Trinituner Reefers, Saltwater Aquarium Fish Keepers

[thatlife]

no problems with the flame angel so far, never saw it pick on a coral

but my blackwidow blenny picks on my gonipora and its closed most times because of him

otherwise everything is doing well, no algae and lots of growth
i have a problem with xenias and GSP they are taking over

the main tank is a biocube 29gal with a 5 gallon sump

[greenlime100]

The flame angels tends to be a chance, mine never picked on corals but others had problems with them.
My coral beauty also doesn't pick on corals thus far and had him for over 3 years so hopefully that doesn't change.

[HondaB20B]

no problems with the flame angel so far, never saw it pick on a coral

but my blackwidow blenny picks on my gonipora and its closed most times because of him

otherwise everything is doing well, no algae and lots of growth
i have a problem with xenias and GSP they are taking over

the main tank is a biocube 29gal with a 5 gallon sump

Ok Cool. I had a nice goniopora and my black & white clowns started hosting it which i thought was cool but it later died because of that. You better check on the coral. Heard those blennies do eat corals.
Want to get a cherub or flame back but 'm afraid that they might eat my blastamussa or other fleshy corals which they love.
Just might go with the flame

[HondaB20B]

Thatlife, The torch is growing nicely and has nice color.

you interested in acan frags? Have 2 more frags with nice color.

[thatlife]

Thatlife, The torch is growing nicely and has nice color.

you interested in acan frags? Have 2 more frags with nice color.

inbox me some pics of the acans

torch really growing nice, cam doesn't capture the colour either

[HondaB20B]

Thatlife, The torch is growing nicely and has nice color.

you interested in acan frags? Have 2 more frags with nice color.

inbox me some pics of the acans

torch really growing nice, cam doesn't capture the colour either

The pics not showing its true colors............. Its red, green, orange & yellow under actics. The frags are 1" X 1" on frag disks.. Will try and get some good pics

[thatlife]

Cool

I will be in Orlando next week and I see they have "coralcon 2014" convention next weekend. I will pass by. In the market for a prefab modern tank. Ready to go bigger

I checked out the CAD lights artisan II 100g but they are going to be at reefapoloza this weekend as well but that's in California. Would have liked to see the tank and stand in person. Hopefully there would be some vendors who have tanks on display in Orlando.

[HondaB20B]

Any tuner have any gold colored hammers, torch or frogspawn?
Willing to trade or buy even if its 1 head.
PM me if you have those rare corals

[thatlife]

some sunday morning pics
35gal
biocube 29 with sump

[thatlife]

^ has another row of 12 plugs on the below as well
all in use :/

[HondaB20B]

Thatlife, you better watch where you have that chiller. Eventually you put a lot of strain on it by it not having proper circulation around the main unit. They recommend that you have about 12" all around. you actually have it blocked in the back and one side.
The tank looks great though.

[thatlife]

^ it only looks like that in the pic

this chiller is 1/15hp, pushes very low heat and does not come on often
the front of it pulls the air which has enough ventilation and the rear has at least 10inches from the wall

air does not come thru the sides

[HondaB20B]

^^^ OK. cool

[meccalli]

Sweet tank

[UML]

Nice setup. Nice wall picture too.

[HondaB20B]

UML, how the mushrooms

[HondaB20B]

Thatlife, see you bought the dosing pumps.............. 3 it looks like.
What you dosing presently

[UML]

UML, how the mushrooms

Good man. Some getting really big. Not seeing much multiply again....or cud be I get accustomed to it.

Was doing some work on my tank yesterday noticed one floating around, hope it attaches and spr


Moved the hammer coral onto my liverock. Tried sticking it but the putty like it get hard or maybe the surface wasn't rough enough..it had a velvet type covering. So I just wedge the base of the hammer.

[HondaB20B]

UML, how much heads it have now (hammer)
When you working with the putty you have to work fast. it pulls even faster when it hits the water

[UML]

Nah the green outer putty was crystallized, I just tried to see if I could still use it but it wasnt holding to the surface. The hammer has about 13+ heads.

[HondaB20B]

That's good man. Nice collection................ Trying to grow mine out

[UML]

Thx. Nice.

