Bye, bye biocube...upgrade time!!

[Sniperhank]

Good luck with the dragons breath. Mine grows too slow and I have to pull hair algae off of it so it isn't smothered.


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[Ricksreef]

You need to move the Dragons Breath up closer to the light.


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[Sand dollar]

Originally Posted by Ricksreef

You need to move the Dragons Breath up closer to the light.


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Thanks! I'll try to find a better spot for it.


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[Ricksreef]

When it starts getting the orange growth on the tips it is in a good spot.


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[Sand dollar]

Picked up this cute guy today, citron clown goby. He's bigger than my clowns right now.




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[paul87]

Very cool little addition! I love the little strips they have.

[Sand dollar]

My Solon fairy wrasse had a brush with death yesterday. I was messing around between the two tanks and had the lid propped halfway off. I'm not sure how long he was out, but when I went to feed the tank I noticed he wasn't swimming around. I looked around the tank and he had jumped out behind it. I could tell he still looked wet so I pick him up quickly and put him in the water I had just changed. Poor thing was cover in dust and dog hair (reminder to vacuum behind the tank stand!!). I carefully blew off and sucked out the dust/hair and added back new tank water...he was upside down struggling to breath for a long time. I finally put him back in the tank when he could halfway stay upright and he went to hide in the back, still struggling to breath...after 30-45 minutes I couldn't find him and thought the worst. Lights had not come on before I left for work so I didn't see him this morning. Tonight I got home and he was hiding in the center cave. I feed the tank and out he came and seems to be fine!! (Ignore the algae, constant battle)

[paul87]

Glad you caught it and he's doing good! I've had that happen before as well, and we have 3 dogs. One is a husky, always hair on my floor. Lol.

[Sand dollar]

Wow, been a while since I've updated. Ups and downs with this tank. All fish have been doing great, but still battling hair algae which has take over some corals. I bought a RoDI filter to start making my own water so I can do more frequent water changes. I also think I need to order more snails/clean up crew, after seeing the custom packages from reef cleaners I think I'm way under stocked with cleaners. Here's a pic of one of my cute inverts I hardly get to see.

[paul87]

Cute little pom pom. Give vibrant from UWC a look. The stuff is magical.

[Sand dollar]

Originally Posted by paul87

Cute little pom pom. Give vibrant from UWC a look. The stuff is magical.

Thanks Paul! I may have to try that! I dosed microbactor and it helped a little, I kind of think I need to do do some very aggressive water changes (like back to back 15 gallon changes...only because that's as much as I have room to make at one time).

[Sand dollar]

Off work for spring break and on a count down to summer! Gave my tanks some much needed TLC and starting to make plans for additions over the summer. A few updated shots of the tank.


Fluffy, flowy Frogspawn


Tailspot blenny, love his cute face



Blue Zoas spreading quickly


bird nest growing like a weed lately


Mushroom forest

[Autumnsky]

Nice to see your updates, things look healthy. What is your light?

[DomDaBomb]

Wanna send me the biocube

[Sand dollar]

Originally Posted by DomDaBomb

Wanna send me the biocube

Haha! I actually kept it, it is now my RFA garden:

Originally Posted by Autumnsky

Nice to see your updates, things look healthy. What is your light?

Autumn, I have a Kessil 160w. I probably should have sprung for the 360w at the time for better coverage, but I didn't. This give great lighting for the most of the tank but I do lower light corals on the side edges.

[Sand dollar]

Updated FTS

[Autumnsky]

Looking pretty good there! Nice to see you showing those off.

About your light, I might be springing for a new light - probably, but figuring which one is the hard part. Before you mentioned the 360W, for what sized tank again, 14G???

I lost 3 RFA a little while back. 2 a few days apart they began losing elasticity/body and then and the other within a couple weeks later. They were seemingly the same types. I have a couple other types still now. Ones that are like warty ones which are really huge and the one fancy one I got last year, still rather small 2-3in.

Any idea how long they live?

Not exactly sure why, but wondering if it was my slack behavior of letting the water evaporate for a week then adding the RO water back in and then - other than the salinity increasing some during the week the tanks still got pwc about 7-10 days like always.

Pretty soon I am getting a upgrade size tank when I find the right deal, maybe a 30-50G. I got a decent used 90G SW tank with Current USA light then chickened out with the thought of maintenance. It is still in the garage. Really just can't make up my mind. :/