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Offline Ballyhoo

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Bally's Aquapod
« on: November 21, 2011, 12:09:38 »
I picked up an Aquapod from craigslist about 6 months ago. It came with the hood and lighting, skimmer, pump, sand and about 5lbs of rock. I ended up tossing the sand, I figured it'd just be a nitrate bomb and more trouble than it was worth and replaced it with bagged live sand. The rock was covered in razor caulerpa, the man who sold me the tank said it was good to have in a tank because it absorbed excess nutrients....I ALMOST have it all eradicated... I replaced the bulbs with Coralife 28w bulbs, and bought some fullly cured rock from my LFS.
These were my first test results
Calcium - 400
dKH - 11
Phosphate - .5
Nitrate - 5


I was going through old pictures and saw this, I really hope these aren't sundial snails...



I waited about 2 weeks and let things stable out and then added my clean up crew.

8 astrea snails
2 turbos
5 blue leg hermits
2 scarlet hermits
1 emerald crab - I opted out of this one and got a peppermint shrimp instead
3 nessarius snails - they were out of this so I was given a cucumber instead







had a friend send me about 20lbs of rock and here's the scape I had come up with


My female clown at the LFS while she was being paired up

finally paired!



more rearranging


readings before fish were introduced
Ca2+ - 400
KH - 10dKH/179
Po4 - .25
NO3- *- .25
NH3/NH4+ - 0
NO- *- 0

First pictures in the tank!



First ever coral!




Bonus Mushy!


Bought a Long Spine Urchin in hope that it'd munch on my caulerpa


Majanos >.<
these were quickly dispatched via lemon juice injections

Gorilla crab
I was really lucky with this little fella, I was looking at the tank and saw him in the sand bed and  pulled him out into a cup of tank water and began researching...once I discovered his true identity I took him to my LFS and he became puffer food.




my shrimp gives manicures :D


My emotional leather...



Bought a BTA for the clowns :)
This was my original place for the nem, hoping it'd stay put

It moved a little bit that night

And finally settled back in where I put him :D

His foot goes all the way to the sand bed :)


About 2 weeks after the nem was in, my female began hosting :)



I then discovered brown flat worms in my tank and went and bought a six line wrasse, while I was there my LFS had hammer frags for 20$ (they normally don't have those frags and the whole hammer runs about 90$)


Did some rearranging to find a spot for the hammer.


All corals nice and open


Picked up 3 new corals to fill in the center. I thought I had bought a Duncan, moon coral, and a ricordia mushy. It turns out it was really a Duncan, an Acan echinata, and a fuzzy mushroom.








Duncan and Fuzzy Mushy eating PE mysis



Flipflopped the mushroom and the acan in the rockwork, acan was starting to look a little bleached at the tips. This is the tank as it stands today :)


Thanks for reading!!
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2011, 12:32:55 »
Your tank looks great!

LOVE all the pics :)
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2011, 13:10:39 »
Awesome tank.   Great pics. 
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Offline cyberwollf

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2011, 13:28:14 »
makes me get excited about starting a smaller tank :)
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Offline buk

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2011, 15:28:46 »
nice looking tank. seems you really take pride in it. keep up the good work
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Offline HUNGER

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2011, 15:38:19 »
the tank looks great
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Offline Todd W.

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2011, 20:18:37 »
Great pics, nice looking tank.  Seems you had quite a few problems with pests.

I nominate you to get a gold star for providing pics.

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Offline Ballyhoo

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2011, 20:46:27 »
This is the first time my female has let my male clown in the nem. She usually chases him away and he "hosts" the upper corner of the tank while she's in the nem, he doesn't leave her side when she comes out though :)



I have had a lot of pests but I'm fortunate that they have all been "easy" pests, and have been kept under control  *knocks on wood* they were a great learning experience.
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2011, 21:50:12 »
picked up a new coral today :)

Caulastrea furcata aka candy cane coral


rearranged a little bit to put it up high on the rock work, as I read they need high light under power compacts I think. A lot of what I read seems to be conflicting, so I plan on starting it there and any sign of bleaching I'll move it down.

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2011, 22:08:49 »
I have mine in a shaded part of the tank, my lights are 250w halides but the par down where they are is probably around 100. So its pretty low light.
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2011, 22:18:16 »
hmmmm I'll have to see about moving it then. I could switch either my acan or my fuzzy mushroom with it, but that puts it  close to my nem when it's out during the day so I'd have to keep an eye on that too....I just need to upgrade and problem solved :P
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2011, 22:30:37 »
Yep bigger tank always fixes things :)
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Offline Ballyhoo

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2011, 22:32:01 »
I've already mailed my list to Santa and I've been a REALLY good girl :)
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2011, 01:20:51 »
looks good +1 on a bigger tank
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2011, 12:04:48 »
Not a good morning for my corals....
The trumpet fell which knocked the fuzzy mushy down and it landed on the acan. I pulled them apart and they were mushy where they were touching. The mushroom has release a small grey pearl from its mouth, which I'm assuming where it's insides.  :'(


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As they both sank to the bottom of the river, the frog said "do you mind if I ask you something? You said there would be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?" "It has nothing to do with logic," the drowning scorpion sadly replied. "It's just self destruction is my nature."

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #15 on: November 26, 2011, 12:50:53 »
sorry to hear that
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Offline lazylivin

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #16 on: November 26, 2011, 14:53:32 »
Bummer, it has happened to most of us
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« Reply #17 on: November 26, 2011, 16:41:07 »
yup more than once
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Offline Ballyhoo

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #18 on: November 26, 2011, 17:01:09 »
Hopefully the mushroom survives. It's mouth is still intact and it's open
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As they both sank to the bottom of the river, the frog said "do you mind if I ask you something? You said there would be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?" "It has nothing to do with logic," the drowning scorpion sadly replied. "It's just self destruction is my nature."

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #19 on: November 26, 2011, 21:42:13 »
ya he should be fine
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #20 on: November 26, 2011, 21:44:35 »
Yea it will happen many more times, trust me I have lost a few of my favorite corals due to some fall overs in the past.
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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2011, 08:39:56 »
yeah it could always be worse. i have a bunghole of a pistol shrimp that i swear can somehow sense expensive. two weekends ago i finally found a small frag of reverse prism favia and it made my wallet about $90 lighter. well the shrimp let it stay for 1 day then took a 5 head frag of duncans and sat them frag plug up on top of the favia. i was less than happy
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Offline Todd W.

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2011, 10:14:49 »
Get some putty... a little goes a long way.
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Offline Ballyhoo

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #23 on: November 27, 2011, 10:32:17 »
What kind of putty? I tried superglue but it was a pain to use
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As they both sank to the bottom of the river, the frog said "do you mind if I ask you something? You said there would be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?" "It has nothing to do with logic," the drowning scorpion sadly replied. "It's just self destruction is my nature."

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Re: Bally's Aquapod
« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2011, 11:06:10 »
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