NanoGurl's 75g Reef Thread - Page 38

NanoGurl · 08/20/2007, 12:01 PM

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Originally posted by sslak
Welcome to the BioCube crew NanoGurl!!!

It looks like things are off to a great start!

Do you have any ideas of what you want to stock it with? I was reading earlier how you thought your Mandarin was skinny with the sixline present. My sixline is very happy in the Nano, so if you wanted to separate the two fish that might be one option.

Check out my thread for some interesting mods for the BioCube.

Thanks! I am going to put some sea horses and pipe fish and a clown and some corals in the tank.

Yea, I wanted to keep the six line in my main reef to help with parasites and to help eat my flatworms. he's eating them.. bc he's always fat! He's so fat he floats lol.

Going to check out your thread now =)

NanoGurl · 08/21/2007, 01:26 AM

Bought a really pretty black sun coral. Check it out!

melev · 08/21/2007, 01:41 AM

I'm about to get a nudibranch that eats suncorals from a club member. The pictures of it are amazing. The trick will be having enough money to keep it fed.

NanoGurl · 08/21/2007, 01:57 AM

ack!

hulley · 08/21/2007, 04:24 AM

I've never seen/heard of a black sun coral before! Way cool! I wish my LFS had a better selection of corals, you have some of the the coolest stuff in your tank!

erics3000 · 08/21/2007, 08:12 AM

Sweet...I really like your suncorals.

sslak · 08/21/2007, 08:39 AM

Hahah I'm laughing to myself thinking of a flatworm bloated sixline floating around my tank. Hopefully he finishes off your flatworm problem!

Wow that suncoral is sweet!

One thing that concerns me about the BioCube is that my sixline has already jumped the barrier into the pump chamber once. I need to devise a cool mod to raise that seperator wall between the display and the rear chambers.

I'll let you know what I come up with!

NanoGurl · 08/21/2007, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by hulley
I've never seen/heard of a black sun coral before! Way cool! I wish my LFS had a better selection of corals, you have some of the the coolest stuff in your tank!

Thanks! Yea, the black sun corals are neat... exactly like regular ones, just black. They had small frag pieces for $25 and $40... and then a "show piece" at $75 which I bought bc it was opened up nicer when the others were closed.. thought I would get more open ones during the late hours easier. They have been eating great for me.

NanoGurl · 08/21/2007, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by erics3000
Sweet...I really like your suncorals.

Thanks! =)

NanoGurl · 08/21/2007, 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by sslak
Hahah I'm laughing to myself thinking of a flatworm bloated sixline floating around my tank. Hopefully he finishes off your flatworm problem!

Wow that suncoral is sweet!

One thing that concerns me about the BioCube is that my sixline has already jumped the barrier into the pump chamber once. I need to devise a cool mod to raise that seperator wall between the display and the rear chambers.

I'll let you know what I come up with!

LoL yea my six line looks like a fat blimp rolling around the tank... he's def eating the FW's bc I don't feed that tank enough to be that full... and he was never that fat in my QT tank.

There is a mod for the BC29 where you can put a piece of plastic back there and it forms a barrier so the fish cannot get into the back compartments. It's on nano-reef.com. If you don't find it let me know I'll find it for you.

NanoGurl · 08/22/2007, 10:53 PM

Latest additions =) They went into my nano thought you guys might like to see.

customcolor · 08/22/2007, 11:07 PM

u like your sun coral dont u

NanoGurl · 08/22/2007, 11:22 PM

yup!

spleen93 · 08/23/2007, 12:06 AM

I'm worried that you don't have enough hitching posts for your seahorses - maybe look at adding some macroalgae or gorgonians?

Spleen

NanoGurl · 08/23/2007, 12:37 AM

Yea, I have some caluerpa to put in there... have to see how it looks. I don't want to get a gorgonian they are way to hard to keep alive. They are pretty though it's a shame.

On my nano thread you can see the LR that I got that has the branches for them... they like that. But I agree, I will/need to find some more options for them.

sslak · 08/23/2007, 12:34 PM

Wow...those seahorses are sweet!

I wish I knew why my sand looks so dirty compared to yours...mine has lots of pink and purple flakes in it, which I can only assume are corraline or shell fragments.

