140g

[josie]

HI!
I'm new here... :redface:

We have salt water aquarium for 5 years now. Started with a 90g... went after on a upgrade to a 265g... and now we donwsized to a 140g.. ;)

Here's what the 265g look like at his best:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/all-1.jpg

we closed it a few months ago... too much work, too expensive....

So now we have a 140g tank, SPS dominated.
Here's some pics...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/13092009.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/plusrite14k250w.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/13092009sps1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/13092009sps.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/13092009chfl.jpg

thanks for looking. :biggrin:

[Ken]

hi Josie, both tanks look amazing , like the 140 gallon , much less clutter. Good job. regards Ken

[christyf5]

Wow, great looking tanks! That pink pocilipora in the 140, to the right is just awesome!! :cool:

[hillegom]

Welcome to canreef Josie.
Your 140 looks great. Keep up the good work.

[PuffLuv]

Hi Josie, welcome to Canreef! I think both tanks look great, however, I would give the edge to the 140 (really like the rimless, the light fixture and the aquascaping):biggrin:

[josie]

Thanks for the welcome :)

New skimmer installed today... not a new technology but we hope it will do the work.
We bought a used Octopus Downdraft... anyone have experience with this one or other downdraft skimmers?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/Down20draft.jpg

[Ken]

Hi Josie, I'm a big fan of downdraft skimmers, had them for many years, currently I have a ETSS 1400 dual downdraft skimmer powered by a Iwaki MD70 RLT 1750 gph on my 500 gallon reef since 2000, I have no intentions in upgrading at all despite the newer skimmer that have come on the market. They need a pump to be sized properly in order to run efficiently, a lot of hobbyist donot size the pump correctly to run the skimmer properly, I know a lot of hobbyist back then that was ready to throw out the downdraft because it was not working efficiently, today many of them are still running the downdraft, some switched over to in sump needlewheel due to money burning in their pockets and newer technology. Downdrafts are noisy and they take up a lot of space, mine is hooked up externally to the sump. In my fishroom, noise is not a concern, considering all the other tanks running. I never took my skimmer apart for cleaning or replacing the bioballs, all I did was clean out the collection cup, the adjustment was set 9 years ago and never touched since. I don't know too much about the downdraft you have, but depending on space and where you have the aquarium, a downdraft skimmer may not be for everyone, downdraft are not as popular today as back then because again a lot of exciting good skimmers are coming to the market... hmmmm a vertex alpha cone again love the 140 gal, now happy aquarium and back to mine regards Ken

[argan]

Your tanks is one of the bext i have seen on here, TOTM material i'd say.
The gowth is beautiful.

[josie]

Ken: Thanks for you post. The skimmer seems to work well... we put a Mag 9.5 on it...we installed it in-sump... it's 10"x6"x23" We dont have a fish room per say but more a fish-closet... :lol: I'll post pics of the installation soon!

Argan: Thanks. We are doing our best to keep everything in order so the corals are happy and growing... Most of the SPS in the tanks we bought from a friend who closed is tank... :wink: for now everyone is doing ok since the move...

[josie]

:redface:
Sorry guys I did not post anything since september!! many things happend...

but this is one of the most stressfull situation I personnally had to date:

let me tell you about our near aquarium catastrophe...

december 23th 2009, 7pm... we are cleaning the house for out xmas eve party with 12 guests... dear husband is cleaning the front pannel of the tank with the magnetic brush... and ears a "crac"... to our horror a 1 inch crac appears in the inside glass, without pearcing trough...
PANIC IN THE HOUSE
we decided to get to our FS and get a new tank before it break...
10pm we arrive with the new tank, a 150g (60x24x27) we had to call the brother in law to get is mini-van to bring the tank back...
we get more then 20 plastic rubermaid containers on the floors and start to transfert water,LR, fish, corals....
midnight we move the old tank, put the new one in place... get started on plumbing (the new tank has overflows)...
2am we start transfering the sand in the the new tank, adding 70g of new watrer
3am start putting water, LR, corals and fish back in the aquarium...
we found our female swallowtail angelfish on the side on the bottom of a container.. not breathing too much... I decided to do like fisherman who release their pray: I move her under water to revive her... and it works!!!
4:30am we finally get to bed.. but I have to say that I did not sleep much ;)

So here's the 150g tank... we replace the corals and sold the huge LTA...
everything is doing good.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010FT1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010FTC.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010FT.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010-L.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010BNS.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-20102c.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010BN.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010C.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010GB.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010L2.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010PBN.jpg

[christyf5]

oh my goodness, what a nightmare! Glad to hear everything turned out okay and that you were able to transfer everything to a new tank so quickly (impressive actually! that would never work here in my city!).

The new tank is looking quite lovely and I love the threadfin cardinalfish :biggrin:

[josie]

Here's our "water-room"... not having enought space under the aqua stand we put everything under the staircase... :)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/waterrroom21-02-2010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/waterrroomin21-02-2010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/waterrroominleft21-02-2010.jpg

[josie]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/blennies21-02-2010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/cardinal21-02-2010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/coral10.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/torch21-02-2010.jpg

the maited pair of occelaris decided to host the frogspawn... I'll chek this closelly to make sure the frog is ok...

but it does makes great photos!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/clownsfrog3.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/clownsfrog2.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/clownsfrog1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/clownsfrog.jpg

[Delphinus]

Oh my goodness! Wow what a stress that would have been!!

At least the tank looks great now though!!

[christyf5]

Great use of the space under the stairs, its like a little door to a different world in there :wink:

Just wondering about the 2 tailspot blennies, are they a mated pair or did you just put 2 in your tank and hope for the best?

[fishoholic]

WOW what a nightmare that would of been, glad you were able to get a new tank and save everything. The new tank looks great, and I love the use of space under the stairs.

