Monday, July 28, 2014

Frag Swap Goodies

Some new additions to the frag tank and display that I got at the Flint Swap yesterday.

Two halves of a Rose Bubble Tip Anemone.


A red, white, pink and yellow Rock Flower anemone.


Some blue and yellow zoa. Still have to figure out the name of them.


A Hawkins Blue acro (back) and a purple and blue encrusting Montipora.


And lastly a 2 headed frag of torch which will hopefully get to a nice size so my clowns can play in it. They miss their frogspawn that died in the crash a couple months ago.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Headed out to a Frag swap in Flint today. Mostly just to see whats there. Not really in the need for anything, but then again when do I ever NEED more coral lol.

The Frag tank is pretty full right now. I've got some yumas and ricordea healing from fragging a week ago. I might post a few frags up on Michigan Reefers soon just to empty out the tank a bit. I've also been looking at upgrading the lights on both tanks which will be easy if i can find a decent priced T5 HO for the display.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Just some details...

Alright... so everything seems to be on track as of right now. The thing I love about this tank is that it is running and has been running without any expensive equipment.

My maintenance routine includes:

  • Weekly 5- 10 gallon water changes, 
  • Replace the filter floss twice weekly, 
  • Feed the tank a little every other day and once a week heavy feeding for the fish and feed the LPS the day before the water change,
  • Blow the rocks off every other day
  • One drop of iodine mid-week
  • Check the chemicals once a week and add magnesium if needed
This has kept the tank going well without much issue, including nuisance algae, for a little over two years now.

Livestock includes:
  • Two clownfish
  • A yellow watchman goby
  • A banded brittle star
  • A decent sized pom-pom crab

As far as corals go:
  • orange montipora cap
  • green and blue polyp montipora cap
  • purple with green polyp montipora cap
  • orange montipora dig
  • green and kryptonite candy cane colonies
  • baseball sized colony of galaxiea 
  • two small frags of purple and blue stylophora
  • small frag of green porcillipora
  • three different brain colonies
  • two common paly colonies
  • a frag of pavona
  • a colony of branching duncan
  • misc mushrooms including a purple and green yuma and a green and orange ric florida
  • a nice frag of blue stag that is starting to get its blue color back
  • a few pieces of green slimmer that are slowly recovering
  • a baby piece of green loripes that i cut off of a dying colony
Everything has growth on it from within the last few weeks since it crashed due to a heater malfunction.