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If you intend to go to the WAMAS Reef Symposium the the registration page is open. There are a limited amount of seats and they will fill up soon. Don't wait as this is going to be the best reef event of the year.
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• Many of the Blenny familylike the Black Sailfin Blenny (Atrosalarias fuscus) or the Bicolor Blenny (Ecsenius bicolor) make a nice addition, but they are territorial in nature... Opinions are mixed as to whether the Blenny is a peaceful tank member and safe for invertebrates. Some believe the Blenny is not safe with other species members and may pick on gobies and firefish. Others say the Blenny is a peaceful community fish. Some say the Blenny is safe around invertebrates and other sources say it will eat them. The best alternative is probably to combine these groups cautiously.
• Watchman goby, with a pistol shrimp (I have these in my nano and they are my favorite critters.
• Royal Gramma Basslet or Fairy Basslet is beautiful.
• Neon Goby or Red Head Goby are very hardy fish, and because of small size, are a great addition to a small reef tank. They a cleaner species which will service tank mates and help control some diseases.
There are many nice reef safe wrasse’ that you can keep
• Six Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)
• Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse (Paracheilinus carpenteri)
• Cleaner Common Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)
• Red Head Solon Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus solorensis)
• Filamented Flasher Wrasse (Paracheilinus filamentosus)
• Banded Possum Wrasse (Wetmorella sp.)
• And most of the Fairy Wrasse family
[tu] read]] Marine Fishes by Scott W. Michael This is the bible of fish shopping
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The Blue is not quite as blue to the naked eye as it is to the camera.
It looks like the reef 25 ft down looks when you dive. very clear with a hint of the water color around you. It looks very natural and it make the coral glow like nothing you have ever seen..
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that is a true statment. rk]]
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I buy them at petco. shrk]]
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hello miller
Glad you took my invite to come check us out
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My cycle is MH com on at 2PM, go off at midnight
I run 20k halides and no actinics
Camera is olympus
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Ok. I was up late... The camera manual said something about a macro mode. one thing lead to another.. You know how it goes..
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You don't have to go as far as injection. Just mix a slurry of Kalc and water, (real thick). Turkey baster a small amount over the aptasia. It will die
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sorry tony, I all ready got rid of them
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I would use 4 X 250watt MH with XM bulbs. Good reflectors are a must.
Actinic add on or not is a choice. Many of the experts run without them and many use them. The 20k bulbs make them a choice. If you go 10k (or less) you need them.
I like not having the extra heat and power use of more bulbs.
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Anthony Calfo has done a greenhouse and reports great things. If you check out his first book you will get some great ideas.
I bought a house in Oklahoma that had a sunroom. I put a 40 gal in the full sunlight and kept sps frags. Growth was huge, color was fair. (it Oklahoma sun, not fiji)
Heat was a problem. you will need a chiller or bury some hose (4ft down) and pump water thru it so the ground temp cools it.
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That was a concern that has kept me from going to a color temp of 20k until now. but Dr Mac says he gets great growth under these lights
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These photos are taken with the same camera settings (white balance neutral).
The blue is not as visable to my eye as to the camera
3x 175 12k AB Aqualine + 4x 110 pc Actinics
3x 175 20k XM +no actinics
Ok I confess, Just like everyone else I put off changing my halides until algae is not only growing in the tank but on the wall of the den and and on the carpet in front of the tank. Then I try to convince myself, maybe If I just do a water change the problem will go away. Well eventually I do break down and buy bulbs, I just hate the process.
My system recently has been downsized to a 160gal tank and in the process I switched to different lighting. I had some 175 MH ballasts and bulbs and I thought this tank is not that deep so I went with them, I had 3, 10k AB Aqualine (that had some time on a different system on them) so I put them in and Wha-La, lights. All looked good then the bulbs began to shift (now I remembered how much time was on the those bulbs).
I was at the meeting and Rich who was there had some XM 175 20k MH bulbs. Because I am generally lazy I thought:: If I buy these I won't have to stop and get bulbs today. So I grabbed 2 of them and took them home. (I had one at home I got a while back)
I put them in and watched them fire up. WOW! I have never seen color like this in my tank. I haven't seen color like this in anyone's tank.
I took the opportunity to remove a lot of the drab softies I had rescued from other people over the years. I called a couple of friends with PC lit tanks and they came right over and took home all of the coral I removed. Now the tank has some real estate for new coral but it does look a little empty.
My coral looks so good I have taken the actinic's off of the system. They just don't need to be there. The coral loves these lights, bright color and great polyp extension lets me know they are happy.
Can you tell I like these bulbs? My Prop system will have these and my new system going in the living room of my home will be 4 of the 250 watt 20k.
I see why Dr Mac Raves About these bulbs.
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I will have you added by mon night
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They can be peaceful if introduced to the same tank, but!!! Even the most gentle pair can rampage when they lay eggs.
One thing that will lessen their agression is a host Anemone for each pair at oposite ends of the tank. If the pair hosts it will not stray as far around the tank and will leave the other pair alone.
Michael is correct . They are gentle clowns (alone). But the mating factor is the wild card.
I used to have six mated pairs (3 percs and 3 oscillaris) in a breeding setup. (my first Saltwater Aquaculture system) Their mood swings were one of the most interesting parts of keeping them. one week they would come to the front of theirs tanks and beg for food and the next they would draw blood on my hand. The only thing you can trust about a mated pair of clowns is that they will be unpredicable.
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Welcome to the group.
I am glad you found glass cages. I have several friends with their tanks and my next tank will be from them.
The tangs shoulds be easy to do. just add all at the same time and make sure that they are all young and small. We have a wamas officer that has 6 big tangs in a 150 gal tank and they get along fine. 3-4 tangs in a 240 gal should be fine.
The clowns may be a different issue. A mated pair of clowns can be brutal to all other damsels in the tank. It is a roll of the dice. They might be fine or they might kill enery other thing in the tank. In a 240 you have a better chance but everybody i know has a clown in the fish room or in their sump that can't get along with the others.
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A way to do this on the cheap is forget the baffle and just set the pump in a small, tall, rubbermaid container in the corner of the sump.
Bubbles in a small system are not as serious as in a large system (no problem at all with the flow of the pump you have)
How deep of a bed is not as critical as what is made of. Put 1 jar of Kent Marine Bio-Sediment (about $20 at Reef Tank) cover with about 2 inch of live sand. I will bring you some sand from my tank. Get a few others and you will enough sand to cover.
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This is the end of posting new pictures for this project. (see first post).
I had someone ask me for cost on a project like this.
$129.00 JBJ NANO Tank (Wallys Aquarium, Annandale VA)
$ 72.00 12 lbs live rock (Wallys Aquarium, )
$ 26.00 Replacment Smart Lite (Roozens)
$ 17.00 Replacment Powerhead.
Most of the livestock came from my other system
This is the most fun for the buck i have had in this hobby.
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tank looks great.
Tang-away, I have a 12gal nano in my office and I just use spring water. It works great.
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Only Wamas Members have a logon to the Gallery. If you go to the link that says join us at the top of the page you will find out about all of the benifits of being a full member. The big ones are you get to see all of the forum. There is a large part of the forum that you are missing, including the sale/trade section.
The cost is very small and the benefits, Well the first time I bought a used skimmer from another member I saved more than the membership cost.
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I had not thought of the sp. Rodmonian. i think it might be of the genus pimpus rodmonian
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Maldives Nurses Its Coral Reefs Back to Life
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