my 1000000000th journal.. now with fewer zombies!!!!(pics of corals)

[reefwars]

well its time i started yet another journal lol im starting to think they are bad luck but here we go anyways:)

so unlike all my other tanks this one is tiny....very tiny like 20g tiny and so far it looks like crap and has been through hell and back:)

i had to tear down the 60g cube as it was left at a friends for 2 mths and completely neglected and pretty much crashed corals were killed and fish barely made it or died during the move:(

i took the sad tank to my new house and decided not to set up the cube but its gettin good use as the stand for my 20g lol looks cool too hehe:)

i wish i could say it was a fresh start but it wasnt my rock was covered in algae all parameters were completely all over the place and alot of them off the chart:( i had some serious work to do

i started with water changes and carbon by the rip and lots of both i scraped and pulled what i could and i got to work on my parameters.nitrates and phosphates were my biggest problem both were completely off the chart.i built a reactor and started running rowa phos and the water changes and no feeding brought my nitrates down.

i added some snails and a lawnmower blenny to cut my algae down that i couldnt pull and they have been doing a great job.i got lucky with my blenny as he loves the tall stuff and can be found pulling it off like no tomorrow and they usually like the film algae so that worked out great:):)


once things got back to what ill call for now normal i added a small zoanthid colony for a tester coral and he is thriving just fine:)

getting my alk,calcium,mg to be in sync took a bit of work i had to dose for calcium and after a few weeks of constant monitoring im happy to say its where it should be.

i went out and got some more goodies for the tank i bought a purple lta and some feather dusters some crabs and a cleaner shrimp and added a hob refugium which houses some liverock rubble and some cheato.


my good friend fred(nlreefguy) gave me some frags and they are doing good with the exception of a pink birdsnest and its funny cause ive always had goodluck with birdnest and bad luck with acros and for this tank my acro is doing great while my birdsnest is not huh go figure right damn sticks lol

today i cut out the rowa phos and started on phosguard to keep my phosphates at zero the rowa phos is just to expensive and has done its job:)

i also picked up a nice rbta and a bunch more snails



annnndddddd for the millionth time i am trying yet another elegance its a small fella i got for a good price it looks healthy and so far so good and as you know my last one was killed by my eel and clown fighting where i lost my large cinn clown and a very nice aussie elegance:)




heres where i stand:)


20g
250w mh retrofit into canopy 20,000k bulb
gatorade reactor running phosguard
hob refugium with lr rubble and cheato
crushed coral sandbed
30lbs of lr i took home from edmonton:):)


livestock:


yellow tailed chromis
ocellaris clown
lawnmower blenny


neon green open brain
purple lta
rbta
feather duster x 2
orange monticap
zoanthids
aussie elegance
purple gorg
yellow gorg
green acro
pink birdsnest
cabbage coral
sinularia coral


numerous snails and hermits





tank is coming along but im not gonna post pics untill a) i get a camera lol and b) untill my algae completely clears off its dieing off very fast but i still have some turf algae im working on thats being a pest:)



cheers guys ill update here again sometime soon:):)

[poleyc]

I recently (2.5 months)started up my 29 gallon. I kinda had a leg up as a friend of mine was shutting his large tank down and blessed me with about forty pounds of really established LR, I will be keeping my eye out for more posts :biggrin:

[reefwars]

I recently (2.5 months)started up my 29 gallon. I kinda had a leg up as a friend of mine was shutting his large tank down and blessed me with about forty pounds of really established LR, I will be keeping my eye out for more posts :biggrin:


i could have started from scratch but i love a challenge and i believe im winning and you want to know something cool after all the tanks and all the changes all the moves .....i still have my first coral i bought in alberta yrs ago a few heads of green button polyps that have somehow managed to survive it all they have seen a dozen tanks some crases and a trip across country lol man they are in destructable lol:)

[poleyc]

i could have started from scratch but i love a challenge and i believe im winning and you want to know something cool after all the tanks and all the changes all the moves .....i still have my first coral i bought in alberta yrs ago a few heads of green button polyps that have somehow managed to survive it all they have seen a dozen tanks some crases and a trip across country lol man they are in destructable lol:)

Thats awesome!!!! Can't wait to see pics.

