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hey so im stuck in germany with nothing to do because of a holiday for today so i may as well just do a small update, i didnt forget anything but everything was doing good when i left, my mom is in charge of the tanks while im gone and shes doing a crappy job of keeping me updated.
there was a storm last week that took out the sump pump and she only noticed it because i called and told her to check, it was off for about a day and a half, everything is ok though.
i also bought a pigeon blood discus for my freshwater and its doing ok, i have to get him friends though.
which leads me to this dilemna, i have recently aqcuired roughly 350 bucks for graduation with 250 for actual spending, and my birthday is coming up so i can assume another 150 at the least. but heres the few things stopping me from going coral crazy;
college- meaning id have to drive back every weekend to check on the tank because i cant trust my parents (i have a feeling that as soon as im gone my dad will buy a ton of fish)
discus- he needs friends and those friends are going to cost roughly 275$, meaning i will have no money after that haha, but i will have some awesome discus!
i think im going to have to stop getting stuff just because im going to be gone, so dont expect alot of new stuff from this thread. But, stick around because when i go im allowed a 10 gallon in the dorm, so im thinking a frag tank with some of my stuff from the 90 and whats left in the pico (which i think ill make it planted since plants are the only things growing in there) with a metal halide for light and maybe some tiny obscure pair of fish.
oh and the cardinals keep breeding so i may get another shot sooner or later.
and i promise ill get pics when i get back! no excuses.
there was a storm last week that took out the sump pump and she only noticed it because i called and told her to check, it was off for about a day and a half, everything is ok though.
i also bought a pigeon blood discus for my freshwater and its doing ok, i have to get him friends though.
which leads me to this dilemna, i have recently aqcuired roughly 350 bucks for graduation with 250 for actual spending, and my birthday is coming up so i can assume another 150 at the least. but heres the few things stopping me from going coral crazy;
college- meaning id have to drive back every weekend to check on the tank because i cant trust my parents (i have a feeling that as soon as im gone my dad will buy a ton of fish)
discus- he needs friends and those friends are going to cost roughly 275$, meaning i will have no money after that haha, but i will have some awesome discus!
i think im going to have to stop getting stuff just because im going to be gone, so dont expect alot of new stuff from this thread. But, stick around because when i go im allowed a 10 gallon in the dorm, so im thinking a frag tank with some of my stuff from the 90 and whats left in the pico (which i think ill make it planted since plants are the only things growing in there) with a metal halide for light and maybe some tiny obscure pair of fish.
oh and the cardinals keep breeding so i may get another shot sooner or later.
and i promise ill get pics when i get back! no excuses.
alrighty so im back and im getting about a million pictures ready for photobucket to send off but heres an update
everything is doing good save for two corals and some rics. the bubble is dying and ive fixed it by doing some iodine dips. my setosa grew a ton but its now dying for some reason and i suspect the urchins, but i fragged it 4 times and i have 3 frags doing ok, just in case. my rics for some reason have taken to either shrinking to oblivion or disintegrating, why i dont know, im left with the ones my dad bought, the orange ric, and the lime green green is maybe this big now so im expecting it to die []
i got new coral, a colony of green palythoa grandis, fragged that twice because of some oddly placed polyps.
the fish are great, everyone is happy and the cardinals have spawned twice, though dad is refusing to hold for more than a day.
i cleaned up the sand bed quite a bit on a water change and hopefully got rid of the last of the grape algae (ugh)
annnnd expect a miilion pictures starting from when i had those red spots.
