The Reef Central Corner Club Thread - Page 20

gawf4fun · 01/22/2009, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by phish guy
just curious, whats everybodys favorite fish in their tanks?

That's such an unfair questions to ask, how can anybody say which is their favorite? It's like asking who is your favorite child...
Still, after much consideration and thought, here are my top three:
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If anybody asks which my favorite 10 fish are, I could answer more fully!

btb72 · 01/22/2009, 05:40 PM

whats your 10 favorite? All of them?

Hookup · 01/22/2009, 05:47 PM

btb72! That's awesome!... Frigg'n awesome...

Which reminds me I have to go feed the little sps eating bastard I put into the fuge...

I do have photos of some of the Australian SPS I was able to pickup. They are 1/2 colonies not frags... so i'm kinda jazzed... well I was.. now they are scattered and I cry.

Tomorrow (night) my LFS is getting in 250 clams from Nam... Going to show up either when they get back to town (around 3am) or first thing Sat to see if I cannot cherry pick a good one. Looking for color morphs an ideas.. I want to know what I want before I just go and pick the first thing... and LTA might happen also... ugly, but i want it to sit the heck down and not crawl on the rocks... then the clowns should host...

I'll see if I can take some photos of what 250 clams looks like. I think he is keeping all of them before shipping some of them out to other stores... could make for some impressive photos.... anyone in CANADA can be shipped one if interested... but I think i'm the only canuck on this thread... eh?

I will post some atom-bomb photos... maybe after the kids to to bed.

Hookup · 01/22/2009, 05:59 PM

Ok, so let's start with the "GOOD"... Nothing color enhanced, just pointed the camera, shot and converted to jpg. 20k halide and actincs on...

and now the BOMB...

I was so ****ed it took me till the next day before I even cleaned the glass... and you have to know me.. i clean the glass daily, inside and out... On the plus-side I found my orange-bam-bam ZOA frag that had blown away... it's a small plus, but I now have about 8 heads on a frag-rock.

kelso1980 · 01/22/2009, 08:53 PM

ooooooooohhhhh! it looks like your tank is crying! I want to give it a hug. but the earlier pictures sure are a site! that's exactly why we have this addiction...er...hobby?

gawf4fun · 01/22/2009, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by btb72
whats your 10 favorite? All of them?

Exactly btb, exactly. Hookup, those are some wicked nice point and shoot photos. Good looking stuff!!

Michael · 01/23/2009, 01:02 AM

top quality photos guys, and shame about the bomb, as mentioned it makes you want to hug it, very sad, still looks good though,it wont take long to recover

Pulp Fishin · 01/23/2009, 07:36 AM

Mine are my 2 harlequin shrimp!

Michael · 01/23/2009, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pulp Fishin
Mine are my 2 harlequin shrimp!

stunning photo,really beautiful

Michael · 01/23/2009, 09:30 AM

well whilst we are showing photos my blue shrooms are a favorite, they have relocated since ive altered the flow for my sun coral but i still love the look of them

phish guy · 01/23/2009, 09:34 AM

i love the harlequin shrimp. iv always wanted to set up a nano for a pair of them.

joeychitwood · 01/23/2009, 10:18 AM

Some recent photos of my 54 corner. The corals and clams are growing like crazy. The SPS frags were 1/2 inch tall when I bought them, but they have no color at all.

A full tank photo:

The tank and stand:

The tank in the dining room:

phish guy · 01/23/2009, 10:21 AM

nice, great clams. love the cinnamon clown, i got a pair of them myself.

Michael · 01/23/2009, 10:25 AM

welcome to the corner forum joey, a beautiful tank you have as well, half the lounge will be on this thread soon

your tank is very very nice, i always ask new posters here to show a pic of their sump if they have 1, as its such a nightmare to fit them under a corner

Sk8r · 01/23/2009, 10:55 AM

Welcome, Dr. Joey!

joeychitwood · 01/23/2009, 10:57 AM

I have no sump. I use a Remora skimmer, a HOB Magnum cartridge filter for carbon and two modded Tunze Nano pumps for circulation. I add B-Ionic two-part calcium/alk solutions daily and feed flakes.

The clam on the left was about 2.5 inches long when I bought it. It's now approaching 9 inches fully extended. The smaller blue clam was one inch long. It's now 3.5 inches.