[josie]

Just wondering about the 2 tailspot blennies, are they a mated pair or did you just put 2 in your tank and hope for the best?

well we just bought 2...:wink:
I dont know if they are male/female... they dont fight...

[josie]

the spoted mandarin:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin2.jpg

the copperband:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/copper-2.jpg

the monster! 3" conch:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010conch.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010conch1.jpg

[josie]

A rare pic!
Our coral beauty is so fast that many of my photos are always blur! Here's the best I could do:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/beauty1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/beauty.jpg

:biggrin:

[Skimmerking]

Josie I love your sump area under the stairs

[edikpok]

Looks amazing. I also like the idea of putting the sump under the stairs!

[josie]

New pics!

yeaterday we change 2 of the 4 T5. We switch the 2 KZ 10k to 2 KZ 20k. We keep the 2 fiji.

here's the result:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FTS02042010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FTS102042010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/RS02042010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/C02042010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/LS02042010.jpg

[josie]

Some pics I took today...

the clown gobie:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/GCvalida.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/GCundata.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/GCfundata.jpg

the pocilopora:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/pocilopora.jpg

some xenia:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/xenia-2.jpg

those 2 pics I love! showing the corals reflection int the front pannel:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FP102042010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FP02042010.jpg

[josie]

The corals are changing colours with the new T5 it's AMAZING!

undata before:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/undata21-02-2010.jpg

after:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/undata.jpg

organ pipes before:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/avpipe21-02-2010.jpg

after:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/pipe.jpg

pocillopora before:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/pocilopora.jpg

after:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/chouxfleur.jpg

:biggrin:

[josie]

Be carefull!!
the watchman is watching you!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/watchmen.jpg

[josie]

BIG NEWS!

my tank was nominated TOTM on a Quebec saltwater forum! :biggrin:
I'll post the link when the article is on-line! (sorry it's a article in French)

:cheer2:

[christyf5]

BIG NEWS!

my tank was nominated TOTM on a Quebec saltwater forum! :biggrin:
I'll post the link when the article is on-line! (sorry it's a article in French)

:cheer2:

Awesome!! Congrats :cool:

[fishytime]

Tre bon!..... welcome to the TOTM club:wink::mrgreen:..... Its a sweet looking tank for sure!

[josie]

Tre bon!..... welcome to the TOTM club:wink::mrgreen:..... Its a sweet looking tank for sure!

well it's not canreef TOTM like you or Chryistyf5 (2 beautyfull tanks!!!!)... and really not reefcentral TOTM... that's the imposible dream lol...
but it's ok... I'm real pround of my nomination! :biggrin:

[Lance]

Quelle Merveille!

[josie]

Quelle Merveille!

Merci :wink:
The photos doest not represent exactly as seing it in real... it'd difficult to capture the colours with the lightning :neutral:

the article is going online in a few days... :)

[josie]

It's On-Line!

the article about my tank (in french):
http://www.reefaction.com/nosforums/index.php?page=14

:biggrin:

[josie]

I'm looking to add a tang... my tank is a 5' long and dont want a tang that could domgae the aqua-scpaing...

here's the list of fish that's in:
2 clown occelaris
1 liretail anthias
1 pajama cardinal
1 benggai cardinal
2 glass cardinal
1 swallow tail angel
1 coral beauty angel
1 tang yellow
1 copperband butterfly
2 chromis
1 spotted mandarin
4 clown gobies green
2 tailspoted blennies
other:
2 cleaner shrimp
1 red shrimp
1 sexy shrimp
2 conchs
hermites and snails

Dear husband really like the lieutenant tang... I like the chocolate...
any other suggestion?

[Lance]

I have a Chocolate. Very nice Tang. You might look at the Kole as well.

[josie]

a nearby LFS suppose to have a large lieutenant in store... dear husband wants to go see it tomorow ;)

[andestang]

What a great looking set-up ! A well deserved nomination. I like the bulb change that you have done. This pic looks like a nuclear explosion on some planet or something :) Also like the color its turning.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/undata.jpg

[josie]

Thanks Andestang!
it was a little bit scary at first seing the corals change colours that much... but it turn out ok ;)

[josie]

New fish in the tank!
we got a lieutenant (tennenti) tang yesterday! :)
pics soon wen the little new fish is less shy :biggrin:

[lastlight]

Gorgeous tank congrats on totm. I really prefer the aquascape in the 140...has a really natural feel and the corals look fantastic! How does the pair of tail spots get along?

[josie]

Gorgeous tank congrats on totm. I really prefer the aquascape in the 140...has a really natural feel and the corals look fantastic! How does the pair of tail spots get along?

thanks!
yes the aqua-scaping in the previous 265g was a big "mistake"... having a big wall of LR was not good.. too much "dead spots"... we learn a lot form that tank ;)

tail spots are so cute together! they have their little places to hide and they sometime "dance" together... always amazing to watch ;)

[BC Mosaic]

Very nice and congrats!!!
I see you also have a swallow tail angel. Does she have any faint vertical bars showing?
Lovely tank set up.
Cheers

[josie]

Very nice and congrats!!!
I see you also have a swallow tail angel. Does she have any faint vertical bars showing?
Lovely tank set up.
Cheers

thanks!

I really like my swallow tail angel :)
and I did not saw verticle lines, I think it's a female... the males is the one that has lines... I had one in the previous 265g tank but he comit suicide... a few days after introducing him in the tank it was so scare that it swim in a hole too fast and a LR feld on him... poor fishy :sad:

[BC Mosaic]

Yes, yours is a female. Mine looks like yours but it might be changing into a male (?possible?) because I can see shadows of vertical lines. Then again it might be stress/adjustment related because it is a new aquisition - yesterday!:lol:

[josie]

yes could be stess related... :wink:
I have mine for about 4 years now.. dont remember seing her stress :lol:

[josie]

the new fish!

lieutenant (tennenti) tang:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/lieutenanttang4mai2010.jpg

[josie]

We are really happy with the new tang!
what a grerat fish! calm and curious :)

[Delphinus]

Great picture of a great fish! I find that as they get more relaxed in their new home they also colour up a bit. The blue rims on the fins on mine have gotten more prominent now that I've had mine for a few months.

