Building my Dream: It's a Miracles!

[Metal Man 1221]

Boy that was a close call. Glad to see it pulled its self out.

[jt48]

Quick update. Or is it more of a venting? Hobby can be very frustrating at times. Some recent failures are my own fault. For example, a 2 head frogspawn was recently knock over by my pincushion sea urchin. I did not recover it off the sandbed for several days and when i did found that it was resting on a zoa patch. Zoas won, fs died. Also, experiencing a aipstasia outbreak. My aipstasia eating filefish disappeared so i obtained 20 pepermint shrimp. I consistently only see one and always in the same spot, hiding. Thats not going to do much to help. On the positive note however, i have several lord acans that were nearly dead for many months- no flesh and now are completly healthy. Havent posted any pics cause dont like how tank is looking, needs alot of work to get coraline back, aipstasia gone and need to get rid of pulsing zenia due to speading. Will also be adding a 135 plumbed inline with the system. Not sure what i want to do with it. Octopus? Cuttlefish? Agressive tank?

Another positive-my 2 cleaner shrimp continue to constantly breed, along my 2 pajama cardinals. Not too often that i notice the pajamas as they do hide alot but i did just notice the male had a mouthful of eggs.

[Newbie Aquarist]

Congrats on being a reef father twice. Wish it was possible to catch the shrimp.

[jt48]

If i did catch them then what?
Would they continue to breed?
Would tank need sponge filter only?
What would i feed the fry?
Alot to learn. Sounds lije a challenge.

[zero26]

Tanks look great, where did you get the shallow fuge tank? Your not running all those tanks off your return pump are you? Is it all gravity feed back to the main sump?

[jt48]

Originally Posted by zero26

Tanks look great, where did you get the shallow fuge tank? Your not running all those tanks off your return pump are you? Is it all gravity feed back to the main sump?

I obtained the shallow fuge tank used from my specialty coral shop, dirt cheap as it was just lying up against a wall as he couldnt use it.

No im not using the dolphin 4750 to run all the tanks, just as a reuturn to DT. I have a mag 9.5? In the lowest tank (55) to shoot water back to the 125. In the coming weeks i will be eliminating the mag and dropping the dolphin to the floor after adding a 135 and a 75 and replacing the 55 with a 150 tub. Will pist diagram.

[jt48]

Cant wait

[zero26]

Thanks for the sketch. Looks great. I am in the process of adding another tank and was considering using mag 3 or so to get it back to the sump. My return is also mounted about waist level on the sump table.

[jt48]

My 6000 gallon pond is so much easier!

[MarlinHooker]

Noticed you don't have the mesh screen on your Vortechs, why is that? I had a beautiful green BTA crawl into one of mine before I put them on .... He didn't survive. Since putting the screens on no issues and I have 6 different nems now ... Just a thought ..

[jt48]

Originally Posted by MarlinHooker

Noticed you don't have the mesh screen on your Vortechs, why is that? I had a beautiful green BTA crawl into one of mine before I put them on .... He didn't survive. Since putting the screens on no issues and I have 6 different nems now ... Just a thought ..

Since recent incident i have. Post #645

Fortunately mine did survive

[Bielaz]

if you still don't have a stand try out ordering one from http://www.midwestcustomaquariums.co...upport-frames/ they make some weird shaped and sturdy stands. good luck with that.

[jt48]

Aipstasia control.
Aipstasia eating filefish- never ate aipstasia and then got eaten by brittle star or carpet nem.
Twenty Peppermint shrimp - just hid in rocks till they all diasappeared.
Precision Solutions Aipstasia solution- so far so good, very easy to use.

[nirvanaandtool]

Just read the whole thread. Haven't been on DVRC in a while (just renewed my membership) and must have missed this.
Awesome build - all of it. That's one heck of a DT, dream worthy indeed. Love the super fuge you've got going there. Interesting to see the chaeto won over the caulerpa. In my fuges, its always caulerpa that wins.

[jt48]

Can anyone id this "spotted moray"

[dave.m]

There's only something like 200 types of moray to choose from. The colour of its skin and eyes helps. What colour is the inside of its mouth? Knowing where it came from would also help narrow the search.

Here's the rest of the stuff you might want to use in your search:

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae Moray eels
Subfamily: Muraeninae
Genus: Gymnothorax

Here's how far I got in guessing.

Beyond this you're going to have get into counting how many rays in its fins.

Dave.M

[jt48]

Originally Posted by dave.m

There's only something like 200 types of moray to choose from. The colour of its skin and eyes helps. What colour is the inside of its mouth? Knowing where it came from would also help narrow the search.

Here's the rest of the stuff you might want to use in your search:

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Muraenidae Moray eels
Subfamily: Muraeninae
Genus: Gymnothorax

Here's how far I got in guessing.

Beyond this you're going to have get into counting how many rays in its fins.

Dave.M

Story is, owner bought the eel from a breeder in nj and, after owning for awhile, brought it to my lfs where it is currently for sale. So, i would need to speak to owner to locate breeder. I have not observed inside if its mouth. This may be a 7 foot species in which case i would not be interested. Thanks for the reference.

[jt48]

So my total system is up to 900 gallons now and would like to set up the 135 in the basement as either eel tank or octopus. Any advice much appreciated.

[iwhati88]

Originally Posted by jt48

New addition. Large carpet

Nice tank. I had a blue carpet,but it ended up some of my fish so I got rid of it. Beautiful piece.

[jt48]

My 6'x2'x8" fuge was in dire need of haircut. Half the job yielded a 6.5 gallon bucket.

[Metal Man 1221]

Nice, hows the rest of the system doing?

Ever decide between an eel or octo?

[mpsti05]

It's been a hot minute, maybe full system photo update

[nirvanaandtool]

I vote Octopus. Talk to Mike @ ASR and he can probably find you an O. vulgaris.

[jt48]

Will not post any photos of DT. Ashamed to say i allowed pulsing zenia to spread like weed and smother some corals. Currently in the process of removing all zenia and placing it in the connected 135 in the basement.
I really need to evaluate the escape routes in the 135 before i attempt the octopus but i do think it could work.

[jt48]

Newly acquired 5" Red Sea Regal Angelfish
Purchased: 1/19/15
Shipped to lfs: 1/12/15
Condition: Fat, great color, no visible sign of disease. Normal respiration.
Behavior: Calm, swimming, exploratory.
Eating: have only observed it pick but not eat dry seaweed.
Foods offered with and without garlic: frozen brine, frozen mysis, shrimp (from grocery store torn in tiny pieces), homegrown sponge(the white type that grows in dark environment), dry seaweed. Live mysid shrimp.
Current housing:75 gallon tank, low flow, lighting on one side only. Most of tank is wrapped in paper to limit stress from outside environment.

Any suggestions much appreciated.