My 29g Work-In-Progress

[ellebelle]

No, the drain is actually very quiet. The PVC pipe addition from the main drain to the sump is below the water line. The loudest part of the set up is the skimmer and that will be even more minimal once the door is on.

 

[tosiek]

Very nice =0) coming along great!

 

[ellebelle]

New Updates!

It has been twelve days since I started my tank, and I think it is done cycling. Since I bought cured LR, and then sat it in Eric's tank for a month, and brought it to my apartment in a bucket full of water, I've had very little die off. The first time I tested my ammonia, I had almost imperceptible traces of it. The next time I tested, it was down to zero, as were my nitrites. As of Monday, I have very low levels of nitrates in my tank and plenty of algae growth (sad). My phosphates are hovering around 0.2, even though I'm running a phosphate sponge. The water they were sitting in was tap water, so they may leech phospates into the water for a while, I guess. I might switch from the Kent phosphate sponge to Phosban if I can't clear the phosphate entirely out of my tank soon.

I tested out my tank with a tiny zoo frag from Eric's tank, and it's been doing fine, so I went ahead and stocked a small cleaning crew (3 hermits, 5 narcissus snails, and 7 bumblebee snails - picking up turbos very soon) and 3 chromis. (I'll probably give away the chromis eventually, when I start stocking the fishes that I really want.) I've also put in some other zoos.

Best hermit crabs ever!

I also chucked in some zoo rocks that I got from Ronen - the orange ones are from the frag swap and have grown fairly considerably in their time in Eric's tank. The pink ones I bought more recently. Both rocks are doing just fine.

Better shot of the pinks before I put the orange ones in.

 

[ezee]

Lissa,

Nice update, great zoos.

E

 

[DonCisco]

Great zoos Lissa, keep it up.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

looking very niiceee! bravo!

 

[ellebelle]

Good News / Bad News

Good News:

I have copepods in my tank! I've also finally moved all of my corals out of Eric's tank and into my own tank.

Bad News:

I got a blue sided fairy wrasse and he got sick. Then he seemed to get sicker. So, I took him out of my tank and put him in quarantine. In order to do this, it required moving ALL of my rock and I had to entirely re-aquascape.

Good News:

I like the new aquascape better!

New aquascape.

Big zoo rock

closeup

Wonder Woman zoos

Pipe organ (from Ronen)

Clove polyps (from Slammajamma at the frag swap)

candy canes (from aaron)

feather duster

PPEs (from jabol)

Blastos (from Ronen)

 

[cali_reef]

Nice pictures, you should post in the photo forum more.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

those zoo colonies are awesome!

 

[ellebelle]

Updated pics!

I have a little bit of aiptasia in my tank - not terrible, but I don't want it to spread. So, I got a couple of peppermint shrimp in the hopes that the look in their beady little eyes is really a hunger for aiptasia.

Also picked up two very nice pieces of coral from Brendan (Chiefmcfuz) which are already doing beautifully in my tank. Thanks so much!

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

You have some nice LS in your tank(those from Ronen is incredible), the color coordination of your tank is good, and I also wonder how can you take pix so well. I never have taken EVEN ONE pic that come close to yours. You make me jealous.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

They look really happy, ENJOY :biggrin:

 

[ellebelle]

Well, since I can't seem to keep my fish alive I'm concentrating on corals until I am back from South Africa in early February. Hopefully by then, I'll be able to go back to stocking fish.

In the meantime, Eric gave me a head of his frogspawn and a couple of small zoo frags.

 

[ellebelle]

Tank Updates

It seems that when it seems everything is going really well in your tank, something must go horribly awry to make up for it.

So, good things! All of my levels and beautiful. My one living fish has been healthy and active for a month with no signs of parasites. I've been running a UV filter on my tank in the hopes that even if I am killing some good bacteria, I've also killed the bad. Therefore, I got a brand new fish.

My clean up crew has taken care of the algae bloom and I've got a bunch of green and purple coraline algae growing on my powerheads and glass and returns and liverock.

