JamesL Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 I love the clown goby in the birds nest. :-) Symbiosis at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 This is a picture of my anemone antics for you @Planeden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planeden Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Awesome. I showed my g/f and she thought he was eating the crab. It's a porcelain crab, right? She wants one now. Naturally..."pet with a pet" are her favorite. Thanks for the picture. It's great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Awesome. I showed my g/f and she thought he was eating the crab. It's a porcelain crab, right? She wants one now. Naturally..."pet with a pet" are her favorite. Thanks for the picture. It's great. Yes, that is a porcelain crab. They are awesome when they sit there sifting the water with their little "fans". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 My symbiosis tank got some Dome love also. Added another clear anemone shrimp and an itty bitty Pom Pom crab last night. Eats see if I can find the crab again this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planeden Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Pom Pom crabs are so cool, I wish I could see mine (joe Frazier) more than every few months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 The new additions ... well, the best I could do quickly with my phone camera The poor little pom pom crab has not left his island he landed on last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planeden Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Very nice, indeed sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 A few quick updates. After the Dome meeting, I started upping my feeding schedules for the tanks to every other day. Of course the fish and anemones where happy about it... but not sure my birds nest in this tank where. I left for a few days and came back to my green birds nest browned out. Some light reading suggested that too much nutrients in the water will cause this as the brown algae in the coral multiply to help handle it. So basically you have to starve SPS to make them pretty in color (silly colored sticks). Other than that, I have not seen my pom pom crab, but that is not a surprise as he was tiny. But I also have not seen my two sexy shrimp. They normally where hanging around the front of the tank in the Kenya tree. I think they might goners... maybe the pistol shrimp go them, as they did hang around near one of his entrances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planeden Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I've read the same thing about the SPS. It's kinda sad, but I don't think it's quite that cut and dried. I think it's that different alga like different lights and nutrients. so, you starve one out and the other takes over. After the "feed more" meeting my blue digi is redder than ever...ehem...not sure it really is a blue digi. But my birdsnest is hanging colors constantly. He may be in too low of light though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share Posted May 29, 2014 *tap tap* Is this thing on? Thought I would give a quick update on the tank, since I am in the process of replacing the lights. It was time for the MH bulb to be replaced, so I have started the transition to LEDs. I just added a 18" Current Orbit LED strip to the tank. The good, the blues are fantastic: The other good thing is the cool scheduling and light ramping you can do with them. The bad? The white are not that bright. I foresee a BML reef strip in my near future for the tank. Other tank updates: I lost the last anemone shrimp I had put in. He got caught in the surface skimmer and just never made a recovery. The sexy shrimp have vanished too. Not sure on the status of the pom pom crab, as he was super tiny to begin with, but haven't seen it in a long time. The birds nest colonies I have bounced back in color and have been growing tons. My poor rose BTA just has had it rough. I had a salinity spike, which I think caused it to start bleaching. It has bleached pretty badly at this point. Trying to keep the feedings up on it, and hoping the new lights will also help. To make matters worse (maybe), it split the other day... so far the two anemones are sticking right in the same spot. The clowns seem like they want to lay eggs, but haven't seen any yet. And that is the update. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planeden Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Well yay on the good newses. Sorry to hear about the shrimp and nem. pom pom crabs are so cool, but so rarely seen. It's a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 As predicted, I ended up adding an 18" BML light to the tank. The black casing is very slick looking. And just for Robb, here is a picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bige Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 That's pretty sweet looking. Is it a 12" with extra material on the sides? What's the cost for this custom job? Added cost I should say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bige Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Never mind. I just saw on their site they have 18" ones now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 Never mind. I just saw on their site they have 18" ones now. Yeah, but it is like you said. They basically packaged a 12" in a longer body. For my needs, it should work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bige Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 So are the lights all the way across? I couldn't tell from their site. I have a biocube 29 and have 3 bml in the original hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 That is nice looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planeden Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Never mind. I just saw on their site they have 18" ones now. Yeah, but it is like you said. They basically packaged a 12" in a longer body. For my needs, it should work fine. i think that the 20" i got was $1 per extra inch. i may be confused. but i know it was very cheap compared to the cost of the light. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 So are the lights all the way across? I couldn't tell from their site. I have a biocube 29 and have 3 bml in the original hood. Not quite all the way edge to edge with the lights. There seems to be an inch or so blank non-lit space on each end. My 48" BML lights have LEDs all the way to the end caps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 That light in black casing looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Hey, this tank is still going I just added a new RBTA this past Saturday... the clowns are really happy and started hosting in it that same day. My other one bleached out after a salinity spike (note to self, don't dose calcium in a small tank). On a side note, these (very poor quick) pictures show how much my birds nest has grown on the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Since I had the camera out, tried taking some pictures of the small tank. Problem was the tank walls needed scraped. The clowns in their new anemone: The clowns acting like sharks at the surface: Artsy picture of my BML reflecting on the surface: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Looks like everything's growing in nicely. How did dosing calcium mess up your salinity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Looks like everything's growing in nicely. How did dosing calcium mess up your salinity? I don't have/remember the specifics, but I think it was Dana Riddle at C4 this year mentioned something about too much calcium could cause extra salt to be produced in an aquarium. I was lazy dosing this tank with 2 part for the birds nest. Lazy in that every so often I would add some, but never test... a big no-no in this hobby, especially with small tanks. Well, at one point the anemone started bleaching and I finally checked sanity and it was way up. I since have stopped dosing CA in this tank, and just let the water changes replenish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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