Brodie

I'm in for 1.

Larger of the three has a new home in Mike's tank (thanks Mike). Still have the other two if there are any takers.

Sold! Thanks everyone.

Hi Mike,

Sorry for the delay in response...holidays. Yeah I still have it. Be glad to trade it for the torch. Ever had a problem with the torch stinging you? PM me and lemme know when you'd like to do it. I'm in Cedar Park myself.

Yea this skimmer is more for something around 75 gallons or so in size

I have a 29 gallon. I run a little sachet of carbon every once in a while in a small HOB filter when the water gets some smell to it only. I have some devil's hand on the opposite side of the tank and they don't hurt each other at all chemically even in the small tank with little to no carbon use. I'd say growth is probably slow to moderate. The parent coral threw off some little frags (these) about 2 months ago and they were maybe half an inch long at most and half the diameter they are now. The bigger one of these 3 has doubled in size and branches, so there's some variance in the growth rate even among these 3 frags. I think it's because they were so difficult to get to attach to anything. I put them in these shells so they wouldn't blow around the tank. Gluing wasn't working. I suspect the bigger of the 3 was the first to set down "roots" and call his shell home.

They are really beautiful under the right lighting, and growing slower than the colt next to them. I don't think they are going to take over your pico for some time. And when they do, fragging is as simple as cutting off the branches with some sharp scissors. Maybe once a month or so, it may shed a film but it's not bad, just blow it off in current from your hand or a powerhead...better yet, put it closer to the flow for its home.

Honestly though, my tank is a "no fuss" affair. I don't do a lot of water changes, don't run carbon very much, don't target feed, run any sort of reactors. I do skim pretty aggressively, have good lighting, dose with essential elements, iodine, and microverts about once a week. When I think about it, I put a bit of Purple Up in the tank for calcium. All my coral choices are pretty hardy types due to my mode of husbandry (if you can call it that).

Odd that the pic didn't attach. Fixed, sorry about that.

I have 3 Palau Neon Green Nepthea frags for sale or trade. The two on the left are about 3/4" long and going for $15 each. The one on the right is about twice the size with about six branches forming. Asking $30 for it. Forgive my photography. They look much more neon in the tank, but if I leave my camera unfiltered they look like kryptonite in a sea of purple sand. The reality is somewhere in the middle. If you have good actinics and or purple/UV they glow like they are toxic.

Will accept trades. My tank is pretty much a softy tank with easy corals that don't require special spot feeding. Good possibilities might be frogspawn, riccordea, brain coral-favites, or pipe-organ corals. Shaving Brush Plant would be a welcome trade as well.

Thanks for your interest,

Brodie

Bought one of these a few years back for a 75 gallon tank I had set up. I upgraded the MaxiJet 1200 to a Mag 3 for it. The skimmer is in good working order. Eventually may need a new O-Ring that sets the cup level, but for now it's still working fine.

I'd like to get $50 for the skimmer and pump.

Shameless bump for hopeful sale...

I have a 20 Long that's sitting in my garage unused. Not really Nano, but small, I'm willing to part with.

Side note: I also have a Remora Aqua C skimmer and mag pump to part with as well. Obviously the skimmer is a bit much for the 20L, but saw you had a 60G as well.

PM if either is of interest to you (or both)

I'm interested

I probably have a few things to order as well. I'll put my list together and PM for ya in the next day or so. Thanks.

Mike just pointed me to this today. I totally missed out on this GB. Is there another one planned soon? I would be interested in one of the 25's if so.

Sherita - Sent you a PM.

Have a brand new in box Eclipse3 filter hood in original box and packaging. Has never been turned on or used. In addition, I am including 2 brand new Zoo Med 24" bulbs that can be used with the hood. Decided to go a different way with the tank I bought this for, so it's no longer needed.

I'd like to sell it for $75.

Please feel free to contact me for directions to pick up/trade if interested.

I also have 2 Eclipse 400 filters (working but may or may not have all the biowheels), and a 10 Gallon Aquarium to get rid of. Will take $10 for each or any of those items.

Thanks,

Brodie

Welcome to the club!

Thanks! Great pics in your blog. Neat mantis. How are those to care for? I have a 10g and 20gLong aquarium and had thought about one of these. Are they live only feed? Off topic but curious.

Brodie

Welcome and as all ways,

WE WANT TO SEE PICTURES!

*Wave*

Check out my gallery. I posted some this morning. I have a digital camera that takes great pictures outside or in lit rooms but apparently the "forced auto-focus" becomes "auto-blur" when I try and take tank shots. The pics are horrible but they give ya an idea of my now week old 75g.

I look at some of you guys' shots (great photography btw), and the beautiful coral tanks. Mine looks pretty sad with it's sporadic swath of 1" tall frags here and there. My darkest Tomato Clown is a huge camera ham too. It's very hard to snap shots because he constantly stays in frame close to the camera. Part of the bluriness is me rushing to snap a pic while he's strutting in the wrong place before he realizes it. sheesh.

Brodie

Woohoo! You made it! Welcome to the club!

(See! I knew something would come out of me post whoring on RC!)

Haha yup, thanks for pointing me back in this direction Entropy!

Hi KarenM! As for info on my tanks, boy where to begin?

Currently I have 3 going (down from 8 about 3 years ago; 2 of those only had single fish in them...piranhas actually so they don't play well with others hehe).

