Nemo

Nice looking anenome tank

Mom? Dad?

This is one pregnant seahorse!

sea dragon Seahorse

emily was really sad when her seahorse died. I told her we will get one of these as a replacement.

2/2 t time.

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1/2 We are at the florida aquarium today. There is a 500000 gallon main tank. They have all kinds of mini tanks too. Ill send some photos as I ge

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New tank

I plan to install this baby in our next house :-D

New photos

I have posted some new photos of the entire tank on the photocast page. The tank really looks good. I am heading to Florida for a week so I probably won't be posting much to the blog. Be sure to check out our other BLOG to see how our trip is going.

Aquascape

I also mentioned earlier I did some more aquascaping. This was due to a rock that fell off its perch while I was at work on Tuesday. Anyway I have repositioned a couple of rocks in a more stable position. I would like to get about 2-3 more good size live rocks to finish up my aquascape. I think that project will wait about a week.

New Purple Tang

I got a great purple tang today! This fish is fantastic. I have been looking for one for a while and I guess they are pretty rare. I have put a link on my inhabitants list. Enjoy the photo.

New Additions & Aquascape

I found a new local fish shop today off of Wayne road called 'The Fish Tank' They have a georgeous display tank and lots of great looking fish. I bought some new guys and am currently dripping them into the tank. I'll put up some links on my current residents list. Check back later for more.

New coral

I have placed a great looking new coral in the tank today. It is a frogspawn. The picture is not the best but you can just make it out on the left side (green bubble like piece)

Photo Page

Ok I have done it...after all this time I have finally gotten a photo page up and running. I will try my best to keep up and keep the photos current. It can be found here: Photos

H2O change

I have done my first water change. I did it tonight at about 8:30. I changed out roughly 7 gallons. the tank is 38 so i figure i did a 20% change. The guys at fish doctors were EXTREMELY helpful with this. (http://www.fishdoctors.com/) I bought my R/O H2O there today. I'll have to update you Mon. as to how it went.

comments

this one is for you patty...if you click on the 'comments' link below each post it should bring up a window where you can post. I don't think you need to be a guest or anything. just type and click post. try again and let me know.

BUMMER!

Well I awoke this morning to find my blue linkia star melting off the rocks. It looks like he lost his insides and was dead. I really liked this star and am very disappointed. I am going to do some research and look into this death a bit closer as I would like to add another in the future.

Actinics

This is a pic of my new actinic set-up. These will be on until 10:00. Then the daylights will kick in too. I'll send a picture of that later today.

Copperband woes

Well as beautiful as the copperbanded butterfly is he is a pest. I think he is munching on some of my corals. That however is not my big bother. I have a very nice featherduster. I have made him a really cool little cave to live in. The butterfly has found the cave and now 'sleeps' in there and nips at the duster.

So here is the question...should the butterfly stay (he is really cool looking) or do we trade him for a tang & and angel and see if the duster will be more happy. Comments on this are welcome :)
Check out my new web pol.

Lighting

I have installed my new lighting. I now have 80 watts of lighting. I have made my own custom light set-up based on some fancy (more expensive) light sets. I have two coralife T-5 units. Each came with a 50/50 actinic and a 10k daylight bulb. (20 watts/bulb) I have taken the actinics out and put them in one unit and the daylights in the other. I also have dual led night light set. It is two pods with two twilight blue leds on each. (1 watt/bulb) I cycle the lights as follows: 8:00 actinics -- 10:00 daylights (and actinic) -- 1800 daylights off -- 2000 actinics off. The night lights stay on all the time. This cycle gives a nice morning, noon, and night effect to the tank. The nightlights really make the tank look sharp in the evening.


I have had the lights for about 2 weeks now and they are really slick. I have noticed a lot of growth and the nightlife seems to really like to come out into the twilight. I am considering shifting my lighting schedule by about an hour. I miss out on a lot of the daylight with them not coming on until 10.

Tank Updates

It has been a little while since my last post. I'm going to work on the tank today and will get some more photos up today and some good posts. Thanks for reading.

