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kevin's first saltwater 50g cube build

jose7878

jose7878

Hey Kevin the tank looks awesome. I see the lobo and clam are doing well.
I have the same issue you do I keep getting more corals and no fish. Lol
 
kevin

kevin

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jose7878 said:
Hey Kevin the tank looks awesome. I see the lobo and clam are doing well.
I have the same issue you do I keep getting more corals and no fish. Lol
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Thanks! Haha. I really need some more fish!

joeyhatch11 said:
Where are you buying all your frags from?! They look really nice and would like to get some new additions to my tanks.
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All over, lol! Some from Dr Mac(pacific east aquaculture), captivating coral, aquatic obessions, local reefers, ect

Anselth said:
Really nice looking tank! Like the new corals.
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Thanks a bunch!


I just picked up a nice torch from captivating coral since I was in the area today :)
 
kevin

kevin

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jose7878 said:
Hey Kevin the tank looks awesome. I see the lobo and clam are doing well.
I have the same issue you do I keep getting more corals and no fish. Lol
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Clam has since passed. He had pinched mantle disease I believe. I'm sure moving the tank had something to do with it.


Johnathan(howze) recently sold his tank. I adopted his pair of harlequin shrimp. I need to get my pistol another goby friend. Hopefully he won't scare the crap out of him. The pistol was playing tug-of-war with the chocolate star I fed the harlequins. He was snapping his face off and tugging, LOL. I was a little scared for the harley's.. but all is well. I also picked up two barnacle blennies from AO on Saturday. Johnathan had them & I really liked them... soo awesome and quick. They both found a nice hermit shell to live in in front of the tank. I have a picture of it, but forgot to upload it from my camera.

My pH has been much better lately. Everything else seems to be doing well. Except my frogspawn doesn't want to fully extend anymore. I've tried putting in in several places.

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kevin

kevin

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Well, it's been awhile since I updated this again! Nothing crazy going on, but I really want to go bigger, LOL. I have an obsession with BTA's now. I've purchased 3 in the last 2 months. 1 Rose, 1 Rainbow, 1 Sunburst. Sadly, my one clown went carpet surfing so I picked up an Extreme Snowflake from Clownfish Depot in PA. I've been battling some brown algae on my glass & on my sand. At one point it became stringy & I would have to blow it off corals.


These are crap pictures I took with my phone;

Tiny Sunburst(just got it a few days ago)

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Rasta's, crazy multicolored acan, crazy pink acan,space monsters, mandarin oranges, blue agave, technicolor acan echinta(sp?),
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These acans are from WWC except for the one on the far left.(I'll post wysiwyg in a sec)

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Rose & rainbow. Rose became bleached a few days after I got it. It's gotten quite big though since I've been feeding it.

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kevin

kevin

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My harly's enjoying a meal.


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My extreme snowflake.

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This is a picture of the acans when I first got them. I'm actually looking back at the more recent one(above), it it looks like the one in the middle has lost it's colors. I'll have to get a good look when I get home!
(Picture below was taking with my DSLR, all the others were with my cell phone)

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kevin

kevin

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WWC said it's probably from too much light, so I moved them down.


I came home today to find my new snowflake hosting both my bigger bta's!

I also bought a "box of crap" from gonzo corals today. Interested to see what I get.

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kevin

kevin

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Took some updated pictures; Excuse the mess. I'm still tweaking my light settings, so I put a lot of it on the sand bed right now.. and did get quite a few frags in.




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mnat

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You might want to give that torch a little more room around it. They can extend much beyond what we see them do. I love the gold torch (ours is only one head at this point) but they are still torches.
 
kevin

kevin

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MatteZ said:
Everything looks awesome!
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Thanks!

mnat said:
You might want to give that torch a little more room around it. They can extend much beyond what we see them do. I love the gold torch (ours is only one head at this point) but they are still torches.
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Thanks for the tip! I picked it up on Saturday from AO. My stupid self thought the sale was last weekend! I'm waiting for my corner frag rack & new magnet's to come in.

I just started to lower the intensity of my Radion. I haven't messed with it since I put Jon from ecotech's map on it(last December). Went from about 60%-70% max to 40%-50% max. Hopefully it will help the shrinking polyps of some zoa's.

I added more CUC from reefcleaners the other day. I currently hear my pistol having a field day. He's redic. loud.
 
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