What I've been up to lately.....not a whole lot.......

I added a few more things to the 29. I purchased another high fin goby. I had two previously in the 50 but both of them went carpet surfing on me. I really like those little fish so I thought I would chance another but put it in the 29 with the two firefish. I have a glass lid on the 29 and there is VERY little room for anything to flip out....soooo...here's hopin !

I also picked up an "Armor of God" zoanthid. That's it in the middle picture. A very nice zoa and the name of the coral is dear to my heart. I also traded one of my blue striped shrooms for a frag from a nonphotosynthetic gorgonian. I like the yellow color and the fact that I don't have to worry about placing it in the light. Too many things are competing for that space up top and I needed something for the lower shaded areas. This one seems to be very happy so far.....lots of polyps peeking out and scoffing up the tiny microrganisms I must have floating around in there....I have no skimmer.... I did a good cleaning and water change on the tank the other day and it's looking really nice right now !

Spent a good part of the day today doing a water change on the 50. I decided to take out 20gallons this time around. It needed a good freshening up. Right now all I have for fish in the 50 are the pair of ocellaris clowns and a yellow tail damsel. I lost the yellow watchman. I suspect that one of the heaters I had in there was no good. It looked as if some water had gotten inside it so I was probably getting a current in the tank. I really need to add to the rock in that tank and once I'm sure all is well in there I'll decide if I want to add another fish or not. I've been considering a marine betta....but, not sure if that would be a good choice or not.

Update on the 29.....we got CORAL !

The 29 is looking good. It's gone through the diatom/cyno stage already. I've tossed in some coral here and there. The chalk bass aquired a huge pop eye....I think it was caused by an injury.......it's now in QT getting clean water changes daily. It's been in the QT for a week now and is doing really well. Everything else in the tank looks great !

New 29 reef

I finally got sick of the 29planted. I had stopped dosing with the flourish excel because it's pretty expensive and I didn't want to buy it anymore. Things went south pretty fast. Cyno, moldy gunk...etc...just plain ugly. Basically it just had too much nutrients in the substrate and I didnt' have enough light for the plants to be able to make use of it...so the cyno did...blah !

I moved the fish over into a 20hex I had laying around.....1 gold marble angel, 2 blue rams, 4 pristella tetra and a kuhli loach. The hex has a bare bottom and both filters from the 29 are running on it. I have a new home for them, just have to hold them till he gets his tank setup. I'm going to miss those fish...but I'm way into salt now and seem to have lost my interest in fw setups...ah well....

So.....after emptying the 29, I cleaned out the tank really well and tossed everything in. I had purchased about 20lbs of rock the week before...fully cured fiji for $3 a lb...great deal ! It has been sitting in tanks for a week and all looks good...so into the 29 it went...along with the 2 firefish and a new chalk bass I picked up. I'm not concerned about a cycle, but I'll keep an eye on things just to be sure. I do have a place to put the fish if it looks like it's cycling...no worries.

This tank sits between the livingroom and kitchen...high traffic and I can look at it while I'm eating...or sitting at the computer. I LOVE it !

Random Coral Shots

A few pics I took from the 50 recently. For the sake of honesty, I "shopped" out some window reflextions from that first photo.

New Fish.....New Nano Reef.....

It's been awhile since I've posted anything new here. I recently added another reef to my collection of tanks.......a 15gallon nano. Original I set up the 15 as a "temporary" tank to grow out a small purple firefish that I bought for the 50. Well, you all know how that goes.....it's now a little reef with 2 purple firefish in it......and so I went out and bought a little yellow tail damsel to toss in the 50 instead.....hehe.....

Here's a few pics of the High Fin goby. I have two of them in the tank...they aren't paired and I'm not even sure if I have a male/female.....I'm hoping. There's also a tiger pistol which came with the second goby. The pistol has shacked up with the first goby. I only have one pic of the shrimp and goby together in their burrow, but it's not a very good one, very blurry.....so I won't post that one and just hope to get a better one at some point. Cute little fish !

Random Reef Pics