My 29 Bio Cube build thread

[tippMANn98]

i'll tell you one thing...BEFORE i touch anything...I.E. right when I get home..they are all CUPPED...as soon as I clean skimmer cup, water change, ANYTHING that has to do with the water...BOOM they settle down a little....I will do a water change tonite....and see what they look like, also, i do a 3 gallon change every week....

[Craig Manoukian]

Will wait for tonight's news.

[tippMANn98]

CRAIG:
Ok, well I didnt get to do the water change. I was asked the question by my fiance "could you do it tomorrow?" Had to go grocery shopping, today definatley W/C though. Anyway I did take pictures of each of my corals(this is what they looked like at 5 pm lights have been on since 12noon.WARNING: lots of pics....I'll make them smaller for easy loading...
For the few of you that acctually follow my thread you can go back and see how everything looked before....

Blue Rics:

(too small)
Button Frags:

Orange Center Zoas:

Green Center Buttons:

Green Skirt Zoas:

KathywBirds Frag:

Mixed Zoas:

Red Zoas:

ROF zoasfragged once, MichaelCB has frag)

LPS Frags(Trumpet and Frogspawn)

Ric Frags(R.Yumas, Blue Ric, ugly brown/green ric)

Prized Ric-Rock Rics..

Rainbow Yuma and Green Center BLUE ric(yuma is the only one that doesnt CUP)

and the Full TANK SHOT!!


THATS ALL CURRENT, all taken yesterday afternoon!! ENJOY!!!

[Cassette87]

Your Cube is looking GREAT Dan! Love the Rics!

[tippMANn98]

Cassette, On a lot of those pics the colors on some zoas are fading, probably due to the lights only lasting 5 MONTHS!!!!! few more days though.....I need to get rid of some of my frags though, so if anybody is interested, cheap prices...$5-$10 bucks....let me know.....

[forestal]

My first thoughts about your ric issues are #1 the dosing of stuff that may not be needed
#2 allelopathy - chemical warfare from the other guys in there , a new addition to a tankful may get hammered, even if running carbon , and i would be with the mix you have in there ,

also check out the tank at night, look for shrimp stealing from their mouths and sweepers

my mushrooms often will feed and do the cupping thing, but will do with high stress too

hope it evens out

p.s. if the cupping or curling in latest pics are part of what you refer to, may also be the shroom splitting?

[tippMANn98]

Hey Dan, They dont pout and close up like they are stressed, all my zoas STAY open, I stare at it at night too....Nothing out of the ordinary...

[Cassette87]

Originally Posted by tippMANn98

Cassette, On a lot of those pics the colors on some zoas are fading, probably due to the lights only lasting 5 MONTHS!!!!! few more days though.....I need to get rid of some of my frags though, so if anybody is interested, cheap prices...$5-$10 bucks....let me know.....

Some of mine look a little more pale than usual too! My new bulbs are expected here on monday; but i'm being more and more tempted by the solaris each day Which frags are $5-10? if it's the rics, i'll take them all.

[tippMANn98]

not the rics.....gonna have some of those up for grabs in the next round robin, the pic labeled...Button Frags.....those are good to go...the top ones are nice tan in color, and the bottoms are really more of an olive green with light streaks...kinda camoflauge

[Cassette87]

Originally Posted by tippMANn98

not the rics.....gonna have some of those up for grabs in the next round robin, the pic labeled...Button Frags.....those are good to go...the top ones are nice tan in color, and the bottoms are really more of an olive green with light streaks...kinda camoflauge

Heh, alright. couldn't blame me for getting excited

[BigAl07]

Daniel HEALTH wise they all look good. I would suspect the "color" issues is most likely from the lights fading. I'm planning to order new bulbs all the way around (both tanks) next week myself. I would ORDER now but due to NO Debit Cards I have to wait for the replacements to come in.

I think your tank looks VERY healthy indeed. I can't judge the colors very accurately but as for shape, texture and "attitude" they do look very healthy.

If I have ANY tank real estate open I would SO be wanting some of your frags. Maybe once my 90g is up I'll be able to push some CASH in your hands.

[tippMANn98]

well, maybe next time around you can get something....

[Craig Manoukian]

Daniel,

Without going back through your thread if you have added a bunch of soft corals recently, and your tank has a a high volume of corals, it could be that they are competing for space with a good amount of chemical warfare. The chemical warfare won't show up in your in your testing.

The fact that some corals are fully open and some are cupped makes me think it is not a definiency in an element in the water column, but something else.

It will be interesting to see if your water tests low for iodine and strontium. Water changes and carbon filtering should address both issues.

Good luck.

[tippMANn98]

i also just replace my chemipure....i full unit(40g) of chemi ELITE....so, chemical warfare huh? I have never heard of anything releasing chemicals to control the growth and expansion of others....it makes sense though...

[Craig Manoukian]

Oh yeah, I've seen softies burn down flow LPS and SPS and the LPS/SPS nematoycysts whack each other. It's a crew world in coralville!