(also what do you think of a future tank for sea horses and red spot cardinals? like a shoal of 10 or so, im looking into it but it may just work, FOWLR of course)
everything is doing good save for two corals and some rics. the bubble is dying and ive fixed it by doing some iodine dips. my setosa grew a ton but its now dying for some reason and i suspect the urchins, but i fragged it 4 times and i have 3 frags doing ok, just in case. my rics for some reason have taken to either shrinking to oblivion or disintegrating, why i dont know, im left with the ones my dad bought, the orange ric, and the lime green green is maybe this big now so im expecting it to die []
i got new coral, a colony of green palythoa grandis, fragged that twice because of some oddly placed polyps.
the fish are great, everyone is happy and the cardinals have spawned twice, though dad is refusing to hold for more than a day.
i cleaned up the sand bed quite a bit on a water change and hopefully got rid of the last of the grape algae (ugh)
annnnd expect a miilion pictures starting from when i had those red spots.
(also what do you think of a future tank for sea horses and red spot cardinals? like a shoal of 10 or so, im looking into it but it may just work, FOWLR of course)
Nice to see you again, GAB. Not sure about the cardinals and the sea horses. Might be interesting. May do ok with macros as well.
Rics are weird sometimes. Is your water perhaps too clean or is something bothering the mushies? palythoas are nasty little buggers. I love them though. But nasty. Meanie corals. LOL
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Rics are weird sometimes. Is your water perhaps too clean or is something bothering the mushies? palythoas are nasty little buggers. I love them though. But nasty. Meanie corals. LOL
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What the water can be too clean? That could be a possibility because my pico is straight 0s and my porcelain crab is always eating.
The palys I made sure they are far away from the rest of the rockwork, they look really nice (youll see once these pictures load, its taking forever but I have half of them done)
Oh and for stock I'm getting 3 more fish for the 90 and then I'm done.
A wrasse - I really want something blue, and preferably a leopard wrasse (male) but ill just have to wait and see
The long nose hawkfish
A yellow pyramid butterfly fish, easy to keep and doesn't eat corals, looks nice too.
And as for my dorm, its a ten gallon frag reef, mostly acans but some acroporas (basically, ALL the colorful things!) I want to light it with a 70 watt DIY metal halide, Steph thinks a T5 unit would be better considering the amount of heat MH gives off.
As for stock ill take my porcelain crab, an aceopora crab, and maybe a pair of dottybacks or a really nice psuedochromis
The palys I made sure they are far away from the rest of the rockwork, they look really nice (youll see once these pictures load, its taking forever but I have half of them done)
Oh and for stock I'm getting 3 more fish for the 90 and then I'm done.
A wrasse - I really want something blue, and preferably a leopard wrasse (male) but ill just have to wait and see
The long nose hawkfish
A yellow pyramid butterfly fish, easy to keep and doesn't eat corals, looks nice too.
And as for my dorm, its a ten gallon frag reef, mostly acans but some acroporas (basically, ALL the colorful things!) I want to light it with a 70 watt DIY metal halide, Steph thinks a T5 unit would be better considering the amount of heat MH gives off.
As for stock ill take my porcelain crab, an aceopora crab, and maybe a pair of dottybacks or a really nice psuedochromis
yes actually i already did go for the discus, they come in tomorrow morning which is why im going to post these pictures as fast a possible and GO TO SLEEP
Porcelain Crab
cup coral, notice, its green
happy camper
bangaii has eggs
setosa, few days after i got it
getting a bit more to handle haha
reverse superman monti
green birdnest with purple polyps
the decline...
green fleshed candy cane purple tipped frogspawn, mouthful that one
cant hold it any longer
first pictures of the babies
after about a day or two, they liked the corners
last picture i had of the babies, maybe 6-8 days?
