Vicarious Cynic Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Just came back from Nautilus with a new tube anemone and a small frag of zoa's. Have em floating for temp, then a little acclimation and in they'll go. I'll write more about my tank in a bit, and post up some photos of critters new and old (old being 3 1/2 months). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarious Cynic Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 Some of my critters Royal Gramma and Purple dart fish Candy Cane - with plenty of epoxy. The bright green clenched one on the lower right is now splitting! Torchy! (rock2) Zoas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h2odvl Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Nice! really cool zoanthids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarious Cynic Posted October 3, 2010 Author Share Posted October 3, 2010 First fragging today. Split the candy cane into two pieces (a four head and a three head) and took the big brown paly's out. I missed one, so I'll have to go back for it. Stuck the brown palys that I culled onto a plug - just to see if they will live. Next step - frag some of the zoas that I like - try getting little colonies on plugs. Tank is looking more like a collection than a display - fine for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newfisher Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Keep it as your frag tank and set up a HUGE display LoL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batchelor Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Nice job! Way to support your local shop. I try to go in to The Nautilus every couple of weeks and get a little something. I got a real nice clove polyp colony last week. It was a little pricey but I want to help keep them open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarious Cynic Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 Oh boy,been awhile. Guess I set my tank up right cause I've seriously neglected it the last couple of months and mornings died. Check that - lost some snails and crabs. For the first four months I was doing weekly water changes, daily testing, all that. The last two months - not so much. Did one change about a month ago. Today I cleaned the protein skimmer, got the salinity right (was a bit high) and scraped the sides. Have a batch of water aging. Corals look good - zoas, candy canes, torch and some ricordia. Even a little piece of Monti cap. Some cloves and other polyps. All alive - the rate of growth has been slow. So what happened? I upgraded my lights and got a couple pieces with some algae on em, and the combo seemed to blow up a bit, I've got this dark green hairy algae that grows everywhere there's good water flow, and these little half in long bright green stalks that seem to grow as fast as I can pick em. Other than paying attention to my tank like I should - how can I combat the algae? Thanks - Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarious Cynic Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 [language filter] auto spell. In the first paragraph that should read "nothings died" NOT mornings died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwenReefin Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Got any cool shots of your whole tank, just curious about what a 40long looks like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarious Cynic Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 I'll take some new ones and post them tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algae Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Hey Mark, How long a light period are you at? Most Algae feed on phosphates and nitrates. If you can get a macro algae to take up these then the micro algae will starve out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarious Cynic Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 So - for the most part of last year my tank was neglected. It was overgrown with hair algae, Cyanobacteria and some other yet to be id'd things. My royal gramma has survived, as have my ricordia (they have almost flourished). There seem to be a couple of small spas trying to start and some star polyps. I've done four 1/3 water changes in the last week, scraping and siphoning algae every time. Reintroduced some clean up two days ago. 12 hermits, some turbos and an emerald crab. We'll see where this goes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algae Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Hey Mark! Good to hear from you again. Ricordea are all a very hardy coral. The clean up crew should help ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramy Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Glad to see you stuck with it , alot of people might have gotten discouraged after a year and their tank is not where they want it to be and covered in algae. Between the water changes and the clean up crew sounds like you are on the right track =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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