Good start on the nano. I've had excellent luck keeping a wide variety of softies/shrooms and even montipora cap. grows extremely well under the stock lights.

I'm posting new pictures when I get home tonight. The tank is really looking nice since I worked on it all last night but I wanted to give the corals time to stop freaking out.

GSMguy · 08/23/2007, 01:16 PM

love those seahorses what do they eat

NanoGurl · 08/23/2007, 01:28 PM

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Originally posted by sslak
Wow...those seahorses are sweet!

I wish I knew why my sand looks so dirty compared to yours...mine has lots of pink and purple flakes in it, which I can only assume are corraline or shell fragments.

Good start on the nano. I've had excellent luck keeping a wide variety of softies/shrooms and even montipora cap. grows extremely well under the stock lights.

I'm posting new pictures when I get home tonight. The tank is really looking nice since I worked on it all last night but I wanted to give the corals time to stop freaking out.

Thanks! Well that sand is clean bc it's new sand... it probably won't look that way long... i'll check out your thread tonight and congrats!

NanoGurl · 08/23/2007, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by GSMguy
love those seahorses what do they eat

Thanks! Right now they are getting a mix of brine, mysis and bloodworms.

Nano Chris · 08/23/2007, 02:28 PM

I like what you put in your nano, i seen a seahorse tank at my lfs today, looks awesome, in my lfs's main tank they have a thing of sun corals (which to my surprise was they were all open) i wish i had taken a pic of it too (with my camera phone.)

glalderman · 08/23/2007, 03:11 PM

WOW! Just fininshed reading most of the 78 pages! What a wild ride this thread has been! Would have never known it existed if you hadn't posted over in the Nano Section NanoGurl...Great Tank!

thekillerclownf · 08/23/2007, 04:08 PM

I've used small thin tonga branch when i had my seahorses. They did well with it and will make for some intresting aquascapeing when mixed with what you already have.

NanoGurl · 08/23/2007, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by Criminal#58369
I like what you put in your nano, i seen a seahorse tank at my lfs today, looks awesome, in my lfs's main tank they have a thing of sun corals (which to my surprise was they were all open) i wish i had taken a pic of it too (with my camera phone.)

Thanks. Yea, an open sun coral looks gorgeous in a tank. I really like mine they aren't too bad to feed.

NanoGurl · 08/23/2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally posted by glalderman
WOW! Just fininshed reading most of the 78 pages! What a wild ride this thread has been! Would have never known it existed if you hadn't posted over in the Nano Section NanoGurl...Great Tank!

Thanks! =) That's a lot of pages too read! hehe

NanoGurl · 08/23/2007, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by thekillerclownf
I've used small thin tonga branch when i had my seahorses. They did well with it and will make for some intresting aquascapeing when mixed with what you already have.

Thanks, I've looked at a few pieces of tonga but I'm not really into most pieces that I've seen. Not really sure how it would look, but I am going to keep looking.

08/21/2007, 08:12 AM	#931
erics3000 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Palm Bay FL Posts: 2,957	Sweet...I really like your suncorals. __________________ Eric (Red House for my 300 display 600 system) Current Tank Info: 600 gallon system with 300 display

08/21/2007, 08:39 AM	#932
sslak Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,705	Hahah I'm laughing to myself thinking of a flatworm bloated sixline floating around my tank. Hopefully he finishes off your flatworm problem! Wow that suncoral is sweet! One thing that concerns me about the BioCube is that my sixline has already jumped the barrier into the pump chamber once. I need to devise a cool mod to raise that seperator wall between the display and the rear chambers. I'll let you know what I come up with! __________________ Steve Current Tank Info: 58 Oceanic/20g Sump/250w XM 20k/2x39w T5 True Actinic 03/2010 Reef Octopus NW Cone Skimmer

08/22/2007, 11:07 PM	#937
customcolor Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: kaukauna, wi. Posts: 3,879	u like your sun coral dont u __________________ PLEASE DONT USE GREAT STUFF (THE YELLOW STUFF) IN YOUR TANK........USE POND FOAM (THE BLACK STUFF).. I BEG YOU! Great stuff====$5 a can 24-48 hour cure Epoxy to cover it====little as $5 for small projects or up to $100+ for larger projects and another 24-48 hour cure I hope you covered it well cuz if you didnt it will start to break down in a few months sand is another added cost to cover up the yellow. Pond foams====$9-$15 a can 24-48 hour cure DONE! You can cover it with sand if you want to (YOU DONT HAVE TO) though but thats added cost again Current Tank Info: 75 gal under way