[josie]

Great picture of a great fish! I find that as they get more relaxed in their new home they also colour up a bit. The blue rims on the fins on mine have gotten more prominent now that I've had mine for a few months.


thanks!
boy do it eats!! I give nori algea and it devores all of it in a few minutes... and it eats on the back glass algea too... a little pig!

[josie]

we are thinking of changing the skimmer ...
the bioload is quite large and Lieutenant tang eats like a pig lol
currently we have an octopus downdraft (we add a becket injector) but it's not strong enough ...
The orp was 330-350 and now it's more 300-310 since the new tang is in...


Just keep in mind that we want to pay more than 400$ ... therefore no bubbleking or 1000$ skimmers are out...
ratings should be 300/350g (the set up is 200g heavy load)
preferably in sump ...
the foot print maximum is 7.1"x10"

you have any sugestions?

[Lance]

Look into the Bubble Magus line of skimmers. Reasonably priced and perform well. The cone skimmers have a small footprint as well.

[josie]

So we bought a used ETSS600 skimmer for 250$ :)
if it's not strong enought we wil get the extension to make it a ETSS 900...

A litlle addition to the tank today, a pistol tiger shrimp:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/pistol.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/pistol1.jpg

really hope it gets along with the yellow watchman we bought last week... or with the blue-spoted we also have... ;)

[josie]

new pics for the tennenti tang!
got some scratch but is in great shape! :)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/tennenti122mai2010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/tennenti22mai2010.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/tennenti222mai2010.jpg

good news! a friend is going to let me use his camescope to shoot some videos of the tank! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

[josie]

some updates

we observe that the sps were not extending their polyps that much last week... water tests were all good... so we decided to do a big water change (30%) and everything is doing better now... ORP got from 315/320 to 400...
maybe some colonies got some chemical out that affected others..
the mysteries of reef keeping!

after reading many positive things about biopellets we decided to install a reactor to try it out... we bought biobeads (less costly then the biopellets) that arrived today and we will install everything this week-end :)
I'll keep you posted about this :biggrin:

[josie]

some pics of a 30% water change (every 3 weeks it's a 15% water change usually)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/changement30.jpg

corals from the top (only T5 and moon lights on)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/SPSchangement30.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/SPSchangement30a.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/SPSchangement30d.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/SPSchangement30b.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/SPSchangement30e.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/SPSchangement30c.jpg

the emptying took about 10 minutes and about 15 minutes filling up after.

[josie]

some pics I took today...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/tailspotbc.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/tailspotbs.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/tailspotb.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin2006.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin22006.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin12006.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/cardinalgobie.jpg

[steveg]

Fantastic tank, looks really good!!!

I am curious to know what you think of the new skimmer and what pump you are using on it. I have a 900 and have mixed feelings although i suspect part of my problem has been the pump.

I would welcome your thoughts.

Thanks

Steve:biggrin:

[josie]

for the moment we are still with our octopus downdraft...

[josie]

some pics of this week-end


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/full-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/frog-7.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/bn.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/undata-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/droite.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/vert.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/stag-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/sideP.jpg


:)

[Zoaelite]

Looking good Josie! Do you ever have any problems lowering your water level like that for water changes? The last time I did a water change like that all of the coraline algae out of the water bleached on me and I lost a stupid amount of color from a few acros.

[josie]

yes coraline that was out water died but it come back after.
No sps colours changes after big wc... the sps that have lost colours in you tank after big wc they were out of water for how long?

[Zoaelite]

yes coraline that was out water died but it come back after.
No sps colours changes after big wc... the sps that have lost colours in you tank after big wc they were out of water for how long?

I had the impeller on my return pump break at that exact time so they were sitting out for about an hour and a half. Everyone is regaining color now but I'm afraid to do my water changes like that.

[josie]

I had the impeller on my return pump break at that exact time so they were sitting out for about an hour and a half. Everyone is regaining color now but I'm afraid to do my water changes like that.

an hour and a half is long, could explain the colour loss, too much stress. glad it came back.

[Greenmaster]

Tank looks great. Love the pics :D

[abcha0s]

If my tank ever looks like yours, I will be thrilled. It looks great!

[lastlight]

Love that massive monti. Looks like a drop of water hitting and splashing back up the way that one tendril extends out. Beautiful tank!

[josie]

We have a clonwfish couple in our reef tank and we knew they were reproductive pair because the previous owner had seen eggs several time. It's the first time they reproduce in our tank (we have them for almost a year now). :)

a pic (sorry I dont have a macro lens!) the eggs are in the circle I draw...
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/oeufs.jpg

too bad we are not equip to keep the eggs to hatch... :(

[Greenmaster]

Congrats! (if nothing else it's some free healthy fish food :wink:)

[josie]

Congrats! (if nothing else it's some free healthy fish food :wink:)

yes...a friend says that I feed my fish caviar now :rolleyes:

[josie]

I was looking at "old" picture and I'm amaze at that growth :surprise:

December 2009
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/06-12-2009BN.jpg

February 2010
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/28-02-2010S.jpg

July 2010:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/bncr.jpg

[josie]

January 2010
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/coral12.jpg

July 2010
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/vert.jpg

February 2010
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/STAGfevrier2010.jpg

July 2010
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/STAGjuly2010.jpg

[fishytime]

Wow....youve got some impressive growth happening there!......what all, if anything, do you dose?...

