[just4kickz]

icic. interesting. makes me wanna buy fish... haha i had this environmental science class once and i had to make my own aqua environment so i got a beta fish n' some of those water plant things to oxygenate the ghetto ass "tank" i had... which was actually a 2L coke bottle haha. but yeah... fun times with fishies.

[firstkill]

Its strange that no one has mentioned to remove the damsal

Long take out the damsal. ITs a very mean and territorial fish, so your clowns will not get along with it. Its like the shark of a small reef tank. They pester and fights with all other fishes.

If your take gets developed, you will have to take it apart to catch it. I have had to do this on a few occasions and it sucks!!!


~fk

[Nikki]

my boyfriend rearranged the rocks and we got a new coral and some frags.
here's a photos of the tank with the lights on and then only the actinics, ignore the bubbles lol. there's also some new pics of the corals and todd.

[javajaws]

Funny I never saw this thread before. Here's mine (picture from earlier in the year):




Here's a thread I started a long time ago on reefcentral (not updated in awhile): http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...hreadid=745212

[Nikki]

awesome, wow, i can't wait until i get a house and can have a tank like that!

[deutschmann59]

Well, <enter drumroll> I finally took some new snapshots! I finally got the tank the way I want it for now, so I thought I'd take some pics. I think the photos look best at night with blue actintic lighting, so here we go!

Ha ha, out of like 20 pics I took, these are the only ones that came out semi-clear

[Nikki]

neat, looks nice.

[deutschmann59]

Thanks, Nik!

Well, that's my new 75 gallon. I had a yellow and blue hippo tang and they both died, but the OGs, the clown, pseudochromis and cardinal, the ones I've had for about 2 years now are still kicking!

[Nikki]

yeah i can't keep tangs either. our maroon clown has been with us since april '05.

[Nikki]

Here is an update, don't mind the little bit of red algae . Check out how much our xenia has grown since 7/21

[ashecnc]

heres mine

[knight]

Originally Posted by Nikki

Here is an update, don't mind the little bit of red algae . Check out how much our xenia has grown since 7/21

very beautiful pictures

it's funny to see the beginning of the thread to now...well i skipped but you see all the changes being made...i wish my tank was just as nice...

i have a 46 gal that used to have 5 damsels, 3 clowns, 2 yellow tangs, handful of shrimps, and calms...but things just went down hill and well...i have nothing to show for it now.

and that red algae, i would try to get rid of it asap...i made the mistake of doing nothing and the invested my entire tank.

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by knight

very beautiful pictures

it's funny to see the beginning of the thread to now...well i skipped but you see all the changes being made...i wish my tank was just as nice...

i have a 46 gal that used to have 5 damsels, 3 clowns, 2 yellow tangs, handful of shrimps, and calms...but things just went down hill and well...i have nothing to show for it now.

and that red algae, i would try to get rid of it asap...i made the mistake of doing nothing and the invested my entire tank.

Thanks, yeah we just got a sandsifting starfish to eat up the red algae on the sand and we'll treat for it tonight. we got even more stuff lol we've been going crazy lately. i'll post a photo later when everything is out.

[knight]

well, imma try to bring my tank back to life, but what would you recommend for getting rid of green, hairlike algae and red algae?

i was told before that for green algae, hermit crabs and turbo snails are good...but i want to stay away from those stupid crabs...killed my clams which i only had for like a few days

and for red algae, i was told pepermint shrimps...but i didn't see them doing anything at all except hide insde my rocks and never come out...ever again.

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by knight

well, imma try to bring my tank back to life, but what would you recommend for getting rid of green, hairlike algae and red algae?

i was told before that for green algae, hermit crabs and turbo snails are good...but i want to stay away from those stupid crabs...killed my clams which i only had for like a few days

and for red algae, i was told pepermint shrimps...but i didn't see them doing anything at all except hide insde my rocks and never come out...ever again.