08/23/2007, 12:06 AM	#939
spleen93 crabby hermit Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: somewhere at the end of the rainbow Posts: 1,363	I'm worried that you don't have enough hitching posts for your seahorses - maybe look at adding some macroalgae or gorgonians? Spleen __________________ Spleen "Put that in your Mag Drive and smoke it." - jnarowe "Beware of the banter" - mpoletti "Now I know that some things are just out of our control and we should enjoy the good parts as much as we can." - pookstreet

08/23/2007, 12:34 PM	#941
sslak Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,705	Wow...those seahorses are sweet! I wish I knew why my sand looks so dirty compared to yours...mine has lots of pink and purple flakes in it, which I can only assume are corraline or shell fragments. Good start on the nano. I've had excellent luck keeping a wide variety of softies/shrooms and even montipora cap. grows extremely well under the stock lights. I'm posting new pictures when I get home tonight. The tank is really looking nice since I worked on it all last night but I wanted to give the corals time to stop freaking out. __________________ Steve Current Tank Info: 58 Oceanic/20g Sump/250w XM 20k/2x39w T5 True Actinic 03/2010 Reef Octopus NW Cone Skimmer

08/21/2007, 01:26 AM	#927
NanoGurl Moved On Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth Posts: 4,306	Bought a really pretty black sun coral. Check it out!

08/21/2007, 01:41 AM	#928
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	I'm about to get a nudibranch that eats suncorals from a club member. The pictures of it are amazing. The trick will be having enough money to keep it fed.

08/21/2007, 01:57 AM	#929
NanoGurl Moved On Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth Posts: 4,306	ack!

08/21/2007, 04:24 AM	#930
hulley Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: In front of my computor. Posts: 592	I've never seen/heard of a black sun coral before! Way cool! I wish my LFS had a better selection of corals, you have some of the the coolest stuff in your tank!

08/22/2007, 10:53 PM	#936
NanoGurl Moved On Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth Posts: 4,306	Latest additions =) They went into my nano thought you guys might like to see.

08/22/2007, 11:22 PM	#938
NanoGurl Moved On Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth Posts: 4,306	yup!

08/23/2007, 12:37 AM	#940
NanoGurl Moved On Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth Posts: 4,306	Yea, I have some caluerpa to put in there... have to see how it looks. I don't want to get a gorgonian they are way to hard to keep alive. They are pretty though it's a shame. On my nano thread you can see the LR that I got that has the branches for them... they like that. But I agree, I will/need to find some more options for them.

08/23/2007, 01:16 PM	#942
GSMguy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northern New Mexico Posts: 17,420	love those seahorses what do they eat __________________ Nick. Conehead. Shallow Reef club. Current Tank Info: 48"x27"x14" Envision Acrylic rimless, 6x39w ATi Sunpower, Custom ATB Deluxe Skimmer, 4x tunze nano stream,ATB flowstar 1500, ACJR, Tunze osmolator.

08/23/2007, 02:28 PM	#945
Nano Chris Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD Posts: 2,758	I like what you put in your nano, i seen a seahorse tank at my lfs today, looks awesome, in my lfs's main tank they have a thing of sun corals (which to my surprise was they were all open) i wish i had taken a pic of it too (with my camera phone.) __________________ Chris ------- 34 Gallon Red Sea Max 130! Setup (Just got back into the hobby) Current Tank Info: 34 Gallon RedSeaMax!

08/23/2007, 03:11 PM	#946
glalderman Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Orwell, N.E. Ohio Posts: 516	WOW! Just fininshed reading most of the 78 pages! What a wild ride this thread has been! Would have never known it existed if you hadn't posted over in the Nano Section NanoGurl...Great Tank!

08/23/2007, 04:08 PM	#947
thekillerclownf Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wilmington NC Posts: 28	I've used small thin tonga branch when i had my seahorses. They did well with it and will make for some intresting aquascapeing when mixed with what you already have.