JBJ 6 gallons of paradise!

DendroGuru · 06-20-2009, 10:08 PM

This thread is all about the JBJ 6 gallon tank. It is for you to view and post anything about the JBJ 6 gallon. And maybe if you're nice you can post some stuff about the BC 8 gallon, maybe. Let us all know details about your tank example: PICTURES, what fish you have, modifications, PICTURES!, corals, fuge, etc...
I've had my tank running for about 3 months. I will try to post some pictures tonight.

Let the games begin!!!!

cbrownfish · 06-20-2009, 10:54 PM

Ha! I literally just sold mine yesterday but here is a tribute to it:

Original set up:

2nd set up was Zoa focused:

3rd and final was for my reef lobster:

Reefmack · 07-01-2009, 04:50 PM

DendroGuro - where's the pics? As you know I also started up a JBG 6 about 2 weeks ago. Not much to look at yet, but I'll try to get some pics up this weekend.

cbrownfish - I saw your tank for sale on RASOC, but it was after I already had mine (mine had been in the box waiting to be set up for over a month). You really did a nice job with your variations.

dmyers557 · 07-06-2009, 03:14 PM

cbrownfish- That first setup was very nice. I love the variety.

DendroGuru · 07-12-2009, 12:46 AM

sorry i haven't really found any time to get some pictures up. i'm not at all a good picture taker too. i just got a couple of new fish for my tank. so i should take some pictures. haha

yungreefer2410 · 07-12-2009, 01:15 AM

couple of new fish for a 6g?

Reefmack · 07-12-2009, 05:18 PM

DendroGuru - any picture is better than none. I just took one of mine. I've put a couple corals in, and added a "Piece of the Reef" rock from Pacific East a couple days ago - the one with a lot of polyps and a couple mushrooms on the left front:

If the 3 peppermint shimps in this tiny tank would stop walking on the polyps they might get a better chance to open! I think I need to transfer 1 or 2 of them to my other tank.

So far things are going pretty well after a few weeks, and the only diatom outbreak that I've had has been on the rock and not the substrate.

fata1ity · 07-12-2009, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reefmack

DendroGuru - any picture is better than none. I just took one of mine. I've put a couple corals in, and added a "Piece of the Reef" rock from Pacific East a couple days ago - the one with a lot of polyps and a couple mushrooms on the left front:

If the 3 peppermint shimps in this tiny tank would stop walking on the polyps they might get a better chance to open! I think I need to transfer 1 or 2 of them to my other tank.

So far things are going pretty well after a few weeks, and the only diatom outbreak that I've had has been on the rock and not the substrate.

create overhangs and hiding spots for the shrimp.

Reefmack · 07-12-2009, 07:04 PM

Not easily visible, but there are numerous overhangs, and under the center of the rock is large cavern. The shrimp are just always on the prowl for food, especially when I get near ther tank. They're as bad as the fish in my 34G tank - always begging!

DendroGuru · 07-23-2009, 01:29 PM

i have no idea how to post pics and i'm too out of it to figure it out right now. maybe someone will chime in....

browntrout · 07-23-2009, 01:45 PM

go to photobucket.com sign up for free. Click on my albums click add files upload your files, look at your my albums account and find the correct code uner the pic should look like this [img]blah blah blabh[img] copy and paste that into the thread, hit preview thread if you see the pic you did it right if you see a bunch of code you picked the wrong one copy and paste another code till you get it right

quick hope you understand Im to lazy to go in depth

DendroGuru · 07-23-2009, 01:52 PM

sweet i'll do it when i'm not lazy and am bored ...

DendroGuru · 07-27-2009, 02:58 AM

still too lazy to post some pics of my tank. (trust me, pics arn't nearly as good as the real thing, and I suck at photography)

anywho, I've been struggling with temps, and everyone says fan, and ice. well I didn't think the fan would cool it down too much, so I've been using ice. the ice only cooled the tank a couple of degrees.

So I finally got a $10 fan to put on the tank. all day the tank has been 11 degrees cooler! insteed of 86ish the tank is 75ish.

I should have done this 2 months ago!!!

Reefmack · 07-27-2009, 08:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DendroGuru

still too lazy to post some pics of my tank. (trust me, pics arn't nearly as good as the real thing, and I suck at photography)

anywho, I've been struggling with temps, and everyone says fan, and ice. well I didn't think the fan would cool it down too much, so I've been using ice. the ice only cooled the tank a couple of degrees.

