Thanks you houdlems!

[Tackett]

I would like to thank all you yayhoo's at RDO for all your help. I am very grateful for the amout of information and advice given in every thread that ive ever started, and to prove just how much yall've helped me over the months here is a before and after pic.

 

[liquid]

Looks like you definitely got your algae problem under control.

Shane

 

[Tackett]

I hate algae. hate it.

 

[Ben1]

Is that the same tank? The clean one looks longer. Anyway now you need to get some corals in there and some coraline going. Good luck!

 

[Tackett]

no its not the same tank, thats a 55 (which is why it looks longer) I know it still has a long way to go, but its a far cry from the 29 gallon. The coraline has already started, though you cant tell from that pic, it has yet to start taking over though. Which is part of the reason why i went up to 10 gallons every friday instead of my usualy 5. Coraline was growing really slow with 5.

 

[Tackett]

There are a few corals in there, there is a finger leather in the middle, a small cabbage on the left side, two rocks of shrooms also on the left side, and two pretty good sized torchees on the right. Only problem is that none of them have ever split since I've had them, none of them. Dont really know why yet. What corals would you reccomend that I may not know about. I was thinking of:

big rock of christmas tree worms.
more shrooms
xenia (pumping and pom-pom)
more cabbage
about 15 large feather dusters.
another clam (maybe a deresa dunno what color though)
plate coral (short tentacle green)
maybe a red brain
a large leather coral
a colt
red colony polyp
some zoos (gotta have those)
a glove polp rock

Id love to keep some sps but I dont think i have the light for it.

 

[Ben1]

Well I wouldnt repeat things you already have.

What about a few leather corals. Sarcophytons can make nice center peices on soft coral tanks. Sarcophyton elegans is a great yellow leather that does well in higher current and higher light. I would get a Tracy Grey green polyp leather for AWE and grow it out.

I also like rics if you can get the right color morph with out breaking the bank. I like the nice real blue rics and the orange ones. Some one out there also have pinks that are pretty nice.

I also like purple gorgs for softie tanks, there are a few different types that do well with med light and current. They give more depth to the tank as you can glue them to a rock in the middle of the sand.

I also like the many different branching softies and wold get a wide variety of them, cladiella, sinularia, green nepthea, lobophyton, ect...

Of course thats what I like and what I am working on doing with my system. You have to do what you like. FWIW, derasas don't come in to many different color patterns like maximas or croceas.

 

[Tackett]

FWIW, derasas don't come in to many different color patterns like maximas or croceas.

I did not know that. I guess all the different pics were just shades of the same few colors I rec'on. I like croceas, I just wish they were bigger. My maxima is now showing alot of growth though after close inspection. He now has a row of white shell.

 

[shr00m]

my tank looked a lot like yours but to me it seems like hair algae is all part of the algae cycle type thing your new tank will go through, mine lasted about 3-4 months... then it just slowly went away... now my tank is great at about the 1.5 year mark no hair algae at all, the most important factor is flow and light, i know you can get around the hair but i think some people just arent patient enough with it, it will not disapeer overnight... took me many times of cleaning and scooping it out... and just leaving it be, improved flow.... kept water changes normal.... eventually it goes away...

 

[spsmike]

I like the second pic better, shows charecter.