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flixmaster Site Owner
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Posted: Mar 22, 2016 9:11 am Post subject: |
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I bought the tank used so it had been running a year before I bought it.. I am just not sure why they died.. One looked like he starved to death.
I have a knack for killing diamond gobys and any anemone I put in the tank. All my water levels they say are fine so I think they must be starving.
I'm a rookie so I really don't know. _________________ Wakeskating
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond
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Posted: Mar 22, 2016 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Nice work jt...looks like it is going to be awesome. The stand turned out really good, as well. _________________ If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? |
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jt09 Ladies Man
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin
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Posted: Mar 22, 2016 11:57 am Post subject: |
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flixmaster, sent you a text about your tank. ph # still end 7962? |
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jt09 Ladies Man
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin
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Posted: Mar 22, 2016 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Okie Boarder wrote: | Nice work jt...looks like it is going to be awesome. The stand turned out really good, as well. |
thanks! was building the connecting piece while you and your son were making the table, and reading your post made me wish i had used spray polyurethane! |
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
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Posted: Mar 22, 2016 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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Been there...I'm so glad I've switched over to spraying...so much easier and love the final result. Maybe you can do that on the next project. _________________ If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? |
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Posted: Mar 25, 2016 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Very nice.. I am taking my water to the store today to test. I might still have water issues. I left for a week to the coast and I think while I was gone I might have had issues with water levels. My torch coral was dead when I returned. _________________ Wakeskating
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
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Posted: Mar 25, 2016 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Very cool jt. _________________ If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? |
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jt09 Ladies Man
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Posted: Apr 07, 2016 5:04 am Post subject: |
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new fish - this guy will be the showpiece of my tank. potter's leopard wrasse:
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Okie Boarder Ladies Man
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Posted: Apr 07, 2016 7:05 am Post subject: |
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Nice. I love the colors of saltwater fish. _________________ If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? |
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flixmaster Site Owner
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Posted: Mar 09, 2017 11:29 am Post subject: |
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I have managed to keep most of my fish alive in my tank for over a year now.
I have had some casualties.
I now have about 5 fish, pistol shrimp/goby buddies, two shrimp, crab, and a number of corals.
It has actually been less work than I expected but I am spending way more money in this hobby than I should. _________________ Wakeskating
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jt09 Ladies Man
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Posted: Mar 10, 2017 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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nice work ed! the shrimp/goby pairs are awesome! i just posted this on the reef forum a couple of days ago, so might as well throw it up here for fun:
Quote: | something i've had to come to grips w/ lately is that this tank is pretty much done on the coral front. i'm at 40+ placements and i need to let some stuff grow out before adding anything else. i want to add some sun coral, so i'm saving space for that, and seems like there's 1 more prime location, maybe 2. the rest will be small zoa/monti/shroom stuff, much later.
click because huge pic: http://i63.tinypic.com/2mz2o8.png
1 GSP - Almost completely retracted in this shot, the placement on this type of branching rock was perfect (a).
2 Alien Eye Chalice - Growing beautifuly, but is going to be a PITA soon, just because of location. Tough to work around it.
3 Random Acro (pink one from ARC frag meeting at Just Reef - the rest of it got nuked from ***)
4 Green Pocillopora - both sides seem healthy and happy, but not fast growth
5 Blue Digitata - all (surviving) branches have doubled in thickness and are growing strong
6 Red Montipora - easily the biggst grower since addition
7 Green Birdsnest - recent haircut from ***
8 Purple Mushroom Leather - happy everysingle day
9 Toxic Green Paly - looks good but hasn't grown yet
10 Red Setosa - took a snip from ***, but seems happy enough
11 Green Mushrooms - totally nuked, but still there
12 Rainbow Stylo - happy and growing
13 Tyree Undata (I think?)
14 Random odd Monti? gray w/ green polyps
15 Blue Mille - doing great and branching all over
16 Cyphastrea - on the backside, not growing as fast as I'd like
17 Hammer - big, fluffy and happy since Day 1
18 Rock Flower Anenome - on backside, would like to add a couple more nearby
19 Acan - no reason to not be growing, stuck on 3 heads
20 Acan - added heads
21 Acan - doubled in size
22 Acan - doubled in size
23 Acan - doubled in size
24 Random monti I think might be coming around?
25 Some kind of rainbow mushroom
26 ?? Palys - spreading fastest of all my Z/P, but not very dense.
27 Candy Apple Palys - Happy, but don't seem to want to grow and expand
28 Zoas - 30+ heads, ggrowing off plug, doing great
29 Purple Palys? Seem to be happy, nott sure if growing
30 Frogspawn - super happy
31 Neon Green Leather - not sure why it won't grow full cirlce.
32 Grandis Paly - seems happy, little worried about the NGLSL shadowing it out
33 Superman Mushroom - happpy ad about to spawn/split again
34 Fuzzy Blue Mushrooms - b location is 2 heads surrounded by Superman Shrooms that look to be splitting again. Should I just do my best to pull these off the rock? Hard to get hold of them.
35 Garf Bonsai - hasn't grown much yet, but doesn't seem sad
36 Brain Coral - not sure it's doing great, but still seems alive and responsive
37 Acan - 3 heads, not much growth
38 Zoas - 40 heads, tight green center/yellow rim, growing off plug
39 Duncans - doing OK, splitting heads now, not always open and happy
40 Blue Mettalic Mushrooms - seem to be less than happy
41 DAM Swamp Thing - seems happy and branching off growths
*** dropped my water for maybe an hour to do work on the tank and had a bunch of bad reactions...had to get out the clippers |
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jt09 Ladies Man
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Posted: Jun 27, 2017 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Just bought a dwarf fire angel for the tank. Hope he makes it thru the week. For some reason the last 3 new fish died. Someone in my tank tormented the blennie fish to death. _________________ Wakeskating
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jt09 Ladies Man
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Posted: Jun 28, 2017 4:26 am Post subject: |
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good luck man - sometimes it's a fuggin mystery and you just can't figure it out. my tank is actually rocking right now, aside from a few minor issues (mostly need to buy a doser to keep my alk consistent).
unfortunately the fathead sunburst anthia disappeared shortly after the potter's angel went in. not sure if one had to do anything w/ the other, but it's a bummer to lose a really pretty (and expensive) fish after it's been healthy in your tank for a while.
current fishes:
ruby head wrasse - great addition and doing exactly what i wanted: bring everyone out to be seen
potters angel - same as above. everyone is out and active now
clown
ruby red scooter blenny (getting fat!)
purple firefish (the helfrichi died out of nowhere a couple months back)
goldenhead sleeper goby
rainsford goby - grew really fast and is now a solid 2" and thick. was worried he'd be the tiny guy in the tank
pink stripe goby w/ shrimp - still going strong!
2 tiger anthias - so pretty, just don't have any pics yet.
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jt09 Ladies Man
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Posted: Jun 28, 2017 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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the new kids are upper right:
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flixmaster Site Owner
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Posted: Jun 29, 2017 8:30 am Post subject: |
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I need more corals to cover all my rock.
Are you adding in chemicals for the coals? Or do you not mess with that?
At one point I added stuff and then just went to just changing the water every two weeks. Adding chemicals did not seem to make the coals any better so I said F it and just do water changes. If stuff does not make it...well it was not meant to be. haha _________________ Wakeskating
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Posted: Jun 30, 2017 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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i dose alk, calcium and magnesium, but i don't do any of the aminos or trace elements. |
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