JKreef's 75 Gallon Project - Page 8

Gina · 07-07-2005, 07:39 AM

Good to hear! Can't wait to see your aquascaping job!

Woodstock · 07-07-2005, 08:07 AM

Sounds nice! I am going to aquascape islands next time also..... or atleast attempt to.

Newt · 07-07-2005, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Woodstock

Sounds nice! I am going to aquascape islands next time also..... or atleast attempt to.

That's kind of how I see my islands...attempts, lol. I worked the best with what I have, and I may eventually throw some more rock into the mix, but not for the time being, right now I would rather spend my money on stocking the tank.

I'll try to get some shots up later tonight if the camera is all charged up.

Newt · 07-11-2005, 07:44 PM

Just fiddlin' with the tank again today, and noticed that I have quite a few little feather dusters growing about on my rocks, in one spot there are four mini dusters that really seem to enjoy their placement in the tank, and have made a little colony.

I love watching each day for new things to emerge

Sump is still not up and running like planned, but hopefully soon, still need to buy and plumb the PVC also, so hopefully in the coming week.

I've been fighting a case of green algae that stays on the glass and a bit on the surface of the water, I know running my skimmer and sump would help, but I have no options for the time being. The new MH lighting has been making the green algae come back each day, and each day I have to manually skim the surface, and wipe down the glass.

Payday this week, so hopefully that means my school of 4 Lyretails for Friday since I'll actually have it off!

Camera is currently charging, I'll definitely have pics up on Friday however!

Woodstock · 07-11-2005, 08:05 PM

Cool! I can't wait to see the pics... get a second battery

Newt · 07-12-2005, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Woodstock

Cool! I can't wait to see the pics... get a second battery

Yeah I really should get a second battery...or better yet, a second (better) camera!

Newt · 07-14-2005, 03:23 AM

Did my weekly water change today, took out around 12 gallons, and then tested my levels an hour later just for curiousity-sake and they were the same as always:

salinity 1.025
temp 80-82
pH 8.2
Amm. 0
trites 0
trates 0
KH 120
Ca 450

Also found out tonight that Petco is good for something.... making free algae scrapers (Petco PALS card) lol, it works great for scraping green algae off the glass.

With my paycheck today I decided to splurge a little, I ordered some livestock from Marine Depot Live. Here's what's coming to me:

5x Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)If they look anything like the picture I'll be very impressed!
2x Sexy Shrimp
1x Pink/Red Ricordia Polyp
1x Short tentacle plate coral

I know I said earlier in the thread that I was only going with 3 or 4 anthias, but I've decided that I would get 5 and drop the decision to keep two tangs. Here's about what my fish stocking list will look like.

2x True Percula Clownfish
1x Rainfords Goby
5x Lyretail Anthias
1x Swallowtail Angelfish
1x Kole Tang

So now I can't wait until Friday so I can show you all pictures of what I've received! Plus now the tank is all sparkling clean from my water change.

Newt · 07-16-2005, 02:39 AM

Update for 7-16-05

Received my livestock order so I spent most of the morning yesterday acclimating. I was very pleased with my order from MDL and will probably place future orders through them. The only thing that did not make it was one of my sexy shrimp, it molted in my tank sometime today, and I caught it being preyed upon by a hermit crab, so that was quite unfortunate. But on the bright side, I fed the tank tonight and I saw all of the anthias munching on cyclopeeze.

So what is new today:
5 female lyretail anthias
1 sexy shrimp
1 purple rimmed plate coral
1 ricordia rock (2 shrooms)

Here's what you've all been waiting for, drumroll please...............

some actinic shots:

and some tank shots:

Woodstock · 07-16-2005, 02:51 AM

Beatiful anthias and corals!!!

cheeks69 · 07-16-2005, 10:05 AM

Congrats the fish and corals look great ! Have you fed the Anthias Yet ? How are they getting along ? It appears you bought all females...

KimPossible · 07-16-2005, 11:02 PM

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Montipora (cabbage coral, lettuce coral, finger coral, digitata, velvet finger coral, velvet rock). Red Sea and Indo-pacific lagoons, reef flats and protected upper reef slopes. usually in very shallow water with strong illunimation.

ahhhh...so thats my problem...soon to be corrected.
Beautiful Anthias! They are fast!.... you gotta use the action setting on your camera, I know!
What size grain sand do you have?

Newt · 07-17-2005, 01:40 AM

Thanks Woody!

Quote:

Originally Posted by KimPossible

ahhhh...so thats my problem...soon to be corrected.
Beautiful Anthias! They are fast!.... you gotta use the action setting on your camera, I know!
What size grain sand do you have?

Thanks Kim! Yeah those shots that I posted were on action, but they were still too fast for my camera, I guess I have to play around with the manual settings a little more. My sand is "Fiji Pink" at 0.5-1mm if I remember correctly.

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Originally Posted by cheeks69

Congrats the fish and corals look great ! Have you fed the Anthias Yet ? How are they getting along ? It appears you bought all females...

Thanks cheeks, and you are correct,all females. I read one of the links that someone left or that I dug up somewhere that there isn't any real advantage to keeping one male to a harem, because with all females eventually the dominant female will become male. Also I heard there are less aggression problems with the females. I fed my tank cyclopeeze yesterday and mysis today, as soon as the cyclopeeze hit the water they were eagerly eating it up, which I thought was odd for newly acclimated fish. I noticed yesterday that there were two of the females in particular displaying shaking motions towards each other, so they must be the top females in their new heirarchy. But today everything has cooled down and they all swim about together again.