[josie]

Wow....youve got some impressive growth happening there!......what all, if anything, do you dose?...

I dont really dose anything!
I do 30% water change every 3 months and 10% WC each 1-2 weeks...
I use instand ocean salt.
For the past month I just started a biopellets reactor... because it's supose to controle cyano outbrakes.. for now the cyano seems to have slowly disappeared...
CA 420
Mag 1450

[Greenmaster]

Wow that looks awesome. You'll be able to start fragging soon :D

[josie]

Wow that looks awesome. You'll be able to start fragging soon :D

maybe after summer :thumb:

[josie]

somes news...

the biobeads reactor works good, the cyano is under control. corals are looking great!

we add 2 lawnmower blennies last week-end. They already started eating the algea :biggrin:

[Parker]

Wow! I somehow missed this thread. Beautiful tank!

[Skimmerking]

Josie love your tank. the Cardinals what are they called do they get along with the Bangii's you have. im leanding of getting rid of the tangs the sailfin, kole, and Orange shoulder and getting reef fish like them, i have dartfish too and bangii, clowns smaller fish

[josie]

thanks Parker :)

thanks SkimmerKing :)
the small cardinal are glass cardinals (Apogon leptacanthus)
it's one the few reef fish that leaves in shoal, so the more you have the more interresting they are!
we used to have 6 but just 2 survived (we got them in our previous 265g tank, we had lots of problems with that tank so we lost 4 :sad: )

[josie]

This is my first video!
Please dont be too critic about it.. I have no notion of film making and even less of video editing!
a friend lent me his little MP4 video camera and I made this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSChnr92orM

I dont know how to insert the video in my post!!!

[abcha0s]

Nothing to be critical about. Your tank looks awesome!!

[Lance]

Very Nice Josie. Your corals are beautiful, and your fish look healthy and happy. :biggrin:

[Delphinus]

Great video! :)

[fishoholic]

Looks great!

[josie]

thanks!
For your info the music is the piece call P.S. from Vangelis, on the cd named Voices. I found it in DH big audio-library and I just make a reseach on it and found out it was used in a 1998 documentary Deep Seas, Deep Secrets co-produced by The Learning Channel and Discovery Channel!!

[fishytime]

I agree....tank looks great!:biggrin:

[Greenmaster]

I love that plate coral with the tree/mushroom cloud growing out of it :-)
Nice video as well. (I'm not being critical just gonna give a suggestion, try holding the camera with two hands, placing your elbow against your chest, or grabbing your camera wrist with your other hand, all of these methods can help to stabilize your shots.)

[josie]

Thanks Greenmaster!
I welcome your suggestion :)

the video was made with a low cost cam, a sanyo vpc-hd100.
http://images.milo.com/images/shrink.jpg?maxhw=290&source=http%3A%2F%2Fi.walmartimages.com%2Fi%2Fp%2F 00%2F08%2F64%2F83%2F07%2F0008648307230_500X500.jpg

the thing I really dont like is the FTS... the MH makes it too bright and the real colors dont show :(

[josie]

how do you put a video in the post??
I was able to do it in other forum.. :(

[Greenmaster]

how do you put a video in the post??
I was able to do it in other forum.. :(

When doing my DIY videos I posted them on 4 forums... this was the only one I couldn't enable the video for in forum viewing.

[josie]

my second video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgP0xig6qkw

[christyf5]

hmm, I was just at the vbulletin site and it seems we need the tags to insert a youtube video. For some reason it will do most other videos (photobucket etc) but not the youtube ones. I'll ask Titus what is up and hopefully he can fix it for us :biggrin:

[josie]

thanks christyf5!
I was starting to think I was not interring the codes right...

[josie]

christyf5: when it's fix maybe we could do a "show us your reef videos" tread!
:biggrin:

[christyf5]

Yes we can definitely do that! :mrgreen:

I talked to Titus and the video tags aren't available in our version of vbulletin but we do have an upgrade coming up soon so it should be available then. Stay tuned :biggrin:

[Greenmaster]

YAY! then my DIY videos will entice more people to click them :D I'm up to 300 views each... over 450 for the fist one.

[josie]

the same video (second) but in vimeo this time (to see if it's different from youtube :) )

josie 150g reef vimeo (http://vimeo.com/14105703)

[josie]

I'm shopping for a camcorder (or a camera that makse good videos!) to make video of my reef.
My budget is 500$. Any suggestion?

[Greenmaster]

This is slightly more but this is what I used to do my DIY rock on my thread to give you the idea of what it is.... the quality in real life is way better then online I just didn't want to upload that big of a file... also almost all of my pictures taken in the last 2 months are with this camcorder. (most pictures have been resized in "paint" so they are not the best quality... size was more important then quality)

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/panasonic-panasonic-16gb-hd-flash-camcorder-hdctm60k-future-shop-exclusive-hdctm60k/10141376.aspx?path=29d46bdac90e7a6a6f6912858ce7f10 7en02&lid=fp-10141376-panasonicpanasonic16gbhdflashc-en

[Greenmaster]

These are some of the places near you that have one in stock.
It's $550 but I like it... if I had to chose one in this price range I would buy it again.
Greenfield Park - Taschereau
1800 Auguste Street
Phone: (450) 443-3817

Montreal - Marché Central
A9 - 1001 rue du Marché Central
Phone: (514) 387-3188

Anjou - Anjou
7400 Boul. des Roseraies
Phone: (514) 356-2168

[josie]

thanks Greenmaster!
wow your building tread is amazing! :thumb:

[josie]

this one is supose to come out in september: Sanyo VPC-CA102YL
It's waterproof! imagine video IN the aquarium!! :biggrin:
an article about it:
http://reefbuilders.com/2010/08/06/sanyo-vpcca102yl-waterproof-hd-camcorder-close-personal-reef/

[josie]

on a rainy SUnday what better then doing a other video!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDyILbAaQQ

[josie]

my orange digitatas where not going good at all a few months back and I could not found why...
but they came back to life!!

check those before/after pics:

before:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/avantdigiorange1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/avantdigiorange.jpg

now:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/digiorange.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/digiorange1.jpg

they even re-started to grow!
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/digiorangepousse.jpg

I dont know what made them come back... more frequent WC? the installation of a bio-beads reactor??

