Puff's 24 gallon Aquapod Reef (April 11th Update)

[Puff]

Hi again Canreef. it's time for an update. i got bored today and busted out the tripod this morning. i took what i think are some decent pics. unfortunately there are a lot of pics.lol.

the tank has been going quite well. it survived me being away for 2 weeks and leaving it in the hands of someone with no prior experience, and the worst thing that happened was that i ended up with a lot of brown flatworms. i bought a small sixline wrasse, and its efforts combined with my siphoning seems to be slowly getting rid of them.

FTS w/ T5 actinics on
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8037.jpg

FTS w/out actinics
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8039.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8027.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8028.jpg

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8032.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8006.jpg

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8052.jpg
New ric that i was given yesterday!
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8007.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8009.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8008.jpg

New zoas!
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8013.jpg

Pipe Organ coral finally decided to show itself
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8018.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8019.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8012.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8010.jpg

[Puff]

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8014.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8015.jpg

Red shroom
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8017.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8020.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8023.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8042.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8058.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8060.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8059.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8030.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8035.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8033.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8046.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8043.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8040.jpg

[Puff]

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8062.jpg

Hair worms. annoying, yet so friggin cool to watch!
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8051.jpg

Rhodactis eating a BUNCH of mysis.lol
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/March8025.jpg

[mseepman]

Great pics...excellent colors. Really nice tank...how often do you do water changes? Do you use a skimmer?

[Keri]

Beautiful tank, great shots, everything looks healthy and happy :)

[Puff]

thanks you for the compliments.

Great pics...excellent colors. Really nice tank...how often do you do water changes? Do you use a skimmer?

i tend to do water changes about once a week. i usually do between 2.5 to 4 gallons when i do one. sometimes a bit less, sometimes more. i find that my xenia is an excellent water quality indicator, and have learned to read it pretty good (at least i think so.lol)

i also use a protein skimmer. right now it's a sapphire aquatics skimmer sitting in my HOB fuge, but i have a Tunze DOC nano 9002 (words in wrong order i think.lol) that i need to mod the fuge to fit into, but it is so quiet i cant wait to use it!

[Puff]

so the other day i decided to snap a bunch more pictures of my nano reef. mohawk (my tuxedo urchin) is up to his coiffalicious badness again. he has a whole new "head of hair", this time it's actually pretty funky!

everything in the tank seems to be doing very well. the only thing not doing great are my glacier blue palys, which have had trouble opening since i got back from my trip. they are slowly coming around, but nothing like they used to look like unfortunately.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22034.jpg
Left side of tank
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22036.jpg
Right side of tank
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22037.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22005.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22004.jpg
Mohawk with his new haircut
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22045.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22046.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22024.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22025.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22009.jpg
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http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22027.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22010.jpg

[Puff]

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22013.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22015.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22016.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22018.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22019.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22008.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/Reef%204/march22020.jpg

[Puff]

here's some updated pics of the tank!

everything is going very well. i added a new bulb recently (Ushio 20,000+K) and the colours have really come out!

i recently got some new zoas. 5 polyps of something cool (no clue of the name). today i also got a rock with 100+ zoa polyps on it! cant wait to get pics up of that!

here's the new pics!

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef067.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef071.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef072.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef096.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef094.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef098.jpg

New Zoas
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef082.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef101.jpg
Favia is doing very nicely
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef087.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef074.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef073.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef075.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef091.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w6/davewjwright/april%20reef%20pics/aprilreef076.jpg