Deep Blue 30g rimless aka mistress - Page 2

Lilmatty5dimes · 07/29/2016, 05:33 PM

Video of the clowns.
http://s1122.photobucket.com/user/li...6cvpd.mp4.html

knukles55 · 07/30/2016, 08:24 AM

Is that system in your house? That looks nice

Lilmatty5dimes · 07/30/2016, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knukles55

Is that system in your house? That looks nice

No I wish. Lol wife probably wouldn't go for that tho. That's at the LFS. He sent me a video after he told me about a sweet pair he just got in.

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/01/2016, 11:00 AM

Well, tank is in cycle mode for the time being. Checked the ammonia level on Friday and it was about 0.50 checked it today and it's looking like 0 the nitrites and nitrates are showing a lil darker color than the 0 so I'm wondering if it's about there.

The refugium area is looking pretty dirty right now. Looks like the diatoms bloom is happening down there right now.

Skimmer after 24 hours. Wanted to make sure the cup didn't overfill like last week and make a lil mess for me to clean up.

Enjoying a good ol' stogie.

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/02/2016, 10:35 PM

Well, tested the tank again today and ammonia was 0 nitrites 0 and nitrates 5ish. I'm starting to get a diatom bloom on the sand bed. The refugium rocks already have it down there. I went ahead and ordered a 26x26 piece of mesh screen for a top cause I plan on having a few jumpers I think. Plus it was only $7 shipped. Should be getting my lil Facebook auction pack here on Friday the zoa frag in the refugium is looking good. I also bought a thermometer at petco put it in the tank and the tank when the light as been on for 2 hours (1:15) was 78.3. Now with the light has been off since about 4 it's (7:30) 77. Now at midnight it's 76.3. Looks like I'm going to be setting up the heater tomorrow. And I'm going to try and keep an eye out for temp a lil better and have the Mrs text me temp tomorrow. The house is always set at 77.

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/05/2016, 12:06 AM

Well, ordered my clean up crew from John at reef cleaner. Got 18 dwarf, 7 nassarius, 10 fl cerith, and 11 nerite. Plus went ahead and added the penny macro and an salifert KH/alk test to get $5 off the order. Should be here Wednesday. I think it's safe to say that the tank is done with cycling. I've got a nice diatom bloom going right now.

Here's what I dosed for the AF bio s. Seem to work pretty quickly.
Established:
2 drops of aquaforest bio s
7-25-2016
7-26-2016 along with few drops of ammonia
7-27-2016
7-28-2016
1 drop of aquaforest bio s
7-29-2016
7-30-2016
8-01-2016
8-02-2016
8-03-2016
8-04-2016
Also just tested my brute can and had it come out at 0.05ppm. I'm thinking this could be a problem later on correct.

Devaji108 · 08/06/2016, 11:31 AM

love the aquascape man! tank is coming alone so nice!

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/06/2016, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Devaji108

love the aquascape man! tank is coming alone so nice!

Thanks. It's been a smooth sail so far. Knock on wood. Going to get the clowns tomorrow.

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/08/2016, 02:20 PM

Well, got my screen in from aquarium overload went to lowes and grabbed 2 white frame pieces and started making the cover. I think it came out really good and think the white looks better than the brown.

Went down to the The Madreefer yesterday to picked up my pair of clowns and got some cheato & nice chalice as well. And they also had a Lubbock wrasse so I grabbed that since I had the top.
Lubbock wrasse

Chalice

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/08/2016, 02:22 PM

Snowflakes

knukles55 · 08/12/2016, 09:33 AM

Tank looks good

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/16/2016, 11:27 AM

Well, should be getting my pieces in from Glenn on Friday. It's the blue tenuis, yellow tenuis, Aussie chalice, UWW rainbow sunburst, Jedi mind trick, pink/yellow paly, superman monti, pastel rainbow Latistella, and trachy.

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/19/2016, 07:51 PM

Well, got my first order in today. Glenn did an outstanding job on packaging everything and made it a great experience. Sorry for the crappy iPhone pic but here's a few.

I can't wait for the Jedi and sunburst to grow out.

