30g Custom Cube

[Yellowtang]

Really nice brain you picked up

JR,

 

[premilove]

yes extremely.. what are the dimensions to that cube?

 

[cbort]

Really nice brain you picked up

JR,

Thanks! I thought so also! Saw one online for around 200.00 and it had just as many colors as this one! 45.00 i thought was a steal!

 

[cbort]

yes extremely.. what are the dimensions to that cube?

Thanks! Dimensions are 24x24x12T She's a shallow cube!

 

[cbort]

Ok...picked up about 13 GTBA's yesterday....all for 100.00 ranging in sizes from 2"-6" great green color with hot pink tips.

 

[Blackhawk Fan]

Nice stand and setup. That new wellso is SWEET!

 

[cbort]

Thanks a lot! I hope to soon upgrade lighting and it will really color up then!

 

[cbort]

Bored tonight so i took some new pics.....

 

[cbort]

and a couple more....

 

[cbort]

Traded about 15 zoa frags for a new light. It is a PFO hood, 250w ballast, 2x28W PC actinics and a XM 250W 20k bulb! The colors really POP with this setup! I have just rigged it up there for right now as i am now getting ready to move yet again to Cherokee, IA!
so here are some new pics!

 

[cbort]

3 new additions within the last couple days!

First off, i got a new wrasse not sure of its origin or type, but looks to be some sort of fairy wrasse. Great looking color!

The second is a damsel with colorations i have never seen before.

And last but not least is a flame angel! He was in my buddies SPS tank and was nipping, so I gave him a try!

 

[cbort]

 

[cbort]

quick question for everyone with more knowledge than me!

I have yet to get into buying a calcium reactor, nor have i kept corals that would need a calcium reactor, but lately as you can tell i am starting to keep LPS, Clams and some easy sps. I was wondering, how safe it was to put Mrs. Wages pickling lime into a water bottle with water and dose it once a week just like liquid calcium. I have been buying the kent liquid calcium and dosing it, but could i use this instead? I would start very slow with just a small amount in a water bottle.

let me know your thoughts, as i know there are people out there that dose this at night with no problems.

 

[justin_freebords]

i dont see why not as long as you are testing often. It may take some time to get it dialed in. Make sure you test for dkh as well because often adding one thing messes up the other and 99% of the time you need to add a little bit of something for calcium and something for alkalinity. I also suggest you test your magnesium just to get a ballpark estimate of where thats at

 

[cbort]

bought it as a lunar wrasse for 14.00 from a LFS...
Clearly not a lunar

 

[cbort]

ok, found out from another reefer that its a yellow flanked fairy wrasse. my 14.00 lunar wrasse is actually a 60.00 wrasse! well...atleast that is what drsfosterandsmith says!

 

[its fry]

Just a couple of 'good luck' wishes for you.

1. good luck keeping the wrasse in an open top tank.
2. good luck keeping all those anems away from your coral
3. good luck with some of those corals getting that much light.

Knock on wood. I hope you have success. Great tank.

 

[m and m]

Just a couple of 'good luck' wishes for you.

1. good luck keeping the wrasse in an open top tank.
2. good luck keeping all those anems away from your coral
3. good luck with some of those corals getting that much light.

Knock on wood. I hope you have success. Great tank.

I didn't want to be the one to say it, you realy shouldnt keep your sps in with anems, also you seem to have few sps rtning, and a brain reseeding tissue any idea why?

 

[cbort]

All corals are all doing great, with the exception of 1 of my 5 brains. It has been slowly coming back actually though. All the nems are doing great with all the corals. Thanks!

This is the Brain, bottom right corner. He is down lower for a reason, trying to figure out where he is happiest. The green slimer actually broke off, and he is just sitting in the sand for right now.

 

[ReeferRob]

What is the substrate on the new build?
Is that sugar fine sand?

Love the rimless look, wish I did that this build!