Jills Aquapod build has started: PICTURES!

[joeyswife]

Same camera, different photographer.


How fast do these guys grow and do they multiply kike mushrooms?

 

[melosu58]

I dont think they will multiply just as fast as mushrooms but they will multiply. They look very nice.

 

[austinsdad]

Definitely not as fast as mushrooms.

Jill - figures you just know how to work the camera better. No surprise.

They are beautiful. I too love how they look under the actinics.

 

[intimatecple]

very , very nice looking!!

 

[bawel]

Woahh Jill, great progress and one heck nice looking tank ... I thought I wouldn't have any corals in my tank, but now I have a ricordea and and a mushroom thriving, now I gotta figure out which light I'm gonna get for me to have more corals

 

[joeyfromlawrenceville]

Thanks everyone. It seems every thing is happy in the tank. The mushrooms have gotten a lot bigger and the zoas are filling out nice, also. Bawel, where are the pics of yours?!

 

[joeyswife]

Thanks everyone. It seems every thing is happy in the tank. The mushrooms have gotten a lot bigger and the zoas are filling out nice, also. Bawel, where are the pics of yours?!

Oops! I said posted that, not Joey.

 

[bawel]

Hhihihi Jill, I've been travelling for some weekends, so haven't gotten time to upload the pics until right now , so here they are. I got a very tiny two head ricordea purple mushroom with green tips and now it's blooming like nuts in my tank and I got a cleaner shrimp with Firefish that likes to hide in the hole that I have in one of the LR

Scratch - the Firefish

Cleaner Shrimp with the purple ricordea mushroom

My whole tank

What d'ya think? It' not that nice yet cause it doesn't have many fishes yet. Actually if you see on the right LR in the middle there's a striped green mushroom and 3 little pulsing xenias that was stuck in a rock, so I hope it grows cause I saw the xenia is already alive even tho there's only tiny 3 thingy there

 

[nanoluvr]

Good luck! I know you're in for lots and lots of upcoming fun!

 

[bawel]

I certainly hope so, nanoluvr ... I luv your firefish avatar, it's those rare ones rite? Do you actually have those? I know they are kinda expensive!

 

[nanoluvr]

Yes...they are the rare ones! But alas, no I don't have them. They're just a motivator for me...something I really want later. They usually run about $80-90/fish. I do have a regular firefish, and then a purple firefish. Both are great. The purple has beautiful colors on it and it's alot cheaper than my dream fish...about $25-$35 at the LFS. Still high compared the the standard firefish but well worth it I think. It's funny, both of them live in the same little hole in some of my LR. they come out at feeding time and eat right next to each other, then go back down into thier little hole. I'm interested in later on doing a firefish species tank, with all the different ones...maybe a 20 gallon or so. I have a purple psuedochromiks in with them right now, and I have to stay there during feeding time to keep him away from the firefish 'cause he likes to chase them into their hole, and if I don't keep him away, they don't eat

 

[nanoluvr]

the Xenia will grow super fast...with PC lighting, they like to be right up at the top. I harvest mine about every 2 months, and trade them into the LFS for credit.....I just leave a little of the pink skin on the LR when I cut them, and they grow right back!

 

[bawel]

Hi Jeff,

Yeah I think they are called Heinfrich or something like that, I love that firefish, it's so pretty, pinky color too , good movitator until you're able to buy I only got that standard one, I'm still thinking what to get for my third fish I don't know pseudochromis cause I heard they're pretty aggressive , trying to find mostly docile fish.

That's funny when you said your firefish behaved just like mine, so that's good to know, I was so afraid they will die cause mine sometimes hardly come out for food too, unless I give frozen mysis shrimp, darn high maintenance fish!

I wasn't planning on having corals, but I got those ricordea for $10, so I grab it and now my mushroom got little xenias for another $10 , I thought, why not? Thanks for the tips and info btw. I use T5HO lighting but I think it's not strong enough for them to grow fast. Still calculating the money needed to get better lighting

 

[nanoluvr]

Look at the Zebra Goby...very cool and docile fish

 

[nanoluvr]

I have mine under PC, and they do great....they just like the top

 

[bawel]

cool thanks, haven't seen zebra goby at nearby LFS, but will keep looking into it

 

[reefsforme]

It looks awesome. I hope mine looks as great as yours.