bk_market June 12, 2011 Share June 12, 2011 wow your tank look great. and that rock anemone is huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 12, 2011 Author Share June 12, 2011 <br />wow your tank look great. and that rock anemone is huge.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Thanks Hung! I just need to wait for stuff to grow now. No more frag shopping for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 15, 2011 Author Share June 15, 2011 So my new toy arrived yesterday . It a Marine Magic dosing pump with three motors. Minimum dosing range is 0.05 - 0.06 ml a sec. I got it off Ebay and the company is in Hong Kong. Honestly, for $148 it is worth the wait. It took them a week to process my order and another week for the shipping. I am using it to dose my two part and my parameters are all stable; alkalinity @ 12.4 khD and my calcium is near 500 ppm. Here are some pictures of the Marine Magic and my setup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roni June 15, 2011 Share June 15, 2011 Very nice you may want to pick up some 1/2 liter bottles so you don't have to change bottles out too often. What is the maximum output of the pump? I may pick one of these up for my freshwater tank. How well is it calibrated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason the filter freak June 15, 2011 Share June 15, 2011 Looks good, does the doser feel like a quality unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 15, 2011 Author Share June 15, 2011 (edited) Very nice you may want to pick up some 1/2 liter bottles so you don't have to change bottles out too often. What is the maximum output of the pump? I may pick one of these up for my freshwater tank. How well is it calibrated? Roni, Here is a rundown of the 4 settings that you can dose: a. S-1 0.05~ 0.075ml / sec. (Droplet dosing - Slow) b. S-2 0.1~ 0.2 ml / sec. (Droplet dosing – Fast) c. S-3 0.25~ 0.35 ml / sec. d. S-4 0.5~ 0.6 ml /sec. It is calibrated pretty well. I tested it for the first day and I am using S-1 for dosing slowly but for 12 times a day. It dosed almost very accurately. Maybe 0.5 ml off my target amount. Looks good, does the doser feel like a quality unit. Jason, It is decently built and put together. The display is nice and easy to understand. Overall, I think it is looks and operates much better than what one would expect for that price. Hopefully, I won't have problems with it in the future. For anyone interested I can provide the email address of these people in Hong Kong. They were very helpful and always timely to answer my questions. Also, my pump arrived pretty quickly. Edited June 15, 2011 by Reefoholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 19, 2011 Author Share June 19, 2011 Last night my rock anemone which was stationary for the last two years on one spot, decide to move to a new home and walked right over my clam and settled on it. Luckily I had read something about moving am attached clam sometime back on the forums. I clean cut the attached strings of the clam with a razor blade and moved him up on the rock work. The anemone is still moving slowly tho. I dunno what caused him to move really. He had the prime spot in the tank. My clam is opening up nicely but how soon can I tell the operation was a success? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason the filter freak June 19, 2011 Share June 19, 2011 I can't count the number of threads on wamas warning about rock anems, just like I love my btas but I'm always aware of the havoc they can cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 19, 2011 Author Share June 19, 2011 Dude, tell me all about it! I tried every trick to get rid of that thing. It is like as if he anchored himself on the rock. Any ideas how to get him out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason the filter freak June 19, 2011 Share June 19, 2011 Ice cube, and water proof massaging tool (take that as what you want, you can look at bed bath and beyon or spencers) as long as its water proof, you can gently massage the anem off (it will take 10-30 min, massage at the foot of the anem, or use ice at the foot (thsi method with take 5-15 min but may damage cellular tissues. Lastly once it starts letting go, you can get a gloved finger under there and very carefully work it loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 20, 2011 Author Share June 20, 2011 (edited) Just found my emerald crab dead lying on his back next to my maxima clam. Every body part is intact and he was very active all along. just last night he was moving sh@#! around in the tank, getting on my nerves, I dunno what happened when I was at work today. What is the life span of emeralds? I only had him for 2 months tho and he molted once... Edited June 20, 2011 by Reefoholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypertech June 20, 2011 Share June 20, 2011 The molts can be very convincing. Unless you cracked it open and saw meat, I wouldn't count him out just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 20, 2011 