Tank updates! New Pictures!

[cwpvt100]

Its been awhile since i posted pictures and finnaly found a camera. Things are going great so far and the tanks are looking great. Ill post some tank stats. Thanks for all the help AC, couldnt have done it without all of you!

-Caleb

29 Gal.
-Scooter Blenny (trying to keep him well fed, but my first and only impulse buy is difficult to keep meat on his bones)
-Royal Gramma
-Yellow Tailed Damsel (would like to get a few more.)
- Blue Leg and Standard Hermits 20-25
- Atrea, Margareta, and Nassuris Snails
-2 Peppermint Shrimp.
-2 Arrow crabs
-Queen Conch
-2 Bumble Bee Snails
-1 Decorator Crab
-2 Emerald Crabs

Large chunk of Live rock covered in Mushrooms seeding 50 lbs of my second batch of homemade garf argocrete. The Chunk was a gift, Thanks Lori!

29 Gal.
-2 Oci Clowns (they bonded!)
-2 Firefish (also seemed to have bonded)
- Blue Leg and Standard Hermits 20-25
- Astrea, Margareta, and Nassuris Snails
-1 coral banded shrimp
-1 Arrow crab
-Queen Conch
-2 Bumble Bee Snails
-1 Decorator Crab
-3 Emerald Crabs
-Large Brittle Star.

Two large chunks of mushroom covered live rock seeding 50lbs of my second batch of argocrete.

2.5 Gal Pico (Eclipse that i modded the filter on, right now water flows over live rock rubble, through mesh, then through crushed coral, and out again through mesh)
-Arrow Crab
-Two Hermits
-1 each of Nassuris, Astrea, Bumblebee snails.
-1 Emerald Crab
Also, 1 humbug Damsal (ok second impulse buy) that has ich, Freshwater dips are working, but it keeps coming back. Only Temporarily holding in this small a tank and i feel bad enough shes stuck in that tiny tank with ich.

 

[Slappy*McFish]

Good job.

 

[emonemo420]

very nice...keep up the good work

 

[Grins]

I like the rockwork. Good job on that.

Do you mind a few cautions? If not the tanks look a bit crowded and or have some risky mixes in them.

Damsels, When you list maybe getting more damsels you mean in the current tank?

Queen Conch: gets to about 12" and can knock over rock.

BumbleBee Snails: not algae eaters and will often eat stuff like zoas and polypos. Seen reports of them going after other snails too.

Arrow & Decorator Crabs: Watch them, they'll go after other crabs and small fish.

Emerald Crabs: Someone in reefcentral posted a photo of their larger Emerald attacking and then chowing down on their yellow tang. EEEK. I think they are hit or miss and hope yours are well behaved.

ScooterBlenny: You might ask Joe (JoJo) about pods if you haven't had a lot of like getting them while your tank matures. I think I remember him posting the best deal he had found on them.

Large Brittle Star: Is it a green one? Or other. The green ones are known to eat small fish.

I'd also do something else to help cure the damsel of ich. The dips have some reports of helping but not curing. You need to treat with either hyposalinity or copper (outside of the display tank) and give your tank a fallow period to let the ich parasite finish their cycle without a host. Otherwise it stays in your tank and will strike again.

I just realized how long this all was. I sincerely do like your tanks! I swear. ;-)

 

[Rbishop]

Nice.

 

[cwpvt100]

Thanks Grins, I knew i was risking with the emerald crabs, but no idea about the porcelen and arrow crabs. I had heard that the queen conchs stay smaller in aquaria then in the wild, I guess i will have to find a new home if they get huge, right now they are only about an inch long. Thanks Grins

 

[Grins]

I hope your inhabitants all laugh at me and say "watch this lady we'll be uber mellow". And the porcelin crab wasn't one I was warning about at all. I want one too. I love the queen conchs myself, I thought about one but opted for the florida fighting conch instead. My son loves it because after trying to get the dogs and cats in his life to do backflips over the years the conch did it within minutes of being in the tank.

 

[cwpvt100]

I should have gotten one of those, Yes i mislisted, its a porcelen crab, not a decorator crab

 

[Grins]

Ah well those are very cool. Do you have photos of it?

 

[cwpvt100]

No, Ill try, but i think i only see them every other week or so
they are very cool though, they wave their fans constantly