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Cleo642
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They're beautiful. Love zoas.CAE's ..
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LILBUDDHA
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Well so much for the full jpeg shots . Not going there anymore...
I keep finding cools things that came in on the GMP rock .
A rare treat was finding some pacific chitons . It's hard to get a pic of them but I have seen at least 10 of them in the tank . I circled it for reference . U may or may not be able to make it out .
I keep finding cools things that came in on the GMP rock .
A rare treat was finding some pacific chitons . It's hard to get a pic of them but I have seen at least 10 of them in the tank . I circled it for reference . U may or may not be able to make it out .
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LILBUDDHA
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I also found this unknown soft coral . It has a pointy tip when fully open like a artichoke n these circles that are pink on the sides. I can't remember the name . I can't locate my Sprung n Delbeek vol 2 book for id . I will try to take a pic again when it's fully expanded .
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LILBUDDHA
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I know why the pic's are fuzzy now . Lens cover on LG- G4 is cracked . What in da ham sandwhich happened ? Don't know ..
Checked some levels on the 40 today
Nitrate 20 ppm..I guess the bioballs n feeding are showing results .API
Calcium 440 Nyos
Mag 1600 Nyos . I think I can't stop using the Tech M as it appears I am past the algae bloom stage .
Alk 9.5 DKH Nyos
Phos .. didn't check it yet .
Checked some levels on the 40 today
Nitrate 20 ppm..I guess the bioballs n feeding are showing results .API
Calcium 440 Nyos
Mag 1600 Nyos . I think I can't stop using the Tech M as it appears I am past the algae bloom stage .
Alk 9.5 DKH Nyos
Phos .. didn't check it yet .
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LILBUDDHA
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Last dose of Bio Clean . I can switch gears to something else now . Tank is cleaned up well . Lots of critter n pods .
Brown liquid jar is LRF n Coral Frenzy with some other powdered stuff I had around .
I have to remind myself not to do a water change for a week or two .
Brown liquid jar is LRF n Coral Frenzy with some other powdered stuff I had around .
I have to remind myself not to do a water change for a week or two .
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LILBUDDHA
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Yes, I give BioClean a thumbs up . . I like to use it for the intial 3 months of a new tank start up . MB7 vodka or vinegar works just as well . The Prodibio is easier to dose . Once every two weeks .
I only like to buy Prodibio when I can find it on sale (which is rare ). I do love the reef booster night food .
There are a bunch of pacific chitons that came in on this GMP rock . A store that used to get good rock back in the day used to collect them to sell them .They scraped them off the rocks with old credit cards . Some corals I again cannot identify are also showing up more and more .
Tried to take another pic with g4 n the cracked lens cover does blur things a bit on the left side .
My JF Fox flame remounted . It's browned out due to dip n qt n interceptor but the tip is coming back . To the right is a PC Rainbow Acro.
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LILBUDDHA
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Is that Pectina left corner?
I really like the Flame, it's a really unique looking coral.
Thanks for the reviews.
Ha !.. Yes it is a SIP . It has grown quite a few mouths since I got it .
How's that Hydra 52 working out for u ?
I need to visit your thread to see what u r hoarding over there ...
U can at least 3 chitons nesr the front glass.
Pink Kraks that have grown a few babies . I never took pic's of it .
I borrowed someone's toaster phone while she was asleep n sneaked a pic with it .
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LILBUDDHA
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Since lady Tahoe61 ? made me feel like crap with her great pic's. 
I felt I would do a recap of equipment n coral list .
IM Fusion 40
Tunze 9004 Skimmer in chamber outer chamber 1
Bio Balls in outer chamber 2
EcoTech Mp40
Geisemann Matrix II with Hexarc bulbs . 2 460's ,1 true actinic , 1 Geisemann PC lagoon blue
Tunze Nano ATO
Eheim 75 True Temp Heater . I unplug it a lot .
ChemiPure blue (large bag split in half ) Not impressed
Marineland Black Diamond Carbon
Rowa GFO ^^^^All 3 in 2 bags in second chamber .
Salt .. Started with RSCP then switched to RS Blue Bucket.
