Althea's 28g Nano - Page 11

tbittner · 04-10-2008, 12:38 PM

I can see!

Fantastic aquascaping! The rock creating the cliff on the left, if that all one big rock? I love all the purple too.

althea2you · 04-10-2008, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tbittner

I can see!

Fantastic aquascaping! The rock creating the cliff on the left, if that all one big rock? I love all the purple too.

yeah its one big rock! LOL.. that sucker is big!

althea2you · 04-22-2008, 11:40 PM

ok, a couple pics i took...nothing new going on with the tank... just being!! although, my mystery shroom is really getting some cool color!! here is a super close pic of it.. just liked how this looked...

and a close one of my GSP.. no biggie.. just pics i wanted to share!

tbittner · 04-23-2008, 07:26 AM

Your mystery shroom looks very much like a Yuma Ricordia. Don't take my word for it though because I seriously suck when it comes to identifying things in a pic.

Those are truly awesome pics though! The clarity is amazing!

CAVINCA · 04-23-2008, 07:57 AM

Well your skimmer should be broken in by now... hows it working?

althea2you · 04-23-2008, 08:50 AM

Carl: as good as i expected! LOL.. its fine.. it'll have to do.. you can only have so much on there in such a small space... but over all its fine!

Terry: that may be!!! LOL.. its just so wierd how WHITE it was for almost a full year, but continued to live lol!!! now its color is deepening! very neat of a hitchiker!

althea2you · 04-24-2008, 12:14 AM

here is the frag of buttons i have... there are about 12 polyps on it now

here is a close up of the buttons..

and this is the most recent pic i have of the parent colony.. bottom/middle right hand corner..

Frankie · 04-24-2008, 12:25 AM

Looks great! Nice work on the scaping Sarah. What a pretty tank.

KimPossible · 04-24-2008, 12:37 AM

Great pics. Beautiful color. Healthy corals. Good job!

althea2you · 04-24-2008, 12:41 AM

thanks!!! its nice to hear appreciation on a tank from people who KNOW tanks... everyone that comes over is like..them" cool... is that real?" me .. "huh? yes its real!" ... them "what is that?"... then i have to go into explanations they dont understand! LOL.. o well i love it!

althea2you · 04-29-2008, 03:45 PM

ok, update...

well i had some issues... not with livestock or anything... but im sure i would have if i hadnt acted... i have to admit i got a little slack on the WC's.. i usually do a 10% wc every three weeks... wich doesnt seem like a lot.. but it works for my tank... but i went a little over a month with no wc.. but topping off...i will now be doing a wc every two weeks... just because of my last little venture.. :P.. ok so..

i tested all my water... nitrates were high.. 20-25.. thats the highest they have ever been..nitrites 0 ammonia 0 phosphates .03 calcium low...but im hoping my new water change will change this..it was 350...i do not have any sps in my tank so i dont really know whats depleting it.. anyways... my MAgnesium is low..and this is with the Elos test kit..975... Elos says to multipy the number of drops by 75...my drop count was 13.. if it was multiply by 100 like it was before it would be 1300....better!!! does anyone know why they changed the number to multiply by? is this correct? also my Alkalinity was decent at an 8... but here is the SHOCKER i had.. my salinity was at 1.015

i realize this is from the lack of WC and the continual topping off with fresh water.... these test readings were AFTER i did the WC on Fri... ok.. soo!

Sunday i did another water change with an increased salinity...about 40ppm...that brought the salinity up to 1.020....then today (Tuesday) i did another WC with the Salinity at about 40ppm's again.. that brought the salinity up to 1.024. BETTER... mostly everything looks good, my GSP and 2 of the rics look a little stressed.....the GSP which is MAINLY because it keeps falling off the side i put him on...but im sure the salinity didnt help or the high nitrates. and the 2 rics look slightly faded...? cause of salinity? the others look really good...just my pink one looks slightly faded and the orange one looks a lot faded...

i hope i didnt do this too quickly, i was hoping every other day would be ok... everything looks good i just did the third water change...so we will see in a couple hours how it all looks. but anyways, thats my little story, and i will now be doing a WC every 2 weeks..

ok, well im out!!! have a good day!

vdituri · 04-29-2008, 03:51 PM

Will you also be testing your salinity every 2 weeks?

