Jenna09's Red Sea Max 130D Build

[Jenna09]

I brought over a few rocks today and some polyps and a piece of cabbage. Picking which rocks I want to transfer over is more difficult than I thought it was going to be I have some really nice pieces lol

I also brought over 3 snails and apparently 1 snail without a shell (I don't know what it is lol)

I also picked up a new clown that is much smaller than my current clown and I'm going to put him in first tonight and add my other 2 fish this weekend.

Pics to come

 

[Jenna09]

3/4 Full

Sand in and still a bit cloudy

My 2 pieces of rock moved over lol I have a few hours a moving rocks to do at my parents house and didn't have time tonight!

New Clown Piccolo

Aquascaping...maybe not lol

Yes it is expensive but that is part of this hobby lol I am loving that everything is all compact in the back and there is 1 wire to plug into the wall!

Jenna

 

[dcantucson]

Oh yeah! :claphands

 

[slm32123]

just curious, but what is the lighting that those have?

 

[Jenna09]

According to the RSM manual they are T5 Power Compact 50/50...they are just power compact 50/50's though. From what I've been told T5 and PC cannot be together. And they look like normal PC bulbs.

Jenna

 

[BL1]

The 34g RSM has PC lights, the 65g RSM comes with T5s ... I stopped by an LFS the other day and they had a fully stocked 65, it was a very nice tank.

 

[Jenna09]

The lights are deceiving because they actually say T5 power compacts on the bulbs and the fixture; and you have to buy the RSM bulbs for the fixture and they say the same thing.

Anyways here are a few more pics, I added some more rock today and my other clown and bi-colour blenny, plus a few snails and hermits and my remaining corals. I will be adding more rock now that I took down my display at home and rocks are all over the place. I definitely need some more rock in this tank it still looks bare to me.

Thanks for looking
Jenna

 

[the reef kid]

Looks great already!
Just wondering, what's that orange/black thing in the cave in the middle?

 

[Jenna09]

Its actually orange and dark purple and I don't know what it is lol

It just grew over the last year and I posted it in the id section and I think we sort of determined it was some kind of algae, but I moved it over anyways lol its one of my fave "corals" I have right now.

When moving over my rocks I noticed it growing on other rocks and was either orange or purple as well so I am assuming its just some form of hardish forming algae....? When I touched it, it actually felt like a a dead leaf but was soft if that makes sense and swayed in the current. I hope it survives in this tank, I put it under the cave because it was at the bottom of my other tank and was partially under a cave there as well.

Jenna

 

[Bifferwine]

Wow, that's working great!!!

 

[dcantucson]

Jenna your Skimmer is supposed to be new and improved over the original one (like I have)....... So I was wondering if you are seeing much action from it?

A bit of advice would be to leave it running all the time, even if your not getting a lot of waste production. Mine quit producing much at all so I thought I'd turn it off. When I did the next morning I had lost two fish because the oxygen drops dramatically without it on.

 

[Jenna09]

I have not had time to play with the skimmer, its doing a bit but not much. Once I play with it I am sure it will work good.

Today I also picked up a donut coral, a yellow prawn goby and a neon goby. Now my tank is fully stocked fish wise and I can work on corals.

:)

Jenna

 

[CurtisL]

looking great!

 

[Jenna09]

The skimmer isn't "skimming" much lol but it might be because it is new....

Anyways here are some pics of my new pickups...minus the neon goby he is so small I doubt I will ever see him but he was cute and I thought would be a good addition for the rare times that I do catch a glimps of him.

My new goby "Oscar"...I think he is beautiful!

My new donut

My old blenny that lived in an unplugged powerhead for over a year but came out right away in this tank and is loving life lol

Tank shot

Thanks for looking
Jenna

 

[BL1]

Everything looks great Jenna! I'm sure you'll see that neon goby, mine never left the front of the tank when I'd walk up to it. He was such a great fish.

 

[cageburn]

Great pics the tank is lookg good great work!

 

[meatwad0601]

I brought over a few rocks today and some polyps and a piece of cabbage. Picking which rocks I want to transfer over is more difficult than I thought it was going to be I have some really nice pieces lol

I also brought over 3 snails and apparently 1 snail without a shell (I don't know what it is lol)

I also picked up a new clown that is much smaller than my current clown and I'm going to put him in first tonight and add my other 2 fish this weekend.

Pics to come

the snail you found that has no shell might be a stomatella snail. i have two of them. they have a shell per say but its flat and kind of like a fingernail. from what i hear they are harmless and actually a good part of a cuc.

 

[dcantucson]

Jenna you've got some nice looking stuff. Your tank is looking great!

 

[ErinCahir]

Looks awesome Jenna!
I still love your mystery algae!