But what else do I have? Bubble algae. Picked it up on a frag I got right before I left for vacation (saw it in a photo I took that day and unfortunately didn't notice it at the time). I got a couple of emerald crabs to try and control it and I'm going in clip the rest of it out today. The emerald crabs are nice and small and so far have not been disturbing anything other than algae growth and pods.

So that's where I'm at!

 

[Blue02celi]

is that pic above frogspawn?

 

[scarf_ace1981]

is that pic above frogspawn?

yup

awesome clown wrasse lisa!

 

[ellebelle]

Thanks! The wrasse is courtesy of House of Fish. And he eats like a pig.

 

[ellebelle]

Current Tank Inhabitants

Because I am vaguely anal, I am keeping a list of all of my current tank inhabitants for posterity's sake. (I know I can keep this in my profile, but it's easier to organize with line breaks).

Reef Inhabitants
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Fish:
Yellow Assessor (Assessor flavissimus) (1)
Blue-Green Chromis (Chromis viridis) (1)
Red-Head Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus solorensis) (1)
Golden Midas Blenny (africa) (Escenius midas)
[SIZE=-1] Royal Gramma (Gramma loreto) (1)
Purple Firefish (Nemateleotris decora) (1)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]
[/SIZE] Inverts:
Astraea Conehead Snail (Astraea tecta) (16?)
Cerith Snail (Cerithium sp.) (25)
Halloween Hermit Crab (Ciliopagurus strigatus) (3)
Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab (Clibanarius tricolor) (10)
Bumble Bee Snail (Engina sp.) (5?)
Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) (2)
Nassarius Snail (Nassarius sp.) (5)
Emerald Crab (Mithrax sculptus) (2)
Feather Duster (Sabellastarte sp.)
Scarlet Reef Hermit Crab (Paguristes cadenati) (1)

Corals:
Orange and Purple Acan "Jap" Lords (Acanthastrea lordhowensis)
Alveopora (Alveopora sp.)
Red Mushrooms and 1 Striped Mushroom (Actinodiscus sp.)
Anthelia (Anthelia sp.)
Red Blastos with Lime Green Mouths and Blue Blastos (Blastomussa wellsi)
Purple Kenya Tree (Capnella sp.)
Blue Trumpet and Brown and Green Trumpets (Caulastrea curvata)[FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
Purple Clove Polyps (Clavularia sp.)
Orange Plate Coral (Cycloseris sp.)
Yellow Finger Gorgonian (Diodogorgia nodulifera)
Hammer Coral (Euphyllia ancora)
Peach Torch (Euphyllia glabrescens)
Green and Pink Frogspawn (Euphyllia paradivisa)
Green and Red Favia (Favia sp.)
Pink Devil's Hand Leather (Lobophytum sp.)
Red Lobo with blue mouths ([SIZE=-1]Lobophyllia sp.)[/SIZE]
Tree Coral (Nepthea sp.)
Green and Purple Star Polyps (Pachyclavularia sp.)
Green palys (Palythoa sp.)
Light Green Pearl Bubble ( Plerogyra sp.)
Green Ricordia (Ricordea florida)
Pink Toadstool Mushroom Leather (Sarcophyton sp.)
Birdsnest (Seriatopora hystrix)
Pulsing Sinularia (Sinularia sp.)
Cabbage Leather (Sinularia dura)
Yellow Stylo (Stylophra sp.)
White Pipe Organ Coral (Tubipora musica)
Xenia (Xenia elongata)
Zoanthus sp.:
- orange skirts with white centers
- pink panthers
- wonder womans
- neon greens
- brown with yellow centers
- armor of gods
- PPEs
- peach
- green skirts with green centers
- blue zoos with red rings and brown skirts
- pink with blue centers and brown skirts
- orange with purple centers and brown skirts
- brown skirts with blue-green rings and orange centers
- atlantis triple reds
- blue with brown skirts
- green skirts with purplish rings and neon green centers

 

[House of Laughter]

Lissa,

Awesome (and responsbile) job you did with this nano-reef. NVery impressive.

Picture of the fish is awesome as well.

House

 

[Deanos]

Since your being anal:

Ricordia = Ricordea florida
Yuma = Ricordea Yuma