Author Share June 20, 2011 The molts can be very convincing. Unless you cracked it open and saw meat, I wouldn't count him out just yet. Well said! I just saw him bigger than ever. WOW! He lives after all! Emerald Crab 1 Me 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 21, 2011 Author Share June 21, 2011 Dudes, What is this? It looks like some type of a sand worm. I see something new everyday in this tank. http://youtu.be/mIsZbQyD-ak?hd=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 21, 2011 Author Share June 21, 2011 (edited) Here is a working link. It kinda looks like he is arranging the rock work, lol! Anybody know what this is? Edited June 21, 2011 by Reefoholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 21, 2011 Author Share June 21, 2011 bump also after implementing the doser my parameters are stable at: Calcium 465 ppm Alkalinity 10.5 dKH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 22, 2011 Author Share June 22, 2011 After a lengthy drive to MD, I am now the proud owner of five new and awesome SPS frags. Thank you so very much sportzfish for opening up your house to me and my gf! (however much she hates to tag along to go to some strangers house, most of the time in the middle of nowhere, to "stare at colorful rocks and weird animals".) Here they are: Upscales Microclados Croyola Plana Pink Lemonade ORA Red Planet Table Blue Gomezi (not too blue yet) Full tank shot May they all live long and prosper PS: He also gave me a small Ric Yuma that you can see on the sand bed. Thanks sportzfish again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason the filter freak June 23, 2011 Share June 23, 2011 Still think you should go black back, the rock anem looks like it didn't cause too much havoc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 23, 2011 Author Share June 23, 2011 Not much for now. I have been watching him very closely. He can start moving any time again. I think I wanna do an ocean themed background. As if you are staring beyond the reef. We'll see. I get crazy polyp extension on many of the new frags. I think they are happy where I placed them. Time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportzfish June 27, 2011 Share June 27, 2011 After a lengthy drive to MD, I am now the proud owner of five new and awesome SPS frags. Thank you so very much sportzfish for opening up your house to me and my gf! (however much she hates to tag along to go to some strangers house, most of the time in the middle of nowhere, to "stare at colorful rocks and weird animals".) Here they are: Upscales Microclados Croyola Plana Pink Lemonade ORA Red Planet Table Blue Gomezi (not too blue yet) Full tank shot May they all live long and prosper PS: He also gave me a small Ric Yuma that you can see on the sand bed. Thanks sportzfish again! You are welcome! Looks like they have alot of room to grow into! BTW, I live in VA.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanglandJoshua June 27, 2011 Share June 27, 2011 The tank looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 30, 2011 Author Share June 30, 2011 The tank looks great Thanks man! I am getting great coral growth thanks to my amazingly cheap and stable doser and Brightwell Reef Code A-B. Just ordered a ReefKeeper MLC with two blue and one white moon lights. I can't wait to install them on my hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami June 30, 2011 Share June 30, 2011 Sweet! I like your lighting on this tank. Is it still a radium augmented by the purple plus and blue plus lamps? How long have you had the purple plus installed? I've not tried them, but have used the KZ Fiji Purples for about a 2 years with success. My foray into using ATI Pro Colors for red highlights was a bust. They weren't worth the money as they changed color too quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic June 30, 2011 Author Share June 30, 2011 (edited) Sweet! I like your lighting on this tank. Is it still a radium augmented by the purple plus and blue plus lamps? How long have you had the purple plus installed? I've not tried them, but have used the KZ Fiji Purples for about a 2 years with success. My foray into using ATI Pro Colors for red highlights was a bust. They weren't worth the money as they changed color too quickly. I have a radium 150w 20K and 2 x ATI Blue Plus and 2 x ATI Purple Plus. Radium gives a nice blue tint and purple plus is just for the pop. My eyes got used to how the corals look now so I can't really tell the difference any more. I am adding RKL moon lights with the moon cycle soon so that's gonna be another thing to stare at at night. Edited June 30, 2011 by Reefoholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefoholic July 18, 2011 Author Share July 18, 2011 I really want a bubble tip anemone for my clowns. How much trouble would a small one cause in my tank you think? Do they sit on SPS and such? Anyone with well behaving Bubble tip anem.? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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