New Reef on the Block

[rage]

I used to have to rip off pieces of the cheato before but not anymore its going away. You probably have less nutrients now and thats why the cheato is only staying one size its enough to consume the nutrients that you have in the water.

Chaeto of course depends on Nitrate.
Another thing it needs is light.
I had a ball of chaeto in my sump that stayed the same size for 2 years under a 60 watts shop light.
Two months ago, I put in a CF that is an equivalent of 100 watts. I split the chaeto into 2 lumps, 1 in a compartment under the light, the other lump in the next compartment.

The 1st lump doubled in size. The 2nd one stays the same.

[johnnymisty]

I've got my cheato under a odysea 12" cf 50/50 light and just tested my water before my water change and nitrates are at 5ppm but not much growth on it

[Darbex]

Some updates

FTS


Elegance center/Pink hammer bottom center


Gold Cristata Coral



Gold tipped hammer


Red Sherman Anemone w/ Clown fish and Sun polyps on the right (these things grow like weeds)


Purple Japanese zoas on the left and Fire & Ice zoa on the right


Powder Blue Tang, Lyretail Anthia, Blue chromis, Blue Hippo Tang, Watanabe Angel


Three types of Red Acans, Red blasto, Tie Dye Brain


Orange and Purple Acan & Blood Red Blasto


Purple and Green Acan & Bleeding Apple Scoly


Galaxea


Purple and Green Acan (different than the one above), Maroon and blue acan, Red Acan; the one on the top right used to look good but fell behind some rocks and was back there for a month before I was able to find it and take it out. Surprised it was still alive


Sun coral


Red brain (top), Green Welso brain, 2 types of green star polyps


Green w/ purple tip Frogspawn, Pink Bubble coral, Rock boring urchin, Blue Cristata to the right of the urchin


Green & purple tip Frogspawn (center), Orange monti and Green Acro above it, Purple Pocillopora w/ bicolor dottyback behind it, purple tip hammer


Nuclear green trumpet, Blue Acan above it, and Yellow polyps


Top left Green Torch, top right purple tip Frogspawn, Green frogspawn center, and teal tip hammer on the right


Green Monti & Green Pocillopora


Teal trumpet and Watermelon zoa & Radioactive dragons eye zoa


Upclose of Green Acro and Orange Monti


One of the Yellow Tang


Close up of Purple Pocillopora


Close up of green Weslo brain


Close up of red brain


Brown palys


Red acan and an Orange acan


Blue zoa

[aquabee]

Gawd Brian!! Someone's been holding out since the meeting at your place! It's ridiculous how nice it looks.

[aquabee]

And there's no way that's an FTS. Lol! That's a MTS (mid-tank shot)!

[Darbex]

Just realized I forgot to snap a pic of my candy can acan, orange chalice, and Merletti blasto. But its in this video

[Darbex]

Gawd Brian!! Someone's been holding out since the meeting at your place! It's ridiculous how nice it looks.

Yeah I just looked at my CC statement and realized how much I just dropped these last two months.

[Darbex]

And there's no way that's an FTS. Lol! That's a MTS (mid-tank shot)!

True I am missing about a foot on the left side and a foot or so on the right

[cichlid1409]

Dude you are ballin with that shizz!!! bio pellets really rock n roll, huh? I love em. have you been feeding that scoly? its lookin rough.

[Darbex]

I spot feed it once in a while, I feed the whole tank a bunch. But you should have seen it when I got it. It was a rescue situation. It was about half the size and needing some TLC but I brought it back and its slowly making its come back.

[Darbex]

I love the bio pellets. I am running Carbon, GFO, and Bio pellets. Probably stop the GFO soon just trying to control the hair algae.

[Darbex]

Crazy thing recently happened. One of my Anthias switched sex. I started with two females and one male, and now I have two males and one female. No idea why this would have happened, it should have been the same as clown fish with the most dominate of the group being a male and the rest staying as females until the male is removed. Now they fight over the female at night. Its pretty cool to watch because their color patterns will change and it will look like they are moving.

[myjohnson]

Lol, dude you not playing!

Your tank is packed up son! :)

Looks good man.

[Darbex]

By the way fish stock is as follows. It isnt my priority in this tank mostly small reef fish.

1 Kole Tang
1 Powder Blue Tang
2 Yellow Tang
1 Blue Hippo Tang
3 Bicolor Dottyback
11 Blue/green Chromis
1 Blue Reef Chromis
1 Blue spot Watchman Goby
2 Ocellaris Clownfish
1 Blue head Wrasse
3 Lyretail Anthia
1 Coral banded shrimp
2 Cleaner Shrimp
1 Blue tuxedo urchin
1 Yellow and purple pincushion urchin
2 Rock boring urchin

[myjohnson]

What should I keep in my 55g?