Wow, i thought i had alot if coral in my biocube32 at one point, your like a Magician with coral placement. Your tanks looking awesome. I always thought about getting a clam but never commited. I somehow talked myself out of it each time.Post-swap update! This one will be a little short, I wasn't able to get enough satisfactory photos of everything and time has been limited recently.
The bailed torch is still chugging along. I'm experimenting with a GSP back wall. Algae has come back so I purchased an urchin who has been mainly acclimating. He covers himself in macroalgae, doesn't eat much, and stays in mostly one spot, and I'm a little worried. It's been 3 days
Anyone have ideas for killing Ulva? It's everywhere and I can't exactly employ a fox face
Happier updates:
The clam is, well, happy as a clam. To the left you can see my bounce post-split, it's still a half-circle lol
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The hammer garden is FULL and I'm so happy about it.
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Got a little bunch of GMKs from the swap and they've surprisingly not melted!
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My acros have taken off again now that I have enough buckets to facilitate water changing. My ORA Hawkins echinata has like 12 growth tips, the smoothskin pictured below has lengthened a couple of its axial corallites in the way that they do when they start growing after a stall (though they aren't in the pic), etc.
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Now that my pithos is no longer digging under it, my RFA can finally open up:
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And the FTS (yes it's a little blurry, no I don't know why):
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Things are too packed. I'm in the process of freebieing/selling/trading corals I got that I find don't fit my tank, and freeing up space for corals to grow (or to add corals I've got on my bucket list lol)
Lol each time i found a video or seen someones die, and it's like ugh. I will try to get one at some point. What are you feeding yours and how much par is it getting?Things are too packed. I'm in the process of freebieing/selling/trading corals I got that I find don't fit my tank, and freeing up space for corals to grow (or to add corals I've got on my bucket list lol)
You should get a clam! They’re not that expensive for being such an amazing organism and will be a good addition if you take care of it. Start with a healthy animal and you'll realize they're much hardier than they're often made to seem, provided some basic needs are met
I do not feed mine. (I guess I broadcast reef roids the first week, but that was to raise phosphates mostly, and the clam didn't seem to like the particles.) I skim too, but my nitrates/phosphates sit at 25.0 and 0.02 respectively. I give it 200-220 par, the sandbed is so bright from internal reflection off the glass.
But it’s on many things all over the tank, kind of everywhere. Mollies might be cool but I don’t want to go through the catching process again if I end up needing to
No warfare issues with LPS and softies yet. There are some things that touch but there seems to be no damage (or irritation) at all. Only ever get aggression from acropora, which melts other sps.
Tank upgrade got vetoed immediately however lol
What petition do we have to sign to get a bigger tank?Recently have been shuffling corals and thinking about color theory, placing corals in more contrasty spots. I have way less red macroalgae now so the tank's lacking in warm colors.
I have started performing more water changes and I've seen some more growth so I'll keep doing them. Easier than dosing a dozen traces by hand anyway, especially for a tank of this size
I'm facing small tank problems. The happy medium between "overgrown" and "barren" is really small so I have to frag often, and the frags can't be as big as I'd like. I also don't really have much space to put the frags.
I need to find more people to give corals to lol, I have a bunch of frags I don't have space for in my tank, but it feels bad tossing them.
Coral highlights:
GMKs, started with 2 adult and 1 baby polyp at the swap, now with 6 adult polyps and a few babies
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Feeding time with the bounces
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Goldenrod isn't very golden, but it's been growing slowly
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Got some sexy shrimp and will try to breed them.
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This amazing (and very large) piece of Calfo pulsing sinularia from @Kensington Reefer has settled in nicely. Haven't found an angle that showcases it as well as I'd like, but once I do there's going to be many more pictures. Maybe top-down? It's very fuzzy and pulses slowly with pumps off.
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Yuma
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Happy clown in happy alveopora
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This is a dated photo of the 20 gallon, but you can still see my tank is getting packed. Prime real estate is getting rarer, but there's no end to the cool corals I want
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Looks amazing!
