Opinion and Thoughts Wanted

[Anonymous]

Well, last week I got the Acro's and Montipora from DE. Friday I got some stuff from the Marine Center. I tested the salinity and it was 34ppt, unreal that it comes so close to the tank water ad NSW. I let the bags float for ~1hr. I am now added 1/4C of water every 15 min. I continued this for a couple of hours. The stuff looks pretty good and was well packed. I finally found some Tonga Blue Shrooms . I got them, a Tonga Yellow Sarco, and a Symphyllia. I am done adding stuff for a while now. I still have credit with FFE and DE, so I am not quite done, yet I now have the beginnings of a tank. Most of the coral has been introduced and it is time to consider the future of the tank. I don't want to have macros in the main tank that the inhabitant won't eat, i.e. razor, but I do want the benefits provided. Therefore, I am thinking of the HO refugium made by CPR along with the Jalli13 light. One of my goals is to stabilize the tank the other as food source for the inhabitants. The extra plankton produced will primarily be consumed by the next fish I want to add. That will be a small shoal of Dispar anthias. I want to have 1 male and 6-8 females. Along with the Powder Blue and the Emperor Angel, they will be the last fish entry to the tank. In a 100, it will be kind of crowded for my taste, but will only be so for a couple of years. I am also considering using it as a cryptic zone a la Steve Tyree . If I go with the typical refugium I will most likely run it reverse daylight. If it is the cryptic zone, I don't know since I don't know a lot about it yet , but will after some more reading . As usual, comments are appreciated.
By the way, I am afraid I may have to frag the newly introduced Acropora cf. loripes. It has some type of problem . It looks a lot like RTN only is proceeding very slowly. If the tank had more corals, and I had not just got it, I would probably try to just do some dips. It seems as though it is a bacterial infection as slow as it is proceeding, But I don't want to take any chances at losing the colony. That is another part, it is a colony and I hate to have to frag it. Oh well, the joys of reefkeeping .

 

[Anonymous]

I guess nobody has a thought or opinion

? Maybe at least I can get flamed

 

[Anonymous]

That isn't a flame and anyone with that kind of sentiment matters! Merry Christmas to you, too!!!!

 

[EmilyB]

Won't that Emporer Angel eat all your corals ?

 

[ShipMate]

Merry Christmas to all


I am currently in the process of setting up a 180 gal with a cryptic 100 gal refugium as described by Steve Tyree. LRocks have 5 weeks of curing, all the sponges are doing well. From what I understand the very delicate EG system will not support a lot of fishes (maybe one or two?, herbivores only) but should be able to grow a good number of photosynthetic SPS corals with minimal or no feeding...as demonstrated by S.T. himself. It seems phosphate export could to be a problem, requiring water changes, or maybe a macroalgae grow out tank. Part of my sump is being set for macro algae growth/export.

Remember the ratio of sponges / to SPS must proportionate, which makes perfect sense.


Best wishes,

 

[Rich-n-poor]

IMO....Merry Christmass if a relative newbies opinion matters

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[Anonymous]

According to everything i have read and heard, the Emperor eats primarily sponge & tunicates. That is one reason the cryptic zone wasn't set up in the main tank. I have 2 types of Acropora, 1 Pocillopora, and 1 Montipora, an elegance, fungia, sarco, and shrooms that haven't been bothered. My Symphillia, on the other hand, needs to be moved. It is a type of "brain" coral and they are notorius for being picked on.

Shipmate,
Tyanks for the input. I just happened to get all of Steve tyree's books for Christmas, what a great wife!!! I am reading the environmental gradient now. I am running the tank skimmerless and feed quite a bit now, probably more than most. I was in the water study just conducted, and from what i can see in my report, I have no problems with the "nutrients" most consider a problem. It seems like a very interesting concept so far. It would also be somewhat interesting as all of the "SPS" have come from his tanks

. That is why I was thinking of the refugium for the cryptic/semi cryptic zone.

I had to frag the A. cf loripes colony. The "disease" was getting too much of the colony, about 40-50%. To give you an idea of waht I lost, I still have 20 frags, most would be considered medium.