rebekwl April 23, 2016 Share April 23, 2016 Awesome build! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 23, 2016 Author Share April 23, 2016 Awesome build!Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtelles April 26, 2016 Share April 26, 2016 Agreed about the LRS food for the CBB, specifically their nano blend. I hand feed mine a few times a day and he can't get enough, though he's very deliberate. You can also buy whole clams cheap from a grocery store and freeze them as well. Pop it open and rinse it out really well and let it sit on the bottom of the tank and the cbb will pick at it throughout the day if he has a taste for it. Live black worms will likely get a nice feeding response. It's great that he's eating mysis, but you may want to add some bulk in the form of the aforementioned foods. He looks great though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 29, 2016 Author Share April 29, 2016 Agreed about the LRS food for the CBB, specifically their nano blend. I hand feed mine a few times a day and he can't get enough, though he's very deliberate. You can also buy whole clams cheap from a grocery store and freeze them as well. Pop it open and rinse it out really well and let it sit on the bottom of the tank and the cbb will pick at it throughout the day if he has a taste for it. Live black worms will likely get a nice feeding response. It's great that he's eating mysis, but you may want to add some bulk in the form of the aforementioned foods. He looks great though!Glad you are having success with your CBB. I unfortunately didn't. After eating extremely well it just quit eating one day and I couldn't get it to eat LRS, black worms, whole clams, mysis or brine shrimp. It would pick at food and just spit it out. It was already skinny and went downhill very fast. It was tough to watch. Not sure if I'll try another one in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flooddc April 29, 2016 Share April 29, 2016 Sorry to hear about the copperband! I am trying to get my fish stock # back up to before the MV. I thought about getting a CBB but decided not to. Hopefully will get one in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef May 1, 2016 Author Share May 1, 2016 Sorry to hear about the copperband! I am trying to get my fish stock # back up to before the MV. I thought about getting a CBB but decided not to. Hopefully will get one in the future. Thanks Chuck. Hope it all goes well for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime September 13, 2018 Share September 13, 2018 Is this still going?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef September 14, 2018 Author Share September 14, 2018 Is this still going?!The 90 got upgraded to a 120. I'll take some pictures this weekend. I'm taking it slow and steady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime September 14, 2018 Share September 14, 2018 The 90 got upgraded to a 120. I'll take some pictures this weekend. I'm taking it slow and steady. Looking forward to it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef September 17, 2018 Author Share September 17, 2018 A long overdue update. I upgraded the 90g to a 120g. Can we rename this build to reflect this? I've had lots of speed bumps along the way. My tank had a really bad case of dinoflagellates that I couldn't get rid of. Tried multiple lights outs, peroxide etc. with no success. I ended up moving all photosynthetic livestock into a QT and tried lots of things including Dino-X. Through all of this I lost almost all corals and anemones. I kept all the lights in the DT at a very low intensity for about 6 months to kill of the rest of the dinos. After the upgrade, I started filling the tank again with corals and got hit by dinos again. This time I took a different approach. I stopped performing water changes for a month, followed by small water changes for the next 6 months. I also figured out that running white lights for more than 4 hours caused a dino bloom to occur. So for a long while I lowered the light intensity and mostly ran blues. Lost some SPS, but mostly they just lost their color. After all this, I have learned to be patient and take things slowly. I also run everything through an invert/coral QT since all my fish were also QT and treated prophylactically. Both tanks The 120g 30g breeder These clownfish became a mated pair recently. The black onyx is the female. It's funny to see her gripe out the male when he comes out. He gets face-to-face with her, but then backs down and goes back into their cave to tend the eggs. This rock was once 1 rainbow bubble-tip anemone and is now 9 after 1.5 years. Current invert QT (Excuse the algae. This version of the tank is only a few months old) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime September 17, 2018 Share September 17, 2018 Edited the title for you. Looks really nice, your appreciation for the fish really shows, and I like the separate 30 gallon for nems and other coral! Are you going to do more SPS in the 120? Looks like a great opportunity to grow out some caps and other easy, but fast growing nice looking corals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef September 17, 2018 Author Share September 17, 2018 Edited the title for you. Looks really nice, your appreciation for the fish really shows, and I like the separate 30 gallon for nems and other coral! Are you going to do more SPS in the 120? Looks like a great opportunity to grow out some caps and other easy, but fast growing nice looking corals!Thanks. Yep planning on lots more sps in the 120. Right now tweaking lights and observing corals. Everything is coloring up slowly and growth is taking off. Once I have it stable I plan to start buying in larger batches. Right now slow and steady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 27, 2020 Author Share April 27, 2020 Long overdue update. Been through ups and downs. Things are on a good path now. As a public service announcement make sure and calibrate your refractometers often. Long story short I quit calibrating my refractometer since it was rock solid. However it started drifting at some point. Over time it drifted a lot and salinity got way high and corals really stressed. I checked water params etc. Finally decided to try an icp test. Almost everything was ok, but sodium and chloride were way elevated. I decided to calibrate my refractometer and was shocked how far it was off. I don’t remember how far off now, but I ended up losing multiple acro colonies. Now I calibrate every week to check my newly mixed water for water changes. I also check the tank