noirsphynx's 10g//UPDATED PICS PAGE 8
 

This tank is going to remain very basic as I'm fairly new to the hobby. This is more about the fun of it. I'm going to try a mushroom themed tank.

Budget $395.45
Used $383.73
Remaining $11.72

Free Items:
Tank, 10g
LR
LS
Stand
Themometer

Supplies:
Subcurrent Filter(new) $38.99
Light, Nova Extreme 18" T5(new) $79.99
Elite 50w heater(used) $16.49(75% of Petsmart price, have reciept)
Koralia 1(used) $25.46(75% as per J&L)
Moonlights $7.80

total $168.73

Livestock:
Gumdrop Coral Croucher $31.99
Anenome Shrimp x 2 (one was $7.49 other was $14.54) = $22.03
Nassarius Snails $1.34 x 2 = $2.68(already had so 75% of J&L)
Turbo Snail $1.46 (already had so 75% of J&L)
Feather Duster x2 = $36.84
Orange Spotted Mushroom $5
Green Stripe Mushroom $5
Orange Yuma $5
Pink Yuma $10 Died =(
Blue Mushroom $5
Red Mushroom $10
Red Spotted Mushroom $5
Purple Mushroom $5
Bullseye Mushroom $5
Florida Ricordia 5 x $5ea = $25
Florida Ricordia $10
Orange (argent orange?) zoa's $5
Purple zoa's $5
Green/Blue/Peach (earth, wind & fire?) zoa's $5
Pink w/ green center (candy apple pink?) zoa's $5
Orange (armour of god?) Paly $5
Green Palys $5

total $215

BEAUTIFUL cat!!!!!!! WOW! I love him/her?

Thanks, that's Rocko aka "Stinky" came all the way from Utah.

How are you able to hold the cat still while you shave him....:lol::lol:

That was a funny......right?

You wouldn't believe how many people don't know there's cats born bald. Sometimes it's quite funny trying to convice them. I once had a solicitor knock at my door(I wasn't home) and Rocko just happened to be sitting in the window. I heard later from several neighbours that this guy would say "did you know your neighbour shaves their cat" Every one of them told him different but he refused to believe it. Still makes me laugh.

That was a funny......right?

You wouldn't believe how many people don't know there's cats born bald. Sometimes it's quite funny trying to convice them. I once had a solicitor knock at my door(I wasn't home) and Rocko just happened to be sitting in the window. I heard later from several neighbours that this guy would say "did you know your neighbour shaves their cat" Every one of them told him different but he refused to believe it. Still makes me laugh.


Yeah, I have seen those cats before...some of the reefmembers have them...still a strange sight though...sort of like the hairless dogs..
something you don't see everyday.:biggrin:

Ok, seriously...I am the only one who does NOT have a bald cat to pu in my 10G???

Beautiful cat!

Have us curious now. What little critter do you have planned?

It's a secret until I know if I can get him or not:smile:. I have all the LFS looking for one and so far I haven't heard back from any:cry: I'm so very hopeful though. I have 6 months to find one and hopefully it won't blow too much of my budget.

Oh well......maybe I can tell......it's a Gumdrop Coral Croucher :biggrin: I'm in love with the little cuties. Maybe someone out there knows where I can get one, even if I have to have him shipped here. If that happens then I'll post to see if there's any interest in a group order from wherever I can find him. So what does everyone think....cute or what?

I'm a little behind, no water in yet :redface: but I will by tomorrow hopefully. Added a pic of the stand I built to the first post.

Water went in last night :biggrin:
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...2&pictureid=11

Great stand.. would have worked well for a sump :wink: haha!

Thanks, that was my intial thought when building it but I wouldn't of had a clue on making one (I'm lucky I was even able to pull off building a stand, lol) but I will be setting up a refugium in the future. Probably not for the contest though.

I changed out the sand for black Tahitian Moon Sand & changed around and added more rock. I'm pleased with this look much, much more than what I had :biggrin:
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...2&pictureid=63

WOW...love the black sand and the rockwork looks fantastic!

DAMN YOU ALL WITH THE BLACK SAND!!!! LOL...

Tank looks great though.. sweet scaping! :mrgreen:

:lol::mrgreen::lol:

:mrgreen:I honestly wanted to do black in the beginning but already had white LS so I thought I'd just try it but was very unsatisfied with it's look. Now my husband likes it so much he wishes his 90g was black:lol:

Looks really good.

Sorry not to side track... but why do some people say black sand is bad again??

Drop a magnet in there...

No, just kidding, but I had some sand with black and dropped an algae magnet and whoosh !..

I don't know if its "bad" but when I ran black sand it looked great for the first few months and then it just seemed to loose it's affect and I couldn't keep it clean (pure black). I wouldn't use it again but that's just me.

I reeeeeaaaaally hope it doesn't! I just love the look of it. I suppose even if it does at least it's only in my 10g & not my 90g. That would be a PITA to change out.

I'm sure it will be fine, here's some pics of my back sand, same stuff you used.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...Picture024.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/90gallon.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...Picture081.jpg

Contest Reminder:

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

I'm posting this for my wife. The computer is down at home. She has no way to upload pics. Will do when the problem is fix. Is this okay with the contest moderators.

How soon can you get a photo up? Can you get the Budget updated today?

I 'm in North east bc she in alberta. She has zero internet at home. she said november tank pic is the same as october. Nothing has been added to the tank yet.

Should have just reposted the same pic ahah

YAY!!! After fighting with my computer for several days:drinking: now I'm finally back on-line. Thanks to a Facebook virus I had no internet. So anyway, as you see my husband posted for me. I haven't added anything new to my tank yet but I will add a new fts anyway.

Added some corals. Some are so tiny you won't notice them though, lol.
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=122
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=123
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=124
Just noticed too that my orange paly & purple zoo's got washed out by the flash =(

Thought I'd share some individual pics of some of the mushrooms in my tank. Some of these pics are not of the actual mushrooms but I do have the babies of them in there. I still have to take pics of what ever's missing here.
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=141
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=138
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=137
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=136
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=134
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=135
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=133
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...7&pictureid=43
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=140
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...7&pictureid=29
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...7&pictureid=26
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...7&pictureid=24

And here's the zoo's & paly's.
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=126
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=127
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=128
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=130
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=131
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=132
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...8&pictureid=33
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...8&pictureid=37
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...8&pictureid=38
http://canreef.com/vbulletin/picture...&pictureid=125

You should update your first post with your Nov "15" Photo... I know it was after:)

I posted a 15th shot even though there was no change. The added corals were a few days after. I will add that one too though. I can't wait for my mushrooms to grow, they're so piddly right now, lol.

Thanks :)

Added Dec 15 FTS to first page. I changed the layout of the rock again because I wasn't so sure it was great for a mushroom tank but now I'm thinking it wasn't such a great idea. What is everyone's honest opinion, Nov. 15 or Dec. 15 layout?

There's a lot of stuff that just can't be seen yet:frown:. Sometimes makes me wonder just how much growth is going to happen before this contest is over. Hopefully everything will start growing faster, anyone have any freaky growth water they wanna share:lol:

I like them both. It's hard to choose between them.