kudoras 84 gallon thread

[kudora]

well i traded something i was not using or was ever going to use again for it, so it cost me 30 something in gas plus snacks

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by kudora
long day, drove 300 miles to pick up a 55 gallon tank with stock hood and lights. moving my FW fish there and feeing up the 29 gallon.

Haha... I hear ya... I went 200 miles round trip tonight.

[kudora]

i traded my rena xp3 filter, it was an evenish trade, a new 55 is $129 and hood and lights for it(stock) is $60, the filter is around 180 something
i have a tinfoil bard that is 6.5 inches long and it is cramped in the 29. my wife mentioned the other day i was not giving the FW fish much love so this weekend i am building a stand and transfering things over, thats the plan atleast.

[kudora]

sept update

its early xmas at my house

1st photo(hellykitty blanket) is a pic of the buckeye box. i did 2.5 days of no light and another of just attinics to combat a diatom bloom in the tank.


here is a closer look


yet another it was in rough shape


some of my goodies including b-ionic


the RO/DI unit

[kudora]

more pics




ro/di unit hung up ready to get put togeather!!!


removed the old faucet and put in a new one


this was extra but worth it

[kudora]

couple of more pics



this is as far as i got this day, i was able to put the waste water in a utility sink i have close by. i was missing a fitting for the di section of the filter. i called and buckeye told me to wait for a couple of days. headed to menards in the morning and picked up the fitting i was missing. i did a bit of tape and i thought i was good to go.....well all the fittings were leaking(remember the tore up box) except for the one i did. i took the whole thing apart and retaped every fitting put it back togeather and i have not had a problem since. buckeye was very nice and set me a new round of filters for my troubles, great customer service btw.

[kudora]

since i am up

i decided i needed an area for all my new reef things plus my wife was tired of everything all over the place. i bought a 6 foot table and made my own area in the basement

[kudora]

i called the LFS and they told me they got something in i have been asking for the last 3 months. a tigertail cucumber.....

went up there and he mentioned he had two but couldnt find one. so i bought the one that was out in the open. was on the way home so i peeked in the bag and saw this....



the cucumber puked its insides, and had somekind of parasite(wish i had something better then my the camera on the phone).

i live 4 min from this LFS so i did a U turn and headed back. i was not discouraged and went and "exchanged" it for the other one he had(took 15 min to find it since i was buried).

here he is in the bag



here he goes into the middle rock, i wont see him again for a couple of months

[kudora]

something is tearing up my tang for somereason. i think its my GSM its getting a little bold for my taste

[2frosty4u]

Glad to hear that you got the cucumber you were looking for. I hate when you add something to your tank and rarely see it. I've had a Blood shrimp for a year and half and I'm lucky if I see him once every month or two. It seems like he pops his head out of his cave just to let me know he's still alive. Sorry to hear about your tang getting picked on. Tangs are such fast healers when it comes to ripped, tattered and torn fins though. My yellow tang was annoying my Powder Blue and when he had enough, he speared the Yellow with his tail mounted scalpel and cut/ripped a 1/4" gash in his side. I kept monitoring it for ten days for any signs of infection and by then the tear had totally healed itself. The Yellow has a better attitude now towards the PBT....lol

[kudora]

yeah i am a bit bummed i dont see the cucumber more often but as long as it is doing its job i guess its ok.

yeah i bet the PBT is the boss now lol

[raen]

Sweet Xmas gifts to yourself!!! I got a new camera flash for xmas this year, nothing like getting gifts early! My bday is in 2 weeks, I already have that gift too.

[kudora]

xmas came early for my little girl today, added a small papillon to our family. so that makes it two yorkies + the new puppy.

[2frosty4u]

Originally posted by raen
Sweet Xmas gifts to yourself!!! I got a new camera flash for xmas this year, nothing like getting gifts early! My bday is in 2 weeks, I already have that gift too.

Just think....B-day + christmas = bigger tank....lol
You should have had your hubby combine your gifts to get your new tank.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by kudora
well i traded something i was not using or was ever going to use again for it, so it cost me 30 something in gas plus snacks

You Ameicans always do it right
I drive 40 miles to a LFS store--it costs 35 in gas and the trip takes 3 hours

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by raen
Sweet Xmas gifts to yourself!!! I got a new camera flash for xmas this year, nothing like getting gifts early! My bday is in 2 weeks, I already have that gift too.

I'm doing that this year---last year I bought two pails of salt and only used one. The other pail will have to be this xmas present with a big red bow from the dollar store

This is definetly a rich persons hobby or for someone that's lucky enough to have space left on their charge card(s)

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by kudora
something is tearing up my tang for somereason. i think its my GSM its getting a little bold for my taste

definetly a yellow tang attack

[kudora]

sept update continued



new additions and my first SPS



wanting to take a pic of my new cucumber i was using a red light to view the tank after lights out and saw this.



this is a pic in the morning after the attinics came on, thats a reticulated cowrie that did the damage


after asking around fellow reefers in the clubhouse suggested it could have been eating the dead "skin" off of it but after a couple of days i began to wonder if this is the same reason my toadstool had not come out in months. i took a closer look at the toadstool
and saw that the polyps had been eaten also. The cowrie was taken out of the DT and put in the sump/fuge. it has eaten all the white and red sponges i had growning in various areas and cleaned up the intake part of the sump very well.

[kudora]

final sept update

been fighting diatoms again and some cyno in the glass for some reason





a pic of my orange monti cap


a pic of the sps(orange cap, green acro and purple cap all ORA) and a shot of the yellow kole tangs fins(looking better)


FTS of the tank mid September


only equipment i picked up was a new K4
so that makes two K3s and a K4 for flow plus the mag 3 on the skimmer and the rio return pump.

[Tswifty]

Time for an updated FTS!

[kudora]

should do the oct update, plus i got some more goodies yesterday, bottle brush, acro verde and galaxea

[kudora]

plus am going to make the 30 gallon QT into the GSMs home as a softy tank

[kudora]

OCT update

didnt buy much for supplys this month, since the parms have been great i have started buying some more corals.

temp:80
salinity: 1.025
ph: 8.1
dKH:8
calcium: 445
mag: 1200
nitrate: 0
ammonia: 0
phosphate: 0

here is a lobo i picked up, was in decent shape but its doing better now


my new Duncan next to the recovering leather, finally got little polyps out after a month of it looking sick.


elephant skin coral


some update shots of the coral i put in the tank in sept
green acro


orange monti cap

[kudora]

oct update extended

shot of the favia in its new home


now for a couple of before and after shots

frogspawn before(march i think)


frogspawn(oct)




pagoda cup before(July)


pagoda cup after(oct)

[kudora]

FTS shots you were asking for swift

March FTS


OCT FTS




Right side


Left side