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weatherson · 12/14/2005, 10:17 PM

Lunchbucket: Thanks and yes, I'd done some searching for pinched mantle but unfortunately, didn't find much of any substance. Do you have any useful links handy?

Joseph

Zacrifice · 12/15/2005, 05:21 AM

Well beat me down and call me tinky winky. (sorry nephews fault)
This thread is still going!

Joseph, your tank is still spectacular as always, very very sorry to hear about the clam loss.

I really like your kelk reactor, very well done.
Did you think about vacum forming the bottom and top???
It would have been a perfect project for you, technical, get to build things and do something really kewl!

And stop being so modest about your photography, an artist can paint a master peice with there fingers and only two colours of paint, just as a photographer can take a stunning photo with nothing but a poloroide!
Its the artist that makes the art, the brush or in this case the cammera is just a tool that the artist uses to get there vision across!

Hey how much is the tax to go scuba diving in your tank?

McGinnis · 12/15/2005, 07:56 AM

Joseph,
I cannot tell if you are being serious or now when you say that "all is doing well". Sorry about the clam, but on the flip side at least the others are now perking up. What sort of treatment do you do for the red bugs? Intercept? That must be quite an undertaking when you do that, especially with all the inverts you have in the tank! How did you find the zoanthid nudibrachs? I am curious because recently my zoas were really closed and then when they opened they looked terrible, so I am trying to eliminate all causes. I hope everything else is going alright, and that you are finding time to enjoy the holidays!

weatherson · 12/15/2005, 02:42 PM

Zacrifice: Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad to see you are still kicking... just like this thread.

Did you ever get that tank up and running?

McGinnis: Yes, I did (1) and will have to do again (2 or 3) Interceptor treatments. Have I mentioned how much I don't want to dump poison in my tank?

It is quite an undertaking when you consider I pulled all the hermits I could find and the shrimp out of the tank. That took about a week and the shrimp weren't to keen on leaving their home either. Unfortunately, all but two acro-crabs perished from the treatment. With the few new acro's I acquired, there are more little guys to be nuked.

The zoanthid Nudibranchs are easiest to find at night with a flashlight. Look for closed or partially closed zoa's. The nudi's have great camouflage so you have to look hard. They typically take on the color of their favorite snack (zoanthid). There's some more info and photos on a friends site...

ZoaID.com

I was serious when I stated that all (else) was doing well. The tank is really taking shape and I'm getting good growth rates and stability. Thanks for the kind words.

Joseph

Zacrifice · 12/15/2005, 05:38 PM

eh, unfortunatly just as the tank was cycling we had a move, it was just live rock at the time and water so it wasn't hard pulling down the tank but unfortunatly the move took out the tank (the tank broke) and its taken me this long to get the removelists to replace the tank (they dropped it and tryed to claim it wasn't there fualt!) and this long would be almost a year.
Fortunatly I have a new tank now, with everything I need and will be starting the tank after christmas.

On a brighter note I have had a little nano running now for almost 8 months on the kitchen counter with nothing but LR, LED lighting (yes the corals grow abit very slowly) and small micron filter (I'm using a micron filter from and RO/DI unit. Inhabitants are two clowns, one shrimp (can't remember the species name) a few snails and hermits) the dimensions of the tank are 20x20x20cm (or 200x200x200 mm) now idea of inches, I don't have a picture to show you (erm, my nikon took a small swim while trying to take a top picture of the cycling 4footer).

Anywho, this thread is about your tank hahaha.

I think the pipe fish are just adorable, perhaps you might need a few more to really take care of the Nudibranchs (if I have read this last thread right)

maxxII · 12/15/2005, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by weatherson
Lunchbucket: Thanks and yes, I'd done some searching for pinched mantle but unfortunately, didn't find much of any substance. Do you have any useful links handy?

Joseph

Joseph,
Here's a link for you....
Pinched Mantle
Hope it helps,

Nick

Lunchbucket · 12/15/2005, 08:21 PM

maxx - thanks buddy

weatherson · 12/16/2005, 12:21 AM

Zacrifice: The Pipefish are really cool fish but unfortunately, they were to try and combat the Red Bugs and not the nudibranchs. Unfortunate also in that they didn't do well on those either.

Cool fish none-the-less.

Nick: Thanks for the link. Wow... I've got some reading to do now.

Joseph

Zacrifice · 12/16/2005, 01:17 AM

ah, knew I had gotten it wrong somewhere along this second very long thread!

Snakebyt · 12/16/2005, 04:21 AM

wow, i just read thru the first 40 or so pages of this thread before i noticed that this thread is 2 years old!!!
I am interested in seeing recent pics to see how far it has come in the last 2 years

maxxII · 12/16/2005, 04:56 AM

Most recent full tank pic....

