BigAl's slow chronicle . . .

[Royalscott]

Looks great and it looks like the new fish loves your balls!

[michael_cb_125]

Awesome!!!
I may need to get a reefball for my tank. I would like to have an encrusting monti cover one. That would be sweey. I could get two and have superman's balls!!!!

How much are they? (the reef balls)
~Michael

[michael_cb_125]

This:


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Encrusting my balls. That would be sweet!!!
~Michael

[BigAl07]

Dude that WOULD be SWEET! you do know that you'd have to take LOTS of pics!!!

you got PM comig your way Michael!!

[Frankie]

Looking great AL! I'll have that out for you this Monday. I didn't have time to do it yet with work and all and today would have been a bad day for an over nighter. Would suck if it sat until Monday because of Sunday.
the angel looks very happy with the reef balls. Star polyps would also look cool covering that thing.

[BigAl07]

thanks Frank. Of course no hurry at all!

Julie and I are planning to attempt a Green Star Polyp Reef Ball. Should look really cool.

I went to our LFS and sold them a BOAT load of Xenia (Elongia & Pom). This hobby is FINALLY starting to give back to itself (even if it's only a little bit).

Thanks to EVERYONE for reading my Chronicle!!!

[corrado007]

The top picture in this link reminded me of your tank with the towers of rocks. Pretty cool idea you've got. Congrats on the fish by the way.

[kathywithbirds]

cute CB Al!!! I like the coral tree idea.

BTW... maybe you want to think about encrusting your balls with anything blue or purple... just a thought.

[JoJo]

[Woodstock]

Nice "trees" and I can't wait to see your reef balls covered with corals. That will be coolio!

[BigAl07]

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate all the input and ideas. This tank would NOT be possible without the input from SO many of you! THANK YOU!

Friday night I picked up some mushrooms, some Nassarius Snails and best of all this TINY baby sea hare. The LFS nows how I LOVE Sea Hares and they put this one back and wouldn't sell it to anyone else. How COOL is that? It's about the size of a quarter and just vanishes in the 90g tank. I'm planning to keep it in this tank until I get my work tank "Micro Sea Hare" proof then it's going there. I have one on order from Morgan at ReefGardner.Net (They ROCK) and that one will go into the 90g once it's hear.

I'm still up in the air over the "Schooling Fish" so more input would be appreciated. I mean if all water parameters are ZERO (Amm, trite, trates) is it ok to add 6-8 small fish all at once? I don't want to kill the biol-filter by adding a huge rush of fish but my understanding is for schooling type fish you want to add them all at once.

Ideas?

Suggestions?

Doni I'm planning to do some "Reef Ball" zoa farming later this week and get some more going with Zoas on them. I'm thinking of adding several different Zoas to ONE reef ball and letting it totally cover with them. What do you think?

Again thanks for reading Me

[sasquatch]

Al, if you want to preload your bio lol, just rot a few shrimp in the sump, to grow bacteria you must FEED it

[BigAl07]

thanks Bro! I have 3 growing (rotting) in there now

[Craig Manoukian]

Way to go Al!

[BigAl07]

I spent some time on the tank tonight re-doing some of my wiring inside the canopy. I added some heavy duty outlets and moved most of the connectors into the ATO area where there isn't any salt spray.

I also added my pair of "Koralia #3's" and WOW they really keep the water whipping around. I have one in the upper right read corner and one in the left upper front corner (Can't get to the read on left). It's really moving the water around and kicking up some CRAP off the bottom. Gonna do some vac-work tomorrow night, change out the filter sock and do another water change. That's after I go to work tomorrow and 4 hours of Internet Marketing Class tomorrow night. Gonna be a LONG day!!