A year in reefing

[reefermadness55]

Definitely planning on an upgrade now is the best time as I'm also moving right now, guess my tank decided to break itself down for me, I lost a few frags, I can't find my green slimer Acro frag, but most things are doing well and recovering fast, unfortunately im also tight on money due to the move as well.

I'm looking for 90g+ 4 or 5 feet long hopefully with a stand if not I need to build a stand myself soon Cuz we need to move in like 30 days. I'm keeping an eye on CL for a tank, still dreading moving everything again so soon. But I'm on the lookout for a good tank right now, keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[reefermadness55]

Finally got thing going again. I found a 110g tank with a stand 60x23x18 has a few very tiny chips in the glass on the front right side. Did a very quick water test. Seemed fine now its been running for a little over a week cycling. Yesterday I noticed one of the chips has a pinhole leak about 1 drop every 5-10 minutes. I have the 30g and the 40g to move into the tank. Currently the cycle is at am: 1ppm ni: 8ppm na: 40ppm just the in a couple well matured live rocks yesterday to speed things up. Once the am is gone I will add the first fish and more live rock. In order to fix the leak tho I will need to drain a little over half the water for a few hours to let the sealant dry. I might just wait until I need to throw in everything do a huge water change, fix the leak, add the live rock and stock, and fill the rest of the way up with new water. Advice always welcome. pics to come soon

 

[Harold Green]

I have 1 Yuma the orange spotted one and several different ricordeas, I've noticed the main difference is the bubble size, ricordea bubbles tend to all be similar in size while the Yuma's tend to have larger bubbles near the mouth and around the rim.

As for the nem I'm not sure, most likely the water wasn't stable enough, he walked all over the place, spent a few days under the rocks then one day appear at the top right under my large stylophora and slightly above some gsp definitely touching the gap and never harmed any corals even when they touched for days on end. Did not accept food regularly, and one day just gave up and the foot gave out wouldn't do anything except be miserable. Will be a long time before I try bta again, but I'm dying to get a colorful rock flower nem

Also I'll have some current shots of the tank and frag tank in about an hour or 2

I have a red and a green rock anemone. If I feed them every day they stretch out quite large. After a year they still more around a lot. The red can handle more light but both will move into the shade from time to time.

 

[Harold Green]

Finally got thing going again. I found a 110g tank with a stand 60x23x18 has a few very tiny chips in the glass on the front right side. Did a very quick water test. Seemed fine now its been running for a little over a week cycling. Yesterday I noticed one of the chips has a pinhole leak about 1 drop every 5-10 minutes. I have the 30g and the 40g to move into the tank. Currently the cycle is at am: 1ppm ni: 8ppm na: 40ppm just the in a couple well matured live rocks yesterday to speed things up. Once the am is gone I will add the first fish and more live rock. In order to fix the leak tho I will need to drain a little over half the water for a few hours to let the sealant dry. I might just wait until I need to throw in everything do a huge water change, fix the leak, add the live rock and stock, and fill the rest of the way up with new water. Advice always welcome. pics to come soon

Hope you've gotten the tank where it no longer leaks. I noticed in some of your old photos you had some small feather dusters. Would you by any chance have a source for those. I had some many years ago that came in on some plants from florida but I haven't been able to find them anymore.

 

[reefermadness55]

I've never had a direct source other than my own tanks, their populations seem to vary through the months, a few time I must have had thousands at a time other likely less than 100. If you really want some I can ship you some or if your local you can pickup for free as for the leak I'm going to fix it when I have to do the first water change/hours before I add in all my rocks/fish

 

[reefermadness55]

here's a few quick pics of the tank for now, still cycling, not how the rock is staying, this is only the new dry rock being added to all of my other rockwork. im letting these rocks cycle a bit and dosing bacteria. i have to have all of my rocks and livestock in by the 30th.. i plan to do one large water change, while its mostly drained, fix the leak, scape the rocks to their final position, add my other 80-100lbs of well matured live rock, fill the rest with new sw and my fish, one final dose of bacteria, and call it a day. also building an actual canopy soon, likely starting that today.

 

[Harold Green]

I've never had a direct source other than my own tanks, their populations seem to vary through the months, a few time I must have had thousands at a time other likely less than 100. If you really want some I can ship you some or if your local you can pickup for free as for the leak I'm going to fix it when I have to do the first water change/hours before I add in all my rocks/fish

Afraid I'm down along the Texas coast. If you can find the time later after you get your tank up I'd definitely like to get some of the feather dusters from you. Thanks

 

[reefermadness55]

Drained the tank down to 6 or 7 inches of water and fixed the pinhole leak from the chip in thecorner. Ammonia is almost compmetely gone, also built the canopy today, didn't get to sand it down or stain it to match the stand. Tomorrow after work I have to move all the rock, fish and coral in my 2 holding tanks into the new display, and fill it back up with clean sw and setup all the equipment in addition to moving some furniture into the new house, tomorrow is my last day. My only other time off work will be Sunday and we have to move all the big furniture and last minute things into the new place so I have to get all the aquatics done tomorrow, were also setting up a 15 gallon bowfront for my boyfriend tomorrow as well. I plan to take the canopy back down to sand and stain in one day after a week or two. Pics to come in the morning. I can't upload images with the mobile app, not sure why and its up to date.

 

[reefermadness55]

Already seeing a few diatoms in the tank, but after replacing 80% of the water and adding about 80lbs of my mature rock I'm hoping it will balance out Cuz I don't really have many other options

 

[reefermadness55]

the new tank has now been up and running for almost 2 weeks, and things are looking good. i lost a deepwater acro colony in the move, setosa took a bit of damage, lost 2 acro frags, and thats it for losses so far, and hopefully the last, i also took the leap and added a small heniochus, i just hope he adjusts well, the tang has been picking on him a little, but they have plenty of time away from each other.

 

[reefermadness55]

loving the new tank and that i can use the left and right sides as display now thanks to the size of the tank things seem to be looking up for my fishy friends.

 

[reefermadness55]

Today may be the day I add a lionfish. I'm excited for the lion, but I'm not sure about getting my mandarin out of the tank, I can't tear it down, she only eats pods so she's never near the surface let alone in sight. I know if I don't get her out she will be a snack one day. Though likely not for a while.

I would like to get my clowns out, that's easy. And not sure about the yellow tang, he's a bully but I don't think he would try to mess with a lion. Advice appreciated!

 

[reefermadness55]

Current fish;
2 clowns
Yellow tang
1 chromis
Melanurus wrasse
Mandarin dragonette

Adding a snowflake eel in several weeks.
And adding a volitan or russels lionfish today most likely