Redemption - Page 4

whatnot45 · 09/08/2006, 03:38 PM

The cleanup crew if I order this weekend wont get here much before thursday of next week anyways, and I do not plan on having any horses until at least the end of december....

whatnot45 · 09/13/2006, 07:24 PM

so it is here I tested all my water perameters before putting in the critters, and they were as follows:
Amonia: 1
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5

pledosophy · 09/13/2006, 08:36 PM

Your ammonia is at 1!

That is not very cool. You need to get some amqel or something to neatralize the ammonia or else you will be replacing that crew very soon.

whatnot45 · 09/13/2006, 08:51 PM

OOO!! woops lol sorry I meant to say it was at 0.1 ha ha sorry bout that.

whatnot45 · 09/15/2006, 06:05 PM

Well all is going well! the hair algea is 99% gone! and I am having to feed my clean up crew dried seaweed because there is not enough algea on the rock for them! Im going to be getting some more rocks soon so that should help.

whatnot45 · 09/23/2006, 10:25 PM

ok well all is well, except i have a huge problem with these dark green/black diatoms that are all over the sand and decore. I siphoned them out yesterday and did a 25 percent water change, but they are starting to grow back

whatnot45 · 09/29/2006, 08:03 PM

I finally did that trip to the LFS today and got 2 more small pieces of live rock. That is about as much as Im going to be getting. One of the pieces is a dead branching coral, I want to say tonga branch,but it just dosnt look like it. The other is a normal piece with a ton of coraline growing in coral like structures...
I would poste pics, but the latter is sitting in a small container with my peppermint shrimp because it has a few aiptasia anemone's on it. I got kalk, but i cant use it because i dont have a seringe. I went to a pharmacy to try and get one, but they wouldnt sell me one (i guess i look like a drug addict...) any ways My peppermint shrimp cleaned my other live rock of aiptasia so im hoping they can do this one too.

Also, there is this crab living in it that i found eating my claurpa. I havnt seen the crab, just the claw poking through a hole taring apart my macro algea so ill be getting him out of there soon as well.

When I get the rock back in there, ill post some pics. BTW my diatoms are going away. YAY!

whatnot45 · 10/17/2006, 04:00 PM

Ok I have pics! So these are pics just after I re aquascaped and pulled out about 2 handfulls of calurpa from the main display.

Im going to be getting The first seahorses sometime this week! Im getting 2 OR sunbursts( H erectus)

CHAOSTACTICS · 10/17/2006, 05:15 PM

mighty fine tank you have there

whatnot45 · 10/20/2006, 09:20 PM

Ok I oredered them! they are going to get here sometime between wedensday or thursday of next week! 2 OR sunbursts + a reef ball to get a culture of pods going in the fuge because i havn't seen any. I also put on a small whisper power filter for mechanical and chemical filtration. Its only 90 GPH, but i only need it to get rid of some of the debris that are floating around the tank.

whatnot45 · 10/26/2006, 04:11 PM

OK! the sunbursts are HERE! I got them yesterday afternoon. I aclimated them and then let them loose... They started swimming around and exploring right away. I gave them a few red volcano shrimp which they at first refused to eat while i was standing there watching, but as soon as I backed away from the tank they began to hunt them down and eat them. This morning they had their first feeding station lesson. The male took to it right away and swam over and started eating out of it. The female, not so much; I had to scoot her over their gently, but as soon as she saw the mysis she forgot all about the hand in the tank. Here is a picture of them about 3 hours after I put them in the tank:

whatnot45 · 04/28/2007, 08:40 PM

Here is a 6moth update: Everything is doing fine! Seahorses are active as ever, eat, swimming (trying to mate)... They are a LOT more lively than any seahorses I have had in the past.

The only incident that has happened with them is that the tank almost caught on fire about 2 nights ago! Some algae got caugt in the outake from the fuge, and it over flowed, The water spilled down towards the electrical outlets, and got soaked. My dog actually saved the day by waking me up I was fast asleep at 2am when it happened, and she barked at me and i woke up in time to see one of the powerbars spurting purple sparks all over the carpet, and the other one on fire. Today i got new power bars, and i was just Thankful that a the house didnt burn down, and B My seahorses didnt get electricuted!

fishymann · 04/29/2007, 08:57 AM

wow, your dog defintly saved your house and your seahorses! Dont be the cheap power strips, spend a little extra money and you'll be happy. Post some pictures man.

pledosophy · 04/29/2007, 07:31 PM

I go the Amercan DJ one for $30. Freaking rad to have a switch for every outlet. JME

Glad your house didn't burn down.

