Blue's BC 14

[blue2fyre]

Yeah it's expanding a bot more and looking better. I just don't want it to get any tears.

I'm thinking about a cleaner shrimp if I try another.

Usually I do vacuum out the back chambers. I didn't with the last water change since I had stirred up a bunch of stuff in the display. I'm hoping it's just a stage that will pass.

 

[Fishfriend1]

Epic pics! Love the corals. Your rock does seem to be coloroing up nicely!

 

[blue2fyre]

Some more pictures for you.

Some bad zoa/paly pictures




The only picture I have of my blue mushroom. It's in the shadows so it's very difficult to get a picture.

A happy Hammer



And my urchin


Not much to update right now. I'm getting my first fish in about 2 weeks. I'm also picking up a sun coral. I can't wait to have some fish I have bugs crawling on everything!

The corals seem to be growing. Some are happier than others. You can't tell in the pictures but the purple death has a new head growing.

 

[the wizard]

looking good Blue

 

[blue2fyre]

I got in on a group order with my local reef club. I decided to try peppermint shrimp a final time. Basically because 1) they were super cheap and 2) I want to see if my theory about the LFS "death" tank is true. I ordered 2 small peppermint shrimp and a porcelain crab. The order came in and instead I ended up with 2 peppermint shrimp and a serpent star. It's a rust color and is really neat! It went into a cave pretty much right away. Several snails, crabs and a shrimp went and checked it out and all left unharmed. I fed it a wafer last night. It wouldn't come out until all the tank lights were out but it didn't mind the room light. I love the way this thing moves! I know it will eventually get too large for my tank but for now it's a neat addition.
The shrimp are also doing well so far. They are really small and get lost in the tank pretty easily, but they made it through the night.

 

[blue2fyre]

So this tank is coming along very nicely! I'm starting to see new coral growth on pretty much everything. My purple deaths went from 1 head to 3, my devil's armor has put up 2 more polyps and I've lost count of how many new polyps my eagle eyes have.

I found a shrimp body. I know it was a body and not a molt because it was still twitching when the nass snails closed in on it. Stupid shrimp. I assumed the other was dead as well and swore off all cleaner shrimp. This morning though I spotted the other peppermint picking away at the rock.

Yesterday I added my first fish! I now have a very small yasha hase goby and candy cane pistol shrimp. They are both beautiful. I didn't get any pictures because the goby was very freaked out when first added and the shrimp went into hiding. I have heard it snap a couple times though. I hope they find each other and pair up.

I also picked up a sun coral for very cheap and a small colony of purple/green zoas. Hopefully I'll get pictures later today when the lights come on

 

[greech]

AWESOME! My favorite goby/pistol pair by far! They'll find each other. No worries. Just might take little while before you loacte their cave(s). Look for sand mounds and/or sand kicking up along the base of the rocks. Sun corals are sweet too. You should look into a dendro down the line if you like those type of corals.

Sorry to hear about the shrimp. Hope the remaining one continues to do well.

Look forward to pics.

 

[blue2fyre]

Thanks! She is super cool. She's a little shy still but has been coming out for food. I found one of the shrimp's burrows and it's about 5" away from where the goby hides.

Yesterday I noticed some of my zoas are bleaching. My eagles eyes are the worst and they are really low in the tank. Since I have a dimmable driver I decided to try and turn it down. I followed the instructions perfectly and turned the lights back on. They came on for 2 seconds then turned off and have no worked since. This light has been the BIGGEST PITA since I got it. I gave up and ordered some panorama pro strips.

Here are some pictures before the light quit on me.

 

[Ace25]

How did you dim your LEDs? Since you have a PWM driver the only way I know of to safely dim them is via a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal. If it were the -D driver instead of the -P driver you can dim it with knobs.

 

[blue2fyre]

I only did a slight turn to see if it would work.