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That’s a nice one. Tank looks clean and healthy!
stalkem's Oceanic Biocube 29 HQI (first SW tank)
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Added a Cyphastrea and Candy Cane Caulastrea yesterday. Picked them up at a local Coral Farm (or maybe it's an aptasia farm , but the prices are good). I did a double dip in CoralRX, and then when I was going to trim the plug plate, I ended up just popping the Cyphastrea off, and there were a few worms under its rock and the plug... so those went down the drain. Other than that, they look pretty great!
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Scooped up some more corals at then end of @SaltwaterAq 's Memorial Day Sale. Coming soon: mystery button scoly, mystery gold torch, crazy eye chalice, and gummy bears favia. Should be fun!
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My Hi Fin Goby was out in the open yesterday, which seemed strange, but didn't seem to be acting weird, other than being out of a cave. Looking over the tank this morning, and I found his carcass, mostly cleaned up by the CUC... mostly the backbone and some faint skin, enough to make out the yellow head and color bands. RIP.
Photos of him being out yesterday... tough to take due to the shell placement and rounded corner of the Biocube. I brought the magnetic glass cleaner down near him, and he swam off to hide in a cave, which seemed normal.
Everyone else seems to be acting fine. Only thing I did out of the ordinary yesterday was feeding my aptasias... could the goby have ingested some of the aptasiax? It's allegedly reef safe, so I wouldn't have thought so.
Photos of him being out yesterday... tough to take due to the shell placement and rounded corner of the Biocube. I brought the magnetic glass cleaner down near him, and he swam off to hide in a cave, which seemed normal.
Everyone else seems to be acting fine. Only thing I did out of the ordinary yesterday was feeding my aptasias... could the goby have ingested some of the aptasiax? It's allegedly reef safe, so I wouldn't have thought so.
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Duncan is a hungry boy. New Tailspot is assimilating nicely. Scoly eating is pretty interesting too!
Tank is growing nicely. Anyone have a clue what these little tubes are at the base of my toadstool leather?
Tank is growing nicely. Anyone have a clue what these little tubes are at the base of my toadstool leather?
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Glad to see the tailspot is doing well!
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Been a while since an update. Last my last torch, not sure why. Perhaps the flow was a little too strong. It was in front of my older torch (which is thriving), and it seemed to be doing fine, until it wasn't. PO4 and NO3 are little high, but have been stable and everything seems to be thriving... and see plenty of posts of people with thriving "dirty" tanks. Oh well!
Met @Jay6363 and gave him my GSP rock, now that it's growing nicely on the back wall. Hope it's treating you well!
Been battling some aptasia with aptasiax. Not totally out of hand, but whenever I think I've gotten ahead of it, I then find a few more... and then I was checking the tank out one night and noticed my first bristleworm. I know I had one coral that I noticed some tiny ones on when I pulled it off the plug, and disposed of the ones I saw... so apparently some (at least one) got through!
Got a little excited during the @TSA Corals flash sale and got a bunch of new corals. Taking my first stab at some SPS... price was right, and from what I've read I think I'll manage with the montipora cap and the acropora. Got some new zoa colors, a blasto, and another chalice.
A few recent pics for fun.
Met @Jay6363 and gave him my GSP rock, now that it's growing nicely on the back wall. Hope it's treating you well!
Been battling some aptasia with aptasiax. Not totally out of hand, but whenever I think I've gotten ahead of it, I then find a few more... and then I was checking the tank out one night and noticed my first bristleworm. I know I had one coral that I noticed some tiny ones on when I pulled it off the plug, and disposed of the ones I saw... so apparently some (at least one) got through!
Got a little excited during the @TSA Corals flash sale and got a bunch of new corals. Taking my first stab at some SPS... price was right, and from what I've read I think I'll manage with the montipora cap and the acropora. Got some new zoa colors, a blasto, and another chalice.
A few recent pics for fun.
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Some update shots of the tank, before the new additions.
Love watching the scoly do its thing... also some how go a cool little bi-valve hitchhiker that's growing under my torch.
Colors are really popping at night!
So my one torch did die
... what do people do with skeletons? Just leave them and let things fill in around them? Or remove them, forget and move on?
Love watching the scoly do its thing... also some how go a cool little bi-valve hitchhiker that's growing under my torch.
Colors are really popping at night!
So my one torch did die
... what do people do with skeletons? Just leave them and let things fill in around them? Or remove them, forget and move on?
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Well, we made it to the 1 year mark without many adverse effects... shout out to @aquaticlog for reminding me!
A little battle with dinos, a jerk midas blenny that got beat up, and a torch loss... not too bad, but everything else seems happy (even though I apparently run a "high nutrient" system).
Here's some late night shots last night. Tiger Tail Cuke was eating... Bristleworm doing it's things (I thought they were sand dwellers, but I guess I was wrong)... Royal Gramma sleeping in his cave bed.
My wife also texted me while I was at work this other day... "It looks like we got more corals"
So I played dumb, and said "so pretty" and asked if our 3 year old daughter got them for me! lol
Also a shot of the favias and the hollywood stunner chalice on their rack, waiting to be placed.
A little battle with dinos, a jerk midas blenny that got beat up, and a torch loss... not too bad, but everything else seems happy (even though I apparently run a "high nutrient" system).
Here's some late night shots last night. Tiger Tail Cuke was eating... Bristleworm doing it's things (I thought they were sand dwellers, but I guess I was wrong)... Royal Gramma sleeping in his cave bed.
My wife also texted me while I was at work this other day... "It looks like we got more corals
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So I played dumb, and said "so pretty" and asked if our 3 year old daughter got them for me! lol
Also a shot of the favias and the hollywood stunner chalice on their rack, waiting to be placed.
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Fresh coral delivery today! Everything is settling in. Gotta snap some new pictures once everything is settled.
Also noticed my scoly has a hole in it . I moved it a bit bc I think my torch was stinging it when I'd turn the powerhead off to feed... But also cleaner shrimp gets a little aggressive trying to steal food.
Also noticed my scoly has a hole in it . I moved it a bit bc I think my torch was stinging it when I'd turn the powerhead off to feed... But also cleaner shrimp gets a little aggressive trying to steal food.
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New tiger torch seems happy.
I think my clowns knocked the acro down that was glued up top. I found it (within a day) down on the sand. I glued it back up... but hasn't seemed to been happy. Still has some color on one said (the side that wasn't facing down), but haven't noticed the polyps coming out. I guess we'll wait and see.
Having fun with all the colors on the moonlight cycle before lights out!
I think my clowns knocked the acro down that was glued up top. I found it (within a day) down on the sand. I glued it back up... but hasn't seemed to been happy. Still has some color on one said (the side that wasn't facing down), but haven't noticed the polyps coming out. I guess we'll wait and see.
Having fun with all the colors on the moonlight cycle before lights out!
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