water at that time. Also my SPS were not happy though they were growing. One thing I did was cut the light time of my algae scrubber by a few hours. I think my SPS have really been starving. My nitrate and phosphate are still undetectable, but I’m trying to get them up. I recently started dosing aminos and want to see if they help. Also borrowed the club’s PAR meter and cranked up the lights. Corals are coloring up nicely now. Slowly adding frags to the tank. Still have some spots left, but trying to space everything out to allow for colonies to grow out. Was letting the tank settle in before trying to pack nice corals in. Tank shots of the 120g Close ups Nice growth on the clam The 30g Current coral list: SPS --------------------------------- JF Fox Flame acro Pro corals rainbow Lime in the sky Wwc pink tip Poletti yellow tip Asd rainbow millepora Cherry corals watermelon millepora Bali ice cream cake Wwc yellow tip tort Red setosa Green with pink tip sarmentosa Ponape birdsnest Bonsai acro Cali tort Red robin stag Strawberry shortcake acro Rainbow stylopora Pink stylopora Purple slimer stag Tyree Ultimate Stag Rainbow granulosa Frogskin acro Rainbow Nasuta Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes Blue Polyp Pink Stylopora ORA Stuber Stag Wild Blue Acro Vivid's Rainbow Delight Reefers Cove Poison Envy Incredible hulk humilus Reef Raft Pink Cadillac Pink lemonade Pink Branching Cyphastrea GWS3 Rainbow Haze Sunset millepora Green purple acro Bubblegum digitata DCA Afterglow RMF Acid Trip millepora SC Orange Passion TGC Cherry Bomb Diabolical Pacman ARC Master Yoda LPS --------------------------------- Rainbow micromussa Pink/green blasto Pink goniopora Red goniopora Green goniopora Green/yellow mouth short tentacle goniopora Aussie Gold tip hammer Pink octospawn Gold frogspawn Green pink tip torch Aussie duncan Mint green hammer Pink tip torch Green purple tip hammer Green tip torch Sunset acan 7 acans unknown names Bubble gum pleiastrea pink and green platygyra Sun coral Green trachyphilia ZOA/PALYS --------------------------------- Radioactive dragon eye zoa Watermelon zoas Armor of God zoas Scrambled eggs zoas Gatorade zoas Unknow zoas (pea) Rasta zoas Green Bay Packers zoas Arctic ice zoas 6 unknown zoas MUSHROOMS --------------------------------- Orange Yuma mushroom Ricordia mushroom GORGONIANS --------------------------------- Purple gorgonian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime April 27, 2020 Share April 27, 2020 Everything is looking great, and seems to be bouncing back nicely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 27, 2020 Author Share April 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, YHSublime said: Everything is looking great, and seems to be bouncing back nicely! Thanks! I’ve gotten lots of nice corals from you lately. Once I finish my basement renovation, I have an IM 25g lagoon to set up. Will also setup my fish QT to add some smaller fish for the 120g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkiboy April 27, 2020 Share April 27, 2020 don't really know how i had not seen this thread before. thanks for sharing eric and for the updates! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 27, 2020 Author Share April 27, 2020 18 minutes ago, monkiboy said: don't really know how i had not seen this thread before. thanks for sharing eric and for the updates! Thanks. I’ve done a poor job updating this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 27, 2020 Author Share April 27, 2020 Working on getting this guy healthy. Was taking it out and feeding it frozen pe calanus. Now I just leave it in the tank and it opens up when I feed the fish. I just squirt some leftover LRS and it is happy. Feb 23rd Today (it’s flipped 180 degrees from the pic above, but recovering nicely) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 27, 2020 Author Share April 27, 2020 (edited) A cool surprise I discovered not too long ago. I bought a frag of zoas back in March 2013 from what was Aquarium One in Rockville. Looks normal right? Fast forward to much more recently and I had a rock covered in the zoas. This Sept 2018. Well anemones split and took over the rock killing off the zoas... and one day I noticed something move. It is a wild clam that was growing undetected under the zoas all this time. This thing has endured a lot living on the original frag plug. The clam is living well and still reacts to light. Below is a video. Note: I turned off the pump for a better picture so excuse the sucking noise at the end from the pipes lol. VIDEO LINK: https://photos.app.goo.gl/JaNL8dRPQuYi23bv6 Edited April 27, 2020 by WheresTheReef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHSublime April 27, 2020 Share April 27, 2020 That’s wild (get it?!) I’m having trouble seeing it, but still awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 27, 2020 Author Share April 27, 2020 1 minute ago, YHSublime said: That’s wild (get it?!) I’m having trouble seeing it, but still awesome! Video come through? Yea unfortunately don’t have an underwater camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxTech MoneyxX April 27, 2020 Share April 27, 2020 I just took a look at this entire build. I admire your work over the years! The clam opens up and then closes on the left side. Pretty cool story with him, sucks about the zoas though.. good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheresTheReef April 27, 2020 Author Share April 27, 2020 45 minutes ago, XxTech MoneyxX said: I just took a look at this entire build. I admire your work over the years! The clam opens up and then closes on the left side. Pretty cool story with him, sucks about the zoas though.. good stuff! Thanks. Biggest thing I have learned through the years is patience. Got myself in lots of trouble with the tanks by overreacting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxTech MoneyxX April 27, 2020 Share April 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, WheresTheReef said: Thanks. Biggest thing I have learned through the years is patience. Got myself in lots of trouble with the tanks by overreacting. I will keep that in mind (Patience). I am starting up a 180g mixed reef, but this is the first time with SPS. I will get the build started once I start the cycling process. Keep an eye out for the post, I am going to be looking for all the help I can get :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flooddc April 27, 2020 Share April 27, 2020 Looking good Eric! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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