Posted previous page...

Nick

Lunchbucket · 12/16/2005, 07:33 AM

that tank is just amazing!!

Lunchbucket

weatherson · 12/17/2005, 02:59 AM

Snakebyt: Only 40 pages? Hah!

You can also look here or here to get through the 2 years a little quicker.

Nick & Lunchbucket: Thanks and thanks.

Here's a night shot I took tonight. I was doing my flashlight investigating and thought it time to get the camera dusted off.

Here you go...

Joseph

melev · 12/17/2005, 03:27 AM

Amazing. Stunning. Gorgeous.

Grateful. Thanks.

Lunchbucket · 12/17/2005, 01:37 PM

wow amzing shot!!

Lunchbucket

weatherson · 12/17/2005, 07:40 PM

Thanks guys. Here's a few more...

Last one is slightly out-of-focus for an effect. I think it works.

Joseph

MAreefer1 · 12/17/2005, 08:39 PM

YOUR TANK IS B-E-A-UTIFUL

original-reefland · 12/17/2005, 10:54 PM

You know... every time you post pictures my jaw hurts. Getting tired of picking it up off the floor.

Stunning images you capture.

tang_man_montreal · 12/18/2005, 08:15 AM

Weatherson,
Not only are you an exceptional reefkeeper, but I must say that you are a photographic genious. You truly have a keen eye for some incredibly artistic shots!

Radicaljbr · 12/18/2005, 12:13 PM

OK Weatherson,

Time to start sharing some of those frags.

What is the name of that coral up top there? The first shot you shared above on this page.

I have to get me some of that.

Not only can you put together the greatest tank around, but you have to belittle us now with your great picture taking.

Are you up for hire?

Nice job!!!

weatherson · 12/18/2005, 03:21 PM

Thank you all very much. I'm just pleased my photos are enjoyed. Here's a daylight shot of the same green polyp coral for better identification. Unfortunately, my coral ID'ing skills are limited and haven't one for this beauty. Perhaps someone will chime in and provide an accurate name.

And another of my tank's "punk" just because he's so personable.

Joseph

Zacrifice · 12/18/2005, 06:46 PM

hahaha great shot of the fish, looks like he's on the prowl to beat someone up!

weatherson · 12/18/2005, 11:46 PM

Yep... but that someone would be me.

He flares up at me every time I am in front of the tank.

McGinnis · 12/19/2005, 07:24 AM

Beautiful Shots! Joseph those night shots really are amazing. I think my favorite is your linkia in the zoas! Keep up the great work!

Lunchbucket · 12/19/2005, 07:46 AM

weatherson -

my 6-line used to do that also!! he thought he was tough. they have a lot of personality and are one of my favorite fish

Lunchbucket

12/15/2005, 07:56 AM	#578
McGinnis Premium Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Burlington, Vermont Posts: 310	Joseph, I cannot tell if you are being serious or now when you say that "all is doing well". Sorry about the clam, but on the flip side at least the others are now perking up. What sort of treatment do you do for the red bugs? Intercept? That must be quite an undertaking when you do that, especially with all the inverts you have in the tank! How did you find the zoanthid nudibrachs? I am curious because recently my zoas were really closed and then when they opened they looked terrible, so I am trying to eliminate all causes. I hope everything else is going alright, and that you are finding time to enjoy the holidays! __________________ Matthew Kuhlmeier "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it" Albert Einstein Current Tank Info: 90-Gallon AGA Reef-Ready, Converted Wet/Dry to sump/refugium, T-5 Lighing, Oceansmotion Squirt & Mag 9.5 Closed Loop, Ozone, and still counting..

12/15/2005, 08:21 PM	#582
Lunchbucket Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brookings, SD Posts: 12,924	maxx - thanks buddy __________________ Trying to lose weight by walking is like trying to bake a cake w/ a cigarette lighter - Lunchbucket - "Nancy-Boy Extraordinaire" - maxxII- Current Tank Info: 58gal Oceanic RR, 2x400w MH (20k XM and 10k XM), Deltec PF601 Ca Rx, Deltec AP701 skimmer, mag950 return, iwaki 55rlt w/ an Oceansmotions 4-way unit, Tunze 7300 and 6000 each w/ controller, fluidized po4 rx

12/16/2005, 04:56 AM	#586
maxxII Super Housemonkey! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: St Louis Mo Posts: 4,442	Most recent full tank pic.... Posted previous page... Nick __________________ A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn, that was fun!"

