kilmca Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 the 55g looks great and it looks like the tank upgrade is due. is the 120g you are upgrading to a 48"x24"x24" tank? I had a 120g with those dimensions after a 72g bowfront and the extra width was nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 very nice looking tank by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JManrow Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Hi Kate! It's good to see you online again with pics of your beautiful tank. If you would like to be notified of upcoming meetings and events, PM me your e-mail address and you will be added to the PNWMAS Evite list! All nine of the Opae'ula made it through our move to Sherwood during 100F+ weather in August, and are doing great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitricker Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 that is insane for a 55g ... I didn't even wait for mine to grow before I upgraded to a 120G. so impatient ... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted June 2, 2010 Author Share Posted June 2, 2010 Upgraded to a 120, special thanks to Corvica and when he gets back I hope to have frags for him! He sold me his tank. Here are a few pics: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeFit Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 those are some incredible pics of a very nice clean tank. Great work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted June 2, 2010 Author Share Posted June 2, 2010 Thanks! It's not that clean though. Cyano everywhere (: I don't worry about it too much, seems inevitable. Doing 20% weekly water change, siphon it out, hope when the tank is more established it burns out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted June 3, 2010 Author Share Posted June 3, 2010 Few more: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Not the greatest picture but I like his expression Better: Gotta work on better pics of these: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgf86123 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Nice Melanarus Kate I've got some SPS that I'm gonna be selling here shortly if you'd be interested LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undrtkr_00 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Really cool wrasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Thanks! They have mates too, and do spawn. Some day I will figure out why nobody breeds wrasses, the hard way. I have a long standing tradition of taking on projects that resemble banging my head on the wall, breeding marine fish can't be that much different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgf86123 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 If you haven't talked to Dave Durr, aka Barelycuda, you should, he's got a Clownhouse that's unreal, I'm gettin my first eye's on look at it Saturday morning. He breeds several different kinds of clowns and could possibly offer you some advice on dealing with the wrasses or point you in the right direction for doing so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Thanks for the tip, would love to talk to him. I could use a start of rotifers too. Here is a fish that some people won't like seeing... I have two of them. That one is Eliza, the smart one. Jack is also a girl unfortunately. Jack only has half a file and is more lucky than smart. Anyone know what book I got their names from? I am looking for a couple males if anyone sees them in a shop. Don't want to order them, might end up with more females and Jack is kinda crabby about sharing the food as it is. So far I have had 3 out of 3 of these take food. Lost the first one to ich a few years ago. To get them eating you have to feed a lot-like 6 or 7 times a day. After that you can cut back to only 4 or 5 feedings a day. (: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 August 2010 pictures: and one of his mates: Been having cyano troubles but started rinsing all frozen food a couple weeks ago before feeding, and there is noticable improvment. Also got a Seachem phosphate test which showed phosphate in the tap water and double that in newly made Instant Ocean. Switching to ESV 3 part salt, added phosphate remover to the 120. Reduced algae in the 55 which has no phosphate remover makes me thing the rinsing is what is helping. Kate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Looking good Kate...Nice pictures! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted August 14, 2010 Author Share Posted August 14, 2010 Thanks, I am kinda depressed though. The Melanurus wrasse and his mates were looking ready to spawn yesterday. Today I found the female in that last set of pictures on the floor. She was much thinner, so I guess they did spawn and somehow she got through the eggcrate. Seems like she was way too big for that... She was a really pretty one for a female. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted September 10, 2010 Author Share Posted September 10, 2010 Got a nice Radiant Wrasse from Nick/Rose City for the 55. Great fish, not so great picture... This copperband has been in there a couple months. It prefers home made fish food over aiptasia. Grrr... Yeah I know it had something on the tail. It's gone the next day so not lympho. Probably just detritus from it's favorite hole in the rock wall. Here's a current shot of the female filefish. Thought I had 2 females, but the bigger skinnier hyper mean one is sorta starting to show spots on the flap fin, indicating it's male. Can't get a decent picture of it unfortunately, it never stops racing around the tank flicking it's fins when it sees me... it's always begging for food and then defending it. Don't think I posted this one yet, it's from right after I calibrated my lens. Probably should have done that a while ago (: Now I need a monitor calibration tool of some kind, my monitor driver and/or Windows 7 is jacking the color around so I can't tell if my pictures need altering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted September 10, 2010 Author Share Posted September 10, 2010 Here are a couple more shots: Rented a lens last weekend so I could take full tank shots, most of which were soft... grr. Could be worse, I could have bought it (: With the my lens: Frag. Ok well formerly a frag, now kinda getting to just be a colony. Got a pink birdsnest on a golf tee twice that size which was a frag a couple months ago. Man am I lazy. Smaller frag: Going to trade this one for a smaller one pretty soon, it's getting out of control: Also getting to be a bit much with all the sps, but I can move it to the 55: Here's a mad grower from Upscales, which I think is the same as the ORA green and orange birdsnest: Note the acid green cyano, the reason I have held all my frags. Don't want to share that love. It's getting better since I started rinsing the fish food, and am switching to ESV salt instead of Instant Ocean, and I have to say phosphate certainly has not prevented my coral from growing at a ridiculous rate. Or maybe the algae get the phosphate before the coral do. I tried a phosphate absorber and the phosphate went up so will try another brand of that. Actually not sure it is cyano. Probably ought to put it under a microscope to be sure. Snails and fish eat it, and erythromycin does not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarious Cynic Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Beautiful stuff. Inspiration to a noob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrock4224 Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 I am having a flash back and i think u used to be my neighbor and worked at extreme marine with casey.... correct me if i am wrong the name elctrokate strikes me back to years ago with casey and rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 Hi That is funny, yeah I worked at Extreme Marine... that was interesting. Had no marine experience to speak of and everyone would take off and leave me there, with no prices or names on the tanks. Probably cost them a bundle in sales. Met some really great people though. What is your real name? Mine's Kate Breimayer for the record... Is your screen name related to J-roc of Trailer Park Boys? That would be really funny since that show kinda reminds me of people I knew in Oly, who shall remain nameless. This is not Jay Rasmussen is it? He had a great tank. Kate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefSafari Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Beautiful Pictures:eek:....What kind of filefish is that? How small of a green polyp leather are you looking for? That one is awsome!!! You could always frag it(naughty)...I have a quarter sized one...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael7979 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Looks like an Orange-spotted Filefish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hozer21 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Very nice pics and the tank looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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