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Soft coral id plz

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 12:57am CDT by lanzo

hey guys this softie is in my mantis tank, going to upgrade light on the tank
whould love to know what it is, LFS told me sinularia, but i don't think so
Where can I get Joe's juice in JHB?

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 12:47am CDT by matt165

Got a few aiptasia sprout up in my nano. Wanna nuke these buggers as I see 'em.

Where can I get Joe's juice in SA?
Hello from the UK

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 11:33pm CDT by craigg

Hello.

My name is Craig, I'm a mod on a UK based forum

I currently run a 7.5ft Ref Tank, with 2 many fish and an ever increasing number of both SPS and LPS.

My LPS is my pation at the moment, Trachy's and Acans being the number one current obsession.

Any way here is some pics of my tank, I will also start tank thread. (tried posting pics but not allowed yet)

Please also check out my web site for hundreds and hundreds of pics etc.

Craig
Replace half of my substrate with Aragonite?

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 10:37pm CDT by matt165

I'm currently using extremely fine playsand as my substrate. I love the look of this, but can't help but wonder if i'd be better off with Aragonite (for its buffering capacity).

I've included a poll as not sure if I should leave it as is, remove half and top up with aragonite, or remove all and replace completely with aragonite.
Will my clowns host my torch coral to death?

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 10:00pm CDT by matt165

Just got a BEAUTIFUL torch coral from Midasblenny, and it took my clowns nearly a week to find it. But anyway they're hosting in it right now, and i've noticed its not as inflated as usual.

Will they host it to death? What should I do? I don't want to lose either :(
Zoanthid Help Please

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 9:07pm CDT by Reneshen

Hi Guys

I have a new system running for 3 months. I have both fish and coral.

The tank is 120l I also have a DSB with a protien skimmer.

The temp of the tank is 27dc and the Nitrites and Nitrates are 0. i dont have any other testers. i also do a 10% water change every 2 weeks

All my corals are doing well but the Zoa's.

My first set of Zoas lasted for a week then closed and never opened a month ago, at first i thought it could be due to my tank being new. I then purchased a second set of Zoanthid 10 days ago, they opened perfecty for a week and are now closed for 3 days.

Please tell me there is some hope that they will open up again.
I am mourning...

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 7:54pm CDT by Tobes

My cleaner shrimp died, had him for over a year. He was 75mm(3 inches) long - I know they're not expensive, but he was my friend...
Fish in the system for quite some time now: cleaner wrasse, sixline wrasse, fire goby, midas blenny, algae blenny, coral beauty, sailfin tang, tile fish, common clown, false grammar and 6 humbugs(hope it's right). Water parameters are excellent and temp constant at 26deg.

He looked fine the previous day and still took a piece of prawn from my fingers. What could've caused this? :(
Huge Wave Maker

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 7:46pm CDT by sean_koekemoer

I am looking for wavemakers. At least 02 of them, but, I have the Resun 15000lt wavers, and am looking for something much shorter as well as much wider.

The "outlet" must be much wider to be able to "disturb/turn" more water at once and it must be much shorter in lenght to minimise visibility inside the tank.

Can you buy something like that and if you can, where??

or

Can someone built something like that???
LA shop tour - sort of...

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 4:42pm CDT by Curvball

I've just returned from a quick 2 weeks in Los Angeles:cool: - and it was awesome!

My friend has an awesome little 50g system which I helped him connect to a frag tank etc. We were supposed to redo the aquascaping but we didn't get a chance.

He took me on a quick shop tour, well, we only went to 2 shops, but each was on each side of LA. Enough with the talk, here are the photos...

Vivid
This place blew my mind, I felt as if I was inside the 'internet' with the amazing collection of corals they had!
Ricordia and zoo tank

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 3:53pm CDT by matt165

:yes:

After a few months

Original thread: Finnex 30gl arrived - Saltwaterfish.com Message Boards
Finger leather pics needed

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 3:02pm CDT by Warr7207

please post any pics of finger leather corals - (Lobophytum) for Wiki article
Enjoy these... I am now tankless, just have memories left.

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 11:03am CDT by LikesFish

Feather duster worm @ night
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Sleeping Foxface @ night
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Angry Comet @ night
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Two spent DI-resin beads
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Sean's Concrete tank Pics only

Posted: May 18th, 2008, 9:53am CDT by sean_koekemoer

So I was really bored, and decided to copy all the pics in my thread and put them all in one thread to make it easier for me to go back and check out the progress, as I really have to many pics on my pc to search amongst them all.

This is really not for comments as it is just easier to find pics without turning pages due to comments, so please mods, try and help to keep the text outta this thread.....

First Equipment:

Reef Octopus with Needle wheel pumps

And the Kalkwasser