Tank Journal Archive

Buddy · May 1, 2013

$100 now is better than a wet floor later! Or if you dont notice the ato has shut off and your water level goes down and burns out your return pump.

daniel borja · May 1, 2013

thats fine :) probably the better option anyway. have to try and make it as easy as possible for the people who look after the tank while im away :P

daniel borja · May 1, 2013

i have learnt that there are no shortcuts when it comes to owning your piece of underwater nature :) thanks for that guys. will look into buying the osmolator when i have a spare $250 floating around haha

aussieant32 · May 1, 2013

well worth it mate, especially with you not being there to perform checks etc

daniel borja · May 1, 2013

thanks for that. also, do you know if its safe to take zoa frags or any frags off frag plugs and glue them onto existing rocks in your reefscape?

aussieant32 · May 1, 2013

dont see any reason why not?

daniel borja · May 1, 2013

i just think frag plugs look so out of place unless they're hidden in the sand.

Str8edge · May 1, 2013

They will grow over the frag plug or tile eventually mate if you want to play it safe.. As for the ATO glad to hear you went the more expensive one, I have just a cheap float switch one in mine and its a piece of crap flooded the floor on more then one occasion in fact again last night.. Might be time for an upgrade myself..

daniel borja · May 1, 2013

well as i said before, there are no shortcuts in this hobby haha. i'd personally want to get it right the first time. and hopefully im able to achieve that with the help and advice ive been given on this site :) the problem with the frag plug is the actual plug itself. and its just so darn bulky haha. maybe if i just cut the leg off the frag plug? im trying to make a zoa rock (the curve shaped one in my tank) i think it would look pretty cool. i just think the frag plugs would look out of place as all. hows your tank going @Str8edge?

chimaera · May 1, 2013

Which type of plugs do you have? The Aquatic Culture plugs are designed so you can easily snap off the 'leg'.

Personally though I would always remove the zoas from the plug and stick to the rock.

Louise01 · May 1, 2013

Tagging along :) Good to see another 2 x 1 x 1 tank up and running :)

daniel borja · May 1, 2013

Louise01 said:
Tagging along :) Good to see another 2 x 1 x 1 tank up and running :)

@chimaera i bought selleys aqua knead it today so will experiment with it tomorrow :)
and thanks @Louise01. its a bit of a challenge but having fun with it at the same time. very rewarding hobby.

daniel borja · May 1, 2013

just an update guys. bought myself a timer today for the illumagic comboray light. confused the hell out of myself to get it operating. hopefully it shuts off at the desired time. also bought a 15 L water drum and a 13 L bin that will fit under the desk. now all i need is the tunze ATO osmolator, which i should have in a month or so. tank is running nicely so far :)

daniel borja · May 2, 2013

update.
woke up this morning to find my chalice on the DSB. darn trochus -.-

so finally got the aqua knead it happening in the tank. stuck the chalice on the rock and the zoas where i wanted them. took them off the frag plugs first. did the same with the acan frag too. called the LFS today for peppermint shrimp, which were supposedly supposed to come today but didn't. i feel as if they're being a bit slack on their orders. so decided to go to Deer park aquarium and get some RO water for my tank. had ll their corals unpacked from their regular thursday shipment and i gotta say i was really impressed. whilst getting my water i bought a nass snail and no sooner i put it in the tank, it goes digging for nass gold :P
also put my name down for the tunze osmolator so should have my ATO system up and running by the end of the month :)

chimaera · May 2, 2013

Nice one - seems like Deer Park look after you well =0)

daniel borja · May 2, 2013

chimaera said:
Nice one - seems like Deer Park look after you well =0)

they look after everyone well mate :) if you're ever down this way and call into the shop. always has a nice collection of corals

chimaera · May 3, 2013

Yeah I have been, but it's about as far away as any LFS I frequent so not very often - maybe a couple of times a year.

daniel borja · May 3, 2013

Have to make a trip down to reeflections soon. And bunarong if im ever down that way

daniel borja · May 4, 2013

pulled out the the old DSLR and put my old photography skills to the test. cheers to @Buddy for refreshing what little camera skills i had back in the day haha.

Hammer coral under blue LED

Green and orange zoanthid under blue LED with some kind of SPS frag on it too. can anyone I.D it for me? its brown coloured

Buddy · May 4, 2013

NIce pics! Cant help with the ID.