Startin my new 180 G fish bowl...

[shullat]

Blue acropora...if anyone can help with the identification, please?

[shullat]

And the last pic, some of the stuff I transfered from the old tank. Green zoanthids, yellow palythoa, toadstool leather (was initially purple) and red and green open brain in the back right hand side. You can also see some green/brown fuzzy stuff. this started as a speck, am not sure if its a pocillopora or not, its just above the yellow palythoa.

[shullat]

Ooooops...forgot one piece.
Actually just an excuse to post again, since I'm the only one here. Coloration is a bit pastel yellow on this, not extremely nice but hoping it will color up later.



Yesterday I started dosing sith Prodibio Trace, Booster and Digest. My sister is coming to visit me from France today and should be bringing stronti and iodi. As mentioned earlier, i lost some ampoules during the shipping, god the stuff stinks, smells a bit like cod liver oil actually.

[rdmpe]

Some of those are nice big corals you have there to start out with - I bet they'll all color up nicely once they have been there for a few weeks. I'm just starting to get some corals, but all of mine are really tiny frags (I'm such a cheapskate ) so when I get them up on the rocks, nobody will even notice them for a year

[shullat]

the good thing here is tiny frags are actually mini colonies...and they have a mini price tag also

[shullat]

Hellllluuuuuuuu.....
Can anypne help with the Identification of the corals, please...

Thanks

[A.G]

Looks great...I like the new look better....corals are sweeeeeeet. you know what, I think those central braces on your tank are blocking the actinics..making the tank looks more whitish..humm Just a thought.

A.G

[Dr.Ocean]

Hey Shullat,
I will be setting a new 200g tank soon.I like how you kept things simple . Very nice colonis you got there .

My tank wll be open toped as yours. are you having any heat issues?
Also, could you post a pic of your refugium.
I think you will get a better response if you posted those pictures in the SPS forum.Good luck

[shullat]

Originally posted by A.G
Looks great...I like the new look better....corals are sweeeeeeet. you know what, I think those central braces on your tank are blocking the actinics..making the tank looks more whitish..humm Just a thought.

A.G

I think so to, but what to do...price to pay for getting a chinese tank instead of a nice little cube.

[shullat]

Originally posted by Dr.Ocean
Hey Shullat,
I will be setting a new 200g tank soon.I like how you kept things simple . Very nice colonis you got there .

My tank wll be open toped as yours. are you having any heat issues?
Also, could you post a pic of your refugium.
I think you will get a better response if you posted those pictures in the SPS forum.Good luck

Here is a picture of my refugium, I still haven't managed to get any sand in there, and most of the caulerpa is gone (melt down)



No heat issues, the a.c sits just to the side of the tank and blows accross the surface. Well for the moment simple is working, myabe later on I'll realize that there are lots of mistakes...we will see.

Good luck on the tank...

[shullat]

Since last week I started dosing Prodibio products. I know, it might be too early but why not start from now. Surprisingly, after dosing Reef Booster I noticed a difference in size on alot of the softies and lps, especially the open brain.



Right now I do not have the stronti and iodi+ as they were both missing from the shipment, so I'll be using Seachem products that I already have.

The base of my blue acro has also started lightening up. It was a dark brown color when i first got it and is now lighter, the way it's going it might be all blue by next week...i wish anyhow.

[Dr.Ocean]

Have you noticed any change in term of colors..I'v been reading lots of good things on the Prodibio products on the Large tanks forum. Please keep us posted as how things are progressing.

[shullat]

So yesterday I went shopping again, actually it was for a water heater initially, but since I was there I also got timers for the pendant. Yes they might be a bit old fahioned, but that's all they had.



heavy duty stuff, I don't hink there will be any overload on it



And here is the antiquity out of the box

[shullat]

I also got these waterproof connectors for the pendant. One for the Actinics and one for the halides. The reason being that the wiring in the back is quite short and if there are any leaks..well self explanatory...



Easy actually to setup up...plug and play. Here is a shot open. I hope that it can handle the halides, The first wiring i did the section was too small and overheating so I upgraded that also.



I got tired so I only managed to setup the timer for the actinics...



So the actinics are set from 8:30 a.m to 9:30 p.m, the halides will jump in at 9:30 a.m to 8:30 p.m. I like to sit in front of the tank before going to work that's why I start it early.

[shullat]

Some new frags...please no complaints about size two to three inches this time



Usually keep them in the bags until temp is approx the same with small holes punched in. Don't know if it's right or wrong but haven't lost anything till now when doing this.

