Smitten

[JerryB1232]

For those checking in they already shipped the tank!!! So much for an end of July delivery.
Jebao DWC-1500 check.
Tunze Nano 3 check.
Rock check.
Dosing pump check.

Need:
Lighting?
TBS Sand and Rock.
???

Good updates on the thread. The clams and corals are looking great and i dont know how you do it but that tank is pristine.

I just added TBS rock and sand to my lagoon and it made a huge difference in coral health. I didn’t go all out just used the treasure chest Jar package and I am seeing great results.

Put a Halide on it!!!

 

[Tahoe61]

Good updates on the thread. The clams and corals are looking great and i dont know how you do it but that tank is pristine.

I just added TBS rock and sand to my lagoon and it made a huge difference in coral health. I didn’t go all out just used the treasure chest Jar package and I am seeing great results.

Put a Halide on it!!!

Thank you so much!!!!

Definitely going TBS, I love the crushed coral substrate, exactly what I am looking for.

I have a MH fixture, BUT I reside in S. Arizona. Lighting decisions are all over the place. No AI, too much shading. Contenders below.

1: ATI sunpower T5.
2: Reef Breeders Meridian.
3: Orphek.

 

[Tahoe61]

Moving into the pastel zone secondary to low nutrients. Nitrate 10, undetectable phophate on Salifert. Suppose I should get the Hanna UL phosphate checker.
Still dosing Ammonium by hand throughout the day, NeoNitro daily. AFR daily with AF calcium to get ca around 450. Parts A and K once a week. Restor or Reefroids every other day.
Guess I should have expected the coloration shift since there are no fish. This hobby always keeps me guessing.

 

[Miami Reef]

Your tank is stunning. It’s so clean and aesthetically pleasing.

Is your lighting on the bluer or whiter side in real life?

 

[Tahoe61]

Your tank is stunning. It’s so clean and aesthetically pleasing.

Is your lighting on the bluer or whiter side in real life?

Bluer. It's only running at 50% Tropical Spring program.

Thank you for the kind words. :)

My softy tank is a dirty mess, though!!!!!

 

[Miami Reef]

Bluer. It's only running at 50% Tropical Spring program.

Thank you for the kind words. :)

My softy tank is a dirty mess, though!!!!!

I love it. The spectrum has a nice balance.

Can I see the softy tank?

 

[Tahoe61]

I love it. The spectrum has a nice balance.

Can I see the softy tank?

Sure when the lighting comes back on. It's in black out mode day 1. All kinds of nastiness, bacterial bloom with cloudy water, bubble algae, some type of chaeto that snuck in. It has smaller frags of Xenia, Sinularia (Cabbage), another type of branching leather and clove polyps( not the invasive type).

 

[Miami Reef]

My softy tank is a dirty mess, though!!!!!

It's in black out mode day 1. All kinds of nastiness, bacterial bloom with cloudy water, bubble algae, some type of chaeto that snuck in.

Oh! You weren’t kidding! lol

 

[Tahoe61]

Losing the ORA Hawkins. It's my 1st causality in this tank, none the less disappointing.
Two things happened, the first was a glitch in the lighting app, not sure how but one color was turned up to 70%. The second was a miscalculation on SG doing a water change.
The lighting glitch was easily fixed. No more 1 gallon WC. Going forward 1/4 gallon. The parameter swings are too significant in a Pico.
Phosphate and Nitrate values continue to be too low. Nitrate around 5 and phosphate still undetectable. I really need to get those values up. Started TM Plus N/P but values have not budged yet.
Tomorrow is clam day, Crocea in coming.

I love Seriatopra.

And this happened. I could not be any happier with the Carbisea Rock. Great colors, nice collection of shapes and sizes.
The Clams will eventually move to the IM 25 Lagoon in a month or two. Still waiting on the lighting and stand.

 

[Tahoe61]

Not particularly thrilled with the new Crocea's coloration. You get what you pay for with clams as well. I do however like the rock cradle the clam comes with.

 

[Miami Reef]

Where did you get it from, again?

 

[Tahoe61]

Where did you get it from, again?

Clam Mania. It was only 69.00. The shipping was an issue. I am going to try Biota for a Squamosa. Biota has some really nice looking clams.

 

[dansyr]

I personally like those high-contrast dark & electric as a 'type' but agree, it could have better patterning. and your maxima already seems to have that aesthetic. If it's healthy and made it through shipping, that's still a win in my book. If you're doing biota, maybe a squamosina if they have any left?

 

[Tahoe61]

I personally like those high-contrast dark & electric as a 'type' but agree, it could have better patterning. and your maxima already seems to have that aesthetic. If it's healthy and made it through shipping, that's still a win in my book. If you're doing biota, maybe a squamosina if they have any left?

I was hoping for more green, it's a pretty Crocea though. It was in hot water when it arrived but acclimated well.
Biota has some very unique Squamosa right now or perhaps a nice Derasa. In a month when I move the clams over to the lagoon tank I will revisit getting more clams.

:)

 

[Miami Reef]

it's a pretty Crocea though. It was in hot water when it arrived but acclimated well.

Clams are so hardy I feel like I could grow them in toilet water. :grinning-face-with-sweat:

 

[Tahoe61]

Getting on 4 months. Looking for a Derasa.

 

[Bohemian Waxwing]

IM 25 lagoon :star-struck:

Reef Casa

The clams are looking great, don’t see them as often these days.

 

[Tahoe61]

Lol.

I can have both!!!!

Got too many clams for the casa. Love the casa though. Macro algae next, keeping it interesting.

 

[Tahoe61]

The Pico is 4 months old today. The goal was, or my intent, my vision for the tank was a look down sps and clam system with maxi mini anemones. The hard part lay ahead, maintaining the right chemistry long term. The reality is the Tridacna are going to get too big within a year. They will move over to the IM lagoon.
For once in my marine hobbyist journey I actually had a plan and it came to fruition.

 

[Ben's Pico Reefing]

They look pretty happy.