12/16/2005, 07:33 AM	#587
Lunchbucket Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brookings, SD Posts: 12,924	that tank is just amazing!! Lunchbucket __________________ Trying to lose weight by walking is like trying to bake a cake w/ a cigarette lighter - Lunchbucket - "Nancy-Boy Extraordinaire" - maxxII- Current Tank Info: 58gal Oceanic RR, 2x400w MH (20k XM and 10k XM), Deltec PF601 Ca Rx, Deltec AP701 skimmer, mag950 return, iwaki 55rlt w/ an Oceansmotions 4-way unit, Tunze 7300 and 6000 each w/ controller, fluidized po4 rx

12/17/2005, 01:37 PM	#590
Lunchbucket Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brookings, SD Posts: 12,924	wow amzing shot!! Lunchbucket __________________ Trying to lose weight by walking is like trying to bake a cake w/ a cigarette lighter - Lunchbucket - "Nancy-Boy Extraordinaire" - maxxII- Current Tank Info: 58gal Oceanic RR, 2x400w MH (20k XM and 10k XM), Deltec PF601 Ca Rx, Deltec AP701 skimmer, mag950 return, iwaki 55rlt w/ an Oceansmotions 4-way unit, Tunze 7300 and 6000 each w/ controller, fluidized po4 rx

12/14/2005, 10:17 PM	#576
weatherson Premium Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California Posts: 2,022	Lunchbucket: Thanks and yes, I'd done some searching for pinched mantle but unfortunately, didn't find much of any substance. Do you have any useful links handy? Joseph

12/15/2005, 05:21 AM	#577
Zacrifice Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 101	Well beat me down and call me tinky winky. (sorry nephews fault) This thread is still going! Joseph, your tank is still spectacular as always, very very sorry to hear about the clam loss. I really like your kelk reactor, very well done. Did you think about vacum forming the bottom and top??? It would have been a perfect project for you, technical, get to build things and do something really kewl! And stop being so modest about your photography, an artist can paint a master peice with there fingers and only two colours of paint, just as a photographer can take a stunning photo with nothing but a poloroide! Its the artist that makes the art, the brush or in this case the cammera is just a tool that the artist uses to get there vision across! Hey how much is the tax to go scuba diving in your tank?

12/15/2005, 02:42 PM	#579
weatherson Premium Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California Posts: 2,022	Zacrifice: Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad to see you are still kicking... just like this thread. Did you ever get that tank up and running? McGinnis: Yes, I did (1) and will have to do again (2 or 3) Interceptor treatments. Have I mentioned how much I don't want to dump poison in my tank? It is quite an undertaking when you consider I pulled all the hermits I could find and the shrimp out of the tank. That took about a week and the shrimp weren't to keen on leaving their home either. Unfortunately, all but two acro-crabs perished from the treatment. With the few new acro's I acquired, there are more little guys to be nuked. The zoanthid Nudibranchs are easiest to find at night with a flashlight. Look for closed or partially closed zoa's. The nudi's have great camouflage so you have to look hard. They typically take on the color of their favorite snack (zoanthid). There's some more info and photos on a friends site... ZoaID.com I was serious when I stated that all (else) was doing well. The tank is really taking shape and I'm getting good growth rates and stability. Thanks for the kind words. Joseph

12/15/2005, 05:38 PM	#580
Zacrifice Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 101	eh, unfortunatly just as the tank was cycling we had a move, it was just live rock at the time and water so it wasn't hard pulling down the tank but unfortunatly the move took out the tank (the tank broke) and its taken me this long to get the removelists to replace the tank (they dropped it and tryed to claim it wasn't there fualt!) and this long would be almost a year. Fortunatly I have a new tank now, with everything I need and will be starting the tank after christmas. On a brighter note I have had a little nano running now for almost 8 months on the kitchen counter with nothing but LR, LED lighting (yes the corals grow abit very slowly) and small micron filter (I'm using a micron filter from and RO/DI unit. Inhabitants are two clowns, one shrimp (can't remember the species name) a few snails and hermits) the dimensions of the tank are 20x20x20cm (or 200x200x200 mm) now idea of inches, I don't have a picture to show you (erm, my nikon took a small swim while trying to take a top picture of the cycling 4footer). Anywho, this thread is about your tank hahaha. I think the pipe fish are just adorable, perhaps you might need a few more to really take care of the Nudibranchs (if I have read this last thread right)

12/16/2005, 12:21 AM	#583
weatherson Premium Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California Posts: 2,022	Zacrifice: The Pipefish are really cool fish but unfortunately, they were to try and combat the Red Bugs and not the nudibranchs. Unfortunate also in that they didn't do well on those either. Cool fish none-the-less. Nick: Thanks for the link. Wow... I've got some reading to do now. Joseph

12/16/2005, 01:17 AM	#584
Zacrifice Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 101	ah, knew I had gotten it wrong somewhere along this second very long thread!