Contact Me

I have been working on this for about 2-3 weeks now. I have no idea who is looking at it or following the updates. Let me know via email if you are keeping up ad what you would like to see me posting about. Thanks.

New starfish

Lane and I picked up a blue linkia star today. It is really cool. Sort of melts into the rock.

2/2 my new lighting is in & I'm goong to install it today. Hopefully it will ressurect my anenome.

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1/2 Tank adjustments & additions. I have some new corals to add today. I also added a sally-lightfoot crab. I will get a pic up of him asap! Also

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anenome shrinkage

What is happening to my anenome!?

The Trouble With Anenomes

Well the new anenome isn't looking so good. he is sort of shrivled up and on the bottom of the tank. I have had this problem with 2 of them now. I am thinking it is a lighting problem. Tomorrow I will be getting another set of T-5 lights and double my wattage up to 80 watts or just over 2 watts/gallon. This should hopefully help. I hope he makes it until I can get the new lights. I will also be setting up a night light set. I'll get some pics of this up tomorrow.

Tank Check/Update

So far so good. I was at the station for 3 days and came home to some serious algae. However all the locals are doing well. After a nice Mysis (shrimp) brunch they were quite happy. Did a water top off and a water test and everything looks good. Have to go now.


As I said earlier I will try to get some pictures up soon.

Tank Status

Today the tank is looking good. All the fish seem happy. The GSM clown is a bit skiddish. I think he needs time to warm up to everyone. He does have a nice cave he has taken to. The feather duster also is skiddish only coming out at night. I will just have to watch the GSM closely to be sure he is eating. I will get some more photos of my tank up on Sunday. I will try to get some good close-ups and some photos of each fish. I think I will host that somewhere else so you can get a slide show.

Tank Update

Lane and I went to the LFS (local fish store) yesterday. We had our water checked for pH. I have been having trouble keeping the pH right on my tank. It turns out the pH was holding well but perhaps I was not reading the test right. The guys at the Fish Doctors (www.fishdoctors.com) set me straight once again. I have re-arranged my aquascape and will try to get up some pics a.s.a.p.

I have also aquired a new clown. I am trying a bit of an experiment with two clowns in the tank. I have had my occelaris clown (the nemo looking one) for about 8 months now and have added a gold striped maroon clown. I hope they will get along and be happy. Hopefully I can get a picture up shortly.

New Reef Tank

Here is the new tank all set up. I wish I had photos of the set-up process but I thought of this a bit too late.

Test mobile post.

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Original Reef

Here is quick photo of the 12 gallon I started with. This tank has been dis-assembled and all the inhabitant moved to the main reef.

Tank Details

Lets get right to it!

I am starting a reef aquarium at home. The tank is a 38 gallon received from Matt Lambert's home. I have it set-up as follows:

38 Gallon - 36" x 18" x 13"
30 lbs. Live sand
10 lbs. Crushed Coral Substrate
40 lbs. Live rock

200 watt heater
Aqualife hang-on filter (3 - stage bio filter w/carbon)
Powerhead unit (i don't know what kind or the volume...im working on that)
Coralife t-5 40 watt dual light fixture (50/50 actinic 20 watt & 10k daylight 20 watt) - I plan to add another soon

Parameters -

Salinity -1.023
pH - 8.2
kH - 11.2
Calcium - 410
Mg - uknown at this point
Ammonia - 0
Nitrate - 0
Nitrite - 0
Temp - 78 F

Original Fish Inhabitants - Percula Clown, Emperor Cardinal, Damsel, Seahorse.
Original Inverts - Cleaner shrimp, Bubble Tip Anenome, Several Misc. Snails
Original Corals - Zooanthids, Polyps, Xenia, mushrooms

This should get you started. I will post more soon about where the tank stands now. The items listed as 'original' were taken from my 12 gallon reef I started several months ago. They have been succesfully transferred over as I start to build my new reef.

WELCOME

Here we are January 2007. I am starting up this new blog to track my new aquarium. I will try to do a daily post on the happenings here at 'Reef Central'. I will post notes on the population, the water, changes, additions, deletions (let's hope not too many) and much more.

I hope you will check back often and let me know what you think. I am up for suggestions, changes, comments, etc.

Seth