[Greenmaster]

Right on, that's awesome.

[josie]

we restarted doing frags (summer is too busy for that!)
we even frag a little the big undata! :laser:

[josie]

a new video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eJR3F47XRA

Please leave me some comments on my youtube! :)

[Greenmaster]

Looks awesome :D

[josie]

Looks awesome :D

thanks ;)

[josie]

little pistol shrimp works too much! :lol:
arriving home yesterday some LR had move and we pass 1 hour trying to replace things ok... ;)

on the good side it made us do more fraging :biggrin:

[Leah]

I have been in awe of your tank for awhile now. :biggrin:
I love your tang and the 2 blennies. :mrgreen: Nice additions.
Great videos!

[josie]

I have been in awe of your tank for awhile now. :biggrin:
I love your tang and the 2 blennies. :mrgreen: Nice additions.
Great videos!

thanks ;)

I really love my tennenti tang :) a real nice personnality, calm, always out looking at you :wink:

[josie]

:cheer2: 1 year anniversary :cheer2:

september 2009:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/13092009.jpg

september 2010:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/full-1-1.jpg

(Just note that the tank has changed during this time, but same corals)

[hillegom]

Looking good!

[Lance]

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

[Greenmaster]

Looks great.

[josie]

thanks! :)

[josie]

we bought a monster!
we found a old technology 4 feet high aistone skimmer!
we are actually installing it, cant wait to see it in action! as much we love new technologies, olds stuff can work great too! well I hope.. ;)

[Mrfish55]

we bought a monster!
we found a old technology 4 feet high aistone skimmer!
we are actually installing it, cant wait to see it in action! as much we love new technologies, olds stuff can work great too! well I hope.. ;)

Post up some pictures of that badboy before Mike has a stroke. I am running a 6 foot airdriven on my 750 and it works great, tank looks awsome.

[josie]

here it is:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/airstoneskimmer.jpg

Mrfish55: glad to see others are running those type of skimmer!

[josie]

a new video of the tank:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRDLnQHzc3A


:)

[josie]

I made a video of the equipment for our reef... I show the new skimmer in it too :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MPUSCRfb8

if you have any questions, I'll answer them ;)

[josie]

1 week of skimming:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_teEDVLYgUc

[josie]

Thinking of getting a sea hare to control my hair algae problem...
is there a specific species to get? are they reef safe?

or should I go with turbo mexicain snails?

other ideas?

[Delphinus]

Both have their strengths and drawbacks. There generally is only one species of seahare imported for the hobby. I forget the exact species offhand though. They don't live a long time but they are so ugly that they are beautiful. :lol: If they eat all the hair algae in your tank you have to feed them something like spirulina pellets, but only some will realize that it's food and adapt whereas others will starve. The longest I ever had one live was somewhere between 18 and 24 months.

[josie]

some new pics...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FTSs.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/right-4.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/chromiss.jpg

:)

[Delphinus]

Looks fantastic! What great growth and colours.

[wayner]

Looks Great Josee!

[lastlight]

Is that Monti growing to the shape of your clam? Sweet pics as always!

[josie]

Is that Monti growing to the shape of your clam? Sweet pics as always!

yes!
looking back at pics it has probably grow a near 2 inch in diameter in 1 year!

[josie]

good news:
the tail spot blenny come back to his "house"... it was living in the capricornis plates and since we moved the coral it was angry ;) but now it seems happy back home ;)

[josie]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/shrimps.jpg

[josie]

Dear husband brought home a digital magnifier that he used at work to make welding on electronic parts.

it looks like this:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/optex.jpg

it magnifies 200x... but has just a 2megapixel, so it's not great resolution...
it's quite difficult to focus and when there's too much light it's a blur...

but I manages to get those pics of the aquarium with it:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/organ1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/stag1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/superman.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/torch.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/frog-7-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/brain2.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/brain3.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/clam-4.jpg

my favorite:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/clam2.jpg

[Delphinus]

Fun stuff!

What is the red coral? (The two pictures before the clam)

[josie]

it's a open brain ;)

http://www.reefaction.com/nosforums/images/articles/AquariumVedetteRA/Mars-Avril-2010/large/Clobo1.jpg

[Delphinus]

Very nice!!

[josie]

some pictures taken today:

FTS
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FTSs-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/gauches.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/undatas.jpg

the lieutenant tang getting more and more beautyfull colors:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/lieutenant.jpg

this is the same fish back in May 2010:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/tennenti122mai2010.jpg

[Delphinus]

He looks fantastic! That's interesting with the yellow tail. Mine doesn't have that.

[lastlight]

I so want one of those fish. Maybe if I take out a few rocks and put in some traffic signs on the reef to coordinate movement of the tangs and...

frig.

[josie]

I so want one of those fish. Maybe if I take out a few rocks and put in some traffic signs on the reef to coordinate movement of the tangs and...

frig.

:blah:
LOL

[BlueTang<3]

Future tank of the months here. You have done well keep it up :mrgreen

[josie]

Future tank of the months here. You have done well keep it up :mrgreen

thank ;) if only I could get the hair algea under control :sad:

an other pic I did yesterday:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/06-2008-02BW-1.jpg

[josie]

last week-end I found one of my 2 emerald crab dead :cry:

but I was fooled!
the day after saw the 2 emerald in the tank! it was not a dead crab I found but a mold of one!
:laugh:

[lastlight]

Yeah the emerald molts are extremely convincing! My last emerald molted while haning upside down in a cave. The molt was even gripping the rock exactly as the live crab would have. No idea how they do it.

