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    Kole Tang spawned

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    My Kole Tang was hiding between some rocks today lightly disturbing the sandbed and while I was checking it out visually it spawned!! It was kinda creepy because I felt it was something I wasn't supposed to see. Has anyone else seen this in their tanks?

    65 gallon Red Sea Max photo update

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    Front top angled shot

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    Right angled shot

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    Left angled shot

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    Right side

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    Left side

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    I am waiting for some of these to color up again and start growing well. I am probably going to lose the ice fire and pearlberry frags. Man, I've have got to work a bit more with my camera to get the fish to be in focus. I am trying not to use flash. Oh well...

    65 gallon Red Sea Max photo update

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    Sorry to hear about the crash, what happened?

     

    I am not sure if it is a typical crash, but my acros stopped growing, lost color, had bite marks and some died due to AEFW. It was terrible since most of my corals are acros and tank was "crashing" out of control. I tore the whole tank apart, took all corals off of rocks, some nicely encrusted and dipped for weeks. They were kept on the sand bed and most turned brown. I am not sure if I still have AEFW but all problems with acros have been reversed. I'll keep a close watch and have wrasses to help. I also took the opportunity to redo the tank the way I wanted it and correct a few other beginning learning mistakes that were annoying. I wish I had a quarantine tank but I don't.

    65 gallon Red Sea Max photo update

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    I am a huge fan of the RSM, even though mine is only 1/2 your size! I think your tank looks awesome. I like your aquascaping a lot.

     

    Keep the updates coming!

     

    Maureen

     

    Thanks Maureen! Same here. Just wish the new Red Sea Max 500 and 650 weren't over $5000...

    65 gallon Red Sea Max photo update

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    · Edited by gizmoody

    Looks great! When you say "stock" lighting, please explain. Would love to see it in person. I love mixed tanks!

     

    Thanks Steve. Sorry for confusion, the Red Sea Max 250 tanks have 6 39 watt t5 bulbs in the lid. You can see the color of the t5's below (ATI aquablue special, blue plus and purple plus). There are also 9 or maybe 12 blue led's for moon lights. If you are in the Rockville area, drop me a line and stop by to check out the tank.

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    65 gallon Red Sea Max photo update

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    Time for an update. If my tank crashes anytime soon I don't think I will have the willpower to continue after my recent disaster and work put into this tank.

     

    Tank before I took all the corals and LR apart:

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    Tank during my disaster:

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    Tank yesterday, 18th March, 2012:

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    Let me know what you think. I have no idea what to think since I stare at it everyday to the point that I can't "see it" anymore, if you know what I mean.

     

    It's hilarious that the rocks look almost exactly like the first week I added LR just over a year and a half ago!

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    Thanks for looking.

    February 2012 tank photo update

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    Are these corals that you dipped acros? If you had bite marks on acropora flatworm exit wont kill them.

     

     

    ^ that's correct. You need to dip them in something like Revive or CoralRx. You will want to do three dips, one week apart to make sure you get any eggs that hatch.

     

     

    I see in your for sale thread that you are selling the valida and when it comes to AEFWs the valida corals are like magnets for them. I don't know if it is in the same tank as this AEFW issue you detail above but please help control the spread of AEFWs and make sure that coral is free of them before selling it. Let the buyer know you have them in your tank as this club passes that pest around way to freely.

     

     

     

     

    Yea it really sounds like flatworms, I pray they aren't though. I second not selling any acros from your tank if you have aefw in there. Thoes things are pretty difficult to get rid of, especially for someone who has a lot of acropora. Also if you don't know much about aefw, go and learn everything you can about them and any other coral pest. As should anyone else who keeps corals and doesn't know much about coral pests. Better to learn about them and not get them, than to get them and then learn about them.

     

    Thank you very much guys. I notified everyone in that sale thread. The last thing I want to do is spread pests. I have dipped twice so far the acros that were infected (ones that could detach) as they seemed to be localized to and may have come from two that I bought recently. I used FE and also I've cut back feeding and my six line wrasse is back to eating anything off of corals. This scared the crap out of my when I saw those bitemarks and working hard to remedy it. Since I haven't seen any with my macro lens anywhere and have been treating I though I was done. However, that now seems like maybe wishful thinking. Selling with pests wasn't my intention as I just need to get rid of corals since they are growing fast. It wasn't intentional and pologies to all and if you have any other advice (yep, I have read the hundreds of threads on RC) that works for you, please let me know.

