jeff70 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 11 hours ago, Muttley000 said: Wait you keep your frags in the sump and your macro in the display? @jeff70 did you bump his head on the floor when he was a baby lol many times, but he's an '80's reefer! Muttley000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 I like to think I’m just a non-conformist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 But seriously, the macroalgae in the DT was a pest I didn’t take care of that evolved into a real issue. Luckily I found a foxface that keeps it trimmed nicely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 Found my mocha clown on the sandbed a few minutes ago with hermits crowding it. Real tough to give such a long-standing member of the crew the toilet send off. Sucks because he ate well last night and looked okay this morning, so it was in the last few hours. Fins weirdly looked okay, don’t think it was another fish. Pretty bummed. In a more positive update, it’s been a week since the addition of the frag sump and it’s looking pretty good it’s very low flow down there so palys, shrooms, and zoa’s are in heaven, though I may need to move the hammers to a spot with more flow or back to the DT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Sorry to hear, always hate to read about losing livestock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Sorry to hear that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 Anybody have an idea of a good invert to put down there with the frags? I’d like something down there to eat any diatoms or hair algae if it ever crops up. I’m thinking a 1-2 sexy shrimp or maybe a coral banded shrimp This is the danger of trading coral in the petco parking lot lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 If you want something that will really work, out some crabs down there. If you want something cool, then go coral banded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted March 10, 2020 Author Share Posted March 10, 2020 An update to the inverts in sump, decided to go with 5 turbos, 5 blue legs, and a camel shrimp. If the shrimp goes after my frags I’m going to float it in with the lionfish until it gets the message Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 New keeper of the frag tank, at least until the 100 gallon predator tank is cycled and ready (sorry [mention=157]muttley000[/mention] ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted March 18, 2020 Author Share Posted March 18, 2020 Eel updates: he eats out of my tongs, darts at dropped krill faster than the blink of an eye, and really loves to hang out in my refugium algae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted March 24, 2020 Author Share Posted March 24, 2020 What.... is this? Is my eel having the weirdest poops of all time? No empty snail shells, shrimps still alive. Almost looks like a dead leather coral but I didn’t put any down there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 At least you know his plumbing works! Side note, have you ever read about vitamin B/Thiamine deficiency in eels? Marco Lichtenberger is an expert who has helped on Bob Fenner's site put out a lot of information about it. Worth googling if you are keeping an eel in my opinion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Thinking for the future, I'm going to make a large scale effort to get rid of my Aiptasia for good. After my lion is moved to the predator tank, any thoughts on adding a copper banded butterfly? could always go into the predator tank if it started nipping at coral. Hopefully will get 2-3 peppermints as well. Definitely will wait until after I can go into public again to try to find one eating at a LFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I am thinking of getting a copper band too. I’m kind of considered buying a pre-quarantine and precondition one from humble fish. I don’t know… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Par meter values for the tank, two black boxes. left light is on ~90% and right is ~80% Muttley000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 Thought some of my coral looked happy todaySent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Happy and growing! Looks great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 A decent harvest, I’d say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted January 9, 2021 Author Share Posted January 9, 2021 It’s been forever since I posted here, sorry all. Figured I’d post an update on both my tanks. My 90 reef is in total crash right now. My foxface died and probably 2 months ago, which caused my serpent star to die, which cascaded into almost all of my inverts dying and most of the coral in the tank. I have two brain corals clinging on, and three psammys in the back that look okay. Im doing water changes as much as I can to try to get this under control. GHA everywhere. Luckily the other fish (lion, wrasse, damsel, wolf eel) are still going strong, and right before it happened I acquired an angler from petco that’s down with the wolf eel in the sump. They’re both still kicking as well, and I’ve gotten the angler to eat after a whole lot of effort. Really cool fish to watch.In my 100 gallon predator tank there was a fungal (I think) outbreak on my emperor/Koran hybrid angel, which passed away a few weeks ago. I treated the tank with ruby rally for 4 days to protect the rest of the fish, and while it has dubious results on the Internet, the splotches that appeared on my Picasso trigger have been fading and color returning to normal. I also put one hell of a skimmer on there, HOB aquamaxx 1.5 which is making a lot of skimmate (while also making a bit of a mess). Also found a crazy deal on Facebook for a brace of AI hyrdras, which replaced my janky T5 and orbit led setup. I acquired a second snowflake eel for that tank as well, and while the two fought a bit at the beginning of cohabitation, they seem pretty cool with eachother now. Hopefully I’ll post pictures at some point in the coming weeks, maybe participate in a few FTS’s, give me extra incentive to clean the glass more often. Cheers everyone hope all is well with your families, both fishy and terrestrial Joe and crimsonvice 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 I’ve taken this tank down, it was too stressful to try to keep up with. All livestock and coral went into my predator tank, bar a brain coral that went to my dad. I’ll post a better update of the bigger tank on the other thread Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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