Sugar Magnolia January 20, 2006 Share January 20, 2006 Here's the cube at the 2 year mark. I just cleaned it up yesterday so new pics were in order. Right side, from the living room: Left side, dining room: Frontal shot: These are cool. Got this little rock of zoos a couple of years ago and it had some clove polyps in it, which have spread to between the zoos. Top rock in the tank - this one's three years old and has had various things glued to it over the years. The most recent have been the monti caps and digis, about a year ago. Left side of that same rock. The underside of that cap is all pink zoos, that are very hard to photograph. They go well with that purple digi. Skunk cleaner at his favorite hang out. He's about 18 months old now. Middle looking toward the right side. I stuck that piece of monti cap that I had accidently broken off, on that rock in the mddle of the picture behind that digitata I intended to give it to someone, but it has since encrusted the rock. Oops. These two digi colonies grew together. Closer shot of where they first made contact. Royal gramma wanted in on the picture taking. Back to the top of the tank. In the center is what's now growing off a plug that once once a huge german blue digitata, that was growing out of the water. I snapped it off and traded it in, leaving the plug behind. Closer. As always, the star polyps are the last to come out after being handled. Checking to see if it's safe to come out yet: Funky scroll aglae that popped up. I accidently broke it while cleaning yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia January 20, 2006 Author Share January 20, 2006 A new patch of my favorite zoos. Parent colony that gets moved around the tank. Skunk cleaner shrimp molesting some zoos and xenia. See that halimeda? Some rics. Zoos. Star polyps fully opened. These got pruned way back the other day. German blue digitata, purple digitata and gorgonian. Bleh...hair algae along with some cyano I couldn't get the syphon to. See that lazy turbo snail napping? Sheesh! Shrooms. These have got to go. Bicolor blenny in his sleeping hole. Bicolor where he likes to perch. Yellow watchman coming out to see what's up. Bicolor on it's perch and the shrimp hanging out in his favorite spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aquascott January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 really nice tank is there a sump or is it all in tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott711 January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 Very nice tank! what is that thing on the outlet of the powerhead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikS January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 Nice tank & pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goblinshark January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 OMGZ nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic9418 January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 Nice tank sugar. I will take any of those mushrooms you said have to go :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 Hey Adrienne, that looks great! I finally got everything to where I wanted it at school and the frags you gave (along with everyone else) made their way into school yesterday. They're placed into a few different places, some landing in a 6th grade science classroom that has a newly set up reef (set it up with live sand before Christmas then added rock last week that's been sitting in my tank at home for a month or more), some in my classroom's 33, and some in a 2.5 gallon tank I set up on my desk the other day - the ricordeas and some of the loose things are there so they don't get swallowed up. I figure I'll let things grow onto the rocks, frag them, and then move the rocks out as the berghias clean more and more up! And, as you know, we're always willing to take on any frags at school that you want to get rid of! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia January 21, 2006 Author Share January 21, 2006 Did you notice that pic with the encrusted monti cap? Heh...that was supposed to go to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex wlazlak January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 my skunk cleaner does that too! he just like runs all over the zoos and stuff and they curl up... mine also likes to hang out under a rock similer to like how yours does. does yours clean the other fish? BTW, nice tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 January 21, 2006 Share January 21, 2006 Heh heh... the school will have to wait until there's another unfortunate accident where it breaks off again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia January 21, 2006 Author Share January 21, 2006 This tank had a "sump" if you could call it that. It was a 15 hex that I baffled off , but I had tons of problems so I decided to simplify my life and go back to being sumpless. It ran that way for the first 15 months, and I had no problems. The thing ont he maxi-jet is a Hydor Flo. It rotates in a circular pattern, creating randon flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gastone January 22, 2006 Share January 22, 2006 What lighting and how much flow do you have running? G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Grenier January 22, 2006 Share January 22, 2006 Very nice tank & photography. Like the narrative too :D Do you mind telling me what you think of the hydor? I'm thinking of getting one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia January 22, 2006 Author Share January 22, 2006 The Hydor has stopped rotating twice now. Once because a collonista was wedged in it, and this morning a strobus was wedged in there. Dumb snails. For flow, I have an Emperor HOB 280 gph and a MJ 900 with the Hydor Flo. I think I may stick the MJ 1200 back in there. It seems like the Hydor is restricting the actual output that the MJ 900 is capable of. Lighting is a 250 W PFO HQI mini pendant with an Icecap E ballast running a 14K Phoenix bulb. No actinic supplementaion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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