12/16/2005, 04:21 AM	#585
Snakebyt Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Lubbock Tx Posts: 2,141	wow, i just read thru the first 40 or so pages of this thread before i noticed that this thread is 2 years old!!! I am interested in seeing recent pics to see how far it has come in the last 2 years

12/17/2005, 02:59 AM	#588
weatherson Premium Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California Posts: 2,022	Snakebyt: Only 40 pages? Hah! You can also look here or here to get through the 2 years a little quicker. Nick & Lunchbucket: Thanks and thanks. Here's a night shot I took tonight. I was doing my flashlight investigating and thought it time to get the camera dusted off. Here you go... Joseph

12/17/2005, 03:27 AM	#589
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	Amazing. Stunning. Gorgeous. Grateful. Thanks.

12/17/2005, 07:40 PM	#591
weatherson Premium Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California Posts: 2,022	Thanks guys. Here's a few more... Last one is slightly out-of-focus for an effect. I think it works. Joseph

12/17/2005, 08:39 PM	#592
MAreefer1 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: MA Posts: 769	IM AM...UM...WOW, WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE!!! YOUR TANK IS B-E-A-UTIFUL __________________ BRS Current Tank Info: 75 gallons of SW,55 main 20 gallon fuge

12/17/2005, 10:54 PM	#593
original-reefland Reefer Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: New York Posts: 2,177	You know... every time you post pictures my jaw hurts. Getting tired of picking it up off the floor. Stunning images you capture. __________________ Rich Durso Visit My Chunk of the Ocean, click the Red House above. Current Tank Info: 180G Oceanic SPS/Clams/LPS, AB Aquaspace Light 3x250w AB 14K HQI with 4x24w PC Actinic, 2x80w T5, Dual Tunze 6100 and Vortec (10,000 GPH), Euro Reef RC-500 Skimmer.

12/18/2005, 08:15 AM	#594
tang_man_montreal Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Montreal, QC, Canada Posts: 1,265	Weatherson, Not only are you an exceptional reefkeeper, but I must say that you are a photographic genious. You truly have a keen eye for some incredibly artistic shots! __________________ Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. Current Tank Info: Currently tankless. New project in the works.

12/18/2005, 12:13 PM	#595
Radicaljbr Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hudson, Ohio Posts: 1,293	OK Weatherson, Time to start sharing some of those frags. What is the name of that coral up top there? The first shot you shared above on this page. I have to get me some of that. Not only can you put together the greatest tank around, but you have to belittle us now with your great picture taking. Are you up for hire? Nice job!!!

12/18/2005, 03:21 PM	#596
weatherson Premium Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California Posts: 2,022	Thank you all very much. I'm just pleased my photos are enjoyed. Here's a daylight shot of the same green polyp coral for better identification. Unfortunately, my coral ID'ing skills are limited and haven't one for this beauty. Perhaps someone will chime in and provide an accurate name. And another of my tank's "punk" just because he's so personable. Joseph

12/18/2005, 06:46 PM	#597
Zacrifice Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 101	hahaha great shot of the fish, looks like he's on the prowl to beat someone up!

12/18/2005, 11:46 PM	#598
weatherson Premium Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California Posts: 2,022	Yep... but that someone would be me. He flares up at me every time I am in front of the tank.

12/19/2005, 07:24 AM	#599
McGinnis Premium Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Burlington, Vermont Posts: 310	Beautiful Shots! Joseph those night shots really are amazing. I think my favorite is your linkia in the zoas! Keep up the great work! __________________ Matthew Kuhlmeier "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it" Albert Einstein Current Tank Info: 90-Gallon AGA Reef-Ready, Converted Wet/Dry to sump/refugium, T-5 Lighing, Oceansmotion Squirt & Mag 9.5 Closed Loop, Ozone, and still counting..

12/19/2005, 07:46 AM	#600
Lunchbucket Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brookings, SD Posts: 12,924	weatherson - my 6-line used to do that also!! he thought he was tough. they have a lot of personality and are one of my favorite fish Lunchbucket __________________ Trying to lose weight by walking is like trying to bake a cake w/ a cigarette lighter - Lunchbucket - "Nancy-Boy Extraordinaire" - maxxII- Current Tank Info: 58gal Oceanic RR, 2x400w MH (20k XM and 10k XM), Deltec PF601 Ca Rx, Deltec AP701 skimmer, mag950 return, iwaki 55rlt w/ an Oceansmotions 4-way unit, Tunze 7300 and 6000 each w/ controller, fluidized po4 rx