Hi everybody. Just thought that I'd update my thread w/ some pics finally.
my 2 skunk cleaner shrimp:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m26/techreef/115-1597_IMG.jpg
any ideas what this hitchhiking orange stuff is on the rock?
Cyano bacteria starting up in my sump's fuge. I managed to get rid of it by installing an MJ400 in the fuge to move the water around more, but now I don't see as many copepods milling about, so I'm still working that out...
here are my green striped shrooms, looking positively brown under the daylights. in the background are a skunk shrimp and my carpenter's flasher wrasse, which i suspect is actually a filimented flasher wrasse, and was mistakenly shipped instead of the carpenters. I didn't know enough when I bought him (from Liveaquaria.com), and honestly, he's still a good looking fish, he just won't change to gold color as an adult if it's a filimented flasher.
Baxter the midas blenny. Yes, all the major animals in the tank have names. I'll spare you the others...
candycane coral that is doing well.
a red/green lobo brain coral. I wish its coloring were bolder. i moved it to the sandbed from up near the lights, thinking it was getting too much light. It looks healthy otherwise, fully inflated and all.
can anyone ID the coral "tower" in this pic? it's at the 7 o'clock position in this pic, below Baxter the blenny. When the polyps are all fully extended, it resembles that hairy monster who wore sneakers in the Looney Toons Marvin the Martian episodes.
the mystery coral, fully extended.
you can see my "pod pile" in this pic. I built a little container out of gutter guard and zip ties. it holds several pieces of rock rubble, and protects the pods from predation in the display tank, to help out their population. (i have a green mandarin in the display)
said mandarin
a blurry rainford's goby pic
this is a recent pic showing the cyano coming on. I've been capping some of my closed loop's 9 nozzles, in order to force the water out harder through the remaining open nozzles. I'm hoping to clear up the cyano that way. I don't feed heavy, and I don't see any dead spots re: water flow in the tank. Guess it's trial and error. My next step is to put phosban or a similar product in my sump.