Rudolph first pictures
the very mean clownfish now imprisoned
the gang
urchin and cup coral, this thing has refused to open and has turned a weird light orange with a green center, its coloring back up however
Crabzilla
cant quite see it but in the center there is a red patch with white spots, that is a very small red invert, it takes brine shrimp
Blasto frag, unfortunatley it has faded in color because of excessive light issues with the unit im using
black sponge, i have a pink one somewhere and my light blue one isnt having fun
the 30$ discus that has forced me to spend 200$ getting friends
frogspawn is doing awesome, aslo my torch coral has split, i have four polyps now, my two candy canes are also going crazy
the setosa when i got back from germany
palys
tank during water change
after wards, and current set up
setosa after fragging
TAKE THAT
Porcelain Crab
cup coral, notice, its green
happy camper
bangaii has eggs
setosa, few days after i got it
getting a bit more to handle haha
reverse superman monti
green birdnest with purple polyps
the decline...
green fleshed candy cane purple tipped frogspawn, mouthful that one
cant hold it any longer
first pictures of the babies
after about a day or two, they liked the corners
last picture i had of the babies, maybe 6-8 days?
Rudolph first pictures
the very mean clownfish now imprisoned
the gang
urchin and cup coral, this thing has refused to open and has turned a weird light orange with a green center, its coloring back up however
Crabzilla
cant quite see it but in the center there is a red patch with white spots, that is a very small red invert, it takes brine shrimp
Blasto frag, unfortunatley it has faded in color because of excessive light issues with the unit im using
black sponge, i have a pink one somewhere and my light blue one isnt having fun
the 30$ discus that has forced me to spend 200$ getting friends
frogspawn is doing awesome, aslo my torch coral has split, i have four polyps now, my two candy canes are also going crazy
the setosa when i got back from germany
palys
tank during water change
after wards, and current set up
setosa after fragging
TAKE THAT
FishAreFriendsNotFood10
Fish Herder
Wow what a update it's like eye candy to me 
impressed.net
impressed.net 
Either Pseudocorynactis or Corynactis - great little guys and easy to propagate if fed regularly, but a possible hazard to really small fish. I had one ~1" in diameter take out a juvi clown goby in the past.
Unfortunately the fry have died, my brine shrimp did not hatch in large enough quantity for me to keep them alive, I have a brine culture now so I dad decides to hold ill be ready, the twenty gallon though I cannot use due to crabzilla
Thanks donya ill keep it on the frag rack for now
And thanks for the comments! I actually got the group photo by chance
I actually like how the tank looks I just wish there was less crap on the rocks.
And that discus isn't treating its new friends nicely xc
Thanks donya ill keep it on the frag rack for now
And thanks for the comments! I actually got the group photo by chance
I actually like how the tank looks I just wish there was less crap on the rocks.
And that discus isn't treating its new friends nicely xc
alright so for some reason photobucket is having trouble getting my emails so the pictures have yet to download, im taking some more now because i hanged out with my friend and we both have tanks, he has a cabbage leather thats split twice now so he gave a chunk and i gave him most of my spare yellow polyps, one frag of the palys, and some sky blue palys just lying around.
also, my setosa is still dying? i checked this afternoon and now more of it is dead, it makes no sense. do SPS die in chunks or are my urchins having a snack? i can easily move them to the 20 where they cant do anything but they were doing so well.
lastly, the little tub i had floating in the 90 with the red invert and the palm tree polyps somehow sunk, i was able to get everyhting back in but the palm trees have floated away somewhere where i cant see them. ill keep an eye out but it looks like they might be lost.
other than the setosa everything is growing well, candy cane is a little moody but everything seems ok other than that damned setosa
ok, so ill get pictures up and you can see the evidence for yourselves.
also, my setosa is still dying? i checked this afternoon and now more of it is dead, it makes no sense. do SPS die in chunks or are my urchins having a snack? i can easily move them to the 20 where they cant do anything but they were doing so well.
lastly, the little tub i had floating in the 90 with the red invert and the palm tree polyps somehow sunk, i was able to get everyhting back in but the palm trees have floated away somewhere where i cant see them. ill keep an eye out but it looks like they might be lost.
other than the setosa everything is growing well, candy cane is a little moody but everything seems ok other than that damned setosa
ok, so ill get pictures up and you can see the evidence for yourselves.
GGtank
Fish Fanatic
Awww sorry to hear about your bangai fry, they were soooooooo uber cute!!!
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