Mads' 180g

[Maddlesrain]

I really like your aquascaping from the final move.

Thank you! I appreciate it!

 

[jsiker]

Great looking tank Mad! I hope mine turns out as well as yours has.

I like the corals you have now and I'm thinking of going in a similar direction.

 

[Maddlesrain]

Great looking tank Mad! I hope mine turns out as well as yours has.

I like the corals you have now and I'm thinking of going in a similar direction.

Thank you! I'm a huge fan of gorgonians because of the waving action coupled with the branching appearance, gives you the best of both worlds in my opinion!

 

[jsiker]

I really like some of the gorgonians myself. I would really love to have at least one in my tank. Do you have to do a lot of dosing for them?

 

[Maddlesrain]

I really like some of the gorgonians myself. I would really love to have at least one in my tank. Do you have to do a lot of dosing for them?

I've had the majority of the gorgonians for only about two weeks, however, I kept one singly for about a year beforehand and never dosed anything. Regular water changes should be enough for them, especially since they aren't building a skeleton like the sps and lps corals. If you do try one, I recommend getting a photosynthetic gorgonian to start with as they're pretty resilient in my experience.

 

[Maddlesrain]

Stuck a few corals (yellow polyps, green polyps, and a misc. sps frag) to the back glass tonight. Excited to see how they do!

 

[Maddlesrain]

Had a bit of a scare last night! Unfortunately I came home to find my rockwork had collapsed (eep!) and spent the next three hours trying to piece everything back together without crushing any corals, inverts, or fish in the process. Thankfully there appear to be zero casualties and everyone's opened up and swimming around as usual! The collapse is very much my fault and I had it coming as I shifted things around a couple weeks ago adding new corals and decided to leave it thinking "eh, it'll be fine." I re-did the entire scape without even attempting to recreate a semblance of the old one and think it turned out nicely! The right side has more of a drop-off feel to it which I enjoy as my masked gobies have literally never swam to the left side and now just hangout in their own cove. The new scape also opened up a lot of room on the sandbed, which I like, so in all I think everything turned out alright! Excuse the algae on the back glass, I know, it's ugly. Its been slowly dying out, and the glass is the hardest to keep it off of.

 

[Ljaus]

New scape looks just as good as the old one! Glad to hear all inhabitants were unharmed

 

[Maddlesrain]

New scape looks just as good as the old one! Glad to hear all inhabitants were unharmed

Thank you!!!

 

[Maddlesrain]

So unbelievably stoked right now! I just started feeding my fish pellets about a week ago and all but the trigger and mandarin were chowing down. The trigger has been staring at the pellets like they're pieces of cardboard and then watching the other fish eat them with this sort of fascination. Today he finally ate one and obviously decided they weren't so bad because he started racing the other fish for them! Woohoo!

He started off so shy and getting him to eat was a bit of a struggle to begin with, so I feel like we've finally hit a major milestone!

 

[R_C]

I must say you are a brave one, I could not imagine moving a big tank like that! Just the transfer from my 75 to a 125 has got me traumatized :eek:

Great looking tank BTW!

 

[Maddlesrain]

I must say you are a brave one, I could not imagine moving a big tank like that! Just the transfer from my 75 to a 125 has got me traumatized :eek:

Great looking tank BTW!

Thank you!! The hardest part is lifting the massive thing up! It weighs around 400 pounds empty, so even carrying it a short distance starts to make your arms feel like they may pop off. Lol

 

[Maddlesrain]

What happens in Vegas.... Comes back with me to Colorado ;) Roped the family into visiting an lfs on our way back from a thirteen day road/camping trip so I could snag some corals! Only eleven hours to go! Lol

 

[Maddlesrain]

Finally made it back to the house! Acclimating the new corals and checking over the tank after being away for almost two weeks! I'm always a little anxious to see how everything faired while I was away. All appears well so far, a little bit of growth on some corals, a couple frags were knocked over but seem for the most part unscathed.

What stood out to me the most is one of my red mithrax crabs, which seems gargantuan in comparison to when I left! Also seems to have darkened up to a nicer cherry red. All I can get right now is a lame phone pic, but I'll try again with the better camera tomorrow. What a cool dude.

 

[Maddlesrain]

Three out of four of the new corals fully opened and were placed today! The fourth is another zoa frag, with about half the polyps currently opened. I'm hoping it'll settle in during the next couple days!