So I finally got a $10 fan to put on the tank. all day the tank has been 11 degrees cooler! insteed of 86ish the tank is 75ish.

I should have done this 2 months ago!!!

Any pics are better than none!

On the temperature issue - are you running the stock lights or a higher wattage upgrade? My tank is stock - 18 W, and my temperature gets up to 80 after the lights have been on 12 hours. But, I keep the house cool - 70-72 F. How did you mount the fan?

DendroGuru · 07-27-2009, 08:09 PM

06-20-2009, 10:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
DendroGuru Fire Coral Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 60 View Gallery Karma Komment	JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! This thread is all about the JBJ 6 gallon tank. It is for you to view and post anything about the JBJ 6 gallon. And maybe if you're nice you can post some stuff about the BC 8 gallon, maybe. Let us all know details about your tank example: PICTURES, what fish you have, modifications, PICTURES!, corals, fuge, etc... I've had my tank running for about 3 months. I will try to post some pictures tonight. Let the games begin!!!!

06-20-2009, 10:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
cbrownfish Reef Lobster Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 1,620 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! Ha! I literally just sold mine yesterday but here is a tribute to it: Original set up: 2nd set up was Zoa focused: 3rd and final was for my reef lobster: __________________ *Confucius Say: "best way to save face, is to keep lower part of face shut".* CURRENT SET UP -- 90 gallon display, 30 gallon refugium, 6 gallon pod breeder, 100 gallon sump (complete with frag rack), 2X250 MH 14K DE HQI, Vortech MP40w and Koralia #4 for flow, 2X Tunze 9010 Skimmers, Sequence Dart return, 2X Ranco Controllers w/Titanium Heaters, 150 lb LR (90 in display, 60 in sump), 5" DSB, Mixed reef - Softies, LPS, SPS, Clams.

07-01-2009, 04:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
Reefmack NaClH2O Addicted Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC, USA Posts: 6,127 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! DendroGuro - where's the pics? As you know I also started up a JBG 6 about 2 weeks ago. Not much to look at yet, but I'll try to get some pics up this weekend. cbrownfish - I saw your tank for sale on RASOC, but it was after I already had mine (mine had been in the box waiting to be set up for over a month). You really did a nice job with your variations. __________________ aka Terry Excellence in reefkeeping is achieved by mastering the fundamentals, and learning from mistakes. No such thing as an evil crab. Only humans have the ability to be evil. "If you don't like what your fellow forum neighbors are doing, then don't pay so much attention to them" 34g Red Sea Max 130 (April 07), ~50-60 lbs. live rock, Aragonite substrate. Lighting: Current USA Outer Orbit Pro - 150W HQI, 2 x 24W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent by ATI, 2 x 24W Super Actinic T5 HO Fluorescent by UVL, Vortech MP20, LifeReef RSM Siphon, EShopps RS-75 Sump, Euro-Reef custom sump skimmer, Simplicity media reactor, Tunze Osmolator ATO, ReefKeeper Lite L3 controller Reefmack's RSM 130 and...Red Sea Max Owners Club and My JBJ 6G in this thread[/color][/i]

07-06-2009, 03:14 PM	#4 (permalink)
dmyers557 Neon dottyback Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Pittsburg, California Posts: 612 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! cbrownfish- That first setup was very nice. I love the variety. __________________ SETUP: 34g RedSea Max with Current Outer Orbit mh lighting, Phoenix 14k mh bulb, 2x65watt 460nm and 420nm actinics, Tunze 9002 skimmer, StevieT's media rack, 40 lbs live rock, 30 lbs live sand, Ecotech MP10. CORAL: Dendro, Torch, XMEN zoo's, Tubb's Blue, Mohawk, Devil's Armor, Nuclear Greens, Plum PE's, Miami Hurricanes, Armor Of God, Wammin Watermelon's, Galileo PE, JC's Pink PE, True Eagle Eyes, Blue Horizon Zoo's, Rainbow Acans, Hollywood Stunner Chalice, Cotton Candy Chalice, Frogspawn, Kryptonite Candy Cane SPS CORAL: Pink Lemonade, Hydnophora, Infamous Frag Farmer's Setosa, ATL Pink Polyp Cap, Tyree Idaho Grape Cap, Green & Purple Birdnest, Jedi Mind Trick Undata, True Undata, ATL Meteor Shower, Rainbow Monti CLAM: Tridacna maxima clam FISH: Midas Blenny, Coral Beauty, 6-line Wrasse, Blue Green Chromis My RedSea Max 130!!!