Sk8r · 01/23/2009, 11:03 AM

By the way, I am trying an experiment in caulerpa control in a 54. This pernicious weed was never my choice. It came with my rocks, it survived a move and accidental rock cooking that killed everything else but one aiptasia---and it is nasty!

So, after scouring Foster/Smith's very good critter descriptions, I lit on a sea hare as a possible caulerpa eater. Mr Kumagoro is about the size of a golf ball, and while they look quite disgusting in pix, they are cute to the max in motions and habit. I cannot swear whether he is doing anything about the plague, but he is pooping and he is buried in a bad patch caulerpa all day and night. I can't figure out where his mouth is---but in a tank with mostly gobies and no notable aggressors, he's been quite serenely at his job, and the fish do not seem remotely interested in bothering him. As you may know, they ink like an octopus if stressed, and allegedly puff up and fly about on the current like a 'nem when deciding to travel, so you do need to block any potential exits and shield any intakes, but so far he is a good citizen and far from causing any problem. Stand by for more on the sea rabbit, as soon as I find out if he's actually eating the stuff.

Sk8r · 01/23/2009, 11:05 AM

Dr. Joey, that's one heck of a tank, and no sump: how's your topoff mechanism? mine (identical tank) is a 32g Brute trashcan with half a pound of kalk dumped in.

Michael · 01/23/2009, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sk8r
Dr. Joey, that's one heck of a tank, and no sump:

thats exactly what i was going to say as well

hope the doc has read the whole thread, theres some really great corners on here, and doc, we are not all as lucky as sk8r when it comes to space, im very jealous of her set up and the space in the basement, thanks for your pics, its a great tank, although im suprised 2 modded tumzes do the job

Pulp Fishin · 01/23/2009, 12:24 PM

Thanks Michael & Phish Guy!
Glad you like the harlquins they are my fav but my fiance hates it when I bring home pretty starfish for them.

phish guy · 01/23/2009, 01:06 PM

are they in your main tank?

joeychitwood · 01/23/2009, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sk8r
Dr. Joey, that's one heck of a tank, and no sump: how's your topoff mechanism? mine (identical tank) is a 32g Brute trashcan with half a pound of kalk dumped in.

My top-off procedure consists of replacing a couple of gallons of RO/DI water every two-three days and B-Ionic supplements. The tank is about as simple as it can be.

Pulp Fishin · 01/23/2009, 02:25 PM

Hey Phish Guy
Yeah they are in the disply tank, I don't see them everyday though. Usually when they are hungry they go arround the tank looking for rogue astrea stars I threw in or a more substancial meal.

Misled · 01/23/2009, 02:55 PM

Doc Joey, Sk8r, Welcome !!!!!

Sk8r · 01/23/2009, 07:07 PM

Thank you!

01/22/2009, 05:47 PM	#478
Hookup Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,281	btb72! That's awesome!... Frigg'n awesome... Which reminds me I have to go feed the little sps eating bastard I put into the fuge... I do have photos of some of the Australian SPS I was able to pickup. They are 1/2 colonies not frags... so i'm kinda jazzed... well I was.. now they are scattered and I cry. Tomorrow (night) my LFS is getting in 250 clams from Nam... Going to show up either when they get back to town (around 3am) or first thing Sat to see if I cannot cherry pick a good one. Looking for color morphs an ideas.. I want to know what I want before I just go and pick the first thing... and LTA might happen also... ugly, but i want it to sit the heck down and not crawl on the rocks... then the clowns should host... I'll see if I can take some photos of what 250 clams looks like. I think he is keeping all of them before shipping some of them out to other stores... could make for some impressive photos.... anyone in CANADA can be shipped one if interested... but I think i'm the only canuck on this thread... eh? I will post some atom-bomb photos... maybe after the kids to to bed. __________________ Spellking is an art form to which I have no brush. I'm not sure FOWLRs actually exist, I think they're like unicorns or platonic girlfriends. A FOWLR is just a reef tank that doesn't yet hold any coral. Current Tank Info: 180g display, 150gallon sump in-wall 4-side viewable sps dominated tank, ATI Powermodule, MRC MR-4 skimmer, GHL controller, Baling Method, Ultralith Reactor, Carbon & Phosphate Reactors, and general time consuming money pit that I live for.

