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I know, right? In the moment I was sorta frustrated and angry but it led me here, and made for a great anecdote to start this thread with.
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I know, right? In the moment I was sorta frustrated and angry but it led me here, and made for a great anecdote to start this thread with.
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New guy in quarantine. Yellow flanked fairy wrasse. Clearly has some healing to do, but looks otherwise healthy.
Eating well, but hides a lot. Only been less than a day though. First dose of cupramine. I'm wary about the LFS I bought him from, but I really wanted the fish. Thankfully, I was able to scoop up the last bottle of cupramine and 2 bottles of prazi that was on the shelf as well. :mad: Stupid medication ban.
Once I get things up to .5 ppm cupramine, there it sits for 14 days. Then on to 2 rounds of prazipro and then another 2 weeks observation.
Eating well, but hides a lot. Only been less than a day though. First dose of cupramine. I'm wary about the LFS I bought him from, but I really wanted the fish. Thankfully, I was able to scoop up the last bottle of cupramine and 2 bottles of prazi that was on the shelf as well. :mad: Stupid medication ban.
Once I get things up to .5 ppm cupramine, there it sits for 14 days. Then on to 2 rounds of prazipro and then another 2 weeks observation.
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Looking good! Great build thread
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Thanks!
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My restocking continues. Slowly dipping my fingers back into the hard coral game with some basic easy stuff after my losses last year. Sunset monti, pocillipora, yellow hammer and a chalice whose name I have no clue.
Pardon the stray bit of xenia, that stuff likes to photobomb. I'll pluck it once the stalk gets thick enough to grab with my tongs.
Pardon the stray bit of xenia, that stuff likes to photobomb. I'll pluck it once the stalk gets thick enough to grab with my tongs.
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My 1000th post on R2R! Saved it especially this afternoon for a shout-out to a local reefer who reached out on here and offered me a couple of freebie monti frags. I dropped by @sam.veilleux30 's place after work today, and got a nice in-person view of his tank. He's got some beautiful colonies.
Generous beyond reason, I didn't leave there with a couple of frags, but SEVEN assorted montis and acros, including a chunk of orange monticap the size of my hand!
Merci beaucoup Samuel !
Definitely go check out his build thread where he's got some great close-ups from his tank. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-sps-journey.453421/
Generous beyond reason, I didn't leave there with a couple of frags, but SEVEN assorted montis and acros, including a chunk of orange monticap the size of my hand!
Merci beaucoup Samuel !
Definitely go check out his build thread where he's got some great close-ups from his tank. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-sps-journey.453421/
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Hi W1ngz, the transfer went well?
As i said if you can keep them alive contact me in the future for others frags, it will be my pleasure.
Just spent the better part of this afternoon to redo my scape.
Happy reefing!
As i said if you can keep them alive contact me in the future for others frags, it will be my pleasure.
Just spent the better part of this afternoon to redo my scape.
Happy reefing!
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So far so good! I was able to mount the loose montis onto some disks, and got everything in the water. The monticap looked nice and orange at dinner time today and the aquaman started showing some polyps. Some tips on the red dragon are bleached out, so I'll monitor that, but I'm not concerned yet since it's only been a day and it's way off in a low light corner. I'll start to slowly move it closer to the middle and higher this weekend and see how it acclimates.
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Wow, I haven't updated this in a while. First things first, some updates on the corals I was given. I'll follow up with photos when the lights are on.
Life got in the way, and the acros were left down in the sand for far too long. I did what I could to keep them upright, and tried to wedge them into holes in the rocks but the snails decided to act more like cats, and repeatedly knocked them upside down into the sand. By the time I got them onto a rock properly they were well into STN and turned into algae covered sticks.
The montipora are still hanging on, but have been knocked down again I think by an increase in my phosphates. I think this was caused by my removing my huge xenia covered rock, at the same time as I pulled out 3/4 of the chaeto in my refugium. I had no idea xenia did such a good job of managing nitrate and phosphate levels, but I'd cut back my chaeto that much before and things didn't go haywire. I don't miss the xenia.
I've replaced my hardware store LED grow lamp with a Kessil H80 and extended the lighting period to slowly bring the nitrate and phosphate numbers back down, but I may get some GFO running to force the phosphates down faster if they don't drop this week more than they seem to be.
While the SPS have been struggling, my little yellow hammer has grown considerably from one head, to 5 and the pocillopora has settled in well also. The hammer has been joined by a torch and branching frogspawn about 3 weeks ago, and both seem to be doing well.
Life got in the way, and the acros were left down in the sand for far too long. I did what I could to keep them upright, and tried to wedge them into holes in the rocks but the snails decided to act more like cats, and repeatedly knocked them upside down into the sand. By the time I got them onto a rock properly they were well into STN and turned into algae covered sticks.
The montipora are still hanging on, but have been knocked down again I think by an increase in my phosphates. I think this was caused by my removing my huge xenia covered rock, at the same time as I pulled out 3/4 of the chaeto in my refugium. I had no idea xenia did such a good job of managing nitrate and phosphate levels, but I'd cut back my chaeto that much before and things didn't go haywire. I don't miss the xenia.
