Ha ha, hope you arent beign sarcastic...this was so sweet in person I cant tell you.
I have a guy offering me two different ones...Im sure if we bought both he would ship for free.
Fleshy's 125g Build
- Thread starter FLESHY
- Start date
I have a guy offering me two different ones...Im sure if we bought both he would ship for free.
http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/general-lps-discussion/75866-australomussa-lets-see-yours-3.html there is my thread... pics at the top are the two for sale...I really want another one but I shouldnt waste the space.
Getting a "saw breaker" leptastrea, a blue/red cyphastrea, a galaxea, an almost all blue scoly, gold torch, and a couple more LPS before my tank is done.
Getting a "saw breaker" leptastrea, a blue/red cyphastrea, a galaxea, an almost all blue scoly, gold torch, and a couple more LPS before my tank is done.
Finally think that I have gfo running properly...also now vodka dosing 3T a day...I really need to get this on a dosing pump.
That being said, I just finished a trade for a "sawbreaker" leptastrea.
Hopefully my sps (which have been having poor PE after having AWESOME PE for the longest time) will perk up with more vodka and GFO.
Really hope that solves my problems - I think we just had a waste boom with the addition of the blotched anthias, chevron tang, and green wrasse at christmas. Plus my new food is awesome, but its also pretty messy. Im thinking of putting it in some netting frozen and letting the fish pick at it on an algae clip. Would hopefully get better diversity of food to my fish, and make t a little less messy? Might add a gel binder next time and just make the whole thing a puree like Rodgers reef food.
Really looking forward to grabbing some stuff at the MARS swap and hopefully getting a little closer to finishing this tank off.
That being said, I just finished a trade for a "sawbreaker" leptastrea.
Hopefully my sps (which have been having poor PE after having AWESOME PE for the longest time) will perk up with more vodka and GFO.
Really hope that solves my problems - I think we just had a waste boom with the addition of the blotched anthias, chevron tang, and green wrasse at christmas. Plus my new food is awesome, but its also pretty messy. Im thinking of putting it in some netting frozen and letting the fish pick at it on an algae clip. Would hopefully get better diversity of food to my fish, and make t a little less messy? Might add a gel binder next time and just make the whole thing a puree like Rodgers reef food.
Really looking forward to grabbing some stuff at the MARS swap and hopefully getting a little closer to finishing this tank off.
Congrats! You have exactly 5,000 posts. lol.
I really want one of those austro's. I can't wait to see yours in person....eating.
I really want one of those austro's. I can't wait to see yours in person....eating.
At 1.5 teaspoons Vodka my tank went nutz, you even gave me a heads up a few months ago, Red slime algae in the DSB, coraline bleaching, polyp death, and brown cottony bacterial build up on the LR +corals. No3 dropped to 20ppm and po4 w/o GFO was 2ppm - w/ gfo .05 but never zero of either. I then backed it off .05 mil a week down to 2.5 mil 1/2 T and everything held - Do you think I got spooked and gave up too soon?
I also noticed Phosban claims to remove silicates yet I can't seem to stop diatoms on the glass. They also said no tumbling in the reactor yet if it doesn't it solidifies and clogs. It took a while to figure out the GPH, wish they woulda just put it in the instructions 100 to 120 gph. I'm gonna try Chem-pure Elite this week and hopefully get the same results as your having.
Admittedly it's still just the 1st year @ reefing. But the tank looks quite sub-standard to me compared to yours and others. Im wanting to see some dag-on stoney's but should probably be happy with what we do have. If I haven't thanked you for your advice -thanks you've been a great help.
I also noticed Phosban claims to remove silicates yet I can't seem to stop diatoms on the glass. They also said no tumbling in the reactor yet if it doesn't it solidifies and clogs. It took a while to figure out the GPH, wish they woulda just put it in the instructions 100 to 120 gph. I'm gonna try Chem-pure Elite this week and hopefully get the same results as your having.
Admittedly it's still just the 1st year @ reefing. But the tank looks quite sub-standard to me compared to yours and others. Im wanting to see some dag-on stoney's but should probably be happy with what we do have. If I haven't thanked you for your advice -thanks you've been a great help.