01/22/2009, 05:59 PM	#479
Hookup Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,281	Ok, so let's start with the "GOOD"... Nothing color enhanced, just pointed the camera, shot and converted to jpg. 20k halide and actincs on... and now the BOMB... I was so ****ed it took me till the next day before I even cleaned the glass... and you have to know me.. i clean the glass daily, inside and out... On the plus-side I found my orange-bam-bam ZOA frag that had blown away... it's a small plus, but I now have about 8 heads on a frag-rock. __________________ Spellking is an art form to which I have no brush. I'm not sure FOWLRs actually exist, I think they're like unicorns or platonic girlfriends. A FOWLR is just a reef tank that doesn't yet hold any coral. Current Tank Info: 180g display, 150gallon sump in-wall 4-side viewable sps dominated tank, ATI Powermodule, MRC MR-4 skimmer, GHL controller, Baling Method, Ultralith Reactor, Carbon & Phosphate Reactors, and general time consuming money pit that I live for.

01/23/2009, 01:02 AM	#482
Michael NTTH Rookie Help Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gloucester, England,UK Posts: 7,808 Blog Entries: 6	top quality photos guys, and shame about the bomb, as mentioned it makes you want to hug it, very sad, still looks good though,it wont take long to recover __________________ Don't be afraid to ask questions, we in the new to the hobby are here to help you [For My Tank Spec,Photo Album,Articles and website, click on my name] MY Very Kindest and Warmest Regards , MIKE Current Tank Info: I have a 92 gal Corner Tank, and way too many pieces of equipment to list really, (proud member of the reef central corner club)

01/23/2009, 07:36 AM	#483
Pulp Fishin Were all mad here. Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London Ontario Canada Posts: 608	Mine are my 2 harlequin shrimp! __________________ Reef Central Corner Club Aquarium Dumpster Diver Extraordinaire Money talks, mine says "Good-Bye" Current Tank Info: RIP:60g Pentagon Reef 100lbs LR 20g Sump Deltec Mce 600 Mag 750 250W Metal Halide & 2x39W T5's Phosban ReactorX2 5gal refugium 36xTO RIP:135G FOWLER /Agressive

01/23/2009, 09:30 AM	#485
Michael NTTH Rookie Help Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gloucester, England,UK Posts: 7,808 Blog Entries: 6	well whilst we are showing photos my blue shrooms are a favorite, they have relocated since ive altered the flow for my sun coral but i still love the look of them __________________ Don't be afraid to ask questions, we in the new to the hobby are here to help you [For My Tank Spec,Photo Album,Articles and website, click on my name] MY Very Kindest and Warmest Regards , MIKE Current Tank Info: I have a 92 gal Corner Tank, and way too many pieces of equipment to list really, (proud member of the reef central corner club)

01/22/2009, 05:40 PM	#477
btb72 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: KY Posts: 657	whats your 10 favorite? All of them?

01/22/2009, 08:53 PM	#480
kelso1980 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Syracuse NY Posts: 583	ooooooooohhhhh! it looks like your tank is crying! I want to give it a hug. but the earlier pictures sure are a site! that's exactly why we have this addiction...er...hobby?

01/23/2009, 09:34 AM	#486
phish guy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South NJ Posts: 1,003	i love the harlequin shrimp. iv always wanted to set up a nano for a pair of them. __________________ Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Current Tank Info: 150 Gallon Reef, Reeftech LEDs ( on their way out for reefbreeder Photons), Reef Octoput NWB250, Custom made Sump/Refufium, Mp40wES, Koralia's. SPS, LPS, Zoas/Palys

01/23/2009, 10:18 AM	#487
joeychitwood Schrödinger's Mod Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 3,488	Some recent photos of my 54 corner. The corals and clams are growing like crazy. The SPS frags were 1/2 inch tall when I bought them, but they have no color at all. A full tank photo: The tank and stand: The tank in the dining room:

01/23/2009, 10:21 AM	#488
phish guy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South NJ Posts: 1,003	nice, great clams. love the cinnamon clown, i got a pair of them myself. __________________ Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Current Tank Info: 150 Gallon Reef, Reeftech LEDs ( on their way out for reefbreeder Photons), Reef Octoput NWB250, Custom made Sump/Refufium, Mp40wES, Koralia's. SPS, LPS, Zoas/Palys

