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  1. I have 4 open now =0) My good camera is still down and i cant get this one to do a good pic but i will keep trying
  2. An eel would be cool! When i picked up my piece for the goc i was given some GSP but i guess i didnt glue them good because in about a week they where all gone. I am always up for some more Corals. up in the left is a pink pin cushion urchin and a frag of blue acropora from the $5 rack. though its not really blue anymore its still growing.
  3. Just a real fast update while my computer is working. sorry for bad pics friend borrowing m other camera
  4. easiest way to tell if its rite is to hit the test button when it pops the other outlets on that circuit should go offline, if that works it should work fine. Mind you im not an electrician i just have played with house wiring a bit.
  5. i was talking to him about my algae growth on the sand, and when a good time to get some snails would be. Thats when i was told to shut the MH off and cut my photoperiod down to 5 hours. I always consider the fact that algae has its purpose of taking up nutrients and such, but i dont want to have a battle on my hands down the road. IM not sure who he was i didnt ask. IM assuming it was the owner as it seemed he was working with his family and was talking about the new upgrades he made to the store. BTW he has a cool new setup for inverts, looks like it would be a nice setup for farming corals if i had the space to build my own later on.
  6. I hope so i have been reading on them and see they can do with less then perfect water, and i read they are good indicators on the water quality. fingers are def. crossed went to saltwater fantaseas results are nitrate at 10ppm annd salt at 1.025 so yep NO3 test is bad funny part is their test looked the same as mine like i thought it looked between 5 and 0 but that's my wonderful eyes telling me the wrong color lol. Also proves my $25 refractometer is working perfect yeahhhhhh.(clap) Also picked up a new ball valve for the Herbie overflow and wow what a difference that made, the more expensive gray ball valve that was on the sump inlet was really hard to control, i went and got the standard white with red handle and now i can change the level by 1/4inch at a time as a pose to the 6 inches, live and learn i guess. Tank is absolutely silent now. OK i have talked to a couple people now and they all say the same thing...... i jumped the gun, need to learn patiance and get a couple damsels and overfeed them. Talked to the guy at LFS and he said they would lend me the fish trap when i was done with them....... any views on this advice? Also was told to turn of my MH for a month or 2 and just run the PC's?
  7. I used the last of my test for nitrates day before yesterday and came up from what i can tell at 0............ Then i very annoying light came on in my head when i realized this is the last of my test........ this means the test was old and probably very inaccurate since i stopped testing my planted tanks ohhhhhhhhh about 2 years ago. Now im kinda freaked, think im gonna run to the LFS and see if they can test for me. The crabs are fun to watch they only once checked out the corals then straight back to the top of the rocks for the hair algae. I do need to thank you for the setup its working out great and the hood is built perfect, like you designed it for my light setup. Your new tank is looking GREAT.
  8. i put all live sand in the sump and seeded the tank with it, I then monitored the water and saw everything go up then down. The crabs where added because the algae was starting to get to me, its all over the sand in the corners and the rocks at the top some hair and some other stuff, my planted tank experience is to take care of algae before it gets a real hold. When i saw the ammonia go up then back down i got excited and jumped the gun. I hope that if the tank goes and does a big cycle it will not kill the mushrooms, but the bigger rock was more of a LR purchase with bonuses and the other was an impulse buy i should have talked myself out of but the money was hot and really burning a hole in my pocket. i guess worse comes to worse, everything will die and i will really kick off a cycle, but that would make me sad. the one mushroom with the colors has takin a liking to its spot from what i can tell, its mouths where opened and i fed it some food, very cool to watch. I promise to not make anymore changes for awhile, patience is not my virtue unfortunately when can i add more clean up crew? Or what should i add? was the hermits a bad idea?
  9. Well, it LOOKS like the tank cycled, Mind you im partially color blind and the test are a bit hard for me to read, also im using a seachem ammonia alert as i find they are very easy to read. The nitrates nitrites where 0 and ammonia in the safe zone, so i threw in 3 blue legged hermits, and a turbo snail Ammonia came up a little to almost alert color and back down to safe in my book thats a cycled tank. The crabs are doing good not going after the algae on the sand as i had hoped, you can see thier trails where they walked though. The snail just sits with lights on but off its all over the tank. So i went out again and got a piece of rock with one mushroom coral on it, At home in the tank i realized this rock is absolutely covered in other life including 2 different typed of feather dusters, so far 3 confirmed what i think are brittle star fish some type of very small coral like zoa's maybe but they have not really opened, and to my horror a anemone. I ran straight to the computer and i dont think it looks like a aiptasia its only 1/2 inch tall and maybe 1/4 wide pink or brown (colorblind lol) and my hermit has been eying it but not made an effort to get it, so hope im lucky. For another 10 bucks i picked up another rock covered in what i was told is a mushroom coral but have not been able to ID help appreciated. I had to take pics very fast as batt is dead in camera so sorry. A crab checkin me out The best pic i can get of the "rock of life"if you look up right of the middle of the mushroom you can make out the what i think is a anemone then next to that is the star with its legs hanging out of a crevice in the rock, i CAN NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO MACRO SORRY and the best pics i can get of the mystery mushroom coral if it helps any i accidentally touched one when i put it in and my finger was covered in a clear slime. and brighter white light turned on
  10. pic of tank cleared up here. first pic is with the 2 65watt 12k bulbs that i hate because it makes the tank washout in white color, i want to replace them but have no idea what color to go for? something that will make the color pop more or that the corals will like more?? Taking ideas here=0) 2nd is only MH and 460nm actinic light. would changing the 12k's to 420nm make it look weird i wonder? pic is of the only peices of LR i could afford LOL. is my skimmer making nasty stuff i have no idea how its supposed to do but i get a cup of dirty stuff once a day out of it.
  11. Man i was bummed yesterday when my sump pump died, but after your post............ tank is looking good!
  12. Well came home today and found my return gx4100 pump from the sump was not working. It had very little suction at the inlet, so i checked the lines and cleaned the pump. I found nothing and it still isn't working. when i was playing with it i unscrewed the inlet on accident and it popped open and water went everywhere but when i put it back together almost nothing....... So temporarily i have 2 magnum 350 canister filters with no media acting as my return. hate to have to get a new pump but im out of ideas as to whats wrong with the 4100. I went to seahorse supply and i have to say i really like that store. The gave me free live sand and some macro for my fuge, and they have a huge selection of corals cant wait to get some=0) Pics. My first hitchhiker i have been sitting infront of the sump staring at it for hours as its the only visible life i have in the tank. Seen a couple of what look like bugs with antlers and some very small shrimp looking things and then i saw this guy. he walks side to side very slow so i grabbed the camera and took the best pic i could i think he looks like a crab but my camera is not that good and he is so small i couldn't really make it out. And pics of my sump. its not finished im going to add another chamber so i can make the fuge bigger. first pic is what it looked like before i added and second is whole sump with the dead pump and hoses from my magnums
  13. Oh'well least i will know for next time. it looked great tell i knocked the pump down. I finished my mods of the seaclone skimmer finally got to where its making very fine bubbles. i cut the old pump bracket off it then i heated a hose until i could get it on the skimmer snug. Then i installed a gx-1000 pump with a needle wheel. Still need to replace the air valve. it was a newer skimmer so some of the other mods have been done already. Getting a little bit of skim already and i just started it. Putting alot of micro bubbles back in the sump though. pretty sure that will clear from what i hear. Sump is almost full again and i will get to try the pump again in about an hour or 2 and see how cloudy it gets. will have pics of it all when sump clears
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