Now I just opened B-Ionic Sea salt . Change 4 to 8 gallons a week . alternate weeks
Test kits Big 3 Nyos
Ammonia / Nitrate API
Phos . Hanna Green Egg 713
Dosing
Used Bio Clean (first 3 months ) . dosed bi monthly .Finished .
TM Reef actif . bi weekly
Lugols 2 drops once a week
Feed various foods . LRF, Coral Frenzy , Formula one small pellets ,
Pohls Xtra 1 ml every other day .
Calcium Ascorbate ? Powdered Vit C . (stopped dosing due to KH increase ).
1 cap Purple up every other day
Special Blend . dosed 1 once a week . Finished ( didn't see a difference )
I felt I would do a recap of equipment n coral list .
IM Fusion 40
Tunze 9004 Skimmer in chamber outer chamber 1
Bio Balls in outer chamber 2
EcoTech Mp40
Geisemann Matrix II with Hexarc bulbs . 2 460's ,1 true actinic , 1 Geisemann PC lagoon blue
Tunze Nano ATO
Eheim 75 True Temp Heater . I unplug it a lot .
ChemiPure blue (large bag split in half ) Not impressed
Marineland Black Diamond Carbon
Rowa GFO ^^^^All 3 in 2 bags in second chamber .
Salt .. Started with RSCP then switched to RS Blue Bucket.
Now I just opened B-Ionic Sea salt . Change 4 to 8 gallons a week . alternate weeks
Test kits Big 3 Nyos
Ammonia / Nitrate API
Phos . Hanna Green Egg 713
Dosing
Used Bio Clean (first 3 months ) . dosed bi monthly .Finished .
TM Reef actif . bi weekly
Lugols 2 drops once a week
Feed various foods . LRF, Coral Frenzy , Formula one small pellets ,
Pohls Xtra 1 ml every other day .
Calcium Ascorbate ? Powdered Vit C . (stopped dosing due to KH increase ).
1 cap Purple up every other day
Special Blend . dosed 1 once a week . Finished ( didn't see a difference )
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LILBUDDHA
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Live Stock ... Quite a costly fiasco . Fallow ATM
Golden Pygmy (RIP) LIL guy cost me quite a few corals . lil coral eater ..
White Tail Bristle Tooth (RIP)
Pair of Frostbite Clowns . (RIP ) .. LFS screwed the pooch on this one . Won in a raffle but they had them in a tank with ammonia in it .
Pair of Bangaii's (RIP)
Hector's Gobi (RIP )
Target Mandarin (RIP ) . It was eating pellet food too...dang it !!!
Live Rock
50 lbs Golden Marindo Persada Rock
Sold some . Using some as seed rock for rock that has been collected for years .
20 lbs Tonga Branch Dry ( sold most of it .)Used 1 branch .
Corals
Z's n P's
Rasta's
Tequila Sunrise
Pink Kraks
Poison Berries
Snitches
Hallucinations
Bam Bam's
Unknown brighter than bright Blondies
BBEB's
Pulsar's
Night Crawlers
RK leprachauns ?
Electric Oompa Loompas
CB Latin Lover's
Tyree Space Monster's
Red Hornet's
Blue Hornet's
Sunny D's
CAE's
Softies
CB Japanese Green Toadstool
Ultra Orange Ricordea
LPS
SIP
Ultra Acan
Mr Coral Acan ( 3 Gen home grown )
Ultra Grade a Acan
Rainbow Delight Acan
Orange Envy Acan
CB Ultra Iron Man Acan
Branching Duncan
Toxic Green Hammer
Gold Hammer (goldie munched two heads of 3 )
Purple /Green Frogspawn
CB Skittles Favia
CB Volcano Favia
CB Tropic Thunder Favia
CB Dragon's revenge Favia
CC Insano Favia (RIP ) goldie munched this one
Unknown Favia
SPS
JKR 's Blue Tip Stag
Tierra De Fuego
PC Rainbow
JF Fox Flame
JF Sour Twist
RR Aussie Gold
BnG Granulosa
Hawkins Echinata
Red Robin Stag
Upscales Microclados
OA Fire Garden Acro
Reef Keeper's Insane Sunset Milli
TCN Piglet Acro
CUC
Trochus Snails
Cerith Snails
Nassi Snails (florida type )
Blue leg Hermits
Turbo Snail ( hitchhiker on GMP rock .