Ya dude...you have to come up. Maybe we can plan a visit to that medford store...and on March 17 is the NRS Frag swap up by fosters...so either way you should get a chance to check the tank in person again soon.Congrats! You have exactly 5,000 posts. lol.
I really want one of those austro's. I can't wait to see yours in person....eating.
Well, Im doing three a day right now...and I have a lot of bacteria on my powerheads etc. Some floats in the sump, some grows on my filter socks, overflow sponges, and in my pumps and GFO reactor. You have to clean this out.At 1.5 teaspoons Vodka my tank went nutz, you even gave me a heads up a few months ago, Red slime algae in the DSB, coraline bleaching, polyp death, and brown cottony bacterial build up on the LR +corals. No3 dropped to 20ppm and po4 w/o GFO was 2ppm - w/ gfo .05 but never zero of either. I then backed it off .05 mil a week down to 2.5 mil 1/2 T and everything held - Do you think I got spooked and gave up too soon?
I also noticed Phosban claims to remove silicates yet I can't seem to stop diatoms on the glass. They also said no tumbling in the reactor yet if it doesn't it solidifies and clogs. It took a while to figure out the GPH, wish they woulda just put it in the instructions 100 to 120 gph. I'm gonna try Chem-pure Elite this week and hopefully get the same results as your having.
Admittedly it's still just the 1st year @ reefing. But the tank looks quite sub-standard to me compared to yours and others. Im wanting to see some dag-on stoney's but should probably be happy with what we do have. If I haven't thanked you for your advice -thanks you've been a great help.
Strangely enough, I never had this much from the first time (where I went up to 2 tablespoons). Now when I started to see things degrade, I went up to three. Things are starting to look better again, but I have all sorts of crazy bacterial stuff (That I just described to you all over the place). The way I look at it is that as I am removing this stuff, Im manually removing nitrates and phosphates. Hopefully it dies back, like it did originally, but the bacteria really isnt doing anything noticeable in tank other than covering the powerheads.
GFO has stopped diatoms for the most part for me. Running the reactor has been a pain, but I think that I finally have it worked out. My reactor works so that the surface barely boils. The particles do NOT get kicked up at all from the surface.
Chemipure elite is really legit stuff. I was increadibly happy with it, and might return to using that, instead of adding another reactor to run carbon. Also dont buy the recommended ammount. My overstocked, overfed tank ran for almost three months without anything on my sand with one full unit in an avast marine reactor.
I really have only been building this tank and adding corals now for a year. I am fairly experienced though. And part of this is an art. Its the little things you do everyday. You are learning them, I am learning them. You just get a feel for it. Things will come around if you keep working at it the way you are.
Thanks for the increadibly kind words. You humble me and I hope that I can continue to help and vice versa.
Also bought a bunch of new corals yestreday (7 I think) but I will post back on that later as I am in a rush right now.
Got: a cyphastrea (blue/red), some fire and ice zoas, some weird pink/green/gray palys (not really opened yet), another lobo (what was I thinking), some symposidium, an acanthastrea, and a green, red/pink chalice.
Looking forward to the two swaps in march!
Looking forward to the two swaps in march!
Also a review on Epo Putty. I havent used it long term yet, but mixing fo the two parts was easy, and the stuff was great to use underwater.
Unlike some stuff, it didnt start hardening right away, and actually got more pliable underwater.
In addition to that, it seems like you dont need to much, the feel of the bond was great - and I stuck a chalice and an acanthastrea on verticle faces, and I dont have a doubt (right now) that they will be staying there.
Looks like good stuff so far.
Unlike some stuff, it didnt start hardening right away, and actually got more pliable underwater.
In addition to that, it seems like you dont need to much, the feel of the bond was great - and I stuck a chalice and an acanthastrea on verticle faces, and I dont have a doubt (right now) that they will be staying there.
Looks like good stuff so far.
Moving the tank today! If anyone remembers this thread or cares.
Hopefully a video soon after the move to show the wreckage...its a shame, it had been a year since the last video. More fish, coral and growth was to be seen.
Fingers crossed everyone.
Hopefully a video soon after the move to show the wreckage...its a shame, it had been a year since the last video. More fish, coral and growth was to be seen.
Fingers crossed everyone.