09/13/2006, 08:36 PM	#78
pledosophy Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Beaverton Posts: 5,290	Your ammonia is at 1! That is not very cool. You need to get some amqel or something to neatralize the ammonia or else you will be replacing that crew very soon. __________________ 120g mixed reef 90g QT

04/29/2007, 08:57 AM	#88
fishymann Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: NJ Posts: 731	wow, your dog defintly saved your house and your seahorses! Dont be the cheap power strips, spend a little extra money and you'll be happy. Post some pictures man. __________________ 55 gallon w/ 20 gallon sump/fuge

04/29/2007, 07:31 PM	#89
pledosophy Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Beaverton Posts: 5,290	I go the Amercan DJ one for $30. Freaking rad to have a switch for every outlet. JME Glad your house didn't burn down. __________________ 120g mixed reef 90g QT

09/08/2006, 03:38 PM	#76
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	The cleanup crew if I order this weekend wont get here much before thursday of next week anyways, and I do not plan on having any horses until at least the end of december....

09/13/2006, 07:24 PM	#77
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	so it is here I tested all my water perameters before putting in the critters, and they were as follows: Amonia: 1 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 5

09/13/2006, 08:51 PM	#79
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	OOO!! woops lol sorry I meant to say it was at 0.1 ha ha sorry bout that.

09/15/2006, 06:05 PM	#80
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	Well all is going well! the hair algea is 99% gone! and I am having to feed my clean up crew dried seaweed because there is not enough algea on the rock for them! Im going to be getting some more rocks soon so that should help.

09/23/2006, 10:25 PM	#81
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	ok well all is well, except i have a huge problem with these dark green/black diatoms that are all over the sand and decore. I siphoned them out yesterday and did a 25 percent water change, but they are starting to grow back

09/29/2006, 08:03 PM	#82
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	I finally did that trip to the LFS today and got 2 more small pieces of live rock. That is about as much as Im going to be getting. One of the pieces is a dead branching coral, I want to say tonga branch,but it just dosnt look like it. The other is a normal piece with a ton of coraline growing in coral like structures... I would poste pics, but the latter is sitting in a small container with my peppermint shrimp because it has a few aiptasia anemone's on it. I got kalk, but i cant use it because i dont have a seringe. I went to a pharmacy to try and get one, but they wouldnt sell me one (i guess i look like a drug addict...) any ways My peppermint shrimp cleaned my other live rock of aiptasia so im hoping they can do this one too. Also, there is this crab living in it that i found eating my claurpa. I havnt seen the crab, just the claw poking through a hole taring apart my macro algea so ill be getting him out of there soon as well. When I get the rock back in there, ill post some pics. BTW my diatoms are going away. YAY!

10/17/2006, 04:00 PM	#83
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	Ok I have pics! So these are pics just after I re aquascaped and pulled out about 2 handfulls of calurpa from the main display. Im going to be getting The first seahorses sometime this week! Im getting 2 OR sunbursts( H erectus)

10/17/2006, 05:15 PM	#84
CHAOSTACTICS Moved On Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 96	mighty fine tank you have there

10/20/2006, 09:20 PM	#85
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	Ok I oredered them! they are going to get here sometime between wedensday or thursday of next week! 2 OR sunbursts + a reef ball to get a culture of pods going in the fuge because i havn't seen any. I also put on a small whisper power filter for mechanical and chemical filtration. Its only 90 GPH, but i only need it to get rid of some of the debris that are floating around the tank.

10/26/2006, 04:11 PM	#86
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	OK! the sunbursts are HERE! I got them yesterday afternoon. I aclimated them and then let them loose... They started swimming around and exploring right away. I gave them a few red volcano shrimp which they at first refused to eat while i was standing there watching, but as soon as I backed away from the tank they began to hunt them down and eat them. This morning they had their first feeding station lesson. The male took to it right away and swam over and started eating out of it. The female, not so much; I had to scoot her over their gently, but as soon as she saw the mysis she forgot all about the hand in the tank. Here is a picture of them about 3 hours after I put them in the tank:

04/28/2007, 08:40 PM	#87
whatnot45 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: san jose california Posts: 666	Here is a 6moth update: Everything is doing fine! Seahorses are active as ever, eat, swimming (trying to mate)... They are a LOT more lively than any seahorses I have had in the past. The only incident that has happened with them is that the tank almost caught on fire about 2 nights ago! Some algae got caugt in the outake from the fuge, and it over flowed, The water spilled down towards the electrical outlets, and got soaked. My dog actually saved the day by waking me up I was fast asleep at 2am when it happened, and she barked at me and i woke up in time to see one of the powerbars spurting purple sparks all over the carpet, and the other one on fire. Today i got new power bars, and i was just Thankful that a the house didnt burn down, and B My seahorses didnt get electricuted!