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12/26/2018, 08:18 AM | #26 |
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Your tank, so far, looks beautiful! Tons of color and life to examine
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12/31/2018, 12:56 AM | #27 |
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I've been pretty busy and just had the chance to clean the tank, do a Water Change, and took some new pictures!
Some new additions includes - 15 Apogon Parvulus - 20 Sexy Shrimps (up to 34-37 now) - 3 Maxima Clams - Banded Pipe Fish - African Bluestripe Pipe fish - Sea Apple (I'm feeding this guy 2-3 per day with Reef Nutrition PhytoFeast (Live)) FTS My main Sexy Shrimps Colony, there's 3 colonies spread throughout the tank but this one always have 20+ hanging around Apogon Parvulus Christmas Tree Worm still doing good! Ruby Red Dragonette Flaming Prawn Goby Electric Flame Scallop Field of Feather Duster More Feather Duster Brunn's Cleaner Shrimp
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Wow amazing diversity and beautiful collection of inverts and macros. I'm inspired
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Fantastic! I was just looking at those cardinals, thinking how they remind me of neon tetras. They look great in your gorgeous tank! The shrimp colonies are awesome too. Great pics!
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Everything is so intricate and beautiful. You have done an amazing job of creating a gourgeous diverse marine aquarium.
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Awesome tank, love the color and diversity. I’m in the process of setting up a macro tank but I’m having a hard time finding the nicer macros. Would you mind sharing your source? I can’t wait to see how the tank progresses.
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01/02/2019, 08:57 AM | #33 |
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Wow, your tank continues to amaze me. Thanks for sharing your pics with us.
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Had a chance to do a few pictures today.
I've since added - 3 Garden Eels - Emperor Shrimps + Tiger Tail Cucumber - 10 Masked Gobies - 6 Trimma Striatum - 6 Trimma Caesiura Unfortunately it seem like the gobies might've been picking on the Parvulus since I've noticed 4-5 disappearing the day after adding the gobies. They've been just eating and schooling just fine before the new additions. The Macroalgae has been growing amazingly (Though some got burnt by the Radion). The diatom that has been plaguing my tank for the last 1-2 weeks has finally died down and only appear in small quantity now. Here are a few pictures for now! I will add more later. Trimma Caesiura Apogon Parvulus Garden Eel Emperor Shrimps / Tiger Tail Cucumber Maxima Clam Most Recent FTS!
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Eye-melting color! Beautiful FTS, especially the purple sea fans! I love the rich variety of reds, and very little greens. This is opposite to my tank of mostly green and a splash of red!
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01/10/2019, 10:24 AM | #36 |
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Your tank is amazing. That garden eel is very cool. If I ever hit the lotto, I'm building a garden eel biotope tank!
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Today I had a chance to do a time lapse of the Sea Apple reacting to Reef Nutrition Phytofeast, along with its new mate.
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Cool time lapse, Kataro! It is such a treat, visiting your thread, with great pics of your gorgeous macro tank. But it's much more than that, with a variety of inverts and fish as well. You've really stocked it well! Do you have any more additions planned?
I'm especially impressed with how well overall your tank is doing. Could you tell us more about your setup and methods?
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Wow, what an amazing tank. I first saw your photos of the livestock hanging out in the 10 gallon and was a little concerned as to how it was going to turn out :-P
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Sorry for the lack of updates! I've been busy and don't have my DSLR right now so I've been neglecting this thread.
Sadly the Garden Eel all died because they wandered into my AI Nero 5, I've been debating about switching to an Mp40 with an Anemone Cover to fix this issue before getting more Garden Eels. I've added a school of Apogon Leptacanthus (12) to my tank since the last update, along with some Brunn's Cleaner Shrimps. The tank look very busy now when I feed! I will try to upload a video of the tank later on today once I figure out how to process it! The tank itself is pretty simple, it's just a Waterbox 130.4 with a Nyos Skimmer for filtration. I've been testing Phosphate / Nitrate and been getting 0.10 or so Phosphate and 0 Nitrate, not sure if its a good thing to have nitrate so low for the Algae. I've also been doing about 15-20G Water change every 7-10 days and of course I've been upping my feeding due to some of the new NPS (Carnation Corals, Chili Corals, ect). So far everything seem to be in balance and happy now!
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Bummer about the garden eels. Sorry to hear about their passing. Are you eventually going to try them again?
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Finally some pictures!! Sorry for taking such a long time between updates. The tank has been doing really good and growing out very fast, one of my favorite thing about this tank is the strange inverts I've been able to keep. There's always something new to see in there!
I've acquired an Emperor Shrimp recently and it has taken to hosting my Sea Apple! I try to feed this little guy every day with a piece of squid / shrimp. Another new addition is two Feather Starfish. They've been doing pretty well so far and always come out to feed whenever I put in Reef Roid or Reef Nutrition. Some little Sea Cucumber, my goal is to have this cliff fill with them! Carnation Corals Anemone Crab / Shrimp neighborhood Distichopora A very special Nemastoma Algae I recently acquired
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You must feed a lot of food to sustain all the different life forms that your tank has. If I might ask, what does your maintenance entail?
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Amazing, thanks for sharing your pics with us!
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An awesome collection of plants and inverts! Great pics!
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