[globaldesigns]

I love the colors! Very nice tank.

[josie]

globaldesigns: tanks :)

lastlight: yes it's quite amazing! the molt I found was almost complet, missing only 2 back tiny legs! next time I wil keep it ;)

[josie]

tried some night pics.. under the moon lights... not an easy thing!!

here's my best shots:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FTSnuit.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/milinuit.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/diginuit.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/brainnuit.jpg

[josie]

this week-end I'm buying y a camcorder!
after reading all the reviews and wathcing youtube videos I made my decision: Kodak Playsport waterproof! :)
to be continued... :biggrin:

[josie]

New video!!!

I got the Kodak Playsport camcorder, and made my first video with it... I'm learning to film with it ;) not easy their's no auto-focus... I finaly bought this model because it's waterproof! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jeh14N-hDE

Please leave me comments on my youtube page! :)

[dankent]

Cool video :) thanks for sharing.

[josie]

thanks :)

[josie]

We notice that the colors of corals in the tank ... it's more "vibrant" ... more colorful ...
We changed nothing ... we do not add anything (no zeo, no iodine, no trace elements) ... We use instant ocean salt .... we have a calcium reactor (knop KORALlith), we stopped the kalkawaser reactor for the past few weeks (PH and KH remains good) ... we use e-bay MH...

Is this because the bio-pellets reactor? maybe .. maybe not ...

an example of more detail and vibrant color ... the brain:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/braincouleur.jpg

[BlueTang<3]

Do you have a before and after picture?

Great film btw :biggrin::biggrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jeh14N-hDE

[josie]

3 years ago:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/brain-2.jpg

1 years ago:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/06-12-2009EB.jpg

5 months ago (1 month after the bio-pellet reactor):
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/braincouleurav.jpg

now:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/braincouleur.jpg

[josie]

We just order a new gadget...
a Vertex Mocean 2000

We will replace the return water loc-lines with it.

geek all the way! :lol:

to be continued...with pics and video ;)

[kien]

wow, that thing is beautiful! I can't stop staring at it..

[ProReef]

WOW Josie...nice job all the way, great updates and with all the equipment specs too! That is very helpful for others to see. Love your devotion to keepin up the posts with ample pictures. That brain is soooo GEORGEOUS! The bio pellets probably help alot, reducing nitrates-which make colors drab and reducing phosphate-which inhibits calcification, you will probably notice a surge of SPS growth too. Great job, keep up the fantastic work. Love to hear reefers out there that are totally comitted to their tanks like you are. Looking forward to the next round of updates. Very inspiring!!!
Cheers Ronnie:biggrin:

[fishytime]

wow, that thing is beautiful! I can't stop staring at it..

Kien!.....stop that!.....you're a married man!.......oh....never mind you were staring at her lps.....:mrgreen:

very nice LPS btw:wink:

[josie]

wow, that thing is beautiful! I can't stop staring at it..

:redface: :thumb:

WOW Josie...nice job all the way, great updates and with all the equipment specs too! That is very helpful for others to see. Love your devotion to keepin up the posts with ample pictures. That brain is soooo GEORGEOUS! The bio pellets probably help alot, reducing nitrates-which make colors drab and reducing phosphate-which inhibits calcification, you will probably notice a surge of SPS growth too. Great job, keep up the fantastic work. Love to hear reefers out there that are totally comitted to their tanks like you are. Looking forward to the next round of updates. Very inspiring!!!
Cheers Ronnie:biggrin:

thanks Ronnie!
just wanting to share out passion ;) always loved to read other people treads about their tank and enjoy it even more when they keep it updated ;)

[josie]

a new video, we installed a Vertex Mocean 2000 :)

Sorry!! the upload had problem and the music stops! :(

CHECK THE VIDEO HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvzYUHxwXM

:)

[jphong]

That brain is awesome!

[josie]

Here's the pic of the mocean installation:

behind the tank,connect to the return pipe:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mocean-back.jpg

the mocean installed on plastic rim edge:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mocean-front.jpg

[josie]

2 months since the skimmer is in action!

We really think it's working great! I think this old technology is quit "soft" on the water... compare to using a needle wheel or other pomp that are hard on water...

our hait algae problems seems to end, the algae is dying and disolving!

The polyps extension is amazing!


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/stags.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/vert-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/BNRs.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/digivert.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/choux.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/doigtvert.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/undatas-1.jpg

[Lance]

Wow, those are sure some nice "fuzzy" sticks.

[josie]

Wow, those are sure some nice "fuzzy" sticks.

:laluot_18:

:mrgreen:

[josie]

new fish: a radiant wrasse!
no pictures yet.. it's hiding in the sand for now ;)

[josie]

the new fish!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/wrasse.jpg

[josie]

a new video...
nori feeding time!

Clic the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8haXXhTDOPM

[josie]

Found it so funny that the new wrasse eats nori... supose to be carnivore... lol

[Lance]

Found it so funny that the new wrasse eats nori... supose to be carnivore... lol

My Harlequin Tuskfish eats nori too. For the longest time he just ripped off chunks and spat it out, but since I've been using the garlic enhanced nori he gobbles it up. Go figure.:biggrin:

[josie]

:lol:
and I noticed that the radiant also loves green flakes...
weird fish!

[josie]

we cut the center brace on our tank and replace it by 2 brace, in between the MHs :)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/2braces.jpg

no more shadow in the midle on the tank:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FTS2braces.jpg

[josie]

I saw my crocea clam spawning last night! (sorry no video)

How common is that in a home reef aquarium?

