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Do you just hold it against your phone lens?
225g CDA SPS dream build
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Yeah,back in the day I just used 2 pieces of clear tape to hold it on my phone case.
I will probably just use my old phone case and just put a few dabs of super glue in a few spots and just swap cases while I take pics.
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Coral looks really good in your tank!! Also, I think the pictures look good still!!I can’t believe I haven’t updated in two months! Let’s start with some somewhat recent shots from Thanksgiving.
Things are beginning to diverge where some coral are stagnating and some are really taking off. Parameters are a bit off at times due to me being a little overwhelmed lately with the amount of work plus still getting things set up such as the second return pump that is now online and putting effort into the electrical cabinet (though that’s still a mess). I’ve been continuing to introduce and quarantine lots of fish. The desjardini tang (try 2) went into a newly built DIY acclimation box this morning along with try 2 of about forty banded trochus and indo turbo snails. I learned an expensive lesson about how to quarantine snails. They need to be fed a lot and that’s awful hard to do in a newly setup tank. So now I did it in my coral QT and they made it fine when fed zucchini slices. Lost about $200 worth of snails on try one in a Rubbermaid with sand from my old display.
Today, right after I pulled the desjardini out of QT I ran up to Violet Sea Fish and Coral and bought my wife’s dream fish as well as my own. Hers was a Regal angel. I got a beautiful yellow belly one from the Maldives with a n unusual misbar pattern. Pics tomorrow if it survives its first night in QT. It came straight to Violet in an airline shipment and I took it off their hands before they even had a chance to open it. Along with that I got my favorite fish, copperband butterflyfish. I bought live black worms to get these two feeding along with clams on the half shell. Hopefully this will be sufficient. Lastly along with these two I got an Exquisite fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus exquisitis) to join my pintail fairy wrasse and hopefully not break the peace.
There’s still tons to do in getting a permanent setup going. I’m still hauling out my RODI every couple weeks to make water in my mixing station since I haven’t mounted it. Also over Black Friday I bought a Kamoer STP continuous duty doser to dose kalkwasser from the shed with and hope to get that set up next so I can stop dosing half a liter a day of salts!! I’m up to about 600 mL of combined soda ash, calcium chloride and part C balling tropic marin solution. The pH boost won’t hurt either though this rides between 8.1-8.5 daily.
Only new coral is JF Jolt, and a TCK Pikachu I believe. I’ve, since the last post probably, mounted my orange monti setosa, a fine branching orange montipora sp. , UC Reign of Fire as I learned my new bright green UC frag is called, and UC strawberry shortcake.
UC strawberry shortcake
UC reign of fire
JF jolt
happy low light TSA bill Murray on the left and ARC fireworks on the right. Need more light at the edge here. Thinking of buying two or more XR15s and doubling up. Hard to hit these angles.
Very happy RRC goldenrod anacropora. I just had to disassemble this colony and remount it because I found an aiptasia growing in the middle of it. Removed it to get at it.
Here’s the desjardini in his penthouse suite getting constantly harassed by the yellow tang today (day 1).
Here’s the box as I built it
Learned that two part epoxy can get pretty slippery. Enough to let the magnets attach each other from 4” away
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Got my RODI mostly mounted on the wall FINALLY! I can’t believe it took me til December haha. This tank has needed a lot to get it here so it’s just been something I could postpone. But now it’s been three weeks without a water change so time to catch up on plain old maintenance and make some water!
Petcrazyson
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Following along! That take is so stunning! Can‘t wait to see more. How are all the fish?
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They’re all doing pretty great. The yellow tang is a bully and is even swiping the pyramid butterflyfish trio a bit. The pyramid with the mouth injury is the bottom of the pecking order and is always missing some scales and has tattered fins but they seem to settle well. I think it would have been better for fish to go less negative space but they’re coping pretty well as the coral begins to give it a more full feel as I had hoped. My regal and copperband in the QT are another story. Hopefully they’ll begin to relax and feed. I think I just saw the regal feed a bit. Fingers crossed!!!
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Who’s the poor fellow? One of your Bristletooths?
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Sorry. When my eyes get tired at the end of the day I type in the “spray and pray” methodology
i corrected the post now. It’s the bottom of the trio of pyramid butterflies.
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No worries! How is the Regal and the CBB?Sorry. When my eyes get tired at the end of the day I type in the “spray and pray” methodology
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They’re both doing pretty well. The regal seems fat and strong. I may even have seen him eat a thing or two but it’s hard to say watching through the pipes and from a distance. The CBB on the other hand is highly stressed and got nipped a few times by the regal since the CBB was “pane surfing” right in front of the regal’s chosen pipe for hours on end. Finally I put up a divider to try and calm the CBB but if he isn’t calmer today I’m moving the Regal to his own 29g QT that I’ve been mixing saltwater up in just around the wall from here. The CBB is getting a raw beak from rubbing it on the glass all day and has a few bites out of his fins. The new exquisite wrasse seems healthy and fine though he isn’t eating as voraciously as I’d hope given the literal buffet he’s swimming through provided to encourage his tank mates to eat.
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This fish is just phenomenal and deserves a few more pics for its cameo
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At least the CBB is eating enough right?
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No it’s not yet eating either. That’s the fish I’m more concerned about at the moment. He’s starting skinny. The regal is fat. I’m currently feeding live blackworms, frozen mysis, bloodworms, marine one, clams on the half shell, and have provided rocks covered with small feather dusters and vermetid snails but all it can do is swim against the panes. Just a matter of calming it down I hope.
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Here’s the exquisite wrasse
Fish looking great in QT
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Wahoo!!!!! Through copious attempts and little changes I’ve gotten both the regal angel and the copperband butterfly to eat! The CBB is eating quite a few blackworms. I feel like the key was actually the black egg crate divider. It’s acting as a fake substrate to catch the newly deceased blackworms and then it sees them hanging from it in the current and eats them as it hunts along it. The divider also served to calm it down since the regal seems to be being territorial with it. The regal has been tasting from a half shell clam much less vigorously than I would like but it’s at least getting a bite or two down it looks like!
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Something I think that can help you with the CBB is feeding San Francisco Bay Brand Angelfish/Butterflyfish meal. I think the CBB would be very interested in the little clam bits. And it would encourage him to eat the other food components.
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Thanks! I’ll look for that. I’m thinking I may go to a seafood market and buy some live clams too as the regal seems to like clam but is perhaps picky about his freshness
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Hey they are like us they like what they like eat what they eat. (Doesn’t make sense that sentence)Thanks! I’ll look for that. I’m thinking I may go to a seafood market and buy some live clams too as the regal seems to like clam but is perhaps picky about his freshness
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