01/23/2009, 10:25 AM	#489
Michael NTTH Rookie Help Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gloucester, England,UK Posts: 7,808 Blog Entries: 6	welcome to the corner forum joey, a beautiful tank you have as well, half the lounge will be on this thread soon your tank is very very nice, i always ask new posters here to show a pic of their sump if they have 1, as its such a nightmare to fit them under a corner __________________ Don't be afraid to ask questions, we in the new to the hobby are here to help you [For My Tank Spec,Photo Album,Articles and website, click on my name] MY Very Kindest and Warmest Regards , MIKE Current Tank Info: I have a 92 gal Corner Tank, and way too many pieces of equipment to list really, (proud member of the reef central corner club)

01/23/2009, 10:55 AM	#490
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Welcome, Dr. Joey! __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

01/23/2009, 10:57 AM	#491
joeychitwood Schrödinger's Mod Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 3,488	I have no sump. I use a Remora skimmer, a HOB Magnum cartridge filter for carbon and two modded Tunze Nano pumps for circulation. I add B-Ionic two-part calcium/alk solutions daily and feed flakes. The clam on the left was about 2.5 inches long when I bought it. It's now approaching 9 inches fully extended. The smaller blue clam was one inch long. It's now 3.5 inches.

01/23/2009, 11:03 AM	#492
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	By the way, I am trying an experiment in caulerpa control in a 54. This pernicious weed was never my choice. It came with my rocks, it survived a move and accidental rock cooking that killed everything else but one aiptasia---and it is nasty! So, after scouring Foster/Smith's very good critter descriptions, I lit on a sea hare as a possible caulerpa eater. Mr Kumagoro is about the size of a golf ball, and while they look quite disgusting in pix, they are cute to the max in motions and habit. I cannot swear whether he is doing anything about the plague, but he is pooping and he is buried in a bad patch caulerpa all day and night. I can't figure out where his mouth is---but in a tank with mostly gobies and no notable aggressors, he's been quite serenely at his job, and the fish do not seem remotely interested in bothering him. As you may know, they ink like an octopus if stressed, and allegedly puff up and fly about on the current like a 'nem when deciding to travel, so you do need to block any potential exits and shield any intakes, but so far he is a good citizen and far from causing any problem. Stand by for more on the sea rabbit, as soon as I find out if he's actually eating the stuff. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

01/23/2009, 11:05 AM	#493
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Dr. Joey, that's one heck of a tank, and no sump: how's your topoff mechanism? mine (identical tank) is a 32g Brute trashcan with half a pound of kalk dumped in. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

01/23/2009, 12:24 PM	#495
Pulp Fishin Were all mad here. Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London Ontario Canada Posts: 608	Thanks Michael & Phish Guy! Glad you like the harlquins they are my fav but my fiance hates it when I bring home pretty starfish for them. __________________ Reef Central Corner Club Aquarium Dumpster Diver Extraordinaire Money talks, mine says "Good-Bye" Current Tank Info: RIP:60g Pentagon Reef 100lbs LR 20g Sump Deltec Mce 600 Mag 750 250W Metal Halide & 2x39W T5's Phosban ReactorX2 5gal refugium 36xTO RIP:135G FOWLER /Agressive

01/23/2009, 01:06 PM	#496
phish guy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: South NJ Posts: 1,003	are they in your main tank? __________________ Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Current Tank Info: 150 Gallon Reef, Reeftech LEDs ( on their way out for reefbreeder Photons), Reef Octoput NWB250, Custom made Sump/Refufium, Mp40wES, Koralia's. SPS, LPS, Zoas/Palys

01/23/2009, 02:25 PM	#498
Pulp Fishin Were all mad here. Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London Ontario Canada Posts: 608	Hey Phish Guy Yeah they are in the disply tank, I don't see them everyday though. Usually when they are hungry they go arround the tank looking for rogue astrea stars I threw in or a more substancial meal. __________________ Reef Central Corner Club Aquarium Dumpster Diver Extraordinaire Money talks, mine says "Good-Bye" Current Tank Info: RIP:60g Pentagon Reef 100lbs LR 20g Sump Deltec Mce 600 Mag 750 250W Metal Halide & 2x39W T5's Phosban ReactorX2 5gal refugium 36xTO RIP:135G FOWLER /Agressive

01/23/2009, 02:55 PM	#499
Misled RC Mod Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 11,440 Blog Entries: 11	Doc Joey, Sk8r, Welcome !!!!! __________________ Jesse I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.

01/23/2009, 07:07 PM	#500
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Thank you! __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.