07-12-2009, 12:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
DendroGuru Fire Coral Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 60 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! sorry i haven't really found any time to get some pictures up. i'm not at all a good picture taker too. i just got a couple of new fish for my tank. so i should take some pictures. haha

07-12-2009, 05:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
Reefmack NaClH2O Addicted Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC, USA Posts: 6,127 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! DendroGuru - any picture is better than none. I just took one of mine. I've put a couple corals in, and added a "Piece of the Reef" rock from Pacific East a couple days ago - the one with a lot of polyps and a couple mushrooms on the left front: If the 3 peppermint shimps in this tiny tank would stop walking on the polyps they might get a better chance to open! I think I need to transfer 1 or 2 of them to my other tank. So far things are going pretty well after a few weeks, and the only diatom outbreak that I've had has been on the rock and not the substrate. __________________ aka Terry Excellence in reefkeeping is achieved by mastering the fundamentals, and learning from mistakes. No such thing as an evil crab. Only humans have the ability to be evil. "If you don't like what your fellow forum neighbors are doing, then don't pay so much attention to them" 34g Red Sea Max 130 (April 07), ~50-60 lbs. live rock, Aragonite substrate. Lighting: Current USA Outer Orbit Pro - 150W HQI, 2 x 24W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent by ATI, 2 x 24W Super Actinic T5 HO Fluorescent by UVL, Vortech MP20, LifeReef RSM Siphon, EShopps RS-75 Sump, Euro-Reef custom sump skimmer, Simplicity media reactor, Tunze Osmolator ATO, ReefKeeper Lite L3 controller Reefmack's RSM 130 and...Red Sea Max Owners Club and My JBJ 6G in this thread[/color][/i]

07-12-2009, 07:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
Reefmack NaClH2O Addicted Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC, USA Posts: 6,127 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! Not easily visible, but there are numerous overhangs, and under the center of the rock is large cavern. The shrimp are just always on the prowl for food, especially when I get near ther tank. They're as bad as the fish in my 34G tank - always begging! __________________ aka Terry Excellence in reefkeeping is achieved by mastering the fundamentals, and learning from mistakes. No such thing as an evil crab. Only humans have the ability to be evil. "If you don't like what your fellow forum neighbors are doing, then don't pay so much attention to them" 34g Red Sea Max 130 (April 07), ~50-60 lbs. live rock, Aragonite substrate. Lighting: Current USA Outer Orbit Pro - 150W HQI, 2 x 24W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent by ATI, 2 x 24W Super Actinic T5 HO Fluorescent by UVL, Vortech MP20, LifeReef RSM Siphon, EShopps RS-75 Sump, Euro-Reef custom sump skimmer, Simplicity media reactor, Tunze Osmolator ATO, ReefKeeper Lite L3 controller Reefmack's RSM 130 and...Red Sea Max Owners Club and My JBJ 6G in this thread[/color][/i]

07-23-2009, 01:29 PM	#10 (permalink)
DendroGuru Fire Coral Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 60 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! i have no idea how to post pics and i'm too out of it to figure it out right now. maybe someone will chime in....

07-23-2009, 01:45 PM	#11 (permalink)
browntrout Fire Coral Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 66 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! go to photobucket.com sign up for free. Click on my albums click add files upload your files, look at your my albums account and find the correct code uner the pic should look like this [img]blah blah blabh[img] copy and paste that into the thread, hit preview thread if you see the pic you did it right if you see a bunch of code you picked the wrong one copy and paste another code till you get it right quick hope you understand Im to lazy to go in depth

07-23-2009, 01:52 PM	#12 (permalink)
DendroGuru Fire Coral Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 60 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! sweet i'll do it when i'm not lazy and am bored ...

07-27-2009, 02:58 AM	#13 (permalink)
DendroGuru Fire Coral Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 60 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: JBJ 6 gallons of paradise! still too lazy to post some pics of my tank. (trust me, pics arn't nearly as good as the real thing, and I suck at photography) anywho, I've been struggling with temps, and everyone says fan, and ice. well I didn't think the fan would cool it down too much, so I've been using ice. the ice only cooled the tank a couple of degrees. So I finally got a $10 fan to put on the tank. all day the tank has been 11 degrees cooler! insteed of 86ish the tank is 75ish. I should have done this 2 months ago!!!

07-27-2009, 08:09 PM	#15 (permalink)
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