Lilmatty5dimes · 08/23/2016, 03:38 PM

Well, sitting in front of the tank before work and took a few pics. Finally did my first water test. Don't think it came out to badly. po4 is high but everything else looks good. I'll be buying a CA kit tomorrow the cheato I got has easily doubled in size. I usually feed a mysis cube every other day and some life 1/2mm pellets on the other days. Going to buy some coral food tomorrow along with the CA kit.

Here's one from last night and how the skimmer is working. I would say pretty good.

$40 trachy

Monti collection

Lonely zoa. Lol

Chalice is getting some good color in.

This one is getting some extra colors as well.

Few sps pieces.

Lilmatty5dimes · 09/03/2016, 09:17 AM

Well, haven't had much time with the tank this week. Works been pretty busy with the Labor Day this weekend and the storm out there. But Last Saturday the neighbor and myself took a 20mile run offshore to go fishing before I had to be at work at 2. So, up at 5 to get ready and on the water by 6. The seas were 3-4ft with the occasional 5-6ft. Luckily there wasn't really any wind so that saved us a lot.

Trolling around 7mph for the fishy.

Racing it back in so I'm not late. Lol

How the day turned out.

Tested the water yesterday and here's what it looks like. I'm doing my first water change today (I've been slacking) of 10L. Everything looks good except the yellow tenuis. I think it was stung by another sps cause the bottom is a lil white and that's where the other one hit it at. The top still looks great. Since my hands will be in the tank today I'm going to try and mount the few sps on the rock work today.
Here my son helping me feed the fish. All he was asking me to do is pet them. Lol

knukles55 · 09/03/2016, 06:18 PM

Holy crap that's some dedication to get some trolling in before work. How long were you out there before heading back?

Lilmatty5dimes · 09/03/2016, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knukles55

Holy crap that's some dedication to get some trolling in before work. How long were you out there before heading back?

Lol. The plan was to stay inside the port/jetty area since the weather was so bad or forecast to be bad. We went out to see how the ocean was and kept on going. We were trolling for a good 2.5 hours maybe 3. Came back and played on the jetty for about an hour and headed home for the ramp about 12:30.

Lilmatty5dimes · 10/15/2016, 02:42 PM

Well, its been a crazy week and figure i need to post some updates on the tank. haven't really done anything with the tank besides hooking up my reactor due to a algae that started to cover all the rocks. figure from feeding a mysis cube every other day was probably way to much to i slowed that down and after about a month the algae is finally going away. i've added quite a bit of stuff in the last month or so my top pieces are bowsers, sunset monti, torch, and bubblegum digi. heres a few pics
FTS

algae problem

hammer

torch

bad pic of bubblegum(need to figure out where to mount this guy)

new cap tonga branch(colors under MH are completely different than radion led. guy i bought it from couldn't get the purple rim on the cap and after throwing it in the tank pop. lol)

Bowsers, fruit loop, la lakers, pink hippo, and no namers

purple rim cap

Lilmatty5dimes · 10/15/2016, 02:48 PM

welso

sunset monti

pink hippo

Duncan and seasoning greeting

Lilmatty5dimes · 10/15/2016, 02:52 PM

Livestock 10/15/2016
Ora premium snowflakes (extreme snowflakes
Lubbock wrasse

Z&P's:
Pink hippo/chucky bride
Electric Oompa Loompa(sold)
Fruit loop
La lakers
Bowsers

SPS:
Blue tenuis
Pastel rainbow Latistella
Red digi

Monti:
UWW rainbow sunburst
Jedi mind trick
Superman monti
Sunset monti
Idaho grape cap
Seasoning greeting
Red cap
Purple rim cap

LPS:
Trachy
Aussie chalice
Orange chalice(recessed)
Duncan
Hammer
Torch

Lilmatty5dimes · 10/28/2016, 10:18 AM

Here's are the newly added pieces. Tyree space monster, Rastas, sunny d, orange rainbow, darth maul, fruit loop, mandarin orange, wow, and setosa

Here's what that piece looked like before I broke it up.