TBA .. a few more but on the lookout for a Palmer's Blue Milli ATM
Golden Pygmy (RIP) LIL guy cost me quite a few corals . lil coral eater ..
White Tail Bristle Tooth (RIP)
Pair of Frostbite Clowns . (RIP ) .. LFS screwed the pooch on this one . Won in a raffle but they had them in a tank with ammonia in it .
Pair of Bangaii's (RIP)
Hector's Gobi (RIP )
Target Mandarin (RIP ) . It was eating pellet food too...dang it !!!
Live Rock
50 lbs Golden Marindo Persada Rock
Sold some . Using some as seed rock for rock that has been collected for years .
20 lbs Tonga Branch Dry ( sold most of it .)Used 1 branch .
Corals
Z's n P's
Rasta's
Tequila Sunrise
Pink Kraks
Poison Berries
Snitches
Hallucinations
Bam Bam's
Unknown brighter than bright Blondies
BBEB's
Pulsar's
Night Crawlers
RK leprachauns ?
Electric Oompa Loompas
CB Latin Lover's
Tyree Space Monster's
Red Hornet's
Blue Hornet's
Sunny D's
CAE's
Softies
CB Japanese Green Toadstool
Ultra Orange Ricordea
LPS
SIP
Ultra Acan
Mr Coral Acan ( 3 Gen home grown )
Ultra Grade a Acan
Rainbow Delight Acan
Orange Envy Acan
CB Ultra Iron Man Acan
Branching Duncan
Toxic Green Hammer
Gold Hammer (goldie munched two heads of 3 )
Purple /Green Frogspawn
CB Skittles Favia
CB Volcano Favia
CB Tropic Thunder Favia
CB Dragon's revenge Favia
CC Insano Favia (RIP ) goldie munched this one
Unknown Favia
SPS
JKR 's Blue Tip Stag
Tierra De Fuego
PC Rainbow
JF Fox Flame
JF Sour Twist
RR Aussie Gold
BnG Granulosa
Hawkins Echinata
Red Robin Stag
Upscales Microclados
OA Fire Garden Acro
Reef Keeper's Insane Sunset Milli
TCN Piglet Acro
CUC
Trochus Snails
Cerith Snails
Nassi Snails (florida type )
Blue leg Hermits
Turbo Snail ( hitchhiker on GMP rock .
TBA .. a few more but on the lookout for a Palmer's Blue Milli ATM
LOL oh stop it, thanks for the chuckle though.
It's an obssession, we all know that. I like to compare and see what I can do differently, that is the science and the beauty of the hobby.
I will take
Upscales Microclados
Tierra De Fuego
Red Robin Stag
TCN Piglet Acro
So many corals such a small tank. :-(
Adam at Battle has a Palmers he is growing out again, I wait.
You have a great collection of zoanthids and lps. My tank is just not big enough.
It's an obssession, we all know that. I like to compare and see what I can do differently, that is the science and the beauty of the hobby.
I will take
Upscales Microclados
Tierra De Fuego
Red Robin Stag
TCN Piglet Acro
So many corals such a small tank. :-(
Adam at Battle has a Palmers he is growing out again, I wait.
You have a great collection of zoanthids and lps. My tank is just not big enough.
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LILBUDDHA
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Yes it does become that way ... Gotta have this or that . Hard to do when u have champagne taste n a beer budget .
The TCN your lfs should be able to get for you . (TCN-The Coral Nursery ) . I can point you in the right direction via PM if you are serious on the TDF n FFRR stag . Frags will be clean ,healthy n quite generous, plus decently priced . No BOOGER Frags ..LMK via pm in the fall when the weather is cooler .
R you saying I have too many corals ?. HA . I have reached my limits on z n p's , lps n sofites . I can only add a few more acro's . I would like a few blue ones n a couple special one's . I will try to maintain everything and watch it grow.
Still holding out on a few more gadgets .. ( hope black friday is good this year ) ...
I already got the go on a larger tank CADLIGHTS ARTISAN. No point if I can't maintain it.