On the calcium, there are lots or organisms that utilize calcium besides SPS.
LPS also use it as well as some corals we consider softies.
They have calcium sclerites sp? (kinda like needles) in their tissues.

althea2you · 04-29-2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by vdituri

Will you also be testing your salinity every 2 weeks?

lol.. i will be!

i test everything after my WC's... and quit eye ballin me!

ahh ok... well, hopefully doing the WC every 2 weeks now, will help with that....

djbacon · 04-29-2008, 04:25 PM

great tank ! - that most defiinitely looks like a green purple yuma - you say it was a whiteish hitchiker? That is fascinating. I bought a yuma that was deep purple/green, freshly harvested and it went very white quickly - I'm trying to save it still - amazed to know that it is deepening up and getting color back

althea2you · 04-29-2008, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by djbacon

great tank ! - that most defiinitely looks like a green purple yuma - you say it was a whiteish hitchiker? That is fascinating. I bought a yuma that was deep purple/green, freshly harvested and it went very white quickly - I'm trying to save it still - amazed to know that it is deepening up and getting color back

yeah its pretty cool! this thing had NO color.. absolutly NONE.. it was straight up white! really wierd! now its jjust getting bigger and more color than ever! pretty cool huuh! do you ever feed yours? like take a medicine dropper and feed it a little mysis after the lights go out?

04-10-2008, 12:38 PM	#151 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Althea's 28g Nano I can see! Fantastic aquascaping! The rock creating the cliff on the left, if that all one big rock? I love all the purple too. __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

04-22-2008, 11:40 PM	#153 (permalink)
althea2you Padawan Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,425 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Althea's 28g Nano ok, a couple pics i took...nothing new going on with the tank... just being!! although, my mystery shroom is really getting some cool color!! here is a super close pic of it.. just liked how this looked... and a close one of my GSP.. no biggie.. just pics i wanted to share! __________________ ~Sarah~ How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer 28g Nano The 90 Gallon

04-23-2008, 07:26 AM	#154 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Althea's 28g Nano Your mystery shroom looks very much like a Yuma Ricordia. Don't take my word for it though because I seriously suck when it comes to identifying things in a pic. Those are truly awesome pics though! The clarity is amazing! __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

04-23-2008, 07:57 AM	#155 (permalink)
CAVINCA Neon dottyback Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 683 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Althea's 28g Nano Well your skimmer should be broken in by now... hows it working? __________________ Chronicle Marina del Filon de los Carlos CARL

04-23-2008, 08:50 AM	#156 (permalink)
althea2you Padawan Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,425 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Althea's 28g Nano Carl: as good as i expected! LOL.. its fine.. it'll have to do.. you can only have so much on there in such a small space... but over all its fine! Terry: that may be!!! LOL.. its just so wierd how WHITE it was for almost a full year, but continued to live lol!!! now its color is deepening! very neat of a hitchiker! __________________ ~Sarah~ How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer 28g Nano The 90 Gallon

04-24-2008, 12:14 AM	#157 (permalink)
althea2you Padawan Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,425 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Althea's 28g Nano here is the frag of buttons i have... there are about 12 polyps on it now here is a close up of the buttons.. and this is the most recent pic i have of the parent colony.. bottom/middle right hand corner.. __________________ ~Sarah~ How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer 28g Nano The 90 Gallon

04-24-2008, 12:25 AM	#158 (permalink)
Frankie Angel Girl's Daddy Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The End Of The World Posts: 7,103 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Althea's 28g Nano Looks great! Nice work on the scaping Sarah. What a pretty tank. __________________ Bruce: Today's meeting is Step 5: Bring a fish friend. Everyone brought a fish friend? DIY=DO IT YOURSELF! If we ignore the environment maybe it will just go away....

