Our Reef Tank!

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

Just some cool pics of our DT that i took when i was home from school and we are in the chemical cycling stage of our newly converted 55 gallon tank!

 

[Smitty]

Lookin' Good...You did a great job.

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

Thanks! I was really anxious to put some pictures up show everyone what im working with! and just trying to get some feedback and what not!

 

[Smitty]

JMO...if I were you, I'd move that frogspawn away from those other corals, or vice versa, before the frogspawn kill them.

 

[dcantucson]

That is a beautiful tank! :claphands Bravo

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

Is the frogspawn on the coral frag rock?

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

or is it the bigger one towards the left side..because our frilly mushroom hasnt been coming out as much as it used to..and it started once we started moving what we thought was just a torch coral..but if its frogspawn could it be keeping our frilly mushroom from really coming out? because normally you cant see the rock that it has attached to..but now you can see almost all of it...

 

[Smitty]

It's the one in the 2nd pic with dozens of green tenticles with pink tips

 

[Smitty]

Next to the yellow polyps

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

oh..well it just came like that from the Dr. Mac's store in b-more and they told my dad it was a torch..right now its just stuck on the rock with that marine putty or whatever because the bottom fell off...but do you know what i mean about the one on the left side of the screen? right of the bright green coral whose name ive just forgotten...i just dont know if this could be killing our frilly mushroom aka the coral that my clowns hosted

 

[dcantucson]

Torches and frogspawns pack a powerful punch. I would keep everything at least 6 inches away from them to keep them from getting stung.

 

[Smitty]

Oh...it could be a torch, they're in the same family...I'm sorry, but I can't make out what that coral is that you are referring to. the pics are too small to distinguish, maybe someone else will chime in.

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

Smitty is this picture better?

 

[Bifferwine]

That's a frogspawn, not a torch. The tentacles of torches are straight, frogspawns have little bulbs on the tips.

The big fleshy green thing is a brain coral. It should be placed on the sand, not on the rocks. It will fill with water and contract and expand, and if it's on the rocks it will easily tear it's flesh. So it's much safer on the sand.

PS -- I bought the CD that your signature is from a couple days ago, and I love it :) :) :) Almost every song is about the ocean and sea critters.

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

Ocean Eyes from Owl City??!? haha yea its awesome!
but as far as the brain and the frogspawn i texted my dad last night to do so and he did it first thing this morning. Brain to the sand, frogspawn to the far left, and the torch from the coral frag rock to the sand as well..so now we have the little torch, plate coral, and brain coral on the sand, and the frogspawn away from every other coral...sound ok?

 

[Ted]

Sounds much better.

 

[Bifferwine]

Yep, any of those LPS corals with wavy tentacles will pack a punch. At night, they can sometimes extend their tentacles to 4 or 5 times the length that they are at in the daytime, so they could be stinging things and you wouldn't even know it.

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

thats incredible! didnt know..hmm well will it hurt our bta or our clam?

 

[dcantucson]

Yes! Especially the clam.

 

[Aiptasia_Farm_DotCom]

alright we shall keep an eye on them! good lookin out D-CAN!