Electrokate Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 I do have a pair of orange spot filefish. I need to track down some algae for them to try spawning into, supposedly they prefer gracillaria. The grammas also like it and drag it into their nest to bind to the egg mass. Kate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylaster Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 The tank is looking great nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 Yay my husband's AEUAD seems to be in remission, am adding a frag tank to my basement. Don't have that yet but here are some pics from last year I did not post yet... I am trying out smugmug too so this post might have a lot of edits. ORA misbar black ocellaris female. This pic shows the purple polyps on the pink birdsnest I have pretty well. Purple and green acan bought from Perry when Ocean in a Box was still in his garage: This is why I don't keep a whole lot of LPS: AEUAD=Aquarium Equipment Upgrade Aversion Disorder, it's common to spouses in this hobby. Most unfortunate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 Clark Kent monti frag. Yeah it might turn into a Superman if the conditions are right... or it might not. Baby blue and green favites from Rose City Sunset mushrooms. Sold some of these to Rose City. The are in low light here but in the right conditions are mostly orange and red with green specks, the reverse of how they are now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Nice pictures Kate. I love black and white ocellaris. They are feisty though. Sorry your husband suffers from AEUAD but in the end it is cheaper otherwise you will end up with a coral crack house like ours! (laugh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewisriverfisherman Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Nice pic's Kate. Love the acans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 Nice pictures Kate. I love black and white ocellaris. They are feisty though. Sorry your husband suffers from AEUAD but in the end it is cheaper otherwise you will end up with a coral crack house like ours! (laugh) Oh don't worry, it's getting there... I think he steered me toward buying a tiny house on purpose. With no garage I might add. And like I said it's in remission, he wants me to get a frag tank (: Course his hope is I will start selling stuff and make at least as much as I spend. I'll probably put some things on ebay since most of what I have the club people already have too, local market seems tapped out. This whole frags in the sand deal is not working out. They keep getting buried. This got too big so I took it to Nick's and started growing a frag of it. Which is now bigger than this was, in one year. This stuff also growing like mad. A few years ago it was the size of a lentil, 4 polyps. I posted a growth progression of it in the beggininngg of this thread. Color is much better now. Was a 10 buck frag at Nick's so I named it the "Rose City Rainbow" but it's probably a Tyree Rainbow: If you go to the beginning of the thread you see a couple garbanzo bean size fiji yellow leathers... here they are: This is a Randall's Anthias. I think he would be a lot prettier if he had some girlfriends but they are pretty scarce... was red and purple striped when I got him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cklskypilot Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Hi Kate simply said GRRRRRREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT TANK. And such a good job you have done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finch6013 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 great looking sps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted May 11, 2011 Author Share Posted May 11, 2011 Thanks for the compliments. I am pretty happy with it, thinking of maybe going up to a 6 bulb light though to make photography easier and see how things do, and would be happier if all the algae would go away. Right. (: It is better than it was, looking at those older pics... maybe it is going away. Here are some more pics: A frag I traded in at Rose City: These grow like weeds (Pocillopora damicornis): Bubble coral: Royal gramma: Full tank shot of the 120: Yellow wrasses spawning (best I could do they move really fast): Male melanurus trying to interest his mate in making like the yellow wrasses: Panning is not working out for me. Hard to shoot a spawning wrasse, they are even more hyper than normal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 Some pics from 5/3/11: Bubble Coral "Rose City Rainbow" Cat's Paw Upscales green and orange birdsnest: Forgot the name of this acro. It is pine green at the base and blue at the tips in most tanks, in mine looks like this: Electric green Pocillopora damicornis Excessive purple rim montipora In most tanks this is magenta but not in mine of course: ORA Joe the Coral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhowe Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Bubble coral is pretty sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finch6013 Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Love that acro in pic 4. Also your green cap looks like its growing in a cool way. Did you force it to do that somehow or is that how It chose to grow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 Love that acro in pic 4. Also your green cap looks like its growing in a cool way. Did you force it to do that somehow or is that how It chose to grow? I did put the purple rim stuff too close to the orange and Idaho Purple on purpose, was hoping they would swirl together but the orange does not grow as quickly as the other 2. One reason it might be growing that way is that there are majano anemones in there and they will switch direction to avoid one, or I snap off the piece and peel of the majano then grow it out as a frag. Pretty amazing how fast this stuff grows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylaster Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Great pics the tank is looking awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 couple quick pics of the tank with my new light... first is with only 2 bulbs, the next is all 6. Both pics kind of dark, sorry... not used to the new light and I shot it on manual. So basically I guessed on the exposure and got kind of close. Will reshoot when the gorgonian is open. Had a 4 bulb unit on before and it was ok, obviously, but I wanted something with better bulb spacing and 2 more bulbs so photography would be easier and so I could use the 4 bulb unit on my frag tank. New light is a Hydrofarm "Designer" grow light. Liked it's spacing and deep wide reflectors. If only it had a fan but the price being so low could not expect that. I think both the old and new fixture were slightly overdriving the bulbs, should get a kill a watt and see. Considered LED's but love the colors of T5HO ATI bulbs too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Beautiful tank! Is that a birdsnest in the monti? That is awsome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefnjunkie Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 This is an awesome looking tank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 That looks great Kate! I wish Beth and I had had time to see your tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohaynow Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Sweet tank Kate, I too recently made the switch from a 4 bulb t5 to a 6 bulb. Its crazy how much of a difference it makes, and yea, the ati's are awesome bulbs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 That looks great Kate! I wish Beth and I had had time to see your tanks. Another time... besides it needs a good cleaning (: Thanks for the frags, they are awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 Sweet tank Kate' date=' I too recently made the switch from a 4 bulb t5 to a 6 bulb. Its crazy how much of a difference it makes, and yea, the ati's are awesome bulbs![/quote'] The new reflectors are awesome, am getting better light dispersion out of 2 bulbs than I had with 4. Will be interesting to see how the Stylophoras do with it. One was hot pink at Upscales, is now gold base, baby blue polyps and pink around the blue only. The other is from Rose City and appears to be Tyree rainbow. Joe the Coral is already showing more color. Mushrooms not too happy though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 Beautiful tank! Is that a birdsnest in the monti? That is awsome! Thanks! Yeah, I stuck a gorgonian in the middle of the montiporas originally as I had seen someone do that on a forum post and it looked great. But they fought, and there was tissue recession causing the gorgonian to suffer. So I swapped it for the birdsnest, which is doing quite fine. Few current pics: This already looks better, I call it "Mr S" because I got it from him. Was tort color at the base and emerald green at the tips but is coloring up to be the reverse. Was about the size of a garbanzo bean when I got it. Don't think this will change much, it was purple tip in its last tank Also noticed my alk was like 5 and the calcium low as well, and fixed that. So some color changes might be from that. Today I dropped the skimmer's impeller assembly. It never really did skim into the cup, the bubbles rarely made it more than an inch from the top and burst in the neck instead, leaving a thick black deposit. Not the biggest problem since either way the crud was gone but since I need a new pinwheel and ceramic shaft and the sedra 3500 obviously was not cutting it anyways, thinking of ditching the entire skimmer and going with something new. Not sure what to pick. So many choices, so little cash (: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrokate Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 deleting post I can't get the pictures to show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewey McLovit Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Wow nice tank and love the growth! Have you notice a significant change since you won the RO/DI unit? Looked surprisingly good b/f the RO/DI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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