[BlueTang<3]

I was excited when my clam spawned also but it is actually extremely bad. Did it white out the entire tank? Tony (Delphineious) lost a large chunk of his live stock following a clam spawn.

[josie]

no it was not that much.. the clam is about 4"... so it's not a big clam...

[Delphinus]

I'm not sure how rare it is, I think it's reasonably uncommon for the most part but having said that I seem to get about at least once a year. My clams are older and larger than average though, so it could have something to do with size and age.

Most of the times the event seems small enough but I did have a massive clam spawn about a year ago that spiked my system hard enough that I did lose fish, I think it was due to O2 depletion, the fish that died were all breathing/pumping very hard and heavy in their final moments. Not much you can do to prevent it, if it happens it happens, just be sure to keep your carbon clean, skimmer clean and be ready to do a waterchange if need be afterwards.

[josie]

Delphinus: what was the size of the clam and your tank size?

[Delphinus]

Tank is a 115g cube (30"x30"x30"). I never did find out for sure which clam(s) it was that time but it may have been my 12" squamosa. Had another spawn about a month ago and it was my 8" maxima that time (thankfully nobody died that time but it still made a huge mess of the tank).

[Rbacchiega]

... all breathing/pumping very hard and heavy in their final moments.....

Brett???? Muck??? Anybody??? Ha ha I'm just kidding Tony, and I'm not trying to joke about the crappy experience...but yeah.

All being juvinille aside, this is a FANTASTIC looking tank...the colonies are incredible.

[josie]

a new video, clic on the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb3ETwkyx6Y

[Jan]

You make marvelous videos of your beautiful tank! Well done!

[josie]

thanks ;)

[josie]

winter arrived here yesterday.. about 8inch of snow on Montreal...
I noticed that the PH of the tanks started veried a lot since we close the windows and start heating more...
probably normal..the oxygenation of the room where the reef is may got lower... we will restart our kalkawaser reactor ;)
anyone notice this?

[MitchM]

Very nice.:smile:

I see you are using Seachem Matrix.
What do you think of it?

Mitch

[josie]

Very nice.:smile:

I see you are using Seachem Matrix.
What do you think of it?

Mitch

we used it a few time, works good. Does the job.
but we started a biobeads reactor so we dont use matrix anymore

[josie]

new pics!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/FTSp.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/milieu.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/stag-3.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/duo.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/droite-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/brains.jpg

[abcha0s]

Awesome!

[BlueTang<3]

Looking as good as always.:biggrin: Next tank of the month!

[lastlight]

I love big colonies. Never get tired of seeing them!

[Lance]

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

[josie]

I love big colonies. Never get tired of seeing them!

;)
we had to start cutting the undata! it's almost 19inch wide!

[josie]

we reconnect the kalk reactor, seems that the PH will be more stable with it in winter...

I'm thinking asking santa for some Hanna water testers :)

[JonT]

we reconnect the kalk reactor, seems that the PH will be more stable with it in winter...

I'm thinking asking santa for some Hanna water testers :)

I have the phos one, and love it. Easy to use.

Just waiting on a local store to get the new Alk one in. Should be soon! Just waiting for them to get the new shipment (liquid reagent) in :) I hope it is as easy to use as the Phos one.

[josie]

thanks JonT :)

I want the alk one... and maybe the phos too :wink:

[josie]

of course the tank made it to 2011 ;)
I was so stress on december 23th!

Happy 2011 to all reefers that fallow my tread :)
wishing you healthy fish and great looking corals!

[Delphinus]

What happened on December 23??

[josie]

What happened on December 23??

december 23 2009:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=504474&postcount=10

[Delphinus]

Oh, something happened LAST year. Ok, I remember that now ... glad to hear that THIS December 23 was much more uneventful for you. Happy New Year / Bonne année et bonne santé. :)

[josie]

Oh, something happened LAST year. Ok, I remember that now ... glad to hear that THIS December 23 was much more uneventful for you. Happy New Year / Bonne année et bonne santé. :)

;)

[josie]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin-2.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin1-1.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/mandarin2-1.jpg

[Jason McK]

WOW Great Tank, Can't believe I've missed this thread for so long

Photos are also great!

[Greenmaster]

That is one of my favorite fish... Awesome fish.

[Lance]

Greenmaster where you been? How's that build going? We need info! :biggrin:

Sorry for the hi-jack Josie. Beautiful fish by the way, and the tank is looking terrific as always.

[Greenmaster]

I'm jealous of your fish... my tank still has no life in it.

(sorry for hijack as well...) update has been posted to my thread.

[josie]

a little sad moment this week.. one of the LR started falling and it the capricornis.. it broke appart :(
we have to do aqua-scaping this week-end...

dont know if it was because of the pistol shrimp digging tunnels under the LR or because the corals colonies are getting bigger...

well maybe it's a sign...
2011 will be a changing year.. selling some colonies and getting new ones!
:clap2:

[josie]

when is -25 C (-13F) outside what better way to pass a Sunday afternoon doing aqua-scaping!

we attempt to repair the damage of the LR slides of this week ... the rock with capricornis and seriatopora is arranged, hoping it picks up, and that it will be as beautiful like before because for the moment is not great...

the undata had a trim... it interferes less with the flow now!

small water change and the afternoon passed quickly
:biggrin:

[BlueTang<3]

That is no good at least you got a change from it I was always afraid of a rock slide used rod and cement to hold all my rocks together

[josie]

a new video!!!

The pistol tiger shrimp digging a new hole under the supervision of the blue spotted watchman goby!

clic the link:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3o-EzkiD0

:biggrin:

[Greenmaster]

Sweet... I'll take one... maybe a different color for my tank but I'm getting that combo for sure.

