Lion's Solana Den

buddythelion · Oct 31, 2012

KoleTang said:
Tell me about your eel! I have always wanted a golden dwarf.

Does it ever try to snack on fish or inverts? How do you keep it from escaping. If you ordered it online please tell me from where

Your tank is looking great.

Hey KoleTang,

Hmm. What would you like to know about her? In my NanoCube 12DX she was with 2 Yasha Gobies, a Tiger Blenny and 2 picasso clowns. After 2 months both of my yashas disappeared and for some reason my Tiger Blenny also disappeared only a few days before I got to move them all into the new Solana 25. Whether or not she ate them I don't know, but she did try to nip at them when they weren't facing her. The yashas were really tough though and would turn around and open their mouth really wide open and scare her down. She's so small she can only eat mysis shrimp for now so I don't think she could have eaten the Tiger Blenny, which was really fat and muscular looking.

This is her when I first got her btw next to a quarter:

She's still around the same size. I have a screen mesh on top of my tank. I'll show it in my next video update, it's extremely ghetto and ugly looking since I had to do some "modifications" to suit her needs and the back equipment, LOL! I always tell my friend that see my tank to not look at the top and only through the tank. It really is really messy but it works! It involved a cut screen mesh top, some corafix glue and even some filter padding being glued down...

I don't trust her with inverts, just asking for an expensive snack!

Thanks for the tank compliment. I'm hopefully going to be trying some SPS pieces soon.

Wesley42079 · Oct 31, 2012

I love the green acans.

Looks like some type of dragon skin.

buddythelion · Nov 1, 2012

Wesley42079 said:
I love the green acans.

Looks like some type of dragon skin.

Thanks Wes, they're from WWC, came from the same colony as these:

cdrewferd · Nov 1, 2012

I too would be interested as to where you got your Golden Dwarf.

Tank is looking really good.

buddythelion · Nov 5, 2012

cdrewferd said:
I too would be interested as to where you got your Golden Dwarf.

Tank is looking really good.

Thanks Drew.

I got my GDM from a collector in Hawaii. He's not selling/collecting them anymore though, I was luckily the last customer.

buddythelion · Nov 5, 2012

Here are some more new pieces:

Aussie SPS:

Highlighter Acro:

Neptune's Rainbow Acan, was very limited pieces and it was the best rainbow at 'Tunes!

buddythelion · Nov 6, 2012

Here are some more pics, this time top downs.

Torch Island:

Sunset/Rainbow Blasto:

Plates:

Solar Flares:

Aussie SPS:

Highlighter Acro:

CARs:

Speckled Fire Ice:

typicaltony · Nov 16, 2012

very nice tank, any pics of the backside?

buddythelion · Nov 19, 2012

typicaltony said:
very nice tank, any pics of the backside?

That's an odd request. No pics but I got something better, a video!

[video=youtube_share;b4u5Z5xAn04]http://youtu.be/b4u5Z5xAn04[/video]

Wesley42079 · Nov 19, 2012

typicaltony said:
very nice tank, any pics of the backside?

I don't think Darwin has any pictures, but believe me, the back side looks GREAT.

buddythelion · Nov 20, 2012

Wesley42079 said:
I don't think Darwin has any pictures, but believe me, the back side looks GREAT.

Haha, thanks Wes! What I have in my back chambers is in my video.

buddythelion · Nov 20, 2012

Ah, I love Black Friday sales. Here's the two pieces I snagged from the Blue Water Tropicals sale, they're being acclimated to the tank water. I couldn't even believe the price they had these at. I've been looking for a red plate just like this one for the longest time. The other one is supposed to be a nice green-rainbow center, but guess it needs to puff up a bit first.

Welcome to the family:

mark7x77 · Nov 21, 2012

Good looking tank dude and very some nice corals you've picked up.. I had a solana just last year, it really enjoyed that tank till it sprung a leak on me.

buddythelion · Dec 4, 2012

mark7x77 said:
Good looking tank dude and very some nice corals you've picked up.. I had a solana just last year, it really enjoyed that tank till it sprung a leak on me.

Thanks Mark for the kind words. Solanas are really great tanks, bummer about that leak! Hopefully that was a good excuse to upgrade? Haha.

buddythelion · Dec 4, 2012

Time for a December update.

Red Plate:

Utter Chaos:

Pink *******:

Purple Hornets:

Rastas, growing very well!

Red Hornets and Radiant Tangerines:

Ricordea Florida:

Indo Gold Torch:

Indo Torches and Sunset Blasto:

Solar Flares and Rainbow Pennies:

buddythelion · Dec 4, 2012

God of War:

PZ Black Orchid:

Vampires and Purple Hornets:

Blue Rhinos and Pink *******:

Super Saiyans, quick growth from 2 polyps:

Armegeddon morph and Solar Flares:

Speckled Fire and Ice, one of my favs:

CARs:

ATL Raspberry Lemonade (Bit stressed from shipping, hope it makes it):

Aussie SPS, encrusting well:

PZ Blue Tenuis:

Highligher Acro, encrusting slowly:

Super duper chunky Pink Lemonade frag, PEs are out but loss some colors from shipping. 2x crossing it pulls through since it's my favorite SPS piece.

Saphira says "Peek-A-Boo!"

Left Island with monitor glare (Can you guys see it's R2R? lol.)

Dec 2012 FTS:

I'm dealing with some Hair Algae atm, but I'm not too worried about it. It started because I started getting a bit lazy and not washing the mysis shrimp before feeding the fish since I usually spot feed everything. Guess it goes to show that washing your frozens is a must! It's on the receding end now, so hopefully it will go away within the next month or so. I'm pretty happy with the way things are starting to fill in. That left island makes me really happy since most of the growth is occuring there. Still have to fill that top portion with SPS!

Tinola · Dec 4, 2012

Really nice pics man. The pink lemonade is definitely gonna color up nicely! Keep adding more SPS! I'm getting a milli pack next week!
I wanna see your tank in person lol.

buddythelion · Dec 4, 2012

Tinola said:
Really nice pics man. The pink lemonade is definitely gonna color up nicely! Keep adding more SPS! I'm getting a milli pack next week!
I wanna see your tank in person lol.

Thanks man, SPS is my main focus now that I've already got almost all of the zps I've ever wanted in the tank along with a nice LPS collection. I'm still looking for a Shades of Fall, but Unique Corals has a lot of nice pieces as well. For $20 shipping, hard to beat for encrusted frags! Just waiting for them to send me pics of this nice SPS piece I spotted in the corner of my eye. That Aussie SPS is a great grower, already encrusting down the sides of the disk. The Pink Lemonade is a White Lemonade for now, but the PEs are keeping me working for it. It's hands down my favorite named SPS piece in the hobby atm.