Capt_Dan · 10/30/2016, 07:53 AM

That looks great!

knukles55 · 11/08/2016, 07:33 AM

Tanks looking good keep up the great work

Jah2707 · 11/15/2016, 11:06 PM

Looks good. What skimmer is that? Looks like a sca 301

MrDaniel · 11/21/2016, 02:19 PM

The tank is really coming along. I had similar algae issues when my skimmer was acting up. It wasn't skimming stably for almost a month and all of a sudden I had long wispy algae strands just like that covering my corals. One cube of Mysis every other day sounds like it is very light feeding to me. Have you checked to ensure your skimmer is doing its job and that your RODI water is still reading low PPM?

07/29/2016, 05:33 PM	#26
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Video of the clowns. http://s1122.photobucket.com/user/li...6cvpd.mp4.html

07/30/2016, 08:24 AM	#27
knukles55 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Pembroke Pines Posts: 1,739	Is that system in your house? That looks nice

08/01/2016, 11:00 AM	#29
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, tank is in cycle mode for the time being. Checked the ammonia level on Friday and it was about 0.50 checked it today and it's looking like 0 the nitrites and nitrates are showing a lil darker color than the 0 so I'm wondering if it's about there. The refugium area is looking pretty dirty right now. Looks like the diatoms bloom is happening down there right now. Skimmer after 24 hours. Wanted to make sure the cup didn't overfill like last week and make a lil mess for me to clean up. Enjoying a good ol' stogie.

08/02/2016, 10:35 PM	#30
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, tested the tank again today and ammonia was 0 nitrites 0 and nitrates 5ish. I'm starting to get a diatom bloom on the sand bed. The refugium rocks already have it down there. I went ahead and ordered a 26x26 piece of mesh screen for a top cause I plan on having a few jumpers I think. Plus it was only $7 shipped. Should be getting my lil Facebook auction pack here on Friday the zoa frag in the refugium is looking good. I also bought a thermometer at petco put it in the tank and the tank when the light as been on for 2 hours (1:15) was 78.3. Now with the light has been off since about 4 it's (7:30) 77. Now at midnight it's 76.3. Looks like I'm going to be setting up the heater tomorrow. And I'm going to try and keep an eye out for temp a lil better and have the Mrs text me temp tomorrow. The house is always set at 77.

08/05/2016, 12:06 AM	#31
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, ordered my clean up crew from John at reef cleaner. Got 18 dwarf, 7 nassarius, 10 fl cerith, and 11 nerite. Plus went ahead and added the penny macro and an salifert KH/alk test to get $5 off the order. Should be here Wednesday. I think it's safe to say that the tank is done with cycling. I've got a nice diatom bloom going right now. Here's what I dosed for the AF bio s. Seem to work pretty quickly. Established: 2 drops of aquaforest bio s 7-25-2016 7-26-2016 along with few drops of ammonia 7-27-2016 7-28-2016 1 drop of aquaforest bio s 7-29-2016 7-30-2016 8-01-2016 8-02-2016 8-03-2016 8-04-2016 Also just tested my brute can and had it come out at 0.05ppm. I'm thinking this could be a problem later on correct.

08/06/2016, 11:31 AM	#32
Devaji108 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Jackson Hole Wy Posts: 3,430	love the aquascape man! tank is coming alone so nice!

08/08/2016, 02:20 PM	#34
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, got my screen in from aquarium overload went to lowes and grabbed 2 white frame pieces and started making the cover. I think it came out really good and think the white looks better than the brown. Went down to the The Madreefer yesterday to picked up my pair of clowns and got some cheato & nice chalice as well. And they also had a Lubbock wrasse so I grabbed that since I had the top. Lubbock wrasse Chalice

08/08/2016, 02:22 PM	#35
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Snowflakes

08/12/2016, 09:33 AM	#36
knukles55 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Pembroke Pines Posts: 1,739	Tank looks good

08/16/2016, 11:27 AM	#37
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, should be getting my pieces in from Glenn on Friday. It's the blue tenuis, yellow tenuis, Aussie chalice, UWW rainbow sunburst, Jedi mind trick, pink/yellow paly, superman monti, pastel rainbow Latistella, and trachy.

08/19/2016, 07:51 PM	#38
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, got my first order in today. Glenn did an outstanding job on packaging everything and made it a great experience. Sorry for the crappy iPhone pic but here's a few. I can't wait for the Jedi and sunburst to grow out.