[josie]

Sweet... I'll take one... maybe a different color for my tank but I'm getting that combo for sure.

I got a yellow goby when I introduce the pistol... but never saw it again... so the blue spotted watchman decided to get together with the pistol ;)

[josie]

the 2011 make-over as started!!

some colonies were sold yesterday!
In march we will get new SPS!! :biggrin:

[andestang]

Well someone I'm sure someone got some nice stuff :) Are you looking for full size colonies or starting from frags ?


the 2011 make-over as started!!

some colonies were sold yesterday!
In march we will get new SPS!! :biggrin:

[josie]

small and medium size colonies... can put more wen it's not large! :lol:
also maybe frags... if we dont find bigger size and if it's really really "unique" ;)

[josie]

update:

the monti capricornis did not like to be re-glued (after the latest LR slide)..they bleach :(

New adition to the set-up: a quarantine/hospital tank :)
It's a 33g connected to the set-up with valves to separate it when in use...
The new SPS colonies will go in there before being placed in the main tank

[josie]

Installation of the quarantine tank:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/quarantaine.jpg

we put a valve in the water inlet so that we can shot it to quanrantine the tank from the main systeme ;)

today we are going to install the second tank (on the upper-shelf) that's going to be a frag tank. :)

[abcha0s]

Installation of the quarantine tank:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b221/josee1013/150g/quarantaine.jpg

we put a valve in the water inlet so that we can shot it to quanrantine the tank from the main systeme ;)

today we are going to install the second tank (on the upper-shelf) that's going to be a frag tank. :)

Looks like the bulb is around 14K. Maybe consider a 10K for qt. It might make it easier to spot something and it will encourage growth - albeit at the possible cost of colouration.

- Brad

[josie]

thanks for the info Brad!

should I start with a 10k to check the corals for parsites and after I'm sure there's nothing switch to 14k (it's what I have on the main set-up)?

[josie]

Finally we decide to stop the bio-pellet reactor after 8 months of use.
Reason : start STN spots in some corals ... and the readings of several posts on on forums describing problems after 6 months of bio-pellets ...
Our hair Algea problem is nearly eliminated we decided to stop the pellets ...
So we reinstalled Matrix in the mediar eactor (nextreef)...

Last night: large water change of 30% and cleaning of the sump (Berlin)...

6 new SPS in the quarantine tank!
which will be place in the main tank in the coming weeks, if everything is ok.

[josie]

Sorry to not having giving news sonner.. many things happened... not many good things...

the last 2 weeks have been long and sad ... On april 3rd we had to euthanize our beloved greyhound, Tuffy... :(
the void left by his departure is huge...
We remember all the good times we had with him during the 6 years we got him.
We miss our big dogy a lot...
:laluot_10:

The tank has it's up and downs...

We had to frag down the blue and green staghorn because of algae got stuck in the midle of the colony and started bleaching...

We discovered montipora eating nudi this week ... cursed bugs... we sucked out all the eggs visible and cut quite a bug section of different montis (among other the big undata :( ) .. We entered a six-line wrasse that looks busy swimming around corals for critters...
for the moment everything is under control, no new spot nibbled and no new pile of eggs ...
If we see new ones we will get dipping products ... coral RX probably ...

One of the overflow has also decide to block ... we play the plumber ... and in the bottom of the overflow I rescued a fish ... our 2nd blue-spotted watchman! it must be 6 months that we did not seen it! it was doing good in the overflow .. eat all the flakes and another food that flows down there lol

The new frag tank will be placed under the aqua in the cabinet ... We will remove aquas in the work-shop..less problems with noxious fumes of Marc hobbies (restauration of old cars) ...

We found the pistol shrimp in the sump... little naughty critter have fun in going down the durso pipe ... we put it back in the main tank .. the goby was happy to see it's friend back! lol

so that's the news here...

[Leah]

So sorry to hear about your dog Josie.

[Chowder]

Very sorry to hear about your dog Jossie, hope things get better for you.


Chris

[Lance]

Very sorry to hear about your dog Josie. It's hard to lose a member of the family. Hopefully things pick up with the tank.

[josie]

Life is full of cycles.

The passions are born, grow, decline, rebirth and sometimes die.
Our interest in the salt water he soon began more then 10 years ... a 90g freshwater turned into saltwater.
Then came big leagues with the 250g and then the 140g (this tread).
The years have bring discoveries, mistakes, happiness and sorrows.
The adventure was rewarding although sometimes frustrating.
It allowed us to meet a bunch of folks and even created some great friendships.

But now our cycle ends.

We closed our 140g yesterday.

Thank you for all your comments!!
For now we are converting to planted freshwater.. the beggining of a new adventure...

Life is full of cycles.. maybe someday we will return to saltwater...

[Leah]

Wow! :sad: Sorry you have decided to leave the salt side ...your tank was beautiful. As were all the photos and videos you shared with us. Your tank was a work of art and an inspiration to me. :mrgreen:

Good-luck! and all the best with the planted tank... hope you post pictures for us... as I am sure it will be gorgeous too! :biggrin:

Leah

[kien]

Sorry to hear..although I'm sure you have very good reasons. Your tank was always inspiring! Hope to see you back at it in the future when the spin cycle comes 'round again :-D

[FishyFishy!]

Verry sorry to hear. Hope you'll be back around sometime soon!

[Lance]

Good Luck with the planted tank Josie, but I know you'll be back to the salty side soon enough. :lol:

[lastlight]

I really liked your tank best of luck with new challenges.

[josie]

thank you for your kind word and encouragements!
I'm really sad about this... but after talking with dear husband we made the decision...
I'm sure I'll found interresting challenges in FW planted tank... looking forward to make one as nice as Amano does... :redface:

[josie]

I just post in the buy/sell section some equipment we dont need for our new project...