Pickupman66's 180 gal Glass box - Update for July 2013

Broke out the camera for a few shots tonight. Ill try to get a FTS tonight if I have time.

So I Broke out the Good Camera last night and snapped a few of my new goodies. Hopefully with some luck, this will be what ill be selling at next years swap.

Zoas first
Blue Orgasms From Jeremy S.



Orange rimmed Zoas from High Def.


I rather forgot what these are. I Got them from Captain's Corals.


Pretty deep green ones. High Def


Reds - High Def


Radio active Dragon Eyes High Def



They are supposed to be more of a hunter green. - The Frag Shack



Sticks:


Milliporas - Both from Happy Coral


Acros From Happy Coral



Jason Foxx Champagne

Pacific East.- Im calling this a Lemon Pie

another from them


LPS
Alveapora - Happy Coral

Hammer - Fish Dr.

Torch - From The Guys next door to Captain's Coral.

 

all the coral looks great but I love those blue orgasims

 

yea, that photo does not do them justice either... they are AWESOME. I had someone offer me $60 for them and I turned it down.

and I think I have some odd red ones mixed in with teh RDE's

 

Very nice adds. Congrats!

 

Those frags and colonies look beautiful. Looks like everything is coming along great.

 

Full tank shot and an update:

So its has been a while since I made a FTS so here is one for now. snapped it last night. I am still battling a bit of Cyano that is due to my nitrates being between 25 and 50 PPm and my Phosphate being 0.12. so, night before last I did a 50 gallon water change. I have upped the number of Pellets in my reactor and hope that it all starts to settle back into place. COuld also be that last month I added 2 tangs, 3 chromis and a mandarin all in one day effectively doubling my bioload. One of the tangs needed a bit of fattening up so I have been making sure to feed Nori on a daily basis along with alternating between flakes and frozen Rods food.



hate how the images look so small here.

 

So, here is a little bit of an update for you guys...

after battling being behind on my biological filter, I have finally gotten the tank to where I feel it needs to be.

Ca is at 420, Alk is 8.6, NItrates are zero, Phosphates tested at 0.00 (need to get them up just a hair) and everything else seems to be working well. Since the previous updates, I have added a few fish, I have added a new skimmer and doubled my bio-pellet capacity. the New skimmer is a used SRO3000XP-int. its a big bad skimmer and does a great job of cleaning the funk out of the tank.

Ive got a big photo update loading up in Photobucket now so sit tight and we will get you some pretties to look at.
So, about a month and a half ago, this fish joined our family. we found him at a small shop in Chattanooga in teh same tank as another CBB. this meany was definitely giving the other one hell and was priced nicely so we figured we would give him a shot. initially a very shy fish, this one still acts shy at times, but bold at others. The Atlantic blue was a bully at first but the mirror fixed that. this fish ate frozen in the store, but in 6 weeks, I have yet to see it eat anything I feed the tank. Anyhow, given that he still looks as fat or fatter than when he arrived, I think he is making a killing on pods and other critters. he has not decimated our aptasia yet. I did build a feeder with an extra mag float and some pvc. it holds a cube of bloodworms and only this guy can eat them because of the design. I have never witnessed him eat from this, but every day, it is completely empty. I may have seen him eating from it last night but not sure. If he would eat Asternia stars, he would be in Hog Heaven.

 

now on to the rest of the pretties.
the fishies:

 

Coralz
I cant remember what this is. it has HUGe polyps. I got it from Captains Corals. the urchin was right next to this guy so it was not that happy.

Poci.

Armor of Gods


Giant Palys and some Giant metallic green shrooms

Green hammer

Grape Sherbert

Its Happy Happy happy

Unknown



Tubs

Radioactive Dragon eyes

pretty red Zoa.


RBTA

Georgia Peachtree Milli (my naming)

Pink stag - yea, its huge, I love it

 

FTS of course.