish looked perfectly healthy and fine one day and all of them dead the next.

skinz78 · Nov 22, 2012

Well Sarah's been slacking on updates so I've got some pic's! See if you can see the rare named Zoa's:tongue:

Squishie89 · Nov 22, 2012

There is obviously not enough clams in there! I can see bare sand!

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mallorieGgator · Nov 22, 2012

Looking good Chris! Love all the clams. I guess you never found all of your missing fish?

MarvinsReef · Nov 22, 2012

so sorry to hear about the fishes. clams look great though.

skinz78 · Nov 22, 2012

Thanks everyone!

The clams are in there because there is something going on in my big tank and these guys are new and haven't been in the big tank yet. If they are on the sandbed they'll stay in there till I feel confident I can add them to my 120g. The one on the rocks is a resident and will stay in there.

The fish just all died one day, I can't explain what happened. Maybe a major PH fluctuation or rise in ammonia, I don't know ether way.

Right now there is a Snowcasso, a misbar Clown, and a Sapphire Damsel in there. The Sapphire Damsel is pretty cool, it is usually dark blue but when it is excited it flash's to black. They are a new type of Damsel and I picked it up in a LFS in Seattle for $7 so pretty spendy for a Damsel. I'm gonna get 2 more to add to the tank, this one seems to be very shy and doesn't have the Damsel attitude.

skinz78 · Dec 16, 2012

Anyone ready for some long over due updates???

Sapphire Damsel, Chrysiptera springeri. It changes colors depending on it's mood from dark electric blue to black. Cool little fish to watch, and right now it doesn't seem to be aggressive.

revhtree · Dec 16, 2012

Sarah's tank looks good man!

SNAKEMANVET · Dec 16, 2012

The tank is looking good,I like the clams.

skinz78 · Dec 16, 2012

Thanks! It's really coming together nicely!

skinz78 · Dec 25, 2012

Update cell phone shot taken tonight. You can see how plain the red clam looks front view.

alberthiel · Dec 25, 2012

skinz78 said:
LOL yeah, I'm thinking Sarah wants to do SPS in this tank. I'm totally letting her pick what she wants, problem is she doesn't live here and when she is here we are usually out enjoying the weather or doing something with the kids so the tank is in slow mo... I want to snip some frags out of my DT but I want her to pick them and where they go in this tank. Probably gonna do a fish order next week.

As long as you have the right kind of light for SPS that should work, and of course SPS like real high quality water and strong water flow (turbulent type and not laminar). But if you show some pics of the corals from which you are going to take the frags maybe we can make more suggestions. What light is over the tank now if I may ask as SPS needs high K degree lighting and a lot of it IMO and IME.

Is it Acropora frags you are thinking of. Those are easy to frag as you well know and if you provide the environment they need they will do well and grow and keep their color and not turn brown (if they loose their zooxanthellae).

If you have more questions on SPS feel free to post questions to my thread in my signature. All the best for the Holidays to you and your Family and happy reef keeping!