Griev's IM-200 Mangrove Lagoon

[Griev]

I present the nori stick.

 

[Griev]

Prototype is almost perfect. Made some small tweaks to the sleeve to make it a little stronger and improve printing, but overall I'm really happy with it!

I'm now able to feed nori without taking the mesh cover off the tank and without getting my hands wet. The fact it looks pretty cool in the tank is just a bonus. Mission accomplished.

 

[Sean Clark]

Prototype is almost perfect. Made some small tweaks to the sleeve to make it a little stronger and improve printing, but overall I'm really happy with it!

I'm now able to feed nori without taking the mesh cover off the tank and without getting my hands wet. The fact it looks pretty cool in the tank is just a bonus. Mission accomplished.

Looks great. Now for marketing purposes make sure to get a tang picking at it in the pic.

 

[Griev]

Looks great. Now for marketing purposes make sure to get a tang picking at it in the pic.

Hah, this is far too customized to my tank to be useful to anyone else.

 

[VanDalsenReef]

Prototype is almost perfect. Made some small tweaks to the sleeve to make it a little stronger and improve printing, but overall I'm really happy with it!

I'm now able to feed nori without taking the mesh cover off the tank and without getting my hands wet. The fact it looks pretty cool in the tank is just a bonus. Mission accomplished.

This is amazing. I'd easily pay for something like that

 

[Griev]

Got back from a week long trip to visit family for the holidays to find... absolutely nothing wrong with the tank! Really happy with how all my planning around automation paid off. It's nice to not feel handcuffed to the tank.

 

[Griev]

Took advantage of two sales this weekend and have some coral coming. Finally got my hands on some ruby xenia for the softie section, some pink branching cyphastrea, plus tons more. Next update should be picture heavy!

 

[TheWB]

Took advantage of two sales this weekend and have some coral coming. Finally got my hands on some ruby xenia for the softie section, some pink branching cyphastrea, plus tons more. Next update should be picture heavy!

I have a piece of branching cyphastrea, its a really cool coral. Can't wait to see yours, and that ruby xenia.

 

[Griev]

Finally recovering from the initial green out, my SPS are starting to color up! These two biggest colonies show it the most clearly.

 

[Griev]

Even after an entire week to get used to it my Foxface is still too skittish to use the feeder while I'm by the tank. He's convinced it's some sort of trap. If I'm far away he'll eat from it fine! So here's the Angel getting some greens.

 

[Pipo5]

Great looking tank u got t there I like your way of thinking about the Box with your 3-D printing. Do you have any pictures of your mangrove Box I was also thinking of putting them in my new IM INT tank.Did u put any Subtrate in it?

 

[Griev]

Great looking tank u got t there I like your way of thinking about the Box with your 3-D printing. Do you have any pictures of your mangrove Box I was also thinking of putting them in my new IM INT tank.Did u put any Subtrate in it?

Here's the box now. The substrate is miracle mud mixed with regular sand 50/50. I just recently trimmed them back a bit, so they look thin. I do have to regularly pull bubble algae out or it starts to choke out the roots, you can tell because they get all dramatic and drop leaves.

The other tip I'd give you is that if you start with sprouted mangroves, make sure they're very slowly acclimated to salt water over at least a couple weeks. I killed a couple dropping them directly into my tank from online vendors because they grow them in freshwater. If you start with unsprouted seed pods, you can go straight into the salt water.

 

[Griev]

The first shipment from @AquaSD arrived. 100% survival rate, as always. You guys are so consistently good!

 

[Espino963]

Man I love this hobby! The progressive is so slow yet so rewarding! Glad to see your Acros Thriving

 

[ScubaShane]

This is Awesome!!

 

[Griev]

Had to clear the frag rack for the next order coming so I placed all the new frags.

 

[Griev]

Well the Trident just paid for itself. My all-for-reef had run out and I didn't even realize it was getting low. The ALK alert (and flashy light) let me know something was wrong before it dropped too far. Whipped up a new batch and dosed some extra to catch up.

 

[Griev]

Delivery #2. The cyphastrea is really bleached, but polyps are coming out. I know they are pretty indestructible, so they should bounce back. Keeping them in lower light for now.

The ruby xenia doing great.

 

[Griev]

Got everything but the cyphastrea placed on the rocks. Fighting a cyanobacteria breakout, more pictures once I get it cleaned up. Here's a picture of the ruby xenia under full lights to hold you over.

 

[Griev]

I present the nori stick XL, foxface approved.