The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread - Page 41

shilala · 06-08-2011, 05:12 PM

Here's one, Mychal. I just took it. It's a long-spined urchin.

LostAbbott · 06-09-2011, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by shilala

Here's one, Mychal. I just took it. It's a long-spined urchin.

That guy looks really cool. When I was on Kauai last year I saw a fish eat one of those guys.

shilala · 06-09-2011, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by LostAbbott

That guy looks really cool. When I was on Kauai last year I saw a fish eat one of those guys.

When I was in the Keys last year it was freezing cold and I saw thousands upon thousands of urchins dead on the bottom in the shallows. They were short-spined ones, not that it matters.
I'd like to go back next year and see how stuff has recovered. Without the urchins to clean, I bet it became quite a mess for awhile, considering the tons (literally) of dead fish everywhere.
What's odd is that I never saw them before when I was snorkeling in the shallows, or at least not in any kind of numbers that they left an impression on me. The particular variety must be nocturnal, or they simply washed in from the flats is the best I can figure.

shilala · 06-08-2011, 05:19 PM

On a good note, I noticed our first baby hammer coral today. We can grow paly's like nobody's business, and everything else is splitting and dividing and so forth, but for some reason Lisa and I got really excited when we saw a baby mushroom awhile ago. We watched it every day.
Now this baby hammer just kinda came from nowhere. It's cute as a bug.

The stupid atomic boring eagle eye paly has spread to rocks in all directions, it's a monster. It deserved an honorable mention for insane growth rate. It has gone from the size of a pinky fingernail to the size of a softball in just a few months.
At this point, I probably won't add anything else at all unless I really, really like it. Otherwise corals will be spilling over and out of my tank in no time.

06-08-2011, 06:08 PM

I zapped a rhodactis as an experiment. It worked. I may prune enough room back in my tank to put some new variety in it.

Wolfgang · 06-08-2011, 07:25 PM

Make sure to run carbon after zapping Rhoactids. They tes to throw slime and ther bad stuff into the water column.

06-08-2011, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolfgang

Make sure to run carbon after zapping Rhoactids. They tes to throw slime and ther bad stuff into the water column.

Got the carbon thing covered.
Just another observation (sorry). When I had the polarity backwards and was putting nickle, chrome, and maybe cobalt, possibly iron into the anemones, they would wither up and die. Hitting them the other way tears them up but if I don't get them bad enough they grow back. At least it's easy to hit them again.
Pics of a mostly anemone free tank to come, as soon as I clean it enough to get a picture.

Wolfgang · 06-08-2011, 11:15 PM

Dont kill them all. If you kill them all you wont get to play with your new toy

OLS · 06-09-2011, 07:06 AM

I had an interesting theory pop into me head last night. I have one of the OOOOld style Berlin skimmers,
in which you hook up a 'jet engine' to it and it makes some bubbles and maybe skims. However, all these years
I was getting bigger and bigger water pumps cause I thought with the type of venturi it had, it would only
make sufficient bubbles if it was flowing mad water. But when I re-purposed it this week, I used a comparably
tiny pump on it, and I opened up the air hose flow wide open and I was barely gettin foam. I think in
the years past, I had max flow, but I had to stop down the air injection to near zero to keep it from
overfoaming. I think once this one tunes up a bit I am gonna get good foam from max air and less than
max water flow. Sad part is although I have three different pump sizes, on a 20 gallon tank, there is not
much room for pumps. So I am sticking with lil junior.

shilala · 06-09-2011, 07:36 AM

Good luck, my man.

Let us know how the experiment goes.

shilala · 06-16-2011, 05:36 PM

Today my hammer sent out a sweeper tentacle or something and got snagged up by the Gonapora. The Gonapora hung on for the best part of the day until it finally cut the hammer loose just a little while ago.
It managed to unmoor the hammer, now I have to get some more glue and stick it down good. I might just move it if I can find someplace to put it.

06-23-2011, 07:57 AM

I use a plastic barrel with a float valve to collect my RO/DI water. You can get those at any hardware store. You can double up the barrel if you can't find a sturdy enough one.

shilala · 06-23-2011, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

I use a plastic barrel with a float valve to collect my RO/DI water. You can get those at any hardware store. You can double up the barrel if you can't find a sturdy enough one.

I gave that some thought before, Lance. Even thought about a giant tub sump in the basement. I just don't want barrels, and I sure don't want to take a chance on a float valve malfunctioning and flooding the basement once it's finished. I wanted a closed system that's point of use.
I could even do that with a 10" or 12" pvc tube up in the joists, using the airgap for backpressure.
At any rate, it's a winter project. I'm way too busy to even be thinking about this right now.

shilala · 06-23-2011, 04:03 PM

Oh yeah, got my aiptasia nuker today. I played with it for five minutes and put it away. I nuked a couple and they sucked in their holes. I'll go after them later tonight and get what I didn't already kill.

06-23-2011, 04:42 PM

Yeah, Scott, I have found that the ones that hide back in holes are very hard to kill. You just singe them and they grow back. I like to jab the electrode in them and just let it sit there for about 30 seconds. Bwahahahaha! Nhya-ah-ah!

shilala · 06-25-2011, 09:27 AM

I drill right in the hole after them. As a result, I knocked a couple frags off and I'll have to find them and reglue them. It was worth it, though.

