My new Cube !!! - Page 15

cheeks69 · 06-26-2007, 04:09 PM

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how lond did it take that sps to go from brown to green?

That Acro actually bleached and I thought it was a goner but left it in the tank anyway. After a about a month I began to see a couple of polyps and now this is what it looks like. I liked the old color better but I'm happy it survived.

melnguy · 06-26-2007, 04:17 PM

Wow, your tank is an inspiration! Beautiful colors everywhere.

kyle1284 · 06-26-2007, 04:37 PM

im sorry im askin so many questions but this is the first time viewing your tank and i like it alot... what happened to your blue throat trigger?

kyle1284 · 06-26-2007, 04:42 PM

ok i read and found out what happened.. sorry for that loss...

cheeks69 · 06-26-2007, 06:46 PM

Thank you melnguy

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Originally Posted by kyle1284

im sorry im askin so many questions but this is the first time viewing your tank and i like it alot... what happened to your blue throat trigger?

Kyle I had two of them. The first one was swallowed whole by my Haddoni carpet Anemone and the second one I decided to remove from the tank and return it to the LFS. These fish have an enormous apetite and he eventually would become too big for my tank. I also wanted to keep Gobies in my tank and it was impossible to keep them without my Trigger shredding them apart. They are a beautiful fish with a very unusal swimming pattern but really belong in longer tanks.

kathywithbirds · 06-26-2007, 08:53 PM

oooo oooo (hand raised, waving) I have questions too!!

Are those THREE clams? So cool...

Do you have problems with the rock/coral against the sides of the glass like that? I'm following the "beginner" suggestions about leaving room to vacuum.

And what do you have as a cleaner crew?

cioutlaw · 06-26-2007, 09:08 PM

I somehow have missed this thread till now. VERY nice cube Cheeks, corals are looking great!

cheeks69 · 06-27-2007, 10:51 AM

Thanx Cioutlaw.

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Originally Posted by kathywithbirds

oooo oooo (hand raised, waving) I have questions too!!

Are those THREE clams? So cool...

Do you have problems with the rock/coral against the sides of the glass like that? I'm following the "beginner" suggestions about leaving room to vacuum.

And what do you have as a cleaner crew?

Yes they're Tridacnad Clams, 2 Croceas and 1 Maxima.

The tank is made out of 1/2 acrylic so I don't have any concerns about the rock touching the sides or the back.

I have a small cleanup crew which consists of about a dozen Nassarius snails, dozen Tronchus snails, one Mexican Turbo snail, two Fighting Conchs and about six Hermit crabs and a Serpent Starfish. I don't vaccum or touch the sandbed as the Conchs, Nassarius, Bristle Worms, Asterina Starfish and a bunch of other infauna that came with the LR and LS I added take care of any uneaten food/detritus.

lcstorc · 06-30-2007, 09:14 AM

I love the colors. Good thing you are a mod and can't enter the contest.
Awesome tank.

Craig Manoukian · 06-30-2007, 11:36 PM

Nice full tank shot Robert. Everything looks swimmingly well!

kathywithbirds · 07-04-2007, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by cheeks69

The tank is made out of 1/2 acrylic so I don't have any concerns about the rock touching the sides or the back.

duh... umm, why isn't that a problem with acrylic?

cheeks69 · 07-04-2007, 08:05 PM

Well acrylic is much stronger than glass so if there's a rock slide or rock against the back or sides I'm not really concerned about a catastrophic event. I know you were talking about room to vaccum but I've never vaccumed my substrate and it's been 3 years in this tank and some of it came from a previous setup and to date I've had no problems with detritus accumulating.

kathywithbirds · 07-04-2007, 08:18 PM

ah, gotcha. I was wondering about scratching and vacuuming. I like fiddling with the tank but if I could get enough cleaners to forego vacuuming I might not have a problem with that. I don't have a very deep sand bed though, only about an inch so I'm reluctant to get a lot of critters that eat from the bed.

GeeWizzItsMe · 10-15-2007, 08:41 PM

any updates or new pics?

cheeks69 · 10-15-2007, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by GeeWizzItsMe

any updates or new pics?

No changes really except I lost one of my Tridacna croceas. It started to show some pinched mantle and I gave it a FW bath which was a big mistake, it died a few days later unfortunately. When I clean the front pane I'll post some photos.

06-26-2007, 04:17 PM	#212 (permalink)
melnguy Tunicate Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Laplace, LA Posts: 14 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My new Cube !!! Wow, your tank is an inspiration! Beautiful colors everywhere.

06-26-2007, 04:37 PM	#213 (permalink)
kyle1284 Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 919 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My new Cube !!! im sorry im askin so many questions but this is the first time viewing your tank and i like it alot... what happened to your blue throat trigger? __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

06-26-2007, 04:42 PM	#214 (permalink)
kyle1284 Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 919 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My new Cube !!! ok i read and found out what happened.. sorry for that loss... __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

06-26-2007, 08:53 PM	#216 (permalink)
kathywithbirds Social Darwinism victim Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Hood, NJ Posts: 5,749 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My new Cube !!! oooo oooo (hand raised, waving) I have questions too!! Are those THREE clams? So cool... Do you have problems with the rock/coral against the sides of the glass like that? I'm following the "beginner" suggestions about leaving room to vacuum. And what do you have as a cleaner crew? __________________ (\_/) (\__/) ( . .) (^.^) (")(") (> <) Bunny and Bunnina have worked things out. Bunny was mistaken after all, Bunnina was not 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

06-26-2007, 09:08 PM	#217 (permalink)
cioutlaw Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Champaign Illinois Posts: 958 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My new Cube !!! I somehow have missed this thread till now. VERY nice cube Cheeks, corals are looking great! __________________ My 120gallon chronical My 225 gallon chronical My website

06-30-2007, 09:14 AM	#219 (permalink)
lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 20,008 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My new Cube !!! I love the colors. Good thing you are a mod and can't enter the contest. Awesome tank. __________________ Peace LYNN You can't change the past but you can change how you view it. A reef tank is like a racecar. The faster you go the harder you crash. Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Every 60 seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. In Loving Memory Of Z 01/22/07 - 08/19/08

06-30-2007, 11:36 PM	#220 (permalink)
Craig Manoukian Regular Guy Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Marina Del Ray, CA Posts: 18,261 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My new Cube !!! Nice full tank shot Robert. Everything looks swimmingly well! __________________ Currently tankless. 20 Gallon mini reef with mated pair of Maroon Clowns given to Rougiem! 80 gallon reef given to Rougiem/Wooster HS.

07-04-2007, 08:05 PM	#222 (permalink)
cheeks69 Wannabe Guru Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Northeast Posts: 6,716 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My new Cube !!! Well acrylic is much stronger than glass so if there's a rock slide or rock against the back or sides I'm not really concerned about a catastrophic event. I know you were talking about room to vaccum but I've never vaccumed my substrate and it's been 3 years in this tank and some of it came from a previous setup and to date I've had no problems with detritus accumulating. __________________ Robert My Cube “A spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” Albert Einstein

07-04-2007, 08:18 PM	#223 (permalink)
kathywithbirds Social Darwinism victim Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Hood, NJ Posts: 5,749 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My new Cube !!! ah, gotcha. I was wondering about scratching and vacuuming. I like fiddling with the tank but if I could get enough cleaners to forego vacuuming I might not have a problem with that. I don't have a very deep sand bed though, only about an inch so I'm reluctant to get a lot of critters that eat from the bed. __________________ (\_/) (\__/) ( . .) (^.^) (")(") (> <) Bunny and Bunnina have worked things out. Bunny was mistaken after all, Bunnina was not 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

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