I've replaced my hardware store LED grow lamp with a Kessil H80 and extended the lighting period to slowly bring the nitrate and phosphate numbers back down, but I may get some GFO running to force the phosphates down faster if they don't drop this week more than they seem to be.
While the SPS have been struggling, my little yellow hammer has grown considerably from one head, to 5 and the pocillopora has settled in well also. The hammer has been joined by a torch and branching frogspawn about 3 weeks ago, and both seem to be doing well.
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On the fish side, I added a one spot foxface. It's settled in well also, and is more like a puppy than a fish, always posing for pictures, and swimming right up to the algae clip when I'm releasing the scraps and putting in some fresh nori.
Unfortunately, I like the foxface more than my female ocellaris did. For a week after he was introduced she would continuously charge whenever it came too close to her corner. Being the bigger fish, the foxface wasn't too bothered and just flashed his spines and went along his way. One evening I found her clinging to life with a puncture on her side, being dragged around the bottom by the currents. I can only guess that mrs clownfish got stuck by a spine on one of her charges. I got her into QT as quick as I could with some reef rally, but she didn't survive the toxin. My remaining male will hopefully have himself a new boyfriend shortly, so he can take over top spot as Mrs Clownfish.
I've also added an anemone. The morning after I added it, it was fully inflated and had found a spot on the new rock in the bottom middle. Of course, instead of chosing the front of the rock, it settled on the back so the best view I have of it right now is through an arch from one side of the tank.
Unfortunately, I like the foxface more than my female ocellaris did. For a week after he was introduced she would continuously charge whenever it came too close to her corner. Being the bigger fish, the foxface wasn't too bothered and just flashed his spines and went along his way. One evening I found her clinging to life with a puncture on her side, being dragged around the bottom by the currents. I can only guess that mrs clownfish got stuck by a spine on one of her charges. I got her into QT as quick as I could with some reef rally, but she didn't survive the toxin. My remaining male will hopefully have himself a new boyfriend shortly, so he can take over top spot as Mrs Clownfish.
I've also added an anemone. The morning after I added it, it was fully inflated and had found a spot on the new rock in the bottom middle. Of course, instead of chosing the front of the rock, it settled on the back so the best view I have of it right now is through an arch from one side of the tank.
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Nice build! But I’ll say, 99% of ice cubes are ice cuboids. So if you want to be that person that has to correct everyone when they say ice cubes, you won’t have many friends.
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Hardware wise, a few things have changed. I finally got around to installing my ground probe! And it's definitely doing some grounding, because it popped my GFCI as soon as it hit the water. Turns out my 5 year old Koralias were leaking some current, which explains why I would get zapped if I had some incidental contact with my T5 fixture with a hand in the water. Off to the store, and replaced the koralias with a set of Tunze 6025s.
I've also finally gotten a Kessil A360we in between the T5s to replace my really, really old AI Sol blue. I miss the moonlights, but overall the lighting looks a LOT better now than it did with a huge white box sitting on top of it.
I've also finally gotten a Kessil A360we in between the T5s to replace my really, really old AI Sol blue. I miss the moonlights, but overall the lighting looks a LOT better now than it did with a huge white box sitting on top of it.
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Working on eradicating the weeds. A few weeks ago I sold off a monster colony of xenia, this weekend I pulled the giant GSP covered rock and replaced it with a fresh rock. I'll miss the movement and bright green but I'm glad for a nice front and center place to put some euphyllia!
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More removals this week! I've gradually tried to undo all the newbie mistakes and bad additions over the years. One of the earliest fish I added to my first tank, was a six-line wrasse. Beautiful, fun to watch, active, curious and... murderous. He killed off my blue-side wrasse in less than a week after it graduated from QT to display.
I was shocked as I walked by the tank and saw him inside the pop bottle trap I had tossed in, not really thinking that would ever work.
Here he is peering at me through the hole in the GSP covered rock in my holding bin, just before I trucked him off to a LFS for some credit, and to reserve a new blue-side to take his place. So long you little @$%&!
I was shocked as I walked by the tank and saw him inside the pop bottle trap I had tossed in, not really thinking that would ever work.
Here he is peering at me through the hole in the GSP covered rock in my holding bin, just before I trucked him off to a LFS for some credit, and to reserve a new blue-side to take his place. So long you little @$%&!
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My last removal for the foreseeable time was my green pocillopora. It was a decent test frag to make sure I could keep SPS alive, but a little research led to horror stories of uncontrolled growth and invasive colonisation around tanks it's been introduced to.
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Is green pocillopora really that bad?
Quite a few months ago, one of my first test SPS was an itty bitty 2cm piece of pocillopora encrusted onto a plug. I snapped it off the plug, glued it onto a rock and left the encrusted plug down in the sand. Fast forward to now, I have a two little colonies, one where I glued it down and...
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from 30 thousand feet no one will know the difference!!Close enough to a cube for government work. Welcome to Reef2reef it truly is a great group of people. It comes down to respect and that's what I love about this forum is the respect.
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i am putting together an acrylic 90 cube ill send picks after i make my floating reef with live rock side note im also putting together a 30 cube tank as well
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