kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[gqlmao]

Those feather dusters must of polished that water real good before entering the sump. Is that the secret to those amazing corals? Now the new trend, everyone on Canreef is going to start dumping worms in their overflow box.

[kien]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

Man, when i'm setting up my duplex fuge.... I'm coming over to snag some feather dusters to seed my benthic zone. Thats NUTZ. I'm sure they'll re-populate quick.

Next up is purging my sump. It's almost as bad.

Originally Posted by gqlmao

Those feather dusters must of polished that water real good before entering the sump. Is that the secret to those amazing corals? Now the new trend, everyone on Canreef is going to start dumping worms in their overflow box.

If that's the case then I've removed at least 25% of my filtering capacity, frak!

I have often wondered though, how well feather dusters filter out dissolved organics, if at all. And if they do, then surly they must secrete waste as well so they are also dumping in nutrients as well ? Who knows

[Magickiwi]

All I know is that looked incredibly ugly Are they better looking when they are in water? The only things in my overflow right now are coraline and diatom film...

[kien]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

All I know is that looked incredibly ugly Are they better looking when they are in water? The only things in my overflow right now are coraline and diatom film...

They definitely got to a point where I became too afraid to venture into my overflow.. That was three years ago. 3 more years on that and my overflow was probably harbouring some interesting things under the various strata of detritus, debris, feather dusters, aiptasia..

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by kien

They definitely got to a point where I became too afraid to venture into my overflow.. That was three years ago. 3 more years on that and my overflow was probably harbouring some interesting things under the various strata of detritus, debris, feather dusters, aiptasia..

Oh Hulk up and just slam your gloveless hand into your sump; right to the bottom! Come on, prove you're tough

Actually I envy you; you're blessed with an abundance of various marine life that grows wild in your tank. My tank doesn't have anything I didn't deliberately put in other than a chiton and one or possibly two pistol shrimp I hear from time to time. I put some coral in yesterday that had a couple mini-stars tucked away on the bottom so maybe that will increase my bio-diversity.

[lastlight]

this seems like a good time to resurrect this while we look back on your overflow's varied appearances.

[Delphinus]

I need to do the same to my overflow box, it looks much the same. If I could just vacuum up the mud on the bottom and let the featherdusters be I would but they are so delicate that it's impossible.

I've kind of given up on being nice to them in my sump, I take my floor pump and vacuum up the detritus that settles in there. The pump sounds like a blender and it's nasty but I don't know what else to do about it. That amount of mud settling on the bottom has to be harboring the baddie nutrients.

On Saturday I tried to use a turkey baster to clean out the mud from my 65g's sump but the H2S smell it released told me to stop and just empty out the whole thing and clean it at the sink. I didn't even do the skimmer but it needs a powerscrub as well but it was already hours of my life as it was.

I shudder at the thought of eventually doing the same to my big tank's sump. I'm hoping that that water change vacuum trick lets me push that particular task back for a while for the time being..

[Doug]

Originally Posted by gqlmao

Those feather dusters must of polished that water real good before entering the sump. Is that the secret to those amazing corals? Now the new trend, everyone on Canreef is going to start dumping worms in their overflow box.

Thats what I thought. Kool looking overflow. But scary. There be boogins in der.

[kien]

For all you top-down photo haterZ (you know who you are), here are some random non-top-down photos I took this evening. All taken under 22K T5s only (my evening lights), and the water is a bit dirty from my new goby kicking up my dust bed.

Electric Orange Mushrooms.



Coral Master's Rainbow Stylophora.



Tyree Undata.



No-Name Favia



Sunset Monti.



One of Two Ponape Birdnests.



Second Ponape Birdsnest in another location (beside a Poker Star Monti)



blastos.



bubble coral.



Plane Jane Green Stylophora



Duncans.



Purple Stylophora



Red Goniopora.

[kien]

a plate coral (fungia) that's closing up shop for the evening.



Dual Colour Octospawn



Yellow Frogspawn



Orange/Maroon-ish hammer



Gold Hammer



Rainbow Montipora (but you wouldn't know it because it's only got the rainbowy colours on its growth edges and this thing is massive so it just looks like a poker star monti with an orange fringe)



My klepto pink urchin



Blue Reef Lobster



FTS