New Setup

[dp122098]

OK... Does anyone know a good location I could purchase starfish? Liveaquaria.com doesn't seem to have the ones that I am looking for.

[newreefbishop]

Here are a couple places....

http://www.vividaquariums.com/10Brow...%3A%2ECleaners

http://www.marinedepotlive.com/


The have some good stuff....or you can wait till you come down here.....as local LFS, a couple of em have a few different species of reef safe ones.....

[dp122098]

OK... it's time to give some updates with this setup. I have coraline algea booming all over the rocks, but for some reason that I can' explain two pieces of my Xenia died. Anyway, I added an a bubble tip anemone, 3 pink clowns, a coral beauty, a tonga fighting conch and a blenny which I can only locate in the tank whenever it decideds it's time to go to sleep. Also added some Zoos that seem to be settling in nicely.

[newreefbishop]

Well Bro you know what Im gonna say.....where are the pics.....I want to see those Zoos.....and also how the lights look.

[dp122098]

Here are the latest pics




Look at how healthy and beautiful this bubble tip looks!!!


Here fishy fishy!!!


Lots of critters.


Last night when I was cleaning the detritus from the rock, a worm that looks more like a catapillar came flying out of one of the rocks. It was red with hairs just like a catapillar. Anybody has any idea what type of worm this may be?

[Mtown]

eh beautiful tank still but is it really 110g because it looks smaller, yet it could the look of the pictures

Anyways keep up the good work

[dp122098]

Originally posted by Mtown
eh beautiful tank still but is it really 110g because it looks smaller, yet it could the look of the pictures

Anyways keep up the good work

Thank! That's because it's a tall tank . For me to reach down to the sandbed the water is in my arm pits . I am six feet tall. It's the same width and depth as a 90 gallon but the height is different.

[newreefbishop]

Damn your anemone moved a bit since i was up there.....
everything looks good though......

[Mtown]

Originally posted by dp122098
Thank! That's because it's a tall tank . For me to reach down to the sandbed the water is in my arm pits . I am six feet tall. It's the same width and depth as a 90 gallon but the height is different.

Oh then I guess it's the perspective of the pictures. So I guess the tank is 48" long. I thought it was like 36".

May I know how much you spent on the equipment? I'm planning on setting up a 50g FOWLR and it seems most people have spent thousands of dollars which I believe is only because most are setting up reef tank.

THanks

[newreefbishop]

well M town you would want to look at my tank.....As my brother has a 110 I have a 65, with a 15 gallon fuge/sump......if you want to know numbers click the red house. DP sorry for hi-jacking......oh by the way i see that frag i gave you is doing well.....

[dp122098]

Originally posted by Mtown
Oh then I guess it's the perspective of the pictures. So I guess the tank is 48" long. I thought it was like 36".

May I know how much you spent on the equipment? I'm planning on setting up a 50g FOWLR and it seems most people have spent thousands of dollars which I believe is only because most are setting up reef tank.

THanks

Hmmm... I would say that in equipment alone tank, pumps, fuge, lights, hood I spent about $1,500. That does not include sand, salt, live rock livestock or all the DIY stuff that I did.

[dp122098]

I also have some ballast on the way to get my Halides installed.

[mg426]

Looks like you got something to work with, its going to be very nice. Good job !!

[dp122098]

Originally posted by mg426
Looks like you got something to work with, its going to be very nice. Good job !!

Thanks... It's been a labor of obsession. Wife would let me get a Motorcycle so I am retaliating!

[cham]

Looks good. I love my 110.

The catapillar your asking about sounds like a bristle worm. Some like them, some hate them.

[dp122098]

Originally posted by cham
Looks good. I love my 110.

The catapillar your asking about sounds like a bristle worm. Some like them, some hate them.

Well I figured that's what it may have been. I don't mind anything in the tank that would be a natrual part of the ocean, as long as it has no negative effects that is.

[newreefbishop]

Definately a Bristleworm....not the deadly ones trust me I did the research....

I also know it probably came on of one of the pieces from the frag swap, or from the frag from my tank, they generally eat ditritus, and or any other organic waste, and will be controlled by how much organic waste you put out. I have a few in my tank, not so much to scare me, but enough to make food disappear that isnt eaten.

[dp122098]

Originally posted by newreefbishop
Definately a Bristleworm....not the deadly ones trust me I did the research....

I also know it probably came on of one of the pieces from the frag swap, or from the frag from my tank, they generally eat ditritus, and or any other organic waste, and will be controlled by how much organic waste you put out. I have a few in my tank, not so much to scare me, but enough to make food disappear that isnt eaten.

No sir. This came out of one of the holes in my live rock and was about 1" long.

[dp122098]

Update... So I being a cheapie decided I would get ballasts as cheap as I could. I recently orderd the electronic MH balllasts from ballastwise.com. They work great! They also seem to generate very little heat and are much smaller than even my PC ballasts. I am just amazed!

[newreefbishop]

Pics with the lights on would be nice, as well as how you have them mounted. What kinda reflectors you running?

[newreefbishop]

I know for a fact you have made a few changes.......wheree aare the pics man?

[dp122098]

I have made some changes alright. I added a yellow tang, two ocillarius clowns and a fox face. The bastard damsels killed my clowns in two days so I had to take apart all the live rock to catch them so I could kill them. Now the setup looks totally different but such is life. Darn 5 dollar damsels killed my 20 dollar clowns. I am still quite upset about that. Funny thing is they never messed with the pink skunk clowns. Anyway... In the process I also killed all the large clawed hermit crabs that were in the tank because I feel those bastard in combination with the damsels probably killed my blenny too.

[newreefbishop]

I feel your pain, when I introduced my clowns....Damsels went to work....I caught them and put them in refugium for 3 days.....the clowns got settled and I put the damsels back in......they behaved for the most part. My yellow tang as you have read jumped ship so to speak last week.....that really hurt.....

[dp122098]

Here are the latest pictures... They didn't come out to good so I will have to take them over again. Let me know what you think.








Ahhh... look at those spines... Somebody is ready to do some damage.

[newreefbishop]

LOVE THE FOX FACE!!!!!!!

Looks like everything is coming along nicely....would like to see the halides though......also you kept the cover on the tank right.....Im doing the "meshed office light thing.....Tiny one inch squares.


Anyway looks great, Im letting mine mature a bit more and slowly adding the rock I made. So far I have added about 30 pounds of it, adding another 20 -30 in a week or so. It already has tiny spots of coraline. What are you feeing the fox face...and what is next step?