lnevo March 21, 2014 Share March 21, 2014 Congratulations Alan!!! AquaticLog.com Aquarium of the Week!!! http://blog.aquaticlog.com/post/80284352121/aotw-alanms-rimless-75g-reef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM March 21, 2014 Author Share March 21, 2014 Ack! I didn't realize that was happening. I better hurry up and add some info. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR-Tanked150 March 21, 2014 Share March 21, 2014 Congrats on Aquarium of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnevo March 21, 2014 Share March 21, 2014 Ack! I didn't realize that was happening. I better hurry up and add some info. 8) Hehe i saw it on my Facebook feed...i said to myself..i know that tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime March 22, 2014 Share March 22, 2014 Congrats Alan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkiboy March 22, 2014 Share March 22, 2014 sweet - you do an awesome job of keeping your profile up to date, wowzers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM March 22, 2014 Author Share March 22, 2014 sweet - you do an awesome job of keeping your profile up to date, wowzers! It's embarrassing in a way. Now everyone can see the zeovit stuff I have been trying to help get rid of cyanobacteria and grow these corals. Guess what. So far what works to get rid of it is to siphon it out. Lol. Magic drops not doing the things so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime March 22, 2014 Share March 22, 2014 So far what works to get rid of it is to siphon it out. Lol. Magic drops not doing the things so far. It's cheaper also! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM April 28, 2014 Author Share April 28, 2014 New addition to the tank as of two weeks ago. He seems to be doing well. I have lots of pods for him to eat if he can catch em. I'm also tossing in live enriched baby brine. Also featuring a photo bomb by the tank ham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Puckstable April 28, 2014 Share April 28, 2014 Nice addition. Those are my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime April 28, 2014 Share April 28, 2014 Fun! I've gone through two. Maybe 3rd time will be a charm for me? Looks like you did a good job in making sure you had the support system for it, I think earlier I jumped the gun on thinking my tank was ready. If I ever cycle another tank, I will do it without fish for as long as possible, that has been the best solution that I have found to boosting a pod population. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howaboutme April 28, 2014 Share April 28, 2014 I am very disappointed with this update. Nice fish and all but I was hoping for more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM April 28, 2014 Author Share April 28, 2014 Haha, stay tuned. In a couple of weeks will have more. Went to QR today and got a bottle of tigger pods. They're fun looking jumping around in the bottle, but looks like barely a midnight snack for Mandy. I'll put them half in the fuge and half in the tank after lights out and hope they multiply. Also took my first good look at the Thrive bottles, which are really nice. Big steel bottles of pretty concentrated stuff makes the price pretty good. I'd never even looked at it because the packaging is so slick I thought it would be super expensive. Or maybe I am jaded now after buying some blue glass bottles from KZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime June 9, 2014 Share June 9, 2014 Alan, how about a growth shot update?! I'm sure your stuff has been filling in nice since last we saw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM June 9, 2014 Author Share June 9, 2014 Seems like everything has taken off, yeah. I started doing individual threads for questions, like "what's this hole in my setosa" and "who wants to buy some berghia with me because I have lots of aiptasia that laughs at the wand and aiptasia-x." I am having a weird continuing problem with very high Mg levels, confirmed by Salifert and a replacement Red Sea Pro test (threw out my old one with 1 year old reagents just in case), but considering nothing seems to be dying, and things are actually growing quickly enough for me to end up whacking off monti cap frags when I clean the glass I'm trying not to focus on it too much. I have a birdsnest island that lacks a sample of ponape birdsnest to be more complete, I think, but they're all growing together in a way that I think is cool. There is some pocci there that I've been warned is a pest, but I like it (famous last words). I've been dosing potassium and some interesting colors are changing. Ill post some growth shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime June 9, 2014 Share June 9, 2014 I was dosing potassium for a while using the blue bottle from zeo. Too expensive for my taste, not any noticeable results. Plus I didn't have a test kit. Birdsnest island sounds neat, look forward to pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM June 9, 2014 Author Share June 9, 2014 This pic is for Squishie89, a baby limpet from the ones she gave me a while ago. I haven't seen them in a while. I see stomatella all the time, but never any limpets, but here's a little one. Sorry for the blurry photo. Impossible to get camera phone to stop autofocusing on things other than the glass. Birdsnest island with 4 different kinds. Two kinds of pink ones. One thicker and one thinner, one green one, and a massive rainbow one that is the fastest growing thing in the tank. The thicker pink one was from graham, I think, but the thinner pink, green, and rainbow are from Neto. Here is a montipora spongodes (green/brown curvy points in the back), montipora stellata (purple/green sharp points in the front), a baby blue acropora loisetteae, a purple staghorn to the right, some superman monti underneath, and a purple rim green cap and red cap with banggai photobomb. This is the biggest acropora in the tank. It's an acropora tortuosa from Tony, Ridetheducati. It has more than doubled in size since I got it. It's a good demonstration that if you want a big colony quickly start with a colony, not with a tiny frag. Growth rate really depends on the starting size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR-Tanked150 June 10, 2014 Share June 10, 2014 Pretty birdsnests, love the rainbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizzaguy June 10, 2014 Share June 10, 2014 Very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM August 8, 2014 Author Share August 8, 2014 Recent FTS with a rack of new "Marcofrags" up at the top stuck to the overflow box. Check out how pink that one on the far right is! Now you can see why I need more rock or a bigger tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime August 8, 2014 Share August 8, 2014 Looks nice! That tank is filling in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM August 8, 2014 Author Share August 8, 2014 By the way, on the front center near the sand diagonally up from the bunch of purple zoas is a chalice that I got from epleeds about 3 months ago. It was blue with red eyes when I got it and has held it's color really nicely and is super cool looking. It's about double the size from when I got it even though one hermit crab likes to sit on it from time to time. I rarely see people going really crazy over chalice corals, the crazies are mostly about acropora, but I could see getting really in to cool chalices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkiboy August 8, 2014 Share August 8, 2014 marcofrags, huh? haha. now you just need three more racks like that and you can cover your overflow! et voila more room! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Puckstable August 8, 2014 Share August 8, 2014 Holy cow!! Tank looks awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surf&turf August 8, 2014 Share August 8, 2014 Holy cow!! Tank looks awesome. +1 looks great!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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