Clams can be difficult to keep in general and I don't think hermit crabs would kill them, but maybe really large hermits could. For getting rid of green algae, you need about 1 or 2 snails per gallon and 1 or 2 hermit crabs per gallon in order to keep the tank healthy, and they'll get rid of the green algae, especially red leg hermit crabs. You don't want any type of other crabs just to be safe, like emerald crabs or anything. Smaller emeralds should be ok but if you want to be safe just stay with only hermit crabs. If you really odn't want any hermit crabs you might be ok as long as you have at least 2 snails per gallon or more.

For red algae, the sand sifting starfish will help for the sand but you really need to get some kind of chemical treatment for that. Peppermint shrimp won't help for red algae but they will help getting rid of glass anemones that sting your coral. Cleaner shrimp will help clean the whole tank including your fish, so you want one or two of those.

[knight]

yea that's what i thought at first...why in the world are my calms dying

my lil bro and mom said that they saw how the hermits kept picking at my clams and im wonder how could my hermit crabs be killing them...so i just sat there and observed...and surely but truly, one of my clams was half eaten already...AH, oh how depressing that was...

but those pep. shrimp...yea, i do recall now that they don't eat the red algae, only those pest anemone...although like i've said before...did not see any results

speaking of pest anemones, recommendations on how to get rid of them?
it seems like my fish supplier's answer to everything is, "just scrub them off"

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by knight

yea that's what i thought at first...why in the world are my calms dying

my lil bro and mom said that they saw how the hermits kept picking at my clams and im wonder how could my hermit crabs be killing them...so i just sat there and observed...and surely but truly, one of my clams was half eaten already...AH, oh how depressing that was...

but those pep. shrimp...yea, i do recall now that they don't eat the red algae, only those pest anemone...although like i've said before...did not see any results

speaking of pest anemones, recommendations on how to get rid of them?
it seems like my fish supplier's answer to everything is, "just scrub them off"

we got this stuff called joe's juice which seems to be the unanimous method. It comes with a syringe and you squirt it right into the mouth of the anemonie and it literally disintegrates instantly. It's $8, you can get it here: http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewIt...product=JJ1111


So, here are some updated photos of the tank. We got some zoos and a ricordia mushroom polyp from someone on reefcentral in a trade for some checmical we never use which worked out nice lol.

[knight]

Originally Posted by Nikki

we got this stuff called joe's juice which seems to be the unanimous method. It comes with a syringe and you squirt it right into the mouth of the anemonie and it literally disintegrates instantly. It's $8, you can get it here: http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewIt...product=JJ1111


So, here are some updated photos of the tank. We got some zoos and a ricordia mushroom polyp from someone on reefcentral in a trade for some checmical we never use which worked out nice lol.

YEAH! i've got that stuff too...i see the pest anemones shrivel up...but it doesn't disintegrates...it just gets smaller and just sits...and sits..and sits...and eventually it grows back...and i put like a LOT.

sighs...i've put so much time, money, and effort into it...but yet no results...it's so depressing...at times i've kind of regreted of getting it..and other times i've thought about just converting the whole thing into freshwater.

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by knight

YEAH! i've got that stuff too...i see the pest anemones shrivel up...but it doesn't disintegrates...it just gets smaller and just sits...and sits..and sits...and eventually it grows back...and i put like a LOT.

sighs...i've put so much time, money, and effort into it...but yet no results...it's so depressing...at times i've kind of regreted of getting it..and other times i've thought about just converting the whole thing into freshwater.

Do you get real close and shoot it directly into the mouth?

[knight]

Originally Posted by Nikki

Do you get real close and shoot it directly into the mouth?

yup...sometimes i even stuck it inside it's mouth

but yea, i would see it go thru it's mouth and enter it's body..

[Nikki]

i don't know what to tell you then

[knight]

so your's actually disintegrate after you use that joe juice deal?

are pep. shrimp even affective against those things or are they just a waste of money?