Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby WRASSER » October 6th, 2009, 1:33 am

very nice pictures, they came out really good... ... still no pics on the possium and or mistery huh :cry: :mrgreen:
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Ben » October 6th, 2009, 1:36 am

Love the tank man nice work. You have cyphastrea labeled as superman monitpora. In anycase I love the tank, great corals.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 6th, 2009, 2:05 pm

Well......
I actually am not worried about the possium wrasse. Last night I saw him out and about on the back rt side cor of tank. Was out for awhile but cam battery was charging.
Will try tonight!
WRASSER wrote:very nice pictures, they came out really good... ... still no pics on the possium and or mistery huh :cry: :mrgreen:
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 6th, 2009, 2:06 pm

Yeah Ben I saw that after I posted it.

Is there anyway to change it?
Oh and thanks on the compliments!

Ben wrote:Love the tank man nice work. You have cyphastrea labeled as superman monitpora. In anycase I love the tank, great corals.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby WRASSER » October 6th, 2009, 2:15 pm

bought a chiller last night, its hooked up and workin, temp at 77.3 at this moment. thanks for the help. :D
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 7th, 2009, 12:36 am

glad to hear. a chiller is one of those necessary things.

by the way here is a liitle somethin for you:
so sorry about the blurryness
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WRASSER wrote:bought a chiller last night, its hooked up and workin, temp at 77.3 at this moment. thanks for the help. :D
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby WRASSER » October 7th, 2009, 1:24 am

glad to see the possium wrasse is gettin comfortable with you to get out there and strike a pose or two for you, ty. hope the mystery wrasse will strike sum poses for you too. 8)
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 10th, 2009, 8:53 pm

Here are the latest guys to join my community!


Here are my latest additions. Thanks for letting me share them with you.


Season's greeting
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Deepwater bottlebrush acropora. Pic does not really show the blue tips.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 27th, 2009, 12:23 am

Well guys I won some auctions on Ebay. Shipping items arrived well. Some nice surprises in size. I know that with time they will color up. Who knows maybe they will color up differently in under my conditions.
Here they are:

TRICOLOR Acropora Secale
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SKY BLUE Acropora Nobilis Slimer
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REEF GODDESS Acropora
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TRICOLOR ACROPORA
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GARF BONZAI ACROPORA
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PURPLE/GREEN/PINK ACROPORA MILLE
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If anyone wants to know which seller I got these from just PM me.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Louey » October 27th, 2009, 6:58 am

That monti sick looking!

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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 27th, 2009, 10:01 pm

Thanks dude!

Louey wrote:That monti sick looking!

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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 29th, 2009, 1:14 am

Well went to WWC to get fish food and some RO refills.

Ended up with these instead!



Guys I have a problem! I am a SPS ADDICT!



Aquacultured pink and yellow not named millipora

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Blue tenuous acropora

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This one replaces my disappeared one.

ORA Pearl Berry acropora

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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Ben » October 29th, 2009, 6:54 pm

Nice pick ups, I already saw em on r2r though lol. The seasons greetings is one of my favs as far as montis go. I think I mounted mine too far back though since and can hardly ever see it.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 30th, 2009, 12:07 am

Well Ben hitting and posting on some of the sites gets you more exposue.

Ben wrote:Nice pick ups, I already saw em on r2r though lol. The seasons greetings is one of my favs as far as montis go. I think I mounted mine too far back though since and can hardly ever see it.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Ben » October 30th, 2009, 5:57 pm

Yeah I do like R2R also, nothing against RDO I am here all the time and post here more often but R2R has a real nice layout and monthly giveaways.

Tanks coming along nice man, keep up the good work.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » October 31st, 2009, 8:09 am

Thanks Ben,
I will post fts later on today. 6 foot tank is hard to get in one shot.
Thanks I think I am done with corals for a while. (HMMMM)I am going to concentrate on getting the fish that I would like to have.
Thank you for the support.
I go to R2R because I have friends that are there. I have some friends on RDO as well. Had it not been for wrasser on here I don't think I could've moved up to my 180g.

Ben wrote:Yeah I do like R2R also, nothing against RDO I am here all the time and post here more often but R2R has a real nice layout and monthly giveaways.

Tanks coming along nice man, keep up the good work.
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » November 1st, 2009, 11:50 pm

Well guys its been a month and we are still a work in progress. I added 12 green chromis because I love the schooling thing. Its funny though because there were 7 in one cubical and 5 in another cubical at the LFS. They all hang out but at night the pack splits 7 on one side of the tank the other 5 in the back of the tank.

So far no ammonia spikes since the transfer. Did a wc last week and one week after the wc no off the chart parimeters.

I added a digital temp reader and notice that the actual temp in the daytime is 80.1, at night 79.1. The temp on the chiller cools the water down to 78 deg. like clock work. Interesting that the temp has a differential of 1 to 1 1/2 deg. I'll keep an eye out.

Aaptasia amemones!!! Nothing seems to work! Tried red sea, and other brands, they don't seem to work. So for this problem I added 10 pistol shrimps. So far three days and all five visable aa are still alive.

How long should I give them before going the copperband butterfly route?

Anyhow one of you guys said that since I was adding a lot of corals that I should post a FTS.
My white balance is still not measuring I feel correctly because it strips away most of the blue color from the tank and a 180g without a really true wideangle lense has its challenges.
Let me know what you guys think.

FTS
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Here are some closer shots

left panel on side
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left front side
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middle front of tank
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right side front
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right panel on side
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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Louey » November 2nd, 2009, 6:56 am

Berghia Nudibranch work well for aiptasia.

I bought two for my 28G tank and the aiptasia disappeared within a month and never came back.

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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby Acronuts » November 2nd, 2009, 10:07 am

Do you have a pic of the nudi?

Louey wrote:Berghia Nudibranch work well for aiptasia.

I bought two for my 28G tank and the aiptasia disappeared within a month and never came back.

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Re: Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

Postby The Escaped Ape » November 3rd, 2009, 5:31 pm

Dammit. I can never look at these pics at work. Now I finally remember to look at home and all I can see are pictures telling me you've exceeded your bandwidth! :lol:
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