mikedelgado

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I saw this tank the other night and I must say it is the nicest most thought out tank I have ever seen,storebought or otherwise.Dale has mad skills. Now if I could just convince him to build me one too

Hey Junior, congrats on the new baby! Nice meeting your bro too.

You got it!!

I just tried out my new inland diamond bandsaw, well For the last 5 hrs anyways. I really wish that I had purchased one a loooong time ago. If anyone was thinking about getting a diamond bladed bandsaw definately do so. This thing rocks. I cant stop. Please, someone take this thing away from me before I try to frag a fish or something.

I work in round rock mon-fri 8-5. I would like to stop by sometime to look at your fishes. 512 924 2064

there it is!! thanks

Where did it go. I usually answer thru my email notification. I cant seem to find my pm list thru this site?

One gallon jugs of kents tech m arent very expensive and last quite awhile since mag doesnt need to be dosed very often. Epsom salt MIGHT work just fine and be completely harmless but why risk it when the Kent product is proven safe and effective and really not that expensive when ordered on line by the gallon.

Update: all bubble gum monsters are spoken for 3 miami hurricanes left. price drop on moseleyas , have 3 huge chunks $40 small sunset sold, price drop on 2 large sunset monti frags $50 neon green brains gone 3 war coral favias left pastel war and peace favias price drop $40 setosa gone Anyhow, feel free to make offers as I would like to clear these out especially the moseleyas because the frags are huge and I need the room for my new arrivals.Interesting trades excluding acropora encouraged.

I am also running coralvue ballasts,dimmable. And run a 5hr mh photoperiod. and 2 36" T5 giesemann actinic+ for 12hrs for viewing when I get home. I would love to add a strip of the fiji purple. I just need to figure out how to make em fit up there. I have also been looking into the power brite style led's for some extra pop while viewing in the eve.

Interesting. Are you using 250's or 400w. Keep me posted on your opinion of growth and color down the road with the 10k reeflux.I really expect the same type of improvements in my tank just because the 20k ushio's I just replaced were almost 2 years old.

I have used the 12k in the past and I really liked those too. I wanna say they looked about the same as these 20k's(awsome!).I read online somewhere that the 20k's higher par #'s than the 12k's. Doesnt really make sense but who cares, I love the way they look

I think the 250w version is even less $.I cant say what they look like in a 250w but so far I am diggin the look of the 400 watters

I just replaced my bulbs with some 20k reeflux. So far I really like the way they look. And at $69 per bulb I like the price too!

will do Alex.thanks again

The water remained chrystal clear throught. I did not notice a change in clarity. I have read that others reported better clarity with vodka dosing.I use carbon off and on(rox o8 from brs). I did not use any carbon while I was dosing. I wanted to know for sure that it was the vodka doing the job and not something else. I did stick to my normal water changing schedule.The cyano didnt show up for me until I got over 10 mil a day.

I am eyeing those flame hawkfish but I told myself "no more fish" . must resist.

Both of course

I did the vodka dosing thing for quite awhile. I followed the directions described by melev on rc.my tank is a 215. MY phosphates have always been low enough to not show up on hobby test kits (salifert). MY nitrates were pretty high when I started. Note: 95% of my rock was new dry dead rock when I started. I cant really read the color chart on the test kits for sure but I can tell between dark red and light pink. They were pretty red (indicating high nitratelevels) when I started dosing. The nitrates were cut in half pretty quickly. I continued increasing the dosage per the guidelines for some time. I was up to a little over 10mil when the cyano popped up. I never reached 0 nitrates but they did get down pretty low by thhe time the cyano popped up.I normally change 25 gallons every 2 weeks.I did a 50 gal water change , gave it 3 days lights out and the red stuff dissapeared. I figered I would resume dosing in a few weeks once i'm sure the cyano issue is over.About three weeks to a month later I decided to test for nitrates. I wanted know what the starting nitrate level was so I could judge the effectiveness of thr resumed dosing.Well, the nitrates were very low at that point(somewhere around 20 or less).Since the nitrates were low and my corals looked like they were going in the right direction I havent had the need to resume dosing to this day. MY tank has always been plagued with high nitrates so this was very good news. The reason I replaced all of my rock and totally redid my aquascape was part of my war on detritus.I believe my overfeeding and tons of trapped detritus was the cause of this tanks previous nitrate issues. I believe the vodka helped cycle the new rock faster which led to the system's ability to maintain low nitrates without dosing anything despite my small infrequent water changes and overfeeding still. MY fish are well ... FAT. If nitrates ever become an issue for me again I will DEFINATELY turn to the vodka.

heres some shots of the frags I took tonight . So far they are doing well bgm miami hurricane lost al little color but doing well

I have a few corals I would like to sell so I can afford to buy some more corals. ha ha heres a list of what I have right now.Keep in mind most of these were just fragged today and are looking great but I would like to give them a week or two in my system to settle before they can go to thier new homes.Cash or paypal required to hold. tyree miami hurricane chalice: lineage-Ianiwayne from rc and r2r. 6 avail. approx nickle sized multiple eyes $150 each tyree bubble gum monster chalice: lineage bigian from rc 4 avail approx nickle sized $200 each neon green brain frags, bigger than a golf ball 2 avail $25, grows very fast for lps tyree pastel war and peace favia: lineage kigs rc 2 avail dime-nickle size $60 each I can make more of these if there is enough interest red/green war type favia:got it from ianiwayne who I think (cant remember) got it from aquatic collection.com. grows fast has a deeper red color than my tyree war coral and the centers are different, 4 avail nickle size $30 lime green/blue velvety textured moseleya latistalatta: colony sized frags 3-4" 6 big polypsish $60 each. Smaller and or larger frags avail red green chalice $75 for the whole thing at least baseball sized. Or $15 for big frags. I hate to sell the whole thing cause I got it when it was a baby from hobogato. So hopefully I can just frag it down tyree sunset monti: this one has been with me thru thick and thin. Very beautiful and impossible to kill. 3 frags 2@ $60 each and 1 @ $35 brick red chalice bigger than a golfball $50 1 .5" tyree monti setosa frag 3 branches $45 the miami hurricane mom is behind the bnest in the right side of pic. the war type favia is dead center Here is the bgm mom, a few melons also in the pic the big green guy in the backround is a symphillia wilsoni pastel war and peace, bad pic but you get the idea moseleya latistalatta mom hobogatos red green chalice grown up heres the green welso before I cut it into three pieces.Two pieces avail ,I'm keepin one . The war coral is the tyree version, I could frag that one later if anyone would like one you guys know what a setosa and a sunset look like so no mo pics. I love looking at peoples pics but posting them sure does stink a little. thanks for looking .

Thats probably where sean got it from. I also picked one up from ace thats similar but has some green hi lites in it. bump for a ggreat chalice that holds color and does great in captivity

nice chalice! I'm curious if you got that one from sean. I got one from him awhile back that looks identical.

nice chalice! I'm curious if you got that one from sean. I got one from him awhile back that looks identical.