rollermonkey

Brightwell must be doing a tour, they will be conducting an event in Tukwila, WA on Nov. 30th.

He went from a 30 liter tank to a 1200 gallon tank in one step?

Although 11 months into the build, he is still tinkering with setup, who knows how long it will be before any fish or coral are added.

This sale will coincide very nicely with my needs for a new bucket'o'salt and the timing of starting my next QT period.

Please make sure you have plenty of the SA Clowns!

Maxi-mini carpet anemone(s) are in the tank, along with a mushroom frag and a birdsnest frag.

Did you check Home Depot / Lowe's / mcLendon's / Menards?

I'm not 100% sure what I've got. Way too tiny for my camera, so maybe next Friday when OBD stops buy, they'll make an appearance, and I can get an ID.

I seem to have made a purchase from Reef Gardener...

(cheer)

I was specifically after smaller frags so that I can more easily see growth or problems. One of my goals for this tank isn't massive diversity, but the opportunity for what I put in there to grow out.

This gives me 4 zoa morphs, so unless something drastic changes, I'm done with zoas.

The website for Barrier Reef says that they do moves. I didn't get the exact same impression when I was talking to the in-store people, though. You should call the maintenance-specific number, though.

So, tonight, in a dark back alley, I found a coral dealer to hook me up with a fix. Bought three zoa frags. That should keep the monkey at bay for a bit.

Pics when they open up. Some Purple People Eaters, Radioactive Dragon Eyes and a third morph I don't recognize. Might be chocolate mint based on a quick look through coralpedia.

(Sea King Aquariums in Renton, WA if your wondering who this shady character was.)

Most clams can handle nem stings... I have a 18" or so gigas clam that has a rose BTA attatched to its side directly and they are both doing fine!

Pics or it didn't happen.

Just kidding, I just want to see a picture of it!

What do you recommend? I have: Rod's Food original, Frozen cyclopeeze and mysis, Hikari marine S pellets, Instant Ocean brine in gel, and ReefCleaners.org's filter food on hand.

I've got the 4-LED JBJ magnetic light hanging on the back glass of my fuge and a typically half-clogged MJ-1200 pulling flow through. So far, this seems like the perfect combination for the green slime algae to flourish and the chaeto to melt away.

Since a pistol shrimp/shrimp goby was always part of my plan, I tried for 3" of sand. With the MP10 at 50%, my actual depths vary from 1" to 4.5". The sand also hides the "feet" I glued on my live rock for stability.

I have a couple of battery powered air pumps with tubing and airstones. So far, that's my only back up equipment.

Ok, I feed quite randomly (on purpose) but I can add quantity and try to target food to it's cave/arms.

So, I bought a brittle star from ReefCleaners.org when I was getting some other things, thinking it was supposed to be a micro brittle star.

It is roughly ten inches from leg tip to leg tip with a central disc about 1.5 inches across.

I'm worried that my 5 month old 29G BioCube is going to be an eventual death sentence if it can't get enough food.

Any opinions?

The Dracula was in QT. I had been using the cardboard shipping lid for the past couple months, but my new custom lid had arrived. I didn't have the bird mesh glued in yet, so I had a square of eggcrate sitting on the lid for the time being. So... He jumped up, probably caught a fin on the grate or maybe even got through clean before flopping off to the dresser top where I found it.

Now, I have bird mesh glued in place, egg crate on top of that, and at night, a light rag on top of that. If she jumps, she will either fall back in, or snag the bird mesh with a fin or operculum and die suspended over the water.

As for the zoas, they were sold as 'unidentified Hawaiian' zoas.

Dracula carpet surfed. Got a replacement in QT right now.

Also added a brittle star and a fire shrimp. The brittle was supposed to be a micro brittle, but at ten inches, tip to tip, I don't think it's very micro.

I've seen the pistol 3 or 4 times the past week or so, which is nice. Um...

Oh, I don't think the Superman monti survived the drive up and subsequent dip in coral revive. I haven't seen a single polyp since the temperature acclimation finished. The zoas have been on the verge of melting on and off the whole time, but that's my fault. When I originally mounted the JBJ Unibody LED fixture, I dimmed it almost all the way, as I hadn't even finished cycling yet and didn't want algae to get out of control. I never remembered to ramp up the intensity after the CUC arrived... Yeah, I've started on that now.

(drooler)

This one sounds pretty awesome, but I have to offer regrets.

At that exact moment, I'll be on the Disney Dream, having just gotten underway from Port Canaveral.

I will however be willing to pass any message on to Nemo, Dory and Marlin that anyone may have.

Perfect.

No photo evidence.

Hey, I was at this meet!

I'll be starting my drive as soon as I finish the WC in my QT. Hopefully about 9:30.

I'm really not feeling this Mariners game we're going to tonight.

Looks like I'll be at the meet on Saturday.

Want.

Ooh, even better in black.