Ohio Reef
Reef Discussion => Tank Profiles & Build Threads => Topic started by: Ohioreefjr on November 22, 2018, 02:37:36
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Well everyone, after quite a bit of time out of the hobby I am officially back into the saltwater hobby. When I left for the Army I had to tear down my tank amidst it's glory days, and with the help of some of our club members, I am well on my way to having it back up to par. I had it cycling for awhile, but am just now getting around to posting about it. So here is the introduction.
I have a coralife BioCube that I recently upgraded the hood on. When I bought it quite a few years ago, it had the fluorescent hood on it, and recently we upgraded it to the LED hood. I failed to take picture prior to adding my coral, but here is a picture of my tank as she sits now.
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Attached you will find pictures of the corals I currently have thanks to our tanks as well as the pictures they are located in:
"If you notice I have any corals incorrectly identified, please feel free to help me get the proper identification on them!"
Two different pieces of Green Birdsnest (Large is pictures 10 and 22, small is pictures 9 and 11)
A large Green Button Polyp (Pictures 2,3,8)
Green Monti Cap (Pictures 1,2,3)
Green Mushrooms (12)
A Green Sponge (23,24)
A large Shy GSP colony (13)
Green Hairy Mushrooms (14,15,16)
Orange unidentified Zoas (17,18,23)
Green Pipe organ coral (19)
Radioactive Dragon Eye Zoas (4,5,20)
Red Mushroom (22)
Red Monti Cap (4,5,6,7 and a frag of it is in picture 21)
and a toadstool leather (picture 25 and 26)
** The leather had attached itself to an empty shell, but since then my hermit crab decided it liked the shell, so now i have a traveling coral**
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Welcome back! The traveling Toadstool is cracking me up!
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I know where to get some starter corals from after I get mine up and going again!!!
Now to just find a tank.....
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Welcome back! The traveling Toadstool is cracking me up!
Thanks! It makes us laugh to seeing the random places it ends up throughout the day!
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OhioreefJr, great to see the pics of your tank and new coral! Keep us posted on your progress.
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Welcome back!
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Thanks lazy and Agame. It's good to be back, and I will make sure to keep everyone updated on the progress my tank makes!
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The GSP I was given had finally decided to come out!
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Love them under the moonlights!
Can’t wait to get mine going again!!
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Some updated happenings in my tank!
Here the saga of the traveling leather attached to the hermit shell continues!
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Here is one of my two peppermint shrimp. I have never had ones that are as active as these two. They are always out!
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And I need help id’ing These guys. They are hard to get a picture of, but they look and move almost like a small sea hare or cucumber. They are about an 1/8 to a 1/4 inch in size. I have no clue what they are and am looking for help with figuring out what they are
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Do they look kinda like a slug with half a shell?
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They don’t appear to have any shells
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They don’t appear to have any shells
Then not stomatella.
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See if you can find it here: http://www.melevsreef.com/critters
Is this them: http://www.melevsreef.com/critter/chiton?hide=true
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New update 1 month after starting this thread.
Everything is growing well. Do have a few algae issues however my new clean up crew from aquarium depot is doing a pretty good job cleaning it up. The corals are all growing well, and watching the growth in the tank is my favorite part of the whole process!
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Update cont.
I Built a media basket for my tank instead of purchasing one. So far it has filter floss in it and a sponge. Not sure what to put in my other compartments, does anyone else have any suggestion for what to put in the other suggestions?
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Update Cont.
Shortly after building my new media basket I made a purchase on Aquarium Depot's website for a clean up crew. I ordered one of the nano packs that ships free, then made sure to add a few additional corals during the 50% off sale. In total I received 16 bags. I had also ordered a feather duster and he died, however, aquarium depot refunded me for him within a day of my claim and I will order from them again for sure.
My order consisted of:
Brown leg hermit crabs
Two heads of purple candy cane
Cerith snails
an emerald crab
red gorgonia
Green Ricordhea
Icy hot zoanthids
Nassarius snails
blue leg hermits
turbo snails
scarlett hermits
white leg hermits
a blasto
a small serpeant starfish
porceline crab
feather duster (RIP)
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update continued:
Now onto my coral growth:
- Green Birdsnest (Haven't seen alot of growth, but it is looking healthy!)
- Purple Candy Cane (The larger head appears to be getting more oblong, leading me to believe a split may be coming)
- Red Gorgonia (not alot of growth since purchase but I do see signs of it)
- Green Monti cap (alot of additional growth around the edges)
- Green button polyp (had 1 full head and a second one forming when i received it. Now it has two heads and two more growning)
- Pipe organ coral (minimum growth, maybe a few new heads)
- Green Mushrooms (a third mushroom has began to develop)
- Green Ricordhea (came as a single head, now has two mouths and is splitting)
- GSP (has almost completely encompassed the rock it is on and is needing fragged)
- Hairy Mushrooms (Both heads have grown quite a bit larger)
- Icy hot Zoas (these came with about 15 polyps from aquarium depot, last night I counted almost 20 of them)
- Orange Bam Bam Zoas (these came with three heads, and didn't see much change until last night when I noticed two new polyps forming)
- Radioactive Dragon Eye zoas (these guys are thriving! got them with four heads, and newest count last night revealed a total of about 12 polyps with the ones forming!!)
- Red Mushroom (Has gotten larger and has a second mushroom on the hairy mushroom rock)
- Orange/red monti cap (has alot of growth around the edges)
- Blasto (still small but the head has gotten bigger. don't have a great picture of it tho!
***** I would love to take time to thank Keith (keith92), Gary, and Rick (agame43) again for most every coral in this tank! My daughter loves them guys!!!*****
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Update continued
And i have to have pictures of the Original livestock. We have two domino damsels that we orginally intended to put into a frag tank later on, but they have become part of the family. They interact and play with my children everytime they come near the tank, and they play tag with each other amidst the rock. My daughter named them Rex and Dino! We also have two peppermint shrimp that are the most active I have ever seen. They love to come out during the day and clean everything!
On another note, does anyone have suggestions for fish that maybe won't be picked on if they get put in the tank with the damsels? I know damsels can be mean and territorial.
***Make sure to scroll up to see all the progress my tank has made***
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Added a few new items to my tank a few weeks ago and figured I should share :be happy:.
1.)The first picture is of one of my favorite fish period. It is a lawnmower blenny. since putting him in the tank, he has done a wonder on some of the algae problems I did have. Rebecca my daughter named him Dory
2.)Next I added a scooter blenny, This guy seems to crave attention. Everytime someone gets near the glass he has to come right up to the edge. My daughter named him Nemo
3.) Next is a frag of mixed zoas I got from Gerbers. They were unable to tell me the name of them, but upon my own research, I do believe them to be two different species/breeds. I believe the frag has purple queens as well as daisy dukes on it. If someone else has opinions, I'd be glad to hear them.
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Here is a picture my wife caught yesterday of our starfish out and about. He loves feeding time!
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Very nice!
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Great pictures! Your tank looks great!
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