• Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.

42 Bow Reef/ 40 Xtra High FOWLR

So I'm guessing the hammer got really pissed of because it put some xtra long tenticles out there and stung the snot out of the xenia in the backround. Don't think its going to make it.

Also for some reason my white chocStar decided it wanted to eat the condy anemone.
IMG-20120814-01467.jpg
 
So I'm guessing the hammer got really pissed of because it put some xtra long tenticles out there and stung the snot out of the xenia in the backround. Don't think its going to make it.

Also for some reason my white chocStar decided it wanted to eat the condy anemone.
IMG-20120814-01467.jpg
Man that was a nice looking anemone I didnt know star fish would eat a anemone
 
I love my Harliquin shrimp.
just a couple of thoughts before you buy one:
1. They can have a pretty profound impact on water quality in a small tank. They eat the tube feet of starfish. . . Not the entire starfish. If you don't have a good skimmer, and a good clean up crew, be prepared to step up your water change frequency and volume.
2. They can get expensive to care for. Our Hawaiian Harliquin is almost 2", he eats a star a week, on average.
3. You can't keep any stars with tube feet. no Linkias, no fromias, no sand sifters. You can keep servant stars, but no others.
 
I couldn't even if I wanted to. I've been trying to talk Alivia into letting me get rid of them, or atleast the monster sized one. But she's as stuborn as her mother so I guess I'm going to have a Starfish Tank.


I love my Harliquin shrimp.
just a couple of thoughts before you buy one:
1. They can have a pretty profound impact on water quality in a small tank. They eat the tube feet of starfish. . . Not the entire starfish. If you don't have a good skimmer, and a good clean up crew, be prepared to step up your water change frequency and volume.
2. They can get expensive to care for. Our Hawaiian Harliquin is almost 2", he eats a star a week, on average.
3. You can't keep any stars with tube feet. no Linkias, no fromias, no sand sifters. You can keep servant stars, but no others.
 
Little update on my tank. Got rid of the brain. But now I have 3 new sps. Since I don't have a gfo reactor I got the stuff in the bag. Hopefully it keeps myPO4 down and the SPS start growing good. I'll post pics later on the new stuff
 
Well something pretty cool happened. One of my gold striped cardinals has a mouth full of eggs. :triumphant:
IMG_1026.jpg


And on a side note I sat still with the camera for about 15 min to get these 2 shots
IMG_1037.jpg

IMG_1038.jpg
 
Picked up a neon green palau nephthea from AO. Wife seen it and liked it so I got it(anything to get her more involved in the hobby). Figured I'll try and grow it out some then maybe put a frag in the nano.
Pic is from when it was first put into tank.
IMG_1310.jpg
 
PO4 @ 0.5 :encouragement:. Thats a far cry from the end of june when my par were.

Here's the readings I got with your water samples:

DT :
Sal. 1.03
pH 8.4
Ca 490
Alk off the chart
PO4 out of range(so high the hanna couldn't read it) when I added the reagent the sample turned dark purple.

Make up:
Sal. 1.024
pH 8.0
Ca 490
Alk Off the chart
PO4 .35
 
Top