[whatcaneyedo]

Somehow I just knew this thread was yours when I read the title before I even looked under Article By.

(Meant to sound funny not negative)

[reefwars]

Somehow I just knew this thread was yours when I read the title before I even looked under Article By.

(Meant to sound funny not negative)


hahaha its true i come up with the weirdest titles for my journals lol im not all there at times hehe:):)

[Vitaminz]

Heya Buddy, So glad to see you back on here!!! Can't wait to see pictures, always love you builds...

Jeff

[reefwars]

Heya Buddy, So glad to see you back on here!!! Can't wait to see pictures, always love you builds...

Jeff


thanks jeff buddy ill post some pics soon i just need to get a camera the tank isnt looking to healthy today though i must say the switch over from rowa phos to phosguard is taking its toll i lost one of my snails and one of my feather dusters refuses to come out, my rbta is moving around like crazy into dark places.things are looking better this evening when i got home the rbta is open now but the feather duster is still closed which is weird cause it open 24hrs a day.


story of my life clowns and elegances dont mix lol im glad its just a little guy and the elegance doesnt seem to mind but hes rubbing on it something feirce prob because his feather duster is hiding i kinda liked the fact it would just lie in the middle of the large duster and hide out from the other fish lol i hope he goes back when it comes out again:)

[Vitaminz]

If you look on the Dell site, and see a camera you like, I can get you a steal of a deal, plus of course free shipping. Let me know, more than happy to help out, since all the help you have done for this community.

I hear you on not updating pics because of the nasty algae... stupid stuff....I also haven't post any pictures cause the stuff took over my tank, but now winning the battle against it!!!

I still have the RBTA I got from your tank, he is always on the move and still staying small...

[Skimmerking]

and no pictures hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you are a talker arent ya byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

go oh with your silliness

[reefwars]

If you look on the Dell site, and see a camera you like, I can get you a steal of a deal, plus of course free shipping. Let me know, more than happy to help out, since all the help you have done for this community.

I hear you on not updating pics because of the nasty algae... stupid stuff....I also haven't post any pictures cause the stuff took over my tank, but now winning the battle against it!!!

I still have the RBTA I got from your tank, he is always on the move and still staying small...



im trying to find a dslr they are just a bit priucey theres a few on kijiji i was looking at i also want to get a good macro lense. my little rbta is small too buddy lol and my algae well its been quite the trip on that one im using phosguard but when this dose is over im going back to rowa phos im not happy with the phosguard at all lol so hows the old tank coming along??

[reefwars]

and no pictures hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you are a talker arent ya byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

go oh with your silliness

hahah im workin on it mike i got no camera i picked up some nice coral yesterday but no camera for pics which blows yes i know lol my tank has reacted funny to the switch over from rowa phos to phosguard so im going to switch back here asap things are looking a bit better tonight but its the little things one of my feather dusters wont come out ive got this nice little zoanthid colony and its oue 24/7 but today only half the polyps are out. i found a dead snail and a sudden out break of film algae.im doing a water change tonight and changing up some carbon and see if that helps:)

[Vitaminz]

im trying to find a dslr they are just a bit priucey theres a few on kijiji i was looking at i also want to get a good macro lense. my little rbta is small too buddy lol and my algae well its been quite the trip on that one im using phosguard but when this dose is over im going back to rowa phos im not happy with the phosguard at all lol so hows the old tank coming along??

Heya buddy,

Been crazy busy with work, but the tank is coming along nicely, just finishing up the last little bits of the the algae clean up. Just got a new light for the tank, traded somebody my t5 cause I missed the MH so much... Will get new pics up soon, just wanted all the HA to be gone before posting pictures. Just about to get a new 90g setup and running at my place. Hope you come out for a visit soon, lots of people here miss you!

