Westeri's Tank

[Westeri]

I am in the home stretch now of what I received last Friday.

IPSF sent me two freebie corals (I guess due to the size of my order) which I wasn't entirely sure I was actually ready to receive.  I have placed them into my refugium for now, as it is the only thank with a light operating at this time.  The first picture is focused upon what I believe to be a variety of Small Pipe Caulastrea.



I haven't figured out what the coral behind the Caulastrea is.  Though it did come with a couple of featherdusters.



Next is just a fun shot that I did, it doesn't really add any information.



The following is a shot of the Refugium from last Saturday timeframe.  This shows my Yellow and Red Gracilaria that I received.



and now from Thursday.

[lazylivin]

And let there be life

[Travis8896]

Looks nice!!

[Westeri]

Thank you,

I like the trick the yellow gracilaria pulled on me.

[Westeri]

I got my coral quarantine tank setup now.  I have moved the two coral freebies I received with my clean up crew order to that tank.  May be a little late if there is anything problematic on those two corals, but at least I can start the proper practice.   Probably should get a hermit for that tank to remove any algae from future acquisitions, and a snail.

The reef amphipods seem to be increasing in numbers and are fairly easy to find some now in the tank.  I also seem to be getting a population of copepods in the refugium as well.

I haven't noticed either spreading to the main tank yet, though I suspect a few must have.  May just not be enough light until I get my main lights up and running.

[chromiumlux]

Looking Good!

[Westeri]

So, as I work on my canopy, I have put together a list of fish I am thinking of putting into my tank.  The list is also in 'add to the tank' order.  Hopefully keeping the ones with greater aggressive tendency (or requiring a more mature tank) to the end.

2 Orange Butterflyfish (chaetodon kleini)
3 Labout's Fairy Wrasse (cirrhilabrus laboutei)
2 Orange stripe Prawn Goby (amblyeleotris randalli)
1 Green Mandarin
1 Macneill's Assessor basslet (assessor macneilli)
4 Yellow Tangs
1 cleaner common wrasse


I do plan on including some inverts such as cleaner shrimp,
Green feather starfish, perhaps Trapezia Pocillopora (Trapezia sp).

[Westeri]

Happy to report that I finally spotted some amphipods in the main tank yesterday.   Granted they may have been there previously.   Given the difficulty in spotting them, I would say they are a small population.   At least compared to finding them in my refugium.   But I take it as a good sign.  Hopefully in about 4 weeks it will be as easy to spot them in the main tank as they currently are in the refugium.

[Wall_Tank]

Happy to report that I finally spotted some amphipods in the main tank yesterday.   Granted they may have been there previously.   Given the difficulty in spotting them, I would say they are a small population.   At least compared to finding them in my refugium.   But I take it as a good sign.  Hopefully in about 4 weeks it will be as easy to spot them in the main tank as they currently are in the refugium.

Do a transplant from your fuge to your main tank.   They do make it, but your circulation pump kills a good portion of them in between.

[Westeri]

I may try that, but there is no pump between the fuge and main tank.  There is a gravity overflow that delivers water to the main tank from refugium.

But a transplant would probably help spread them faster.

[Wall_Tank]

Then that is fine.....I missed that you had a gravity fed fuge.

[Twizted1]

Would love to see your system in person some time.

[Westeri]

Would love to see your system in person some time.

I will keep that in mind for when I "finish" my system.

[Westeri]

Well, my first two fish have survived their first week in QT.  Just around 5 more weeks to go.

[Twizted1]

Very nice. They both look good.

[chromiumlux]

Any updates on this build?

[Westeri]

Been kind of lazy the last couple of months on this.  Still need to complete my canopy.