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Rallos posted:How long do you run your lights now? You could try shortening your photoperiod but honestly I'd try more flow first and see if that helps. You don't wanna change too many things too quickly. Thanks, I'll give this a try.
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visuvius posted:Looks really nice. What did you use on the inside? I went with a rubberized spray paint that seems to be working pretty well. Thanks! I did a couple of coats of oil-based KILZ, then a couple of coats of oil based glossy white. Siliconed up the seams pretty well, so that lower tray should hold 5 or so gallons of water in an emergency.
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Due to a miscommunication with the LFS, I'm still at least a week out from getting the trim replacement piece for my tank. I was able to get the old trim off, it was nerve-wracking at first but it actually went pretty quickly with a dremel. I still need to build my sump too, I've got the pieces cut to turn a 40b into a nice sump/refugium. Should probably try to get that done this weekend. Been thinking about stocking for a while, here is what I'm leaning towards at the moment (this is for a 4' 120g): 2 tomato clowns (already have) 1 starry blenny (already have) 1 purple firefish (already have) want to add 3-4 engineer gobies 1-2 flasher/fairy wrasses (unsure on which type, if 2 would be as dissimilar as possible) 1 copperband butterfly (iffy on this) 1 purple tang
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Enos Cabell posted:Due to a miscommunication with the LFS, I'm still at least a week out from getting the trim replacement piece for my tank. I was able to get the old trim off, it was nerve-wracking at first but it actually went pretty quickly with a dremel. I still need to build my sump too, I've got the pieces cut to turn a 40b into a nice sump/refugium. Should probably try to get that done this weekend. Engineer gobies get big don't they? Also, I should be finally getting the plumbing situated with the help of one of the owners of my LFS and gonna fill it up. Will post pics.
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Rallos posted:Engineer gobies get big don't they? They get to about a foot long, but everything I've read says they only need a 55g tank and prefer to be kept in groups. I really want an eel, and they are as close as I'm likely to get in a mixed reef tank.
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Enos Cabell posted:They get to about a foot long, but everything I've read says they only need a 55g tank and prefer to be kept in groups. I really want an eel, and they are as close as I'm likely to get in a mixed reef tank. You could get a snowflake eel. I have one and they are great. Small crabs and shrimp are lunch but he doesn't bother snails or fish. I had a little one a while back with a large coral banded shrimp and he was scared of the shrimp.
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The best small eel for that size of tank is a pair of dwarf golden moray. Stays less than 1' long and very well behaved. Doesn't even eat my small crabs or snails.
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Dwarf golden morays look like they might work out pretty great. You don't think I'd have to worry about the firefish?
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Enos Cabell posted:Dwarf golden morays look like they might work out pretty great. You don't think I'd have to worry about the firefish? I don't have anything that small in my tank, even my male Picasso clown is at least 1.5x the mass. However, the dwarf golden moray mouth is really small and can barely grab a cube of meaty food, so I wouldn't really worry. Mine doesn't look like it goes hunting very much anyway, at least vs. what my melanurous wrasses do. Plus which would you rather have, a cool pair of morays or a stupid firefish? 
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Dwarf morays are a cool idea but judging by the reality I've seen in my local club, they don't tend to work out. One lady bought a pair and they both squirmed out her glass lidded top through the plastic attachment piece on the back. The other pair I saw purchased both decided to swim through the same MP10 within 24 hours of each other. Just my two cents.
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As far as I know they don't hold an escape artist reputation up here. For what it's worth mine just sticks his head out the rocks until feeding time. Maybe the amount of rockwork available to it is a factor.
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How big of a tank? You got any pictures? I love eels but they wouldn't play nicely with my reef tanks.
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Bruce Boxlicker posted:How big of a tank? You got any pictures? I love eels but they wouldn't play nicely with my reef tanks. 2x3' footprint, of which it's mostly rocks. My pair of melanurous wrasse is more of a menace in that tank.
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There was someone in here, possibly Enos, that had to basically take down a tank because of bryopsis. I'm wondering if whoever it was ever tried Fluconazole. Seems like a relatively new treatment for it that I hadn't seen before.
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visuvius posted:There was someone in here, possibly Enos, that had to basically take down a tank because of bryopsis. I'm wondering if whoever it was ever tried Fluconazole. Seems like a relatively new treatment for it that I hadn't seen before. Yeah, that was me. I actually had heard about the fluconazole before I tore my tank down, but I couldn't find any info that I didn't have to run through google translate first. The huge fluconazole thread on reef2reef forums showed up like a month later. I did still have some bryopsis on a few of the frag rocks I'm trying to save, so I went ahead and ordered some fluconazole and did the treatment. This was two months ago, and I haven't seen a single speck of bryopsis since. It really seems to work perfectly, wish I'd given it a shot before tearing down my tank.
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If only they could make something similar for aiptasia.
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I've done 2x double dose treatments of fluconozole only to have bryopsis come back weeks later. It has stayed in my longer photo period sump for over a year though.
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My trim piece FINALLY came in. Hoping to get my rockscape done and the tank filled this weekend (if my RODI can keep up).
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Man, I hope everything goes well for you after all the setbacks with that build. Hopefully you don't overgrow the tank in a year too!