Craig Manoukian · 07-18-2005, 12:24 AM

Very nice indeed, congrats!

Jiddy · 07-18-2005, 04:49 AM

My old buddy JK! Hey you've come along ways and it is really showin nicely bro! Im very impressed. Some day ill get my tank up and ill make you give me some frags when i come home to visit! Keep up the good work you are doin a great job!

-Jid

Did you get your ASM skimmer?

Woodstock · 07-18-2005, 08:36 AM

I would like to try anthias one day.. they are soooo pretty!

07-07-2005, 07:39 AM	#106 (permalink)
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07-07-2005, 08:07 AM	#107 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 23,007 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Sounds nice! I am going to aquascape islands next time also..... or atleast attempt to. __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My QT/Hospital Tank* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MHs, dual Geiseman Actinic T5s,Neptune AC III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

07-11-2005, 07:44 PM	#109 (permalink)
Newt Torch coral Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 595 View Gallery Karma Komment	Update Again Just fiddlin' with the tank again today, and noticed that I have quite a few little feather dusters growing about on my rocks, in one spot there are four mini dusters that really seem to enjoy their placement in the tank, and have made a little colony. I love watching each day for new things to emerge Sump is still not up and running like planned, but hopefully soon, still need to buy and plumb the PVC also, so hopefully in the coming week. I've been fighting a case of green algae that stays on the glass and a bit on the surface of the water, I know running my skimmer and sump would help, but I have no options for the time being. The new MH lighting has been making the green algae come back each day, and each day I have to manually skim the surface, and wipe down the glass. Payday this week, so hopefully that means my school of 4 Lyretails for Friday since I'll actually have it off! Camera is currently charging, I'll definitely have pics up on Friday however! __________________ -Jason- Formerly "JKreef"

07-11-2005, 08:05 PM	#110 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 23,007 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Cool! I can't wait to see the pics... get a second battery __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My QT/Hospital Tank* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MHs, dual Geiseman Actinic T5s,Neptune AC III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

07-14-2005, 03:23 AM	#112 (permalink)
Newt Torch coral Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 595 View Gallery Karma Komment	Did my weekly water change today, took out around 12 gallons, and then tested my levels an hour later just for curiousity-sake and they were the same as always: salinity 1.025 temp 80-82 pH 8.2 Amm. 0 trites 0 trates 0 KH 120 Ca 450 Also found out tonight that Petco is good for something.... making free algae scrapers (Petco PALS card) lol, it works great for scraping green algae off the glass. With my paycheck today I decided to splurge a little, I ordered some livestock from Marine Depot Live. Here's what's coming to me: 5x Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis)If they look anything like the picture I'll be very impressed! 2x Sexy Shrimp 1x Pink/Red Ricordia Polyp 1x Short tentacle plate coral I know I said earlier in the thread that I was only going with 3 or 4 anthias, but I've decided that I would get 5 and drop the decision to keep two tangs. Here's about what my fish stocking list will look like. 2x True Percula Clownfish 1x Rainfords Goby 5x Lyretail Anthias 1x Swallowtail Angelfish 1x Kole Tang So now I can't wait until Friday so I can show you all pictures of what I've received! Plus now the tank is all sparkling clean from my water change. __________________ -Jason- Formerly "JKreef"

07-16-2005, 02:39 AM	#113 (permalink)
Newt Torch coral Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 595 View Gallery Karma Komment	Update for 7-16-05 Received my livestock order so I spent most of the morning yesterday acclimating. I was very pleased with my order from MDL and will probably place future orders through them. The only thing that did not make it was one of my sexy shrimp, it molted in my tank sometime today, and I caught it being preyed upon by a hermit crab, so that was quite unfortunate. But on the bright side, I fed the tank tonight and I saw all of the anthias munching on cyclopeeze. So what is new today: 5 female lyretail anthias 1 sexy shrimp 1 purple rimmed plate coral 1 ricordia rock (2 shrooms) Here's what you've all been waiting for, drumroll please............... some actinic shots: and some tank shots: __________________ -Jason- Formerly "JKreef"

07-16-2005, 02:51 AM	#114 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 23,007 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Beatiful anthias and corals!!! __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My QT/Hospital Tank* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MHs, dual Geiseman Actinic T5s,Neptune AC III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

07-16-2005, 10:05 AM	#115 (permalink)
cheeks69 Wannabe Guru Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Northeast Posts: 6,650 View Gallery Karma Komment	Congrats the fish and corals look great ! Have you fed the Anthias Yet ? How are they getting along ? It appears you bought all females... __________________ 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

07-18-2005, 12:24 AM	#118 (permalink)
Craig Manoukian Regular Guy Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Marina Del Ray, CA Posts: 18,036 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Very nice indeed, congrats! __________________ Currently tankless. 20 Gallon mini reef with mated pair of Maroon Clowns given to Rougiem! 80 gallon reef given to Rougiem/Wooster HS.

07-18-2005, 04:49 AM	#119 (permalink)
Jiddy Scopas Tang Join Date: May 2005 Location: S.Dakota (1 LFS) Posts: 431 View Gallery Karma Komment	My old buddy JK! Hey you've come along ways and it is really showin nicely bro! Im very impressed. Some day ill get my tank up and ill make you give me some frags when i come home to visit! Keep up the good work you are doin a great job! -Jid Did you get your ASM skimmer?

07-18-2005, 08:36 AM	#120 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 23,007 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	I would like to try anthias one day.. they are soooo pretty! __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My QT/Hospital Tank* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MHs, dual Geiseman Actinic T5s,Neptune AC III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

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