04-24-2008, 12:37 AM	#159 (permalink)
KimPossible Golden Moray Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Gilbert, Arizona Posts: 2,549 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Althea's 28g Nano Great pics. Beautiful color. Healthy corals. Good job! __________________ Kim ~My environment is a product of myself~

04-24-2008, 12:41 AM	#160 (permalink)
althea2you Padawan Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,425 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Althea's 28g Nano thanks!!! its nice to hear appreciation on a tank from people who KNOW tanks... everyone that comes over is like..them" cool... is that real?" me .. "huh? yes its real!" ... them "what is that?"... then i have to go into explanations they dont understand! LOL.. o well i love it! __________________ ~Sarah~ How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer 28g Nano The 90 Gallon

04-29-2008, 03:45 PM	#161 (permalink)
althea2you Padawan Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,425 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Althea's 28g Nano ok, update... well i had some issues... not with livestock or anything... but im sure i would have if i hadnt acted... i have to admit i got a little slack on the WC's.. i usually do a 10% wc every three weeks... wich doesnt seem like a lot.. but it works for my tank... but i went a little over a month with no wc.. but topping off...i will now be doing a wc every two weeks... just because of my last little venture.. :P.. ok so.. i tested all my water... nitrates were high.. 20-25.. thats the highest they have ever been..nitrites 0 ammonia 0 phosphates .03 calcium low...but im hoping my new water change will change this..it was 350...i do not have any sps in my tank so i dont really know whats depleting it.. anyways... my MAgnesium is low..and this is with the Elos test kit..975... Elos says to multipy the number of drops by 75...my drop count was 13.. if it was multiply by 100 like it was before it would be 1300....better!!! does anyone know why they changed the number to multiply by? is this correct? also my Alkalinity was decent at an 8... but here is the SHOCKER i had.. my salinity was at 1.015 i realize this is from the lack of WC and the continual topping off with fresh water.... these test readings were AFTER i did the WC on Fri... ok.. soo! Sunday i did another water change with an increased salinity...about 40ppm...that brought the salinity up to 1.020....then today (Tuesday) i did another WC with the Salinity at about 40ppm's again.. that brought the salinity up to 1.024. BETTER... mostly everything looks good, my GSP and 2 of the rics look a little stressed.....the GSP which is MAINLY because it keeps falling off the side i put him on...but im sure the salinity didnt help or the high nitrates. and the 2 rics look slightly faded...? cause of salinity? the others look really good...just my pink one looks slightly faded and the orange one looks a lot faded... i hope i didnt do this too quickly, i was hoping every other day would be ok... everything looks good i just did the third water change...so we will see in a couple hours how it all looks. but anyways, thats my little story, and i will now be doing a WC every 2 weeks.. ok, well im out!!! have a good day! __________________ ~Sarah~ How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer 28g Nano The 90 Gallon

04-29-2008, 03:51 PM	#162 (permalink)
vdituri Excellent Guesser :D Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sacramento California Posts: 5,722 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Althea's 28g Nano Will you also be testing your salinity every 2 weeks? On the calcium, there are lots or organisms that utilize calcium besides SPS. LPS also use it as well as some corals we consider softies. They have calcium sclerites sp? (kinda like needles) in their tissues. __________________ Victor ----- People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

04-29-2008, 04:25 PM	#164 (permalink)
djbacon Torch coral Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Francisco Posts: 547 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Althea's 28g Nano great tank ! - that most defiinitely looks like a green purple yuma - you say it was a whiteish hitchiker? That is fascinating. I bought a yuma that was deep purple/green, freshly harvested and it went very white quickly - I'm trying to save it still - amazed to know that it is deepening up and getting color back __________________ Check out my awesome 14g nanoreef in progress - http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ater-tank.html The Nano Club - It's not the size of the reef. It's what's in it that counts

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