Dyspnea's 120g tank build

Dyspnea · #1 05-29-2010, 09:21 PM

A brief update.

My mated clown fish spawned on monday the 24th, This is their first spawn in the new aquarium, they had spawned previously however this is the first spawn in nearly two years. They laided a small patch of eggs, and are very defensive. The female nips at me when i pick up my fallen frags.

The female is so defensive, It looks as though my PBT got a too close to their hosting frogspawn, and the two must have had a small spat. The female has a small cut on her cheek. It doesn't look to serious, and she is still eating which is a good sign

I also found a health looking Mandarin goby, and brought her home, I had one previous on and old setup and had to get another one. They are one of my favorites

My tank is only 3 months old now, but I think she will do just fine. I've had her for nearly two weeks now.

And a little teaser for my next update.

While visiting some family in Red Deer, I came across this little thread

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=64901

I jumped on the opportunity and came home with a couple frags and colonies

Simon tank was amazing! I only wish my wallet was a little fatter

Dyspnea · #2 06-15-2010, 10:03 PM

So as I mentioned in my previous post here are the item I was able to snag

Blue Milli

Loveslight aquagreen/deepwater blue

neon green suharsoni frag

And I got a decent sized frag of the apple green tortusa)

Dyspnea · #3 06-15-2010, 10:19 PM

The last few days I've had a few incidents...

To begin, I got tired of picking up my frags on a daily basis. I was going to wait until I had my new lighting. but I decided to just go ahead and epoxy everything down.

Heres how it turned out... (please forgive the photo, I don't take the best ones)

turned out pretty good and I'm happy with everything overall.

I epoxyed everything around 4-5pm. My lights turn off at 10pm. Everything was working properly before I went to bed.

Now around 3:30am, I woke up too a large noise, unrelated too my tank, as I tried to fall asleep again I heard a distinive sound of a pump running dry.

My skimmer had gone nuts, it was making clear skimmate. my carpet was soaked with about 5 gallons of water. My return pump was shotting bubbles like crazy into the display.

All because of the the stupid epoxy.

Dyspnea · #4 06-15-2010, 10:25 PM

Now since the minor flooding. One of my large sqaum, hasn't been doing well

He's been pinching. Yesterday he had a 35minute freshwater bath. He looks better today, but still not fully expanding.

Not sure whether all the bubbles that were shot into the tank or if the epoxy caused this. Or it could even be something else.

fishytime · #5 06-15-2010, 10:49 PM

You've got some sweet stuff there....and sweet pics......

um......not a suharsonoi.......more likely a granulosa or multiacuta......suharsonoi has very pointy tips

sucks that the house flooded

.....have a look around for the DDs epoxy....it doesnt mess with skimmer nearly as bad as some...

Dyspnea · #6 06-15-2010, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishytime

You've got some sweet stuff there....and sweet pics......

um......not a suharsonoi.......more likely a granulosa or multiacuta......suharsonoi has very pointy tips

sucks that the house flooded

.....have a look around for the DDs epoxy....it doesnt mess with skimmer nearly as bad as some...

The epoxy I used was terrible, took forever to harden and it's not really sticky.

Yeah the flood sucked, I had a second flood last night from my Ro unit only about 2 gallons :/

Thanks for the id! My camera is pretty old, and I still haven't figured it out lol.