Jimbo662 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Congrats on the mentor program! One word of caution...when Ty puts on his lab coat and goggles and breaks out the test tubes to conduct one of his wild and crazy experiments run! ;-) All kidding aside you've got a great mentor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manny Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Congrats on the mentor program! One word of caution...when Ty puts on his lab coat and goggles and breaks out the test tubes to conduct one of his wild and crazy experiments run! ;-) All kidding aside you've got a great mentor! Just don't be so willing to kill all your coral "in the name of science", as your mentor is, and you will be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Shhh, don't say anything about the experiments! You'll scare Shawn away! Nothing to see here! Once we get the mentor page setup, we'll give it a good test run and all of those interested can come along for the ride! I'm excited for the opportunity to contribute back to the club as I have received so much great advice over the years from ARC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reburn Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Your right.......nothing to see on Ty's experiments....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reburn Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 But in all honesty Ty will be a great mentor for you. He has an extremely successful tank and has shown trough the tanks that he can replicate it, and can walk you through what to do and most importantly what not to do while upgrading when to time comes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 We are setting up the mentor build thread now and I think it will be up soon, but because Ty and I will be the only ones with access, I think some things I will put here as well just in case anyone wanted to give me feedback. Last night I put together another little frag rack to get my frags up out of the sand. I thought about it for a while and wanted to think of a solution where I didn't have magnets and suction cups. So, instead, I used fishing line and it worked out really well. It took me about 10 minutes total. I cut out the egg crate in a square and tied four pieces of fishing line to it on each corner. Then weighted it down into the aquarium, pulled the various strings until it was level, and tied a knot on the strings so that it would stay level. After that, all I had to do was lower it to where I wanted in the tank and it and put a little piece of tape on the top. It is not the most sophisticated thing in the world, but it works for now without a frag tank and is a very quick and very cheap solution. Here are some pictures : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Neat idea! I like that you can't knock it over, it's so frustrating when that happens. What's it hanging from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 I have a small piece of black, electrical tape holding it to the side so you can barely see it in the picture. That was a quick solution, and I think that could be improved for sure, but it allows me to easily move it around anywhere I want with the tank very easily. I'll have to think of something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Shawn - I like your mentoring thread. I'll be following. I might even consider getting 'mentored' myself at some point since I am still trying to master acros .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 Thanks, Jim. Yeah, there has already been a lot of back and forth between Ty and me that he will start posting on there today. It is a very cool program that I am getting a lot out of already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornToHula Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Great idea on using fishing line on the frag rack! I may have to use that idea for my rack I was planning on setting up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellyfish Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Wow!! That is alot of info in mentor thread! I'm so glad you two are doing this. Shawn Im so glad you choose a Bio cube I just got my daughter one for her birthday, and we absolutley love it. I can't wait to see what you do with yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Can anyone help me identify these macros and corals i just put in my tank I have tried Googling : Brown stuff: Red Stuff: Coral that I got from the swap from iJam(?): Hard to tell without the blue light on it. The was more of a purple and orange in person instead of maroon and orange. Thanks if you can help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 You're on your own for macros I think the first coral is a hydnophora possibly, or some type of favite. The 2nd one looks like a lepestrea. BTW, I charge for non-mentor advice posts. Only the one's in the mentor thread are free Shawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Pedretti Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Lepestra is my vote for #2 also the red macro is on the tip of my tongue but I just can't get it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 The red stuff looks like ogo (gracilaria parvispora). The brown stuff looks like some type of brown ulva or brown sea lettuce, if there is such a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Pedretti Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 https://www.google.com/search?q=ulva+macroalgae&client=ms-android-sprint-us&espv=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&sboxchip=Images&source=univ&sa=X&ei=vIBIVJjwJIKQgwTgkoLoCg&ved=0CDIQ7Ak I was gunna say the same thing ty....may it's just browned out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Thanks Ty and Dustin. I think that you are both right in all the things that you ID'ed! Luckily, as Ty said before, there is no problem with any of these in the fuge, which is great. I still shouldn't have put it in there until I ID'ed it though. Ty, you are going to have to put all of this on my tab in and out of the mentor thread There are going to many beers and frags coming your way you in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Don't worry, I'm like one of those new hybrid models that can run on beer only if needed. :-) Sent via Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 If anyone is interested and you are not following my mentor thread, I wanted to let folks know that there is some great stuff in there and I got a great back and fourth with Ty today about DSBs (link in sig). Check it out and post here if you want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Pedretti Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I run a dsb...but like ty I don't like the look of it....so it's in my sump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 How deep do you run it Dustin? What size is your sump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 I have to say Hospital Tanks are awesome. I will never go without a permanent one while I am doing this hobby. I have my 10g setup with a bunch of mechanical filtration while it cycles up with the bits of live rock I put in there with the dry rock. I am also dosing copper. So, I had an ich outbreak in my tank, probably because of crappy parameters, but I am working on that! Anyway, I put my hippo int he HT, which was sitting on the sand gasping for air, and 48 hours later all the ich falls off and it is swimming around happily and eating heartily. Then, my clown came down with it as well and was covered before I knew it. Popped him in there yesterday night, and today he is clean and looking for more food. Maintaining it is not too bad. In the morning I do a quick 1/2 gallon water change and test the copper and keep it around .25 - .5. Good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manny Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 A cool name for that second coral you posted is gates of hell leptastrea. Dustin misspelled it:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted October 25, 2014 Author Share Posted October 25, 2014 That is awesome Now all I have to do is get my stuff together, keep it alive, and maybe even grow it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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