Oscar's 46 gallon bowfront

[Oscaror]

Sorry to hear that. How's everything else doing?

My scoly is eating readily, so that's good to hear that I'm not gonna waste $180.

 

[Oscaror]

Progress!

Getting everything plumbed together:

 

[vlangel]

Looking good.

 

[Oscaror]

Looking good.

Thank you :)

 

[Oscaror]

Sump is wet and running!

 

[kschweer]

Don't believe you without pictures! Haha

 

[Oscaror]

Don't believe you without pictures! Haha

I'll post soon!

 

[Oscaror]

I went to buy macro algae for the fuge today, but the store owner wouldn't sell it to us. AEFW all over it!
Here's the fuge, just rocks and miracle mud for now:

Skimmer skimming:

HOB overflow:

 

[kschweer]

Nice work Oscar.

 

[Oscaror]

New Corals!

Frag (7 polyps) of red&blue micro-zoa (unnamed) $25
Frag (7polyps) yellow ring zoa & pink pay (3 polyps) (unnamed) $25

The micro zoas:​

Not kedd reds or hells angels, can someone ID these for me?

The yellow ring zoas:
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Can someone ID these too? I don't care much for the big pink palys, kind of ugly. I'm gonna separate them, then grow out the pink palys and sell them. I only really bought the frag for these beautiful yellow zoas.​

 

[Oscaror]

Nice work Oscar.

Thanks :D

 

[Oscaror]

Bought some skunks :D
One of them seems to have a big white lump on the side, I didn't notice it at the store.
Well, we'll have to wait and see.

 

[vlangel]

I hope it's ok!

 

[Oscaror]

I hope it's ok!

Thanks, only time can tell I guess. I don't see it in the tank, it must have hid. The other shrimp is under a ledge and doing that side-to-side motion they do :)

 

[Oscaror]

Update on tumor shrimp, the :bump: has greatly decreased in size :D

 

[fishroomlady]

have a FTS?

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Looking good!! Love the zoas!! :)

 

[Oscaror]

Update

Never mentioned it but I've been running activated carbon, in my battle against nitrates >_<

My symphyllia is looking beautiful!

Before:

:puke: (not really, but compared to what it is now)

After:

:whoo:
It's become so pink!
It's like it's a whole different coral!
I feed it mysis and new era coral pellets sometimes too.

Also, got julian's thing, should make my life easier :D
And a new thermometer, ViaAqua titanium heater

Thinking of upgrading the skimmer too in the future, my dad and I have noticed it's kinda junk, thinking of a reef octopus

Tomorrow I'll be getting some algae for the sump, get some natural filtration going.
It was covered in planaria, so the store owner wouldn't sell it to us before. He told us he'd dip it multiple times.

 

[Oscaror]

have a FTS?

Probably the only FTS I have worth showing, I need to get a higher resolution camera :lol: Took it right now:

Looking good!! Love the zoas!! :)

Thanks! I think I'm really getting my zoa garden together, I have one more spot to fill up, and then just let it grow :D
Sadly the nice new red ones fell off the plug, so I need to glue them to something new :sigh:

 

[kschweer]

Wow Oscar looks awesome.