Reef System in Progess - Page 4

fishobsessed · 03-16-2007, 09:27 AM

What a beut!!!!!!!!

lizarddoctor · 03-26-2007, 04:11 PM

Time for another installment of as the Reef turns...

I have had a few extra casualties as I tried to add some new fish a week ago and a quick case of ick started to spread like wild fire to the smaller fish. Turns out my hopsital tank is wasting space as I couldn't catch any of them till they were either dead or on the virge. Soon it will be a Tropical Planted Tank and I am almost ready for setup. I did go ahead and drop another 10 hermits in the tank on one of the shelves that hadn't been touched by the original 10 and they cleared in in nearly 2 days. Quite an army they turned out to be. I went ahead and did a 1/3 partial on the tank and the ammonia level dropped back to nil and seemed to help clear the water quite a bit as now it shines with a nice blue tint. I also picked up a bottle of Trace elements to supplement the tank and the Elegant Coral have grown even bigger after the fact. There is a new page with some new additions including 4 new corals that I added just yesterday. I could use some help with positive ID's, but I think that I have a few of them right.

The biggest suprise that I have had with my tank is that the corals have been the easiest to keep. I may have to adjust some of the aquascaping as I am starting to run out of room with the large flat shelving that I have in place. Hope you enjoy the new additions.

http://www.saigonesl.com/FishTank/tankdocs5.htm

lizarddoctor · 04-25-2007, 02:06 AM

Been about a month since I could get back to posting due to a torrid teaching schedual for April, but still kept up with the tank nearly an hour a day. Pushing 10 weeks now on the tank and all diatom bloom has ceased and I started adding some bottled microbacteria along with my water changes now. Worked wonders as nearly all the small leftover stuff on the bottom of the tank disappeared overnight, leaving the substrate a nice shiny white. Picked up 2 varieties of green mushrooms, a large white finger leather, a small brown/green Button Polyp colony, a Cauliflower Colt Coral, a squamosa clam, a linckia blue star measuring almost a foot, and 6 blue chromis that I put in as a school over the last month. Moved a few things around to accomodate the newbies, and they seem to be doing a lot better with the new placement too.

www.saigonesl.com/FishTank/tankdocs6.htm

During the last water change a few days ago, I started up a baby fish saltwater tank for my wife instead of the planted tank that I had planned on. Dropped a germ reduction light in the tank in along with a sand base this time with just some substrate scattered on top for looks. Is doing well so far with the water from the big tank, but I haven't had a chance to build a page for it yet.

alexfevery · 04-25-2007, 05:40 AM

Thats a great tank, how much did it cost? I bet allot less than in the US?

Nereaga · 04-25-2007, 06:38 AM

Looking absolutely astonishing lizard! Nice work man! Keep it up!!!!

lizarddoctor · 04-25-2007, 07:01 AM

Thanks Nereaga, I am having great success with the corals, but the long tenticle anemone just have not been doing well. I think it was a combo of unthawed shrimp and moving too far under the rocks where I couldnt really feed them is the culprit as the water quality is good and nothing else seemed to be affected.

As far as the costs Alex, each coral is running me anywhere between 1.80$ and 4.10$ USD regardless of size. The only reason the Cauliflower Colt cost me the 4.10$ is because it is a little more rare for a store here to have one. There is no way to order anything specific at all. I just am at the mercy of what the catch of the day off the coast turns out to be. The Squamosa Clam was 40,000 VND, which is roughly 2.45$. Liveaquaria.com has it listed at 150.00$ as mine is between 4-5 inches. I had my pick of other clams ranging to a foot and a half in size for the same price, but they had only a solid brown color. Total tank costs right now are probably sitting at 700-800$, but I would need to add in the costs of the things that didn't make it too. Had a huge fish fallout to some ick for weeks that seems to have cleared itself up with no new fish additions until the Chromis school. I almost have my wife talked into letting me get a 320 gallon bowfront complete system for about 900$ brand new with all the furniture (nice stuff) included.

Crazy costs have me going fish crazy.