[shullat]

Here is the same pink piece, hints of purple but camera is not picking them up, fixed in its place. Used marine epoxy, works quite well. I had tried before and given up but yesterday it held.



Can anyone ID this?

[shullat]

Here's another ....white, short and stocky. Still trying to look for the species. As usual if anyone can help

[shullat]

This I really like....i know its common but it's the first time i get this color and it's the first time it survives more then a day in my tank ....pom pom xenia cloration is a bit on the brownish orange side, very nice. Usually we get pink or whtish only.





All pulsing...

[shullat]

As a direct result of my bad planning i had to empty out my sump maually to get the skimmer inside it. My tunze is not working at the moment because of the impeller so I borrowed a friend's ASM, to fit it I had to remove thirty gallons manually. Pain in the...



Picture was taken an hour later. But man does that thing pull out alot of gunk. two days and half a cup already. On my 55G I had a underpowered Prizm so am not used to seeing so much brown gunk.

When I drew out the sump, according to Melev's sump, I wanted to place bulkheads for easy drainage but didn't because the LFS couldn't understand. Language barrier as usual. So i'll have to draw out another nice picture, and print out some pictures of Melevs sump so that he can understand.

[shullat]

and here's a full tank shot 1st of July 2006.



Comments are most welcome. One of the anemones moved to the back of the tank, and I shifted the green one to the front. although with the amount of current it might end up with the other.

[reverendmaynard]

Looking real good. Are you going to put some kind of background? If not, you should do something with the wires in the back. Maybe run them all through a single black pvc pipe.

I saw a tank where they used really dark window tint for the back. You can still see through it from the back, but not from the front. Sounds like it should be pretty easy to apply, and remove, as well.

Sorry, can't help with sps ids.

[rdmpe]

Tank is looking good - those look like some good heavy duty timers! I have had much better experience with Cheato than with Caulerpa for the refugium. If you can get some Cheato, give it a try.

IME, the caulerpa was difficult to deal with. It was very invasive, more so than cheato. Whenever I trimmed it back, other remaining sections of it died off as well, causing some mess in the fuge and even some microalgae - really offset any benefits of having the caulerpa there in the first place. I did some reading about caulerpa, and it seems that it is a very large "single cell" life form, so if it is trimmed, there is often a remaining portion that cannot live without the trimmed away part, so that particular section dies. Then there is the issue of it "going sexual" which I don't think I ever experienced. Also, since it roots in the sand of your fuge, it makes a big mess and tears up your sandbed if you try to remove it after it is rooted. Cheato does not exhibit any of these problems. My cheato grows like crazy and it's a great home for pods.

[shullat]

Originally posted by reverendmaynard
Looking real good. Are you going to put some kind of background? If not, you should do something with the wires in the back. Maybe run them all through a single black pvc pipe.

I saw a tank where they used really dark window tint for the back. You can still see through it from the back, but not from the front. Sounds like it should be pretty easy to apply, and remove, as well.

Sorry, can't help with sps ids.

well i'd like to paint it, one of my friends used water based paint on his tank and said it worked well. Stupid me, the tank is close to the wall, and I can't reach so it might be a bit diffuclt. Yeah, i saw a thread recently with the window tint looked quite nice..i might look into that. Whatever method, i want to cover it up the plumbind and wires, espeically since i still have one more overflow coming so it'll be even messier soon.

[shullat]

Originally posted by rdmpe
Tank is looking good - those look like some good heavy duty timers! I have had much better experience with Cheato than with Caulerpa for the refugium. If you can get some Cheato, give it a try.

IME, the caulerpa was difficult to deal with. It was very invasive, more so than cheato. Whenever I trimmed it back, other remaining sections of it died off as well, causing some mess in the fuge and even some microalgae - really offset any benefits of having the caulerpa there in the first place. I did some reading about caulerpa, and it seems that it is a very large "single cell" life form, so if it is trimmed, there is often a remaining portion that cannot live without the trimmed away part, so that particular section dies. Then there is the issue of it "going sexual" which I don't think I ever experienced. Also, since it roots in the sand of your fuge, it makes a big mess and tears up your sandbed if you try to remove it after it is rooted. Cheato does not exhibit any of these problems. My cheato grows like crazy and it's a great home for pods.

Very heavy duty...antiques from WW2.

[reverendmaynard]

I thought that overflow looked pretty small for that tank.

I know how you feel about having the tank too close to the wall to do something you'd like to do. I'd like to drill my tank, now that I see what a PITA it is to have everything going over the top, but I don't want to take the down the whole tank to move it away from the wall.

You could probably still paint it with some creative use of extensions.