Nice job! Looks good.

Contest Reminder:

**Updated FTS and Budget Required today (Nov 15/08) to remain in the contest**

Bought a new orange zoanthid at a local store in Edmonton on Saturday. Prices on first post have been updated.

My daughter came home for the weekend and she agreed that my aquascaping did kind of suck. So we spent the day re-aquascaping. Broke a couple of heads of two of the zoanthids and glued them onto a new rock. Nice way to get a free frag. Not sure what colors they are but we'll see when they open.

Also bought a new camera so hopefully the pictures in the future will be better. I'll have to wait for a few days to post the pictures as they will be downloaded into the computer that won't have internet access for a few day. A little off topic, but we finally get high speed internet tomorrow. We live 18 km outside of Edmonton and until now have never had access to any high speed internet providers. Finally joining the 20th century.:multi:

Yeah high speed is nice... but ours is a bit finicky from time to time (5 min outside Calgary so it works on radio waves??)

A new camera.... NICE! I'd love to get one,

Looking forward to seeing the new scape

I've been having trouble trying to keep some of the frags mounted in place. Some of them always end up pushed out of their places and lying in the sand. I've been blaming the Damsel for all this trouble.

Well this morning I peered into the tank with my LED flashlight, and what did I see. A CRAB!!! No idea where he came from and no ID on him as I didn't get a good enough look. Looks to be the size of a loonie.

Haven't figured out what to do yet. Going to think about it for a day or two, as in the last 8 months I've had to get rid of 3 other hitchhiker crabs and kind of feeling bad about it.

Here's my FTS for December 15th. Here's the first picture of the newly aquascaped tank. Having problems with algae blooms. Looks like I should have taken more time to let the tank cycle before adding the corals and fish. I don't think it will be too hard to deal with. I still have an unknown crab hiding somewhere, but he's not done any damage so I'll let him be.

Budget has been updated to reflect the new Flourescant zoanthid I bought from a local reefer. Still have not added the apitasia to the budget as I think it should be a free hitchhiker.

FTS Dec 15-08
http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...o/IMG_0157.jpg

New Zoanthid
http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...o/IMG_0170.jpg

Mushrooms
http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...o/IMG_0172.jpg

Nice

OOOOOH looking good! LOVE the new Zoa!

Love the Aquascape!! Great looking tank so far.

New scape looks good!

Agreed! You got skills. Looking good.

Very nice! What an amazing canopy and stand, will you teach me how to do that?

So how much do you think the zoas will grow out over the next few months??? Think you'll have a full out zoa garden??

It's looking good! Aquascaping is excellent.

I would love to take credit for the aquascaping, but it was my daughter's work. She seems to have a talent. If I can keep my hands out of the tank I do expect some growth from the zoanthids. I'm not sure how much with the lighting only being incandescant. In the past I have experienced amazing growth with a 150 MH, but I didn't use it on this tank due to the heating issues.

Actually easy with the right equipment and one piece of board at a time.

It's looking great. I'm going to rescape mine too, it's too dark right now.

I had to post my Jan 15th pic today, as I'm leaving on holidays Wed morning for 2 weeks in the Domican Republic and won't be back in time for the Jan 15th deadline. I'm looking forward to some sun and hopefully snorkling for the first time.

All did not go well with the little tank during the last month. I spent too much time on the 90 gal tank and Christmas. Didn't do water changes and probably overfeed the little Damsel, so I have had a major outbreak of algae. I bought a little Turbo snail and he's been doing a great job of cleaning things up. Hopefully by next month it will look better.

Also had major problems with a hitcherhiker crab. Zoanthids were constantly knocked off and upside down in the sand and mushrooms picked off their rocks. Friday morning he was sent to inspect the septic pipes and hasn't reported back yet.

Sorry for the very bad picture, but hopefully next month will be better.

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...y/IMG_0243.jpg

How'd you catch the little bugger. I've been trying for a month to catch a large crab in my tank. Did you have to move some rockwork or did you use a trap?

I have used this method 3 times in the past year and it always seems to work. I cut a plastic water bottle in half, throw away the top and poke a few holes in the bottom so it doesn't float. The in the bottle put in some Mysis, nori and anything else that might entice the little begger. I then lean it up against a rock that I think he might be in, giving him a nice easy path to the food. Once he goes down for the food he can't climb up.

Sometimes it only takes a few minutes after lights out, other times it has taken a couple of nights.

Good luck. I know that they can be very annoying to say the least.

I tried the bottle trap and even leaned it up against the rock like you did. Bugger is just too smart or too full of Ricordea to go for the bait. I'll keep trying though. Thanks for the info.

New FTS is looking great!!

Hasn't been much for updates or stories of the tanks these days..

Came back from 2 weeks holidays and made the mistake of having my tanks overfeed. Did wonders for zoanthid growth but it will probably take awhile to clean up the tanks. Here's 2 pics from yesterday.

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p..._0312-Copy.jpg

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p..._0311-Copy.jpg

Lookin good :cool:

The last month has gone well. Green algae is now under control. All zoanthids have grown well but blue mushrooms are not opening up as well as they used too. The coraline algae growth on the back glass is growing too well and really takes away from the rest of the picture. Guess it's some to do some scraping.

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...TSFeb15-08.jpg

Looks fantastic...very very colorful!!!!

looks awesome!

love that 'scape!

I've seen this tank in person and it's beautiful, pics don't do it justice.

Nice! Tank looks great!

Nice!! Will look much better when you clean that back glass too. :)

Here's my March 15th picture. Posted it on the first page as well. Nothing is new this month. Algae is under control, I believe due to the one turbo snail and the cutting down on feeding. Three of the zoanthids decided this week to only open half of the polyps, not sure why. Finally getting the coraline algae scraped off the back of the tank. I think it looks a little nicer than way. I have been letting a couple of Apitasia's grow bigger and I think they're big enough now to get a hold of the syringe. (I'm still counting them as free hitchhikers)

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...Mar14-0925.jpg

Looks unreal!

WOW...looks absolutely GORGEOUS! Growing in really well!

Very nice! The little fish makes the zoos look Huge! I like it.

And I'm amazed, you posted from the future! (Today is the 14th ;) )

Niiiiiice!

Looks great.. that is some cool aquascaping.. I'd say best in the contest. :mrgreen:

Thanks, I have a very artistic daughter.

I'm a sucker for overhangs... :mrgreen:

Very nice !

Looking great, your picture matches your theme perfectly!