120 Gallon Salty Condo

[Dowtish]

That fish will grow fast based solely on the amount of available food(GHA) that it will have. :wink:

 

[bknapp]

Small is right. Best of luck with her, she's a beaut.

On the plus side it will take it a while to outgrow your tank.

 

[schooleyosis]

That fish will grow fast based solely on the amount of available food(GHA) that it will have. :wink:

Haha, wishful thinking. That piece of rock rubble is much, much worse than the DT...

Small is right. Best of luck with her, she's a beaut.

On the plus side it will take it a while to outgrow your tank.

Thanks B. Only grows to 8", shouldn't outgrow the tank :nerd:

 

[bknapp]

How's the tang doing in QT? Anything else new?

 

[schooleyosis]

Lots to report. I unfortunately could not get the tang to eat tonight and it is now very shy... Hopefully I can get it to eat tomorrow.

Lost the other Anthias this weekend. 0-3 with them now so who knows what happened there...

On to the good stuff. Phosphate reading was 0.00 on the Hana Checker today! GFO is working along with less feedings.

Added a 2" Niger Trigger from
toxic's tank. It is one of my all-time favorite fish and now I can say I have one. It's a boss when it comes to eating!

Added an utter chaos frag (I think that's
the name) and some ricordias as well but not sure the name on them as well.

So overall good weekend for the tank.

 

[schooleyosis]

Correction. Not utter chaos but ORA Spongodes. I wasn't even close. Lol

 

[bknapp]

Lots to report. I unfortunately could not get the tang to eat tonight and it is now very shy... Hopefully I can get it to eat tomorrow.

Lost the other Anthias this weekend. 0-3 with them now so who knows what happened there...

On to the good stuff. Phosphate reading was 0.00 on the Hana Checker today! GFO is working along with less feedings.

Added a 2" Niger Trigger from
toxic's tank. It is one of my all-time favorite fish and now I can say I have one. It's a boss when it comes to eating!

Added an utter chaos frag (I think that's
the name) and some ricordias as well but not sure the name on them as well.

So overall good weekend for the tank.

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[schooleyosis]

I've got some new corals coming in tomorrow and I plan to move some things around and dip some current corals at that time. I'll be sure to post new photos!

 

[dwilliams87]

Awesome man. Good luck with the trigger. Want one but I don't know that I could put it in a reef tank after watching how they just blow through a silverside.

 

[schooleyosis]

Thanks! Yeah, it's a risk. But it's so small and supposedly one of the "nicer" more reef safe of the triggers so we will see. I think the way it eats I should have no problem keeping it well fed and hopefully away from the fire shrimp and other small fish. I even saw it eating seaweed today from the algae clip. LOL

 

[schooleyosis]

So far the trigger is fitting in well and eating like a champ. I am really happy with the addition of him in my tank. Still working on getting the tang to eat. I see it eating from time to time but it's not very much. I pretty much have to make everything into a mush otherwise it is scared of anything that comes near it.

I've added a photo of the ricordias and the ORA spongodes that I got. I also added a photo of all the red planarian flat worms that came out of my frogspawn after dipping it.

The corals that came in yesterday were pretty beat up from shipping so they are in another club members tank for now trying to nurse them back to health. Will see if I can go pick them up in a few weeks or if we will be asking for replacements/refunds.

On a side note, I am waiting to hear back but I'm pretty sure I just purchased a TEK-Light Elite 8 bulb T5 fixture!!!! Super excited about that; hope he replies today.

 

[bknapp]

That's a sweet light. I was considering that light when I started my build.

 

[schooleyosis]

It will be here this week! Now I just need to figure out hanging options. My plan is to run 6 bulbs of the 8 but we'll see how it looks with all 8.

 

[Dowtish]

No reason not to run all 8 to start, you will just have to run them for only a few hours and work your way up over a few weeks.

 

[Flameback Pair]

How do you like your Koralia wavemaker? I'm thinking about getting the 4-way. Should be all the wavemaking I'll need.

 

[schooleyosis]

No reason not to run all 8 to start, you will just have to run them for only a few hours and work your way up over a few weeks.

Good point. Plus the bulbs are 7 months old so it's not like I'll be blasting the corals with 8 brand new bulbs. It's due to arrive Friday but I'll need some time to figure out how to hang this thing from a vaulted ceiling. I'll be getting in touch with Bill to check out his floating canopy design and construction.

 

[schooleyosis]

How do you like your Koralia wavemaker? I'm thinking about getting the 4-way. Should be all the wavemaking I'll need.

I actually like them a lot. I like the fact that they ramp up and down to make the waves rather than turning on and off. Plus, with having 2 separate 2-channel boxes I have quite a bit of options for how to create random flow. They are easy to take apart and clean as well. I've had no issues with them at all.

 

[CastAway]

I also added a photo of all the red planarian flat worms that came out of my frogspawn after dipping it.

OMG! As a newbie, I think this may be my first understanding of why people dip.

 

[schooleyosis]

Exactly. Luckily from what I've been told they do not hurt the coral, they are just a pest!

I didn't mount the coral to the rock I put it on as I plan to dip it again in another week or so.

 

[ToXIc]

how's mr trigger doing?