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Had you considered using an adult pair of ocellaris instead of the juvi spot's?
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One of the most common sayings in research is... "nothing ruins good results like long term follow-up" hehe. I'll keep ya'll posted. |
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Very awesome. Looking forward to following the thread.
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Great work! Thx for sharing!
I'm planning on trying a multi-clown tank eventually, so I'm always eager to read of anyone else's experiences. It's interesting that you only feed every other day. I'd always assumed one of the tricks mobert used it keep aggression down was lots of food. Good to know I can cut back if nutrients become a problem. Keep us updated!
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should be a good one, following along
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any updated pics?
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Full tank shot in my lounge room.
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different nem pics
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1st Pic is of my purple LTA and my second favorite fish; Hog fish! This the main nem that my b&w's sleep in during the night. For some reason my spotcinctus won't go into it.
2nd Pic is of my newly added LED's. I have the large single reflector over this tank after my original LED's bleached all my corals. I've since learned a few things about LED's and decided to use them for again for supplementation only . My only problem was that there was no where to put them with a free hanging reflector. The reflector had 2 sections in the inside that were made for the mounting of fans to cool the MH bulb. Each intenal section has it's own reflector that covers the fan. Well, I mounted 8 RB's and 2 CW's LED's to each internal reflector plate (total of 20 LED's). Since these aren't heatsinks, I mounted fans behind each plate that run full time. No LED's even point at the water and none have optics. They only reflect within the reflector and then go straight down. It's awesome, I'm very happy with the results. I can now run these from 7am to 11pm and run my MH bulb for 6 hours in the middle. I'm running a 175w 20k xm bulb. I'm not very happy with how dark it is (when running solo) compared to the 250w 14k Phoenix I had before. But with the LED's on all the time, it's near perfect! Hopefully the nems will continue to respond favorably. I'll keep you posted. |
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Aren't you guying to fry your LED's? LED longevity is directly tied to operating temperature. If they are 100 degrees or warmer they are too warm. I would think being in such close proximity to a MH bulb they would burn up?
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do any of the B&W hang out in the nems during normal photoperiod? or the spots control each nem until sleeping time? I see that you have a rimless, any casualties from jumping?
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Ughh. Rimless tank. I love the look of it, but it's very problematic in general. I've been playing Modern Warfare 3 a lot at night time and I noticed that if I'm playing it on the xbox and the lights go out on the tank (at 11pm) I'll get a jumper. I quickly get the fish back into the tank. I thought that I'd seen all of them jump, but then I noticed my cat hanging around the tank a lot more with a smile on her face. I took a picture of the tank and started counting b&w's and I'm definitely missing at least 3; maybe more. It's hard to tell. Regardless, I've started turning on my overhead lights if I'm gonna have the TV on when the tank lights go out. I noticed that I don't get any jumpers when there is more light in the room besides that coming from the TV. Question to you all.. Should I replace the b&w cat food (ouch.. too soon?) with more b&w's? Or should I replace them with some other juvi clown? Let me know what you think. |
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I think it'll be nice to see some new juvi clowns to the mix. I dunno if you're a fan of designer ones but there are so many designers out there to choose from. whatever you do, keep us posted on how the established clowns react to the newcomers.
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I'd be concerned that new clownfish in the mix would get picked on by the existing young ones as well as the dominant pair. From what I understand, having all the young ones from one group is key to this working.
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Young clownfish are amazing!
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update please.
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07/26/2012, 03:03 PM | #44 |
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Hate to say it folks, but I got bored with the set up and sold off all of my anemone's except for 2 and all of my b & w clowns. I kept my spotcintus clowns and have now filled the tank with sps and a couple other fish.
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