X 55 gallon nano reef

nice i know someone who could use a frag of cabbage.i really need to frag this guy but i am kinda heistant as i know when i do this guy is going to foul up my tank pretty bad.you should see a regular mucus coat come of.i am suprised everything is doing so well in this tank as it is a mixed lot.skim skim skim.and carbon.asw far as the lights i think a sarco might be ok if it was higher up.i know lobos dont mind T-8s so much.

whats this about cabbage coral frags maybe?

Once their stuck down and happy again, they'll be up for trade! I'll try to take a pic of one of the neighbor heads so you van see them. Basically, they're the color non-reefers call coral...that PNMWAS/orange/flesh type color.

Downside: I just saw some flatworms in the tank...crap

nothing a good dip wont fix.i have been wantig to try a new flat worm control product.its spendy but i might be looking for someone to go in on some with.or i might go with a good wrasse.

Ya, Garret's gonna meet me today, either a six line or yellow corris ..also curious about your new treatment idea tho!

i got hooked up with a little leopard wrasse and man is hey gorgeous.and he is also a natural flatworm remedy.he is already picking at the rocks and making my tank an allround brighter place.he is kinda eratic so to speak.he will be out on display then suddenly dart to cover like he saw a ghost.i suppose most wrasses are a wee bit similar in nature.
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dont know if i posted this already ...my brain coral is expanding its domain.

that brain is godlike imo...
and biologic is my preferred control, so i am paying attention to that leopard wrasse, if only my filefish hadnt expired...

if your meaning in this instance of godlike is a coral that destroys everything around it and looks innocent doing it.a big glowing brain that releases masses of stinging tentacles that just destroy things that touch them.you see the empty space around it.thats for others saftey.gotta keep this one down flow.your on this list for a frag when i decide to desicrate it.

ever see the animated french film "Light Years", Metamophis in the making right there...
i would be honored to have a frag of that bad boy if and when the time comes...

I can't wait until I own enough coral to make mine look that good!

part of the fun is watching it all grow.like your anemone.

badxgillen wrote:

part of the fun is watching it all grow.like your anemone.

indeed, that is my favorite part of the hobby, im very hands off, to a fault i guess (if my coral/aiptasia tank is an indicator)...

As you can see in the shot of my Bleeny I have my fare share of it. Its the never inding scourge.

i feel your pain, several peppermint shrimp and a matted filefish have passed in my attempts to fix the scourge...

check this out....its my tiny little yellow clown goby perched ontop of this huge tongue coral.just thought i would share with the rest of the hobbyist.[img][/img]

so i have also been thinking about introducing a smaller clownfish to this system to pair off with the perula that is already in there.i dont really remember why there is a percula in there in the first place but she looks like she could use some companionship and the surviving clown that is in my copper system has toughed it out long enough so its tank graduation day for the little guy.i also have had a bristle tooth tang that i have had in QT for almost a year so i am also letting him hitch a ride into the nano reef.hopefully things will stay peacfull.

i tend to like small fish in big tanks, just seems so epic in scale...

so i am in the thought process and partial preperation of taking this bad boy down.not that things arent good they arent great and the stand its on is not stable.it wobble way to much if touched even for a cleaning of the front glass.it is far from kid proof or the half drunk person who puts there hand on the aquarium to balance like its furniture.so i kinda have to build a new stand and it wont be the simple drain and fill move.
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here it is just as i found it a little dingy as it needs a water change and algae scraping but i am unsure when i am going to get the motivation to just do it so i thought i would snap a pic now.

i also have to clean this up a little bit...
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first i gotta take down the time out tank then the sump.[img][/img]
there were more things in time out than i remembered.
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now that the ten is down on to the next.good thing i have a large amount of buckets as many of these things dont get along.
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here is a top view of the old setup.nothing fancy.
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the back wall is covered in yellow polyps and sinularia so as its dry docked fo longer than expected as always it is being condtantly sprayed down by tank water so things should be OK.i made sure to have a extra set of hands to man the spray bottle. [img][/img]
i had the redskull over to help with the heavy liftingand all the other fun jobs.THANKS SKULL.
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so many buckets i actualy had to leave a bunch outside on the porch since the living room filled up and i had lights and stands and other equipment everywhere.i actualy ran out of buckets as i had to keep the coral seperated.
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poor sarco. i also started to run out of salt water as you gotta keep ecvery coral covered rock submerged.not to mention selected buckets had to be heated for more sensitive life such as my teardrop clam.[img][/img]
and the redskull found a pistol shrimp i thought i had lost in the sump.he is huge and old as i put him in several years ago.maybe 3.
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