SteveH · 06-25-2011, 07:54 PM

Any new pics ?

shilala · 06-27-2011, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveH

Any new pics ?

I'll get some for ya if iever get done working outside. My babies are growing like crazy. In the morning I gotta get in there are get a couple that fell down.

shilala · 06-28-2011, 05:00 PM

The Aiptasia Zapper kills bristle worms. That is all.

shilala · 07-19-2011, 02:48 PM

After watching these corals for a good while now, I see that it's pretty obvious both when they're happy and when they're hungry. They're pretty damned amazing. I need to go swimming in there soon to move and separate a few things. The yellow coral isn't doing well up close to the lights, I want to move it down a bit. It seems everything but the xenia and cup coral wants to be down away from the lights a bit.

06-08-2011, 05:12 PM	#1
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Here's one, Mychal. I just took it. It's a long-spined urchin. __________________

06-08-2011, 05:19 PM	#4
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread On a good note, I noticed our first baby hammer coral today. We can grow paly's like nobody's business, and everything else is splitting and dividing and so forth, but for some reason Lisa and I got really excited when we saw a baby mushroom awhile ago. We watched it every day. Now this baby hammer just kinda came from nowhere. It's cute as a bug. The stupid atomic boring eagle eye paly has spread to rocks in all directions, it's a monster. It deserved an honorable mention for insane growth rate. It has gone from the size of a pinky fingernail to the size of a softball in just a few months. At this point, I probably won't add anything else at all unless I really, really like it. Otherwise corals will be spilling over and out of my tank in no time. __________________

06-08-2011, 06:08 PM	#5
BC-Axeman Guest Posts: n/a	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread I zapped a rhodactis as an experiment. It worked. I may prune enough room back in my tank to put some new variety in it.

06-08-2011, 07:25 PM	#6
Wolfgang Back from the dead Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 2,541 Trading: (14)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Make sure to run carbon after zapping Rhoactids. They tes to throw slime and ther bad stuff into the water column. __________________ You probably wont remember that test you failed, but you'll never forget the girl you were with the night before, when you decided not to study.

06-08-2011, 11:15 PM	#8
Wolfgang Back from the dead Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 2,541 Trading: (14)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Dont kill them all. If you kill them all you wont get to play with your new toy __________________ You probably wont remember that test you failed, but you'll never forget the girl you were with the night before, when you decided not to study.

06-09-2011, 07:06 AM	#9
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread I had an interesting theory pop into me head last night. I have one of the OOOOld style Berlin skimmers, in which you hook up a 'jet engine' to it and it makes some bubbles and maybe skims. However, all these years I was getting bigger and bigger water pumps cause I thought with the type of venturi it had, it would only make sufficient bubbles if it was flowing mad water. But when I re-purposed it this week, I used a comparably tiny pump on it, and I opened up the air hose flow wide open and I was barely gettin foam. I think in the years past, I had max flow, but I had to stop down the air injection to near zero to keep it from overfoaming. I think once this one tunes up a bit I am gonna get good foam from max air and less than max water flow. Sad part is although I have three different pump sizes, on a 20 gallon tank, there is not much room for pumps. So I am sticking with lil junior.

06-09-2011, 07:36 AM	#10
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Good luck, my man. Let us know how the experiment goes. __________________

06-16-2011, 05:36 PM	#11
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Today my hammer sent out a sweeper tentacle or something and got snagged up by the Gonapora. The Gonapora hung on for the best part of the day until it finally cut the hammer loose just a little while ago. It managed to unmoor the hammer, now I have to get some more glue and stick it down good. I might just move it if I can find someplace to put it. __________________

06-23-2011, 07:57 AM	#12
BC-Axeman Guest Posts: n/a	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread I use a plastic barrel with a float valve to collect my RO/DI water. You can get those at any hardware store. You can double up the barrel if you can't find a sturdy enough one.

06-23-2011, 04:03 PM	#14
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Oh yeah, got my aiptasia nuker today. I played with it for five minutes and put it away. I nuked a couple and they sucked in their holes. I'll go after them later tonight and get what I didn't already kill. __________________

06-23-2011, 04:42 PM	#15
BC-Axeman Guest Posts: n/a	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Yeah, Scott, I have found that the ones that hide back in holes are very hard to kill. You just singe them and they grow back. I like to jab the electrode in them and just let it sit there for about 30 seconds. Bwahahahaha! Nhya-ah-ah!

06-25-2011, 09:27 AM	#16
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread I drill right in the hole after them. As a result, I knocked a couple frags off and I'll have to find them and reglue them. It was worth it, though. __________________

06-25-2011, 07:54 PM	#17
SteveH You lookin at me ? Join Date: Mar 2011 First Name: Steve Location: Wilmington, DE Posts: 336 Trading: (4)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Any new pics ?

06-28-2011, 05:00 PM	#19
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread The Aiptasia Zapper kills bristle worms. That is all. __________________

07-19-2011, 02:48 PM	#20
shilala Dear Lord, Thank You. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Scott Posts: 13,721 Trading: (252)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread After watching these corals for a good while now, I see that it's pretty obvious both when they're happy and when they're hungry. They're pretty damned amazing. I need to go swimming in there soon to move and separate a few things. The yellow coral isn't doing well up close to the lights, I want to move it down a bit. It seems everything but the xenia and cup coral wants to be down away from the lights a bit. __________________