2.5gallon with a tsp size dab of polyps, a 1/2" bubbletip anemone I salvaged from an old tank, and a baby false percula. They are hangin out til I swap out my desk and set up the 10 gallon planned for em.

29 gallon with a black piranha in it. I lost the red belly in a moving tragedy . The Serrasalmus rhombeus (niger) or Black Piranha, and all piranhas actually, are rather misunderstood fish. There are quite possibly the most skittish fish I've ever had. Originally I had 5 red bellies in a 125 gallon planted tank. I regularly had my hands in there doing maintenance. They run and hide on the other side. If you have bright lights on the tank and they come on before the sun lights up the room it startles them so much they will take off swimming and slam into the glass. Keep em fed and happy and they are hardy and safe pets. Just deserve a little care and respect hehe.

--on to the reef to be--

I started with saltwater about 6 years ago with a 29 gallon experiment (first attempt). Had a clown, a damsel, a dwarf fuzzy lion, a 8" long snowflake eel, and a few corals. I had some shrooms, a toadstool, a xenia (briefly before it melted), a heliofungia, and a gonipora. Can you tell by that mess I had no idea what I was doing?? Managed to keep the helio about 2 weeks. The gonipora surprisingly made it about 4 months. Shrooms lasted til I eventually broke down the tank. The toadstool wilted up and had a funky slime that made it look like it was coming apart...I quickly ditched it thinking it was dying. Much later I discovered it was probably just shedding it's outer skin. All in all a disaster for the corals. I had an emperor 400 and a 15watt UV sterilizer on it and surprisingly never had ammonia problems with all that in there. After that I vowed no corals other than shrooms til I learned more and had a bigger tank.

Set up a 55 gallon about 2 years ago, mainly fish and some shrooms. Decided recently I wanted something a little bigger, but not as big as the 125 gallon I had between the 29 and 55. Traded someone for their 75 a few weeks ago and just got it running and livestock from the 55 moved to it. Everything i have in it is small frags at the moment (other than fish). Here's the list and setup:

Livestock:

2 Tomato Clowns 2"

1 Pygmy Angel 2"

1 Green Chromis 1"

2 Cleaner shrimp

Various snails and hermits (will go snail only as the hermits decline)

3 introduced bristleworms

12 micro stars I haven't seen since introduction

1 serpeant star...can hardly be troubled to move more than an arm to eat..very lazy.

4" Green Star Polyps

1" Pulsing Sinularia (yup this sinularia pulses great find)

1" Neospongodes (Purple Passion)

small cluster Pom-Pom Xenia (they pulsed when I got them, nitrates in 55 about killed them, recovering now)

2" Pink Finger Leather (sickly but saw polyps for first time in 2 weeks this morning)

~2" frag of Neon Green Hammer Coral (stunning in person)

3 of the ugliest brown/neon green Rhodactis rhodostoma(?) you've ever seen, of course thriving since they are an eye-sore.

2" frag of rusty orange/brown Montipora capricornis (currently looking for better home for it, maybe trade for Sarco Elegans (yellow fiji leather) since I don't have adequate flow for it).

Lost 2" neon pink Ricordea Yuma (burned and nitrates I suppose it melted, couldn't save it).

MIA 1" metallic blue/green Ricordea (was in bad shape but started looking better after the transfer detached from rock apparently and can't be found now)

Setup:

75g tank

3-3.5" CaribSea Aragonite sand

~50lbs live rock (purple, pink, and dark red coralline)

Emperor 400 that I put on from time to time for the charcoal

Protein skimmer (Knopp)

had 2 Modded maxijet 1200's but they ripped up the sand like crazy so using two Hagen 802's til I set up a closed loop (the post that brought me here Entropy intercepted hehe).

Aquaclear 500 modded into a HOB refugium with Chaeto, rubble, lighting.

250W Power Compact light (2 actinic, 2 50/50, blue LEDs moonlight..great at night torch fluoresces under the LEDs)

Currently dosing:

Seachem Reef Calcium

Seachem Reef Trace

amino acids & vitamins...believe it's Reef Plus /shrug

Well there it all is in a coconut shell. hehe.

Brodie

Hi all,

I know I'm the new guy on the block but figured this would be the ideal place to pose this. I have a brown/orange (kinda rust colored) Montipora C. The one in the picture is exactly the color but not the same frag. You must forgive me but my camera is a piece of junk (look at my gallery) and a shot would not show it well enough. The color of the one in the pic couldn't be a more perfect match. Mine is roughly triangular in shape. and about 2" on the sides in length.

It's in pretty good condition. The polyps were out and showing this morning. I didn't know the requirements of this guy (impulse buy) til after I got it, and feel I don't have quite the flow it needs to be happy. One corner has a small whitening after my tank move but the frag appears in good health otherwise. I'm not sure it will stay that way in my tank over time so it needs a better home. I'd very much like to find a Sarcophyton elegans (Yellow Fiji Leather) frag if anyone has one and wants to trade.

Been treating the tank with the standard routine of Calcium, Trace Elements, and Amino Acids since introducing the frags. The Monti is high up in my tank under 250W PCs, and has shown slight growth since I got it a little over a month ago.

Thanks,

Brodie

Hi all!,

I posted a question on ReefCentral the other day and the one person who replied turned out to be from Round Rock. He told me about the Austin group, and so here I am. *wave* =)

Brodie