Collinslice's 25 lagoon

[Collinslice]

Another round of tests to report.

Mag 1400
Cal 425
Alk 5.9

Added a couple sps to the mix and now and dropping alk quick. Guess the clam settled in hahaha.

 

[Collinslice]

Mag 1360
Cal 400
Alk 7.0

I'm currently using up some Two Little Fishes c-Balance I was given.

Dosing 5mL of part A and B every other day.

Oh! And I rethought my fish plan to be a bit more invert friendly, and brought home a beautiful Red mandarin. Haven't been able to snap a good pic yet so,here's an sps!

And the bad pic of the mandarin

So I'm going to be choosing my clean up crew soon. Can't find my trochus snails anywhere so I'm open to suggestions

 

[Bo Green]

Its looking great Colin.

 

[JerSaint]

Looking good man! I can't wait to see some growth on your corals!

 

[Collinslice]

Looking good man! I can't wait to see some growth on your corals!

Thanks Jeremy. Slowly adding little pieces here and there. (mostly what I've been given for free) sadly don't think I'll make the ffm either

 

[Collinslice]

Found my banded trochus snails.

Cuc is finished (except maybe a couple oddballs I come across)
6 nassarius snails
7 banded trochus
1 ninja star snail
1 emerald crab

Been going a couple days now and they're doing a swell job of keeping everything tidy. Will snap a new fts later tonight or tomorrow morning depending on when I get home.

 

[Collinslice]

Going to be working on my lighting settings in the next few days. I just don't think I'm getting the full use of the ai prime. I also want to find a "photo setting" for my particular cell phone. All these pics were snapped this am. Added a nano packet of chemi pure blue last night and am watching the algae mat in the front vanish before me

 

[Collinslice]

 

[JerSaint]

Sweet!

 

[Bo Green]

Looks great!

 

[Collinslice]

Couple new pickups today. Will update tomorrow

 

[Collinslice]

Mag 1360
Cal 400
Alk 7.3

Going to be bringing up alk slightly to around 9 over the next week, and calcium can come up a tad, but I'm happy with the numbers so far.

Pickups yesterday:
ORA Pearlberry
ORA Plum Crazy
ORA Hawkins
ORA Red Planet
Scrambled Eggs zoas
X-Men zoas

 

[Collinslice]

 

[Collinslice]

Frag farmers market did me well
Larry Jackson Purple Tip Acro
Pink Tip Granulosa
FHI Cali Tort
2 Red Dragons
Jf Burnin Banana
Jf Sunset Stylo
Forest fire digi
Red digi
Red milli
Green milli
Mystic Sunset monti
And a few more I forgot the names of

 

[Collinslice]

 

[Chrisfish]

Looking really nice!!!

 

[DustyXB9Reefer]

What is that?! The big red thing in the middle.

 

[Collinslice]

What is that?! The big red thing in the middle.

That is my new (hopefully successful) crinoid feather star. looking for all kinds of different small particle foods.
Currently have:
Aqua-Tech Azoox which seems to get a fair response
Gonipower which I will be trying tonight
I also have Rods Food original, but will be looking for a smaller micro frozen food.

These guys are noctournal feeders, and from what I have read, should be target fed once they fan open their arms.
This is my first attempt at keeping one, and I've also read that this color happens to be the hardest to keep. Here's a couple more pics I took this morning. (He went in last night, so seeing him this morning in the same position was my first sigh of relief on this long experiment)

 

[Collinslice]

Mounted some sps yesterday

I think I'm set for a bit on sps haha

 

[JerSaint]

Looking great Collin!

Nice seeing you at the shop today, I can't wait to see what that acro turns into!