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So far so good, got the trim piece installed and the first half of the aquascape more or less in place. Drilled the rock with a masonry bit, and then used fiberglass rod to make some pillars. I rinsed and added about 100lb of sand, and then filled the tank with enough water to cover the rock. I've still got a bunch of more interesting looking rock to work in tomorrow.
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Looks sweet, how did you make the bases for the rock kebabs?
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I just drilled straight through all of those rocks with a masonry bit, and have a single 3/8" fiberglass rod going through them. They're sitting on egg crate, and it's pretty stable. They didn't wobble when I pushed on them from the sides at least. Finished adding the rest of my rock, though the sandbed area is bound to change up some. My goal was to have nothing epoxied or cemented into place, so I could remove any single rock without too much hassle if needed, and I think I attained that. Also managed to get the plumbing sorted out yesterday. I converted the factory drilled overflow into a herbie style, with a return coming up and over the top from the back. Works beautifully, and is orders of magnitude quieter than the factory style durso. 
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Looks amazing. How did you attach the rod to the egg crate?
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Looks amazing. How did you attach the rod to the egg crate? Thanks! It's not actually attached to anything, it's just resting on the egg crate. e: drat! Just checked with my LFS, and he has a pair of dwarf golden morays in the shop right now, but they are $190 each. Too rich for my blood, might have to go with engineer gobies after all. Enos Cabell fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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I've owed this thread some pictures of the 220 for a while. I have added all the tangs that I am going to have for a little while (I might get a blue hippo in the future). I still need some smaller angels (lemon peel, flame, etc) but it's mostly done. Added a Naso Tang and a Powder Blue Tang yesterday. Please don't mind the water marks on the glass...     (I tried to get a better eel picture but he decided to be shy)
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Gorgeous fish! That is a great looking tank.
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Well I didn't get a pair, but I did pick up a dwarf golden moray this weekend. That dude is so amazingly cool, thanks for pointing me in that direction! Also picked up a McCosker's flasher wrasse and a red-head solon fairy wrasse. Moved my existing fish into the 120, and the new guys will chill with the frags in the 40 for the next month. Aiptasia popped up again in the 40, so I want to try to get that under control before I move the coral over. Still no more sign of bryopsis at least. My frogspawn are going absolutely nuts though, I've got at least 20 heads of that now. I might turn that large flat rock out front into a forest of it.
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Here is my Fluval Evo 13.5 at around three months. Livestock: blue damsel, two clowns, Yello goby, skunk shrimp, emerald crab, turbo snails, one nassarius snail, two blue hermits, one red hermit, zoa frag, frog spawn frag and plenty of algae and copepods. The tank is coming along nicely. I had a Fluval PS2 skimmer in there that was so noisy I could here it upstairs so I sent it back. I'm in love with my frogspawn. It already has little babby spawns growing from the base! The fish are very happy and healthy but the blue damsel is aggressive at times towards the goby. Which is weird cause the goby and damsel were added at the same time well after the tank was established with clowns etc. I feel bad cause the got doesn't really have a home. He just rests along the glass and chills. He's eating and appears healthy. Everyone else seems to have their "home" in the tank. I wonder if I should take him out and give him to someone or back to the store. Another annoyance is a small amount of strands of algae on the one rock that keeps coming back.      
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Welp, mysterious death of my yellow tang. Found the corpse remarkably complete (no eyes tho) and flushed it.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Welp, mysterious death of my yellow tang. Found the corpse remarkably complete (no eyes tho) and flushed it. Sorry to hear that. I bury my fish near my shed. Maybe in a million years an alien paleontologist will be baffled by fossils that don't belong here.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Sorry to hear that. I bury my fish near my shed. Maybe in a million years an alien paleontologist will be baffled by fossils that don't belong here. Nah they'll be like "well these things clearly were able to walk on land too"
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 Caught my puffer puffing up today! Nothing stressed him out that I could figure out. Just turned to look at the tank and there he was all puffed up. He deflated himself shortly after this photo and came begging for food so I think he was just "stretching his muscles" so to speak.
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Used to have a pet puffer in the shop I worked and he did it every morning. Reckon he was yawning 
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Rallos posted:
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Busy weekend, but I've finally got my 120 set up and stocked and finally "finished" after starting this process last fall. Last steps were popping then lenses off my LED light fixture and moving that over, moving the new fish from QT to DT, and then moving all the corals over into the new tank. Didn't have time for pics yet, but it's looking pretty badass now. My dwarf golden moray is really digging his new rockwork too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuHEDP5DQU
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I can add Humu Humu to list of species of animals that have bitten me. He's been getting bolder lately, last night I wasn't watching while siphoning and he got me right on the fingertip. Not big enough to draw blood yet but it was a pretty good pinch!
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Few pics of the new tank and fish.        Also picked up a purple tang this weekend. He'll be in QT for a few weeks, here's a pic of him during acclimation. 
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why don't you nerds get some dank nugs and watch fishcenter live? http://www.adultswim.com/videos/fishcenter/
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nice fish tank
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BrienneGetsHanged posted:why don't you nerds get some dank nugs and watch fishcenter live? http://www.adultswim.com/videos/fishcenter/ cuz i'd rather extract my dank nugz and watch my own reef???????? you suuuuuuck
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