2(+) Year Retrospective of a 12g Nano - Page 4

Royalscott · 02-07-2008, 08:45 PM

Very Cool!!!

goldenmean · 02-07-2008, 08:50 PM

Thanks Janetta!

Here are a few more pics from last fall.

The frag corner is becoming a ricordia corner.
The blue spot and blue stripe Mushrooms - seem to be losing their color intensity. My surviving zoanthids are doing okay. They are not really growing although the red ones in the pics in the post above are starting to do well.
The toadstool leather is slowly fraggin itself

Dentoid · 02-07-2008, 09:37 PM

That is one sweet, little nano my friend!

goldenmean · 02-08-2008, 09:16 AM

Awwww Schucks Dr. Scott. Thanks.
These pics are from December. I am almost caught up with this retro look back.

tippMANn98 · 02-08-2008, 09:22 AM

Looks nice, that orange yuma is just REDICULOUS!!! I have a green FL ric that i got when I first started my 29 last year that is getting CLOSE to that size at least 3-4" across VERY VERY NICE Jeff!!!

goldenmean · 02-08-2008, 09:26 AM

The Ric corner is doing well.
The orange yuma has dropped a baby and the green ric has split.
I noticed last week that there is another baby under the Yuma but it is well protected by Mama. I caught a glimps of it but couldn't get a pic.
The FTS is at 23 months.

goldenmean · 02-08-2008, 09:27 AM

Daniel Some days when I get home from work I cannot believe how large that Yuma is. She is huge!

AQTCJAK · 02-08-2008, 11:34 AM

Very nice Jeff

michael_cb_125 · 02-08-2008, 11:59 AM

Definately one of my favorite nanos....SWEET

hma · 02-09-2008, 03:24 AM

goldenmean · 02-09-2008, 12:50 PM

Thats everyone. My nano appreciates the loce!

I early December I decided to move the blue spot and striped shrooms to the 55g as I was not happy with how their colors were fading. The shrooms are much happier now under the MH. They are opening big and brightening up.
I had also bought some Green Star Polyps for the 55 and a couple of pieces broke off the colony so I decided to put them in the nano.

During this time the nano also started to get a small batch of green hair algae. It was always just a small patch, front and center of the tank by the Trachy. Using the hands of god (chop sticks) i would remove it and do a WC but a week later it would be back. This went on for several weeks - always just a small patch in the same general area. It was not spreading.
Then I noticed the GSP were not opening up and the fungia was pale, thin, and her mouth was gaping open all the time. That concerned me enough to test. Ammonia and NitrItes were 0 but NitrAtes were at 30. Yikes!
I am sure it is my overfeeding my seafood slurry.
I do a couple of big (30%) WC on each of the next couple of days followed by daily 10% WC for the rest of the week. I cut back on feeding.
A week later the GSP started to come back out and the fungia was looking plump and getting some color back. TrAtes are back to below 5.

I got the Water quality issue corrected just in time for the Nano's 2 year birthday. This led me to starting this retro look back. 80+ pics later we are caught up. I also realized that i felt my tank look its best at the 1 year mark before the Zoanthid wasting episode. Today the nano needs some TLC - a little punch - to light a spark under it.

I decided to do some major reworking of the rock. I emptied about 3g of water into a bucket with a power head and removed all the rock and corals except for the rics, fungia, and the two biggest pieces of rock. The fish, shrimp, and the rest of the CUC also stayed. I then rebuilt my lil reef.
Here is a FTS of the new reef along with the part that I am happiest with. The home of the Baracle Blenny is now front and center in the tank. Bibo was amazing during the move. He stayed in his home the whole time and I even removed his rock from the water for about 30 seconds. I kept watching for him to jump out of his hole.
Play Wheres Bimbo with the 2nd pic.

This post has greatly exceeded my word/pic ratio rule.

goldenmean · 02-09-2008, 12:52 PM

There he is.

By the cleaner shrimps whisker. I mounted that mushroom room there by Bimbo's front door.

goldenmean · 02-09-2008, 03:20 PM

After the new aquascaping I also added the first new zoanthids since The Wasting - 1 year ago. I have finally started to see growth from the surviving zoas. I did a fresh water dip of the colony but I did not QT them.

Enom was trying to be a bit of a camera hog

kathywithbirds · 02-09-2008, 04:07 PM

wait, wait... I just got this... Enom is an anagram of Nemo, right?

Ok so I'm not that quick on the uptake.

goldenmean · 02-09-2008, 04:26 PM

Thats it Kathy!!
The female is Enom. The male is Omen

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kathywithbirds Social Darwinism victim Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Hood, NJ Posts: 5,714 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: 2(+) Year Retrospective of a 12g Nano wait, wait... I just got this... Enom is an anagram of Nemo, right? Ok so I'm not that quick on the uptake. __________________ (\ /) This is Bunny crying. ( ; ; ) He thinks Brainy and Bunnina . ' ' ...are having an affair. "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." ~Lin Yutang Start: 163.5 Current: I'm not looking at the scale, I'm not looking at the scale, I'm not looking at the scale...

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goldenmean Beautiful Katamari Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago Posts: 4,087 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: 2(+) Year Retrospective of a 12g Nano Thats it Kathy!! The female is Enom. The male is Omen __________________ A 55g link in the GoldenChain My Second Quarantine Tank 2 (+) Year Retrospective of a 12g Nano Jeff What You Think Upon Grows... Have a Smooth Day!

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