08/23/2016, 03:38 PM	#39
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, sitting in front of the tank before work and took a few pics. Finally did my first water test. Don't think it came out to badly. po4 is high but everything else looks good. I'll be buying a CA kit tomorrow the cheato I got has easily doubled in size. I usually feed a mysis cube every other day and some life 1/2mm pellets on the other days. Going to buy some coral food tomorrow along with the CA kit. Here's one from last night and how the skimmer is working. I would say pretty good. $40 trachy Monti collection Lonely zoa. Lol Chalice is getting some good color in. This one is getting some extra colors as well. Few sps pieces.

09/03/2016, 09:17 AM	#40
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, haven't had much time with the tank this week. Works been pretty busy with the Labor Day this weekend and the storm out there. But Last Saturday the neighbor and myself took a 20mile run offshore to go fishing before I had to be at work at 2. So, up at 5 to get ready and on the water by 6. The seas were 3-4ft with the occasional 5-6ft. Luckily there wasn't really any wind so that saved us a lot. Trolling around 7mph for the fishy. Racing it back in so I'm not late. Lol How the day turned out. Tested the water yesterday and here's what it looks like. I'm doing my first water change today (I've been slacking) of 10L. Everything looks good except the yellow tenuis. I think it was stung by another sps cause the bottom is a lil white and that's where the other one hit it at. The top still looks great. Since my hands will be in the tank today I'm going to try and mount the few sps on the rock work today. Here my son helping me feed the fish. All he was asking me to do is pet them. Lol

09/03/2016, 06:18 PM	#41
knukles55 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Pembroke Pines Posts: 1,739	Holy crap that's some dedication to get some trolling in before work. How long were you out there before heading back?

10/15/2016, 02:42 PM	#43
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Well, its been a crazy week and figure i need to post some updates on the tank. haven't really done anything with the tank besides hooking up my reactor due to a algae that started to cover all the rocks. figure from feeding a mysis cube every other day was probably way to much to i slowed that down and after about a month the algae is finally going away. i've added quite a bit of stuff in the last month or so my top pieces are bowsers, sunset monti, torch, and bubblegum digi. heres a few pics FTS algae problem hammer torch bad pic of bubblegum(need to figure out where to mount this guy) new cap tonga branch(colors under MH are completely different than radion led. guy i bought it from couldn't get the purple rim on the cap and after throwing it in the tank pop. lol) Bowsers, fruit loop, la lakers, pink hippo, and no namers purple rim cap

10/15/2016, 02:48 PM	#44
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	welso sunset monti pink hippo Duncan and seasoning greeting

10/15/2016, 02:52 PM	#45
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Livestock 10/15/2016 Ora premium snowflakes (extreme snowflakes Lubbock wrasse Z&P's: Pink hippo/chucky bride Electric Oompa Loompa(sold) Fruit loop La lakers Bowsers SPS: Blue tenuis Pastel rainbow Latistella Red digi Monti: UWW rainbow sunburst Jedi mind trick Superman monti Sunset monti Idaho grape cap Seasoning greeting Red cap Purple rim cap LPS: Trachy Aussie chalice Orange chalice(recessed) Duncan Hammer Torch

10/28/2016, 10:18 AM	#46
Lilmatty5dimes Moved On Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: PSJ, FL Posts: 2,235	Here's are the newly added pieces. Tyree space monster, Rastas, sunny d, orange rainbow, darth maul, fruit loop, mandarin orange, wow, and setosa Here's what that piece looked like before I broke it up.

10/30/2016, 07:53 AM	#47
Capt_Dan Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 63	That looks great!

11/08/2016, 07:33 AM	#48
knukles55 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Pembroke Pines Posts: 1,739	Tanks looking good keep up the great work

11/15/2016, 11:06 PM	#49
Jah2707 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: springfield Posts: 889	Looks good. What skimmer is that? Looks like a sca 301

11/21/2016, 02:19 PM	#50
MrDaniel Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 51	The tank is really coming along. I had similar algae issues when my skimmer was acting up. It wasn't skimming stably for almost a month and all of a sudden I had long wispy algae strands just like that covering my corals. One cube of Mysis every other day sounds like it is very light feeding to me. Have you checked to ensure your skimmer is doing its job and that your RODI water is still reading low PPM?