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the flash on the camera really washed out the mushrooms... my wife's the photographer. Big thanks to Derry for the Eye of Ra polyps. Simply gorgeous.

These mushrooms are actually purple and green.

The eye of ra is great. Already opened up and enjoying their new home. Thanks!

I've done both and I agree totally with buying it D-E-D (dead).

40 pounds of dead rock and 9 pounds of live rock and my tank is fantastic. no nasty mantis shrimps.

It's way worse than ich. Healthy to dead in 36 hours. Mucus, shriveled bodies... not pleasant.

Both fish had brookynella...

My whole tank is green

Full Tank

Mushroom, Trumpet and clown

Sage has a new TV

Almost everything in one shot

Trumpet and purple mushroom

One of the new clowns

trumpet with feeding tentacles extended

most of a full tnak shot.

I have some more good ones, but the missus has absconded with her camera.

A pair of percula clowns followed us home today. Lexie insisted that we keep them.

Pics of the corals:

Taking things slowly has made a huge difference since my last attempt at a saltwater tank. This tank, while pretty barren is fantastic. I have a bit of a phosporous issue. I put a resin pad that absorbs phosphorus into my filter and it sucked P out almost overnight. I took the pad out because the two clumps of macro I have started looking poorly. I'll live with the green hair algae. Besides, I've a ton of small shrimp like critters that eat/live in it. They don't appear to be copepods (much larger), but maybe.

The only other issue seems to be a persistant inability to maintian the kH and pH. It takes less than a week to go from a pH of 8.2 to 7.5. I was dosing a buffer solution about once a week. For the forseeable future, I'm going to add the buffer to my RO top-off water and feed it in a little bit at a time instead of one big jump. The torch hates dosing day.

Coral update: My corals (purchased and hitchiker) are doing fantastic. My one hitchhiker mushroom is about 1.5 inches across and spawned two other mushrooms. The torch coral has divided, it now has three mouths instead of two. The green star polyps have begun extending their territory slightly and they love filter cleaning day. It's like a buffet line for them.

I just added a torch coral and a smallish rock with about 2 dozen small zoanthids on it.

I also recently added 3 cerith snails. They must be the Atlantic ceriths, they are pretty large. One of them seems to be a hider and one is very outgoing. I don't think he's come off the glass since we got him. He found the mother load of algae and is quietly working himself into obesity.

Fish update: I did something stupid. I bought a fish without researching it first. Turns out the red-lipped blenny can grow to 6 plus inches and is one of the most aggresive blennies... sigh. Took him back. This time, I'm sticking to the plan. 2 Ocelerris clowns, 3 wheeler's gobies, and maybe 1 firefish.

So that's the update. Pictures once the new corals open up good.

Very cool.

I didn't really want to wait that long. Let me think about it. Maybe I'll just order my goby or the pair of clown's now and wait on my CuC until this goes through.

Anyone have a few cerith snails I can borrow? I've got an order ready for reefcleaners, but I also have $140 to last until Friday two weeks from now. My tank is starting to be covered in diatoms.

Thanks

And I just ordered me a refractometer this morning... grrr...

Mines only 2.5 and I (fortunately) ended up with a tall tank on a tall stand. He can see in, but can't reach the top yet. He also knows not to open certain cabinets... there are cabinets that he can open and ones he can't. He's pretty good about following that rule. He's fed my other fish tank before, but It'll be a while for the reef.

The other day at Aquatek, he got excited and hit the glass of a tank. I put in time-put for like 30 seconds and then made him apologize to the fish. Most everyone around was trying not to burst out laughing at this little boy saying "I'm sorry" to a fish tank.

I'll check back in a week or two. Would they be healthy under a 96W dual 10k/actinic PC?

Nitrites at less than 3

Yeah, ammonia is less than 0.25, but I have to go buy a nitrite test kit. Both the ones I had previously are fried.

I'm on it...

Let me know when you're going to do this. I might be interested... I'll also be interested in a reefcleaner order soon.

A bit of a belated update. The tank is cycling nicely. Hit a high of between .5 and .75 Ammonia yesterday and down to .25 today. All the hitchhikers seem to be doing well. We moved the rock with the shrooms on it a little lower into an area with less flow and the smaller one seems to be much happier.

Let's see, I've got a Koralia 1, MaxiJet 900 and the Aquaclear 70 for flow. I've a highflow, medium flow, and low flow areas for whatever I decide to put in them.

I've got a $5 coupon for Aquatek's sale on the 15th, I'm justnot sure I'll be ready for fish at that time. I really want them, I guess we'll see how the tank is doing.

When I get the ammonia down to zip, I've got the SW ready for a 5-7 gallon water change (10-20% change). Then I'll be ready for a reefcleaners.org order.

More updates as events warrant.

Sounds like fun. If we can help, let us know.

My tank must not be too bad. This one and a much smaller (half dime size) opened up when the lights came on this morning. I guess the big one's a little bigger than a quarter.

Has anyone here ever ordered from them before?

Any idea what these redish feather duster looking things are?