Jeff

[reefwars]

well the little tank suffered some minor downfalls this week but is back on track we lost some good soldiers but we won the war i took some pics of the tank tonight so ill post some pics once they are uploaded, my zoas still arent fully open from the crash but my lps has recovered 100% and im really winning the battle against my hair algae which is just about completely gone minus a little patch here and there:)


coral pics in a bit:)

[reefwars]

Heya buddy,

Been crazy busy with work, but the tank is coming along nicely, just finishing up the last little bits of the the algae clean up. Just got a new light for the tank, traded somebody my t5 cause I missed the MH so much... Will get new pics up soon, just wanted all the HA to be gone before posting pictures. Just about to get a new 90g setup and running at my place. Hope you come out for a visit soon, lots of people here miss you!

Jeff

you bet i will buddy im thinking about moving back to edmonton or possibly calgary still debating it its a hard choice its so beautiful here but i miss the city,money and reefs but i love the people,scenery and traditions of nl hummm such a hard choice lol:)

[reefwars]

heres some pics of my surviving corals yay:)


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/294.jpg?t=1310519867


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/289.jpg?t=1310519652


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/286.jpg?t=1310519539


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/282.jpg?t=1310519397


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/281.jpg?t=1310519330


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/271.jpg?t=1310518816


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/263.jpg?t=1310518451


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/259.jpg?t=1310518314



http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/256.jpg?t=1310518217


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/255.jpg?t=1310518160


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/251.jpg?t=1310518048

http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/249.jpg?t=1310518003

http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/245.jpg?t=1310517932


http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/233.jpg?t=1310517475

http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/241.jpg?t=1310517772





and my personal fave heres a pic of my yellow tail building his house its labour work but someones got to do it lol



http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad85/reefwars/20g%20reef/272.jpg?t=1310518899

[kole]

Hi Reefwars where are you buying your corals because I know there isn't much of a selection here.

[Vitaminz]

Looking good buddy!!!! Still waiting for a full tank shot...lol

[reefwars]

Looking good buddy!!!! Still waiting for a full tank shot...lol



hahha not untill shes where i want it to be its still quite empty and im still fooling with the layout but soon hopefully,i must say though shes a healed nicely when i got home tonight everything is full open and looking good again and all my zoas are open every last one whoo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):)

[reefwars]

Hi Reefwars where are you buying your corals because I know there isn't much of a selection here.


haha you said it man well theres only 2 shops as far as i know so it helps to know the owners there plus i know some other reefers around my area and they have given me some stuff but like i say its still pretty empty as it was just set up a couple months ago.......feel free to cut me some frags if you got some lol :puppydog:

[kole]

Frags are scarce in mine right now but i'll keep you in mind

[Vitaminz]

hahha not untill shes where i want it to be its still quite empty and im still fooling with the layout but soon hopefully,i must say though shes a healed nicely when i got home tonight everything is full open and looking good again and all my zoas are open every last one whoo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):)

Figured as much...lol...come on it can't be that bad... which lights are you using on this tank??? Your always fooling around...stop diddling with your "layout" and get some work done....bahahahahaha

[reefwars]

well today started off with a bit of a fright i worked a 19hr shift yesterday and came home and went to bed and when i got up i said man its some cold in the house so i went top check the temp in the tank as my window was open and good thing i did cause the temp was at 71 and i said wtf.....then i noticed nothing in my tank was on nothing at all so in a panic i started to check plugs and breakers turns out the breaker was tripped.....i checked all the things out and started eliminating what it was and my pump for my phosphate reactor is pooched something is wrong with it its making a buzzing noise and trips the breaker as soon as its plugged in so now im down a reactor untill i can find a replacement. man i havent been having a good week with this tank at all but im glad to say everyone took it well nothing lost.


on the plus side the lack of flow and heat in the tank forced my ocellaris to jump in the lta and hide out and now he loves it and wont leave which is awesome so now maybe he will leave my elegance alone lol:)

[reefwars]

so after having such a shitty week with the tabnk i figured its time to start enjoying it again before i throw it across the room lol so today i went out and bought some happiness lol:)

i grabbed a bunch of red macro algae and lots of it to some for my refuge and some for my tank, i also got a frogspawn,another lawnmower blenny, and a cherub angel about 3/4" all are doing great and the angel and lawnmower have started eating already:)