    February 2012 tank photo update

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    Grew up in Bowie. Now in Howard County...

     

    They just grow REALLY fast, and need to be isolated someway. If they are too high in the tank will shadow everything... Don't be scared to "snap" them. They heal very easy.

     

    You only have a couple so it shouldn't be much of a problem. I made the mistake of overloading a small tank with them.

     

    Thanks dude. I may have to "snap" bits off soon.

     

    just went through all the flicker photos. thats awesome how you kept taking pics, and seeing how many times your tank changed. how many times did you rearrange your rock? haha. im definitely going to remember to take pics of my tank once a month now. sick tank by the way.

     

    Thanks. I am used to looking at my tank everyday and would stop seeing it if you know what I mean, so pictures give me a 2d slightly different perspective so I can see the big picture, the whole tank. I also look at the reflection in a glass door next to it. Try looking at your reef through a big mirror and you might be surprised at what you see. So I took the pictures to help me decide what I wanted...and blog. www.redseamaxreef.com. Yeah, changed around the rocks too many times. In such a small space if you don't have the right sizes and shapes like in my tank, it's hard to get something pleasing....so yeah, I rearranged too many times. I am still not happy.

    February 2012 tank photo update

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    I think it looks great right now, and will only get better! Keep an eye on those monti caps as they grow out. They can become a pita.

     

    Dude, how do they become a pita? I was just happy to see it grow but now that you mention it, this green monti grows fast! What should I be worried about and how do I prevent it now? Any advice appreciated. BTW do you live in Bowie? My sister lives there.

    February 2012 tank photo update

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    Great looking tank. Surprised to see the 2 tangs getting along in a 65g. I thought power blues won't get along with hippos since they are of similar shape and color. Only concern I have is that your tangs may out grow your 65g soon.

     

    Added the powder blue last and they get along, swim together and only once in a while there might be a one second chase. Great fish, but since I can't upgrade, they'll have to go to a bigger home.

     

    Thanks everyone for the comments.

     

    Treated for flatworms (the opaque ones, not brown) with Flatworm exit today. I had dipped 3 corals a week ago in Coral Rx that seemed to have flatworm bite mark/loss of color and I couldn't believe it...there were a lot of those suckers falling off. Hopefully Flatworm exit has done it's job today with a whole tank treatment. Thought I saw some floating around.

    February 2012 tank photo update

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    I am just starting out in the hobby (although my husband is much more experienced) and wonder how (you) others determine how many corals to put in a tank. When I garden, for each seedling I purchase, there is info about how much space the plant will eventually need. I struggle to figure that similar info out for corals. How did you gauge how many corals to place in your tank?

     

    I have never come across a gallon to inch of coral ratio like fish to gallon ratio, as the important things to consider are light per gallon and distance from light source, water flow and if you want to supplement calcium, magnesium, alkalinity and/or kalk when things start to really grow. I looked at other peoples' tanks with corals on the web and saw what sizes the corals I wanted to get or acquired could grow to. Small frags take a long time to grow and the bigger the coral the faster it seems to grow (proven by scientific papers). I made the mistake of placing corals too close even when considering size. I didn't realize that they all seem to grow differently based on flow and other things. You've got good advice above already. My best advice is glue your corals to small rocks and then glue those to your big rocks. This way, you can always move corals around without having to deal with encrusting on large rocks.

     

    AHHH, the second picture in your flicr account has red bugs all over your acro... Are you working on this???

    Intercepted those bad boys and girls and their eggs a few months ago. Now I have flatworms.

     

    Only 65g? The powder blue tang and blue hippo tang must be like 1" each!

    I got them when they were tiny. The idea was to upgrade by now, but circumstances prevent that and those tangs are growing. They still have space but I don't want to stress them. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to find new homes probably with WAMAS members who can take great care of them. :( Don't know how in the world I'm going to catch them!

    February 2012 tank photo update

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    · Edited by gizmoody

    Wow! Thanks for all the great comments! I started in August 2010 so it's been about a year and a half. I had about 6 months (about 6 months ago) where nothing grew and corals died due to low alkalinity that I didn't catch and a whole lot of red bugs so you wouldn't believe how happy I am to see growth. At this rate I think it'll be completely filled in about 6-12 months from now. It's just a 65 gallon tank. Does it really look that big?!

     

    Should I drop the tank progression shots in this thread? If you click on the pic you can see them on Flickr also. Only if anyone is interested though.

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