My fish tank

[mpoletti]

 

[tuberider]

Looks great Mark! Which red stag is that? I can't seem to get any of them to do anything in my tank, right now I have Eric's red and it's just sitting there like my red ink selago did :~

 

[mpoletti]

Looks great Mark! Which red stag is that? I can't seem to get any of them to do anything in my tank, right now I have Eric's red and it's just sitting there like my red ink selago did :~

Jeremy, That is the Rainbow corals red stag. I know, they went out of business a long time ago. Its a red stag with green polyps; nothing too special. You want a piece? I can DBTC a piece for you

As for red pieces, clint red stag (originally from aquascene) and the red robin have to grow a nice base before they grow upwards. ( i bleive they are teh same piece as I have grown them together multiple times.

 

[tuberider]

I'd love to try a piece, all I want is a red stag that will grow (green polyps sounds cool too). Millis and prostatas do fine, those damn red stags though are a different story...

 

[mpoletti]

OK, I will start a DBTC and I will bring you down a piece on the 12th

http://www.bareefers.org/home/node/8970

 

[xinumaster]

Last pic -- how do you keep the bottom so clean?

 

[tuberider]

He stepped over to the BB side recently

 

[mpoletti]

He stepped over to the BB side recently

Just for you Jeremy

 

[mpoletti]

This is what I was doing a couple hours ago

 

[mpoletti]

And here is a BB FTS from earlier this week. I am so glad to have sand in the tank again

 

[xinumaster]

He stepped over to the BB side recently

I know, but it is still toooooo clean. No coralline or any algae at all. :O

 

[xinumaster]

Mark, what was the reason for going back?

 

[mpoletti]

I know, but it is still toooooo clean. No coralline or any algae at all. :O

It was just starting to form. Before I set up the tank, I laid downa sheet of 3/8" PVC. I was also syphoning the tank every week for 8 weeks.

 

[mpoletti]

Mark, what was the reason for going back?

I am not really a fan of the BB look. It made all the chalices and favias on the bottom too cluttered for my liking. I removed the sand because I was having some diatom woes that I could not source. There would form on the finer sand and no matter what I did, they would return. That was the reason that I removed it in the first place and believe me, if I could of fixed it without going to those extremes, I would of never of touched it.

 

[tuberider]

Damn you, now your detritus has a place to go

(commence BB vs. sand battle, we need another locked thread)

 

[mpoletti]

No thread lock needed, My eyes only see sand I know the BB works for some and it may be an easier way to keep a tank, but when your wife says, " I miss the sand' the tank just doesn't look the same". It was time as its just as much her tank as mine as she allows me to be a reef nut

 

[tuberider]

I'll be heading over to the sandy side soon too Mark, I just move very slow when it comes to my tank. I'll let you know when I do so we can toast!

 

[mpoletti]

And here is a BB FTS from earlier this week. I am so glad to have sand in the tank again

Looking at this shot from last week, I am really glad to have sand again. I would of rather not of broke the colonies I did yesterday, but thats the risk when you put your hands in the tank to "move just one piece"

 

[mpoletti]

Just one shot I liked from this morning.

 

[mpoletti]

Here is one from last week