My Slice of Nature (Part 3)

[Harlequinmania]

How's your phyto culturing coming along ? Did you manage to grow it thicker in color ?

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[Guest]

How's your zoas frag tank doing. Picture please


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[SubzeroLT]

9 hours ago, he said:

How's your phyto culturing coming along ? Did you manage to grow it thicker in color ?

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OK so far to get the culture dark green

Keeping multiple cultures going in case one of them crash.

 

The table is so cluttered now. Also trying to culture bottom dwelling Tisbe pods. They are supposedly better than tigger pods (which are mostly free swimming) for Mandarins and other finicky eaters.

 

[redsuns]

 
Every morning, these 2 colonies have chemical warfare.

 
New addition the tank. 

 
Not sure of the ID. From Seasonal Aquarium opening day shipment.

 
Valida

 
Frag from Nigel

 

One of my fav fish, sad that mine didn't last past 9 mths. Leon, what's the temp your tank is running at?

[SubzeroLT]

18 minutes ago, redsuns said:

One of my fav fish, sad that mine didn't last past 9 mths. Leon, what's the temp your tank is running at?

Oh... sorry to hear that. What were the symptoms before it died?

I'm running my tank around 26-27.5 degC. Yours?

[redsuns]

Oh... sorry to hear that. What were the symptoms before it died?
I'm running my tank around 26-27.5 degC. Yours?

It was super active, always the first to chiong for food when I fed but during the last few weeks, it stopped coming for food and became skinnier before it perished.

When I got it I adjusted my tank to run at about 24 degs

[SubzeroLT]

7 hours ago, Willy Guccivera Yap said:

How's your zoas frag tank doing. Picture please


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Nothing new in the Zoa tank. Using it more to host some baby clown fishes. Planning to use it as a quarantine tank for an AT when the right one comes along.

[Guest]

Good to see you preparing for AT and even patiently ! Many of us should learn that from you!


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[SubzeroLT]

Equipment maintenance weekend.

Clean up the dust and pet fur from the Hydra light fixtures. Easy to access the fan blades. Just lift the plastic cover. No tools required

 

And wipe away the splash stains especially those on the lens.

 

Work in progress. 

Got an ATO reservoir from CR Aquarium. Waiting for the optical float switches to arrive.

 

[Roman]

You have a very cute tank !!
What is your setting of your Hydras hd?

[SaltySynapse]

Nice setup!... where did you get your phyto culture from?

[Roman]

Thank you!
I am from Argentina, but I live in Spain.
Could you put the graphics of your current setup?
thanks and sorry for my english

[SubzeroLT]

On 9/12/2017 at 1:39 AM, Roman said:

You have a very cute tank !!
What is your setting of your Hydras hd?

Hola. I visit Barcelona occasionally for work. Which part of Spain are you located?

 

This is my current setting

The settings file : AI Setting 091317.aip

 

[SubzeroLT]

16 hours ago, SaltySynapse said:

Nice setup!... where did you get your phyto culture from?

A fellow reefer got the culture from USA. Not cheap though.

We may some live culture to let go occasionally. Can PM me if interested.

[Roman]

Thank you!!
I live in the north of Spain near France.
I live in La Rioja state, is well known for the elaboration of red wine.

I'm going to test your setup, I was running one at the most blues, but the tank looked very blue

Do you get good growth with whites at 40-30?
The setup was from a Brazilian reef, June Melo has a very nice tank of acropores

Edited September 12, 2017 by Roman

[SaltySynapse]

8 hours ago, SubzeroLT said:

A fellow reefer got the culture from USA. Not cheap though.

We may some live culture to let go occasionally. Can PM me if interested.

Thank you! 

[SubzeroLT]

ATO reservoir done. Larger volume & replaces the original 10L jerry can

 

And with a water level sensor to notify me when its almost empty.

[Roman]

21 hours ago, SubzeroLT said:

Hola. I visit Barcelona occasionally for work. Which part of Spain are you located?

 

This is my current setting

The settings file : AI Setting.aip

 

 

It is different its current configuration, with respect to the screen capture

[SubzeroLT]

37 minutes ago, Roman said:

It is different its current configuration, with respect to the screen capture

 

Oops. There is a slight difference.

This is the right file. AI Setting 091317.aip

[Roman]

On 12/9/2017 at 5:22 PM, SubzeroLT said:

A fellow reefer got the culture from USA. Not cheap though.

We may some live culture to let go occasionally. Can PM me if interested.

 

On 12/9/2017 at 5:05 PM, SubzeroLT said:

Hola. I visit Barcelona occasionally for work. Which part of Spain are you located?

 

This is my current setting

The settings file : AI Setting.aip

 

many thanks again

 

[Roman]

thank you very much

[SubzeroLT]

PAR measured with the Apogee MQ200 meter

Above setting is lower PAR but longer hours. 

[Jairus]

thanks for sharing. what's the distance frm your hydras to the surface of the water pls?

[Roman]

Thanks for sharing
I'm using that setting, but I went up to 35 white
My tank is 130 centimeters x 60 x 55, I have two hydras hd 52 and I am thinking of putting another

[SubzeroLT]

19 hours ago, Jairus said:

thanks for sharing. what's the distance frm your hydras to the surface of the water pls?

The Hydra are about 13" from the water surface