I considering fragging it but at the same time I want to see how big it can get.

[HondaB20B]

don't frag it until it gets bigger and you see the lower heads starting to loose out on getting light. They eventually die so that's when you cut the lower ones out. The most I got my frogspawn to was 30+ heads which took about 2yrs. Started with 3. I still have to post the pic with the 100+ heads from the petshop in Atlanta

[UML]

don't frag it until it gets bigger and you see the lower heads starting to loose out on getting light. They eventually die so that's when you cut the lower ones out. The most I got my frogspawn to was 30+ heads which took about 2yrs. Started with 3. I still have to post the pic with the 100+ heads from the petshop in Atlanta

wow


why not frag the top to give the lower heads light to survive, rather that frag half dead heads? just asking.




anyone has any complaints about their dosing pumps? how reliable are they? how often do you service them or how often do they break down? thinking about getting two but I just cant handle maintenance

[HondaB20B]

don't frag it until it gets bigger and you see the lower heads starting to loose out on getting light. They eventually die so that's when you cut the lower ones out. The most I got my frogspawn to was 30+ heads which took about 2yrs. Started with 3. I still have to post the pic with the 100+ heads from the petshop in Atlanta

wow


why not frag the top to give the lower heads light to survive, rather that frag half dead heads? just asking.
That really makes no sense. You have the branching type, there is still the wall type that's grows differently. In the case with yours, if you cut the top off, the branching type still spreads but remember its one stalk (or trunk) so the branches will still spread and the lower ones will still end up on the bottom. You will just have a flat top looking coral.......LOL. The "wall" type spreads differently




anyone has any complaints about their dosing pumps? how reliable are they? how often do you service them or how often do they break down? thinking about getting two but I just cant handle maintenance

I bought the first pair Raj ever bought into the country. He bought it in for his tank and I end up purchasing it............ that's nearly 2yrs now. Never gave any trouble. Never broke down. I bought a third one about 1 mth ago to start dosing food.

[UML]

don't frag it until it gets bigger and you see the lower heads starting to loose out on getting light. They eventually die so that's when you cut the lower ones out. The most I got my frogspawn to was 30+ heads which took about 2yrs. Started with 3. I still have to post the pic with the 100+ heads from the petshop in Atlanta

wow


why not frag the top to give the lower heads light to survive, rather that frag half dead heads? just asking.
That really makes no sense. You have the branching type, there is still the wall type that's grows differently. In the case with yours, if you cut the top off, the branching type still spreads but remember its one stalk (or trunk) so the branches will still spread and the lower ones will still end up on the bottom. You will just have a flat top looking coral.......LOL. The "wall" type spreads differently




anyone has any complaints about their dosing pumps? how reliable are they? how often do you service them or how often do they break down? thinking about getting two but I just cant handle maintenance

I bought the first pair Raj ever bought into the country. He bought it in for his tank and I end up purchasing it............ that's nearly 2yrs now. Never gave any trouble. Never broke down. I bought a third one about 1 mth ago to start dosing food.

do you have to service it regularly?

[HondaB20B]

Never did it........................ it only works for about 4-6 seconds for 6 times a day/7days a week.
That's like 24-36 seconds daily.

[thatlife]

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Some pics from coralcon and world wide corals
That place was awesome


I'm dosing Alk and cal 2part from raj
And amino acid

Never had any issues with those dosing pumps. They work perfectly. Just wished they could have kept the time memory. On power loss I have to set the cal and alk times apart


Btw skimmer collection bottle over flowed while I was out. Luckily my ATO malfunctioned and didn't refill. I had an ip cam that picked up on the lower water level and I had someone turn off the skimmer and topped off the tank. Damaged my floors even more. I'm going to drill a hole in the wall and put the sump outside along with everything else. Bought a huge reef octopus skimmer as well. Might even run 2 sumps together. Really want to add more water to the system. Maintainance on this small tank is too much.

[HondaB20B]

^^^^^why don't you just run one large sump outside instead of two small ones.

[Anthony_S]

I just started my reef tank and im looking for some coral frag anybody willing to share, sell or let me know where i can get to buy at an affordable price.