Just Starting!! Week 2

[cagirly2006]

NEW PICS AT BOTTOM!!!


This is week 2...not the best yet but we'll get it there dont worry!! :) anybody know some cool common corals that look good but not to expensive?? any other suggestions welcome from you novices out there...!!

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[sandiego92155]

Nice tank. What is your ultimate goal with this tank? You're taking a risk with corals with that trigger in there. I've seen tanks with nigers in them though. It depends on temperment, feeding habits & other fish you have in the tank. So what's inside the stand? Lighting? Best of Luck

[cagirly2006]

thanks...our goals witht he tank is basically just the basic reek tank with 5 or 6 fish...and ys i know were at rish putting the corals in there with him; but we'll see how it works out...the tank is basically just running on an emperor filter and a skimmer with 320watt PC lights...the guy we got it from only had th skimmer with it and it was fine but we added the filter and it is perfect; but, soon we'll upgrade and get some more equipment to improve the tank...

[SDFISHMAN]

Looks good.. I would take off the HOB filter and add a powerhead or 2.. HOB is a nitrate magnet so it would be better on a FO tank then a Reef.. Most run the HOB and Canister filters just for carbon good luck..

[chilly05willy]

good start, keep us updated :)

[marcof]

I have a small niger trigger in my reef tank, and he has not been a problem. I have lots of snails, hermits, shrimp, sps, lps, zoos, rics, etc..... He was a little aggressive to a small pair of clowns i introduced but they are fine now. With that said.... when niger triggers become mature large adults the tendancy to pick at stuff will greatly increase.

HTH,
Marco

[cagirly2006]

heres what we got now...were on week 4!!!

today we got:

green brain coral
electric flame scallop
green polyp rock
crocea clam
feather duster


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[SA_Fox_Mulder]

Snap, that's a deep sand bed. Good luck, cool stuff in there.

[DaChrisDude]

Lookin good Ashley and Joey! Nice seeing you guys again today...

Oh, I didn't even think about it, but watch the trigger and the clam...

[cagirly2006]

oh alright thanks for the heads up, so far so good!! they havent touched the clam yet but they were nipping at the bottom thing of the feather duster but we just put it cmpletely under the sand so now its fine!! but yeah it was nice seeing you too and im sure we'll be seeing you soon!!

and yeah fox mulder, that is a thick sand bed but we havent really had the chance too take it out, i dont want to stress everyne out because so far we good and have lost NO fish, knock on wood!! but thanks

[cagirly2006]

heres a pic of it at night...kinda blurry cuz i had the flash off, but when the flash was on it looked like bright daylight, so thats the best i could do!!

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[Ars3nal619]

Wouldnt he be better off with less of a sandbed....i mean he could get away with half of what hes got in there.....more water space...im guessin tho.

[cagirly2006]

were going to take some out eventually!!!

[DaChrisDude]

actually, it's deep enough that it might qualify as a "deep-sand-bed"

[cagirly2006]

lol...is that a good thing or a bad thing??

[SA_Fox_Mulder]

Sounds like a good thing if you get it set up right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sand_bed

[cagirly2006]

sounds good... thanks

[cagirly2006]

1 month

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[cagirly2006]

just added the neon green trumpets

[DiverDave]

Looking good. Have you considered putting a background on the back of the tank? You can get cheap backing at Petco or Petsmart that is blue, black, or various pictures of aquarium aquascaping. Keep a close eye on the scallop. They are filter feeders and non-photosynthetic. Without enough food they die and could polute the tank.

[SA_Fox_Mulder]

Has anyone ever took their tank to an airbrush artist before ? Like to make a cool mural with whales or sharks or a giant reef , something like that ?

[cagirly2006]

yeah were going to get a background for it, a black one, we just have just been buying other stuff for it lately...but yeah about that scallop, it died the first night we got it, so idk what happened...we had bio plankton in there, i even put the bip plankton in before the scallop...so idk what happened...

[Squidward]

Has anyone ever took their tank to an airbrush artist before ? Like to make a cool mural with whales or sharks or a giant reef , something like that ?



you should see my kids room lol .....i am hand painting an entire reef and ocean on the walls .....just started
i really dont like showing unfinished work but every tan spot will have a different coral

[cagirly2006]

niiiiccceeee

[Fishaholic]

cool painting!

About the scallop they are very sensitive to water perams especialy nitrates which are a common factor in a new tank.

How often are you checking the water? Whats the perams?

Tank is lookin good! Keep it up! :)

[DaChrisDude]

you should see my kids room lol .....i am hand painting an entire reef and ocean on the walls .....just started
i really dont like showing unfinished work but every tan spot will have a different coral


Totally awesome Andy! Make sure to post pics once you're done. That's a really neat thing to do for your kid, kudos to you amigo.

[Skywalker71]

Hey sdfishman, why is a HOB filter considered a nitrate magnet?