My Ten Gallon

[spsmike]

Just some nice pics of my digitas as they have grown quite a bit since the last pic.

 

[spsmike]

Some cool shots of rose after he relocated. Also cool shots of what a ten will look like after a few years of maturing.

 

[spsmike]

Pics of my zoos. :cool2:

Ok so my cat inspired me to take some full tank shots.

 

[peterluber]

nice tank i personally wouldnt buy acans if they were in the $5 frag tank unless they were some of the awesome ones, but for the most part, why not get blastos. i should buy blastos and resell them for $50 a polyp.

 

[spsmike]

nice tank i personally wouldnt buy acans if they were in the $5 frag tank unless they were some of the awesome ones, but for the most part, why not get blastos. i should buy blastos and resell them for $50 a polyp.

Yeah, I was just kidding about that, but I do have some blastos and love em!


They seem to be getting pretty exspensive though..... Guess all corals are.

 

[spsmike]

 

[spsmike]

Gotta keep it updated.

Just some shots I took the other day.

 

[spsmike]

Just a couple of growth pics. This is a pic from April 1st.

 

[ChrisRD]

That's some pretty impressive growth for blue torts - good job. :wink:

BTW, that damsel you asked about (previous page) is a Talbot's Damsel (Chrysiptera talboti) if I'm not mistaken.

 

[spsmike]

That's some pretty impressive growth for blue torts - good job. :wink:

BTW, that damsel you asked about (previous page) is a Talbot's Damsel (Chrysiptera talboti) if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah I didnt realize how much it grew until I compared the pics... Cant believe thats only two months worth and under 70 watts of metal halide vs the 400 they were under.

Is a Talbot hard to come by cause before this purchase id never seen one?

 

[ChrisRD]

At that growth rate it won't be long until you're in for some good trades or LFS credit with those frags. :wink:

I don't think Talbot's are all that uncommon - but to be honest I've never really looked for them, so I'm not really sure about that. I had one in a softie reef about 7 years ago (gave him away when I moved the tank).

Can you give us some specs on your tank (filtration, maintenance, feeding, lighting schedule, etc.)?

 

[spsmike]

At that growth rate it won't be long until you're in for some good trades or LFS credit with those frags. :wink:

I don't think Talbot's are all that uncommon - but to be honest I've never really looked for them, so I'm not really sure about that. I had one in a softie reef about 7 years ago (gave him away when I moved the tank).

Can you give us some specs on your tank (filtration, maintenance, feeding, lighting schedule, etc.)?

I think what I might do is as they grow break the stems off and glue them in the general area of the current tort frags and just get a nice thick colony going.

BUT I would get quite a bit in store credit I would think.


The general specs are as follows:

10 gallon
70 watts 10000k 36 watts "super" actinic
3 years old
250 Aquaclear hob (for flow only)
2 microjets 120 gph (est)
25-30 lbs live rock (est)
Southdown (substrate)

I dont have any protein skimmer or any other fancy media for filtration. I do one gallon water changes every week with or without a 1/4 tea of calcium depending on what salt im using. I use kalk with vinegar in my auto top off to maintain ca and alk.

Thats pretty much all there is to it.

I have 4 fish currently and over 30 different corals.

:lol:

 

[ChrisRD]

It looks great Mike. Keep us updated with pics as things progress.

Is that caulerpa in there intentionally or did it just come in on your rock?

 

[spsmike]

It looks great Mike. Keep us updated with pics as things progress.

Is that caulerpa in there intentionally or did it just come in on your rock?

That is teacup and it sprouted up one day 8 months ago from live rock that I had for years......... It grows really fast and then dies off really fast and just keeps cycling.

I take new pics about once per month and post them on about 7 boards including this one. I think its a great little tank and love sharing with everyone. :lol:

 

[spsmike]

I decided to frag my purple digita not because it was too big but I knew that in its current spot it would and I wanted to change the aquascape there a little anyhow. I decided that I would frag and mount in a way that would produce a thick well encrusted colony that wouldnt threaten its neighbors. Fragging sps is pretty easy.

1. break
2. superglue
3. stick in place
4. done
5. drink beer

Heres the shots to show you what it looked like sorta.

AND DONE!

I also moved my hammer to a better place.

 

[spsmike]

Well I was doing some cleaning in my tank amd all of a sudden this thick white stuff stuffing comes from under my live rock. I have seen macro go sexual but this was a pearl white substance and I had no idea what it could be coming from.. I watched for a minute and I started seeing bristle worms popping their heads out of the live rock and shooting a white substance into the tank. I have to assume that this is sperm although I have never seen or heard of this happening before. I couldnt get pics of them doing it as it happened so quickly but I did get pics of the after effects.

Also since we are on the subject I took a shot of bottom of my tank. I love how you can see the tunnels from different animals in the sand.

 

[HClH2OFish]

That tank looks TERRIBLE!!

You'd better box it all up and ship it to me :twisted:


Seriously though, that is one nice 10gal tank...kudos

 

[spsmike]

That tank looks TERRIBLE!!

You'd better box it all up and ship it to me :twisted:


Seriously though, that is one nice 10gal tank...kudos

Thanks. For the record it cleared up after two hours or so of bristle worm spooge covering eveything....... :lol:

 

[spsmike]

Btw I didnt do any water changes... Tank cleared up on its own.

 

[spsmike]

On that note let me try and list the corals that I can remember:

Spumosa
blue tort
table acro
green mille
rose mille
orange acro ( cant remember species )
green acro
tricolor
red monti cap
Corrie's alien eye cap ( bright green polyps )
blue german polyp digita
pink birdsnest
brown with purple tips digita
purple digita with brown poylps
green digita
orang/pinkish digita
devils hand
gsp ( light green small polyp)
gsp ( bright green white center)
gsp ( glowing green with really really long polyps 2 inchs+ )
blue mushroom
spotted shroom
blue orange purple ric
hammer
another hammer
green with light purple tip frogspawn
blastos
hitchhiker zoos
eagle eye zoos
red zoos
orange zoos
light green with orange center zoos
army green zoos
neon green zoos
purple center ring zoos ( zombie eyes )
mystery zoos ( pink )
Sun polyps


FISH:

Neon dottyback
two balck false perse
Talbot damsel

Snails:

Astreas
Turbos
Bubblebee
nass
hitchhiker ( like nass)

Misc:

Tigertail cucumber
red linkia
blue sponges
yellow sponges
pink sponges
feather dusters
bristle worms
mysis shrimp
PODS PODS PODS!
brittle star
rose bubble tip anemone



Keep in mind this is all in a ten gallon and I am naming this off the top of my head so I may be forgetting something.








Just a couple shots with the reef kitty.