Llj's 8G... Yuma/zoanthid Garden

[lljdma06]

2.5g mantis tank



Will this be regionally correct or will this be purely for looks ?

Bae

DO IT DO IT DO IT! Mantis shrimps are awesome! ...and hardy!

HOLY @#$% AMAZING! Love the blue lights and the colors that pop out lljd! Allways amazing tanks you keep pumping out!

Thank you, I'm not putting in a mantis, too many corals arranged exactly the way I want them. Tigger does enough by himself.

Ok, it's time to make everybody's eyes bleed. I grabbed my Sony cyber shot and had fun with actinics... I'm still figuring out white balance, but these came out much better.

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coral detail...

Thanks for looking.

 

[ALW]

Very nice pictures. Can I have your Cyber-shot?

 

[Biulu]

Those corals are really beautiful! I want some....

 

[demasonisrule]

All of those zoas are gorgeous, it'll be amazing once they all start growing

 

[lljdma06]

Very nice pictures. Can I have your Cyber-shot?

No, my camera!

Those corals are really beautiful! I want some....

This is typical of what's found in Miami shops. A lot of the frags were like $20 or less, some as little as $6.

All of those zoas are gorgeous, it'll be amazing once they all start growing

I can't wait until I've got a tank crammed full of zoas and yumas!

 

[lljdma06]

My stats... Because it's important to some people.

Tank: Finnex brand 8g, 16" x 10" x 12"

Lighting: 70w MH

Circulation: Koralia nano 425, Aquaclear 50 modified to be a refugium

LR: About 16lbs of Haitian Rock

Substrate: About 8-10lbs of Livesand

Livestock:

2 Electric blue hermit crabs
1 Fire shrimp
1 Tiger pistol shrimp (working to find him a goby)
1 Asterea snail
1 Banded trochus
1 Emerald crab
1 Stomatella (best hitch hiker ever)
1 Nassarius snail

Corals - Pumpkin yuma, blue and orange yumas, green star polyps, Protopalythoa, and zoanthids.

Still looking to get a fish. Especially a goby for the pistol.

 

[lljdma06]

Just some random pictures...

My yumas

Orange and blues...

Pumpkin, I love this thing. I've named it Purty Flower

When I was getting mysis, I saw this frag at the LFS where I go. The owner likes to put crazy stuff together and making frags. She made my mushrooms in my 4g. Here's a crazy zoa frag she made. The colors are insane.

I liked it, Haha, so she takes me to the back and lets me choose a little frag to take home. I love my LFS

That's it, nothing much. Just doing water changes. I'm doing one today. Pistol shrimp is still alive. Everybody's eating and doing well. Thanks for looking.

L

 

[dannywrc]

nice tank, very colourful

 

[Biulu]

Lovely! I just was in an lfs yesterday and just out of curiosity took a look at the marine section and their corals. There was nothing under 60 CAD! Maybe I should plan my next holidays in Florida and do some shopping...

 

[lljdma06]

Lovely! I just was in an lfs yesterday and just out of curiosity took a look at the marine section and their corals. There was nothing under 60 CAD! Maybe I should plan my next holidays in Florida and do some shopping...

Yikes!

Do you think they'll let you bring them up to Canada?

Tank just had a water change, everybody's happy.

L

 

[Biulu]

Yikes!

Do you think they'll let you bring them up to Canada?

Tank just had a water change, everybody's happy.

L

Well, they do allow you to bring live fish apart from some coldwater disease carrying fish such as zebra danios and goldfish... I just brought myself a lovely angel (gold pearlscale) from China and am moving my fish over from Mexico without any problems. I declare them, and sometimes they want to see them, sometimes they just believe me. Have had no probs...

 

[Devilish Angelfish]

Gorgeous Zoas and mushies, llj - fantastic pictures

 

[lljdma06]

Yikes!

Do you think they'll let you bring them up to Canada?

Tank just had a water change, everybody's happy.

L

Well, they do allow you to bring live fish apart from some coldwater disease carrying fish such as zebra danios and goldfish... I just brought myself a lovely angel (gold pearlscale) from China and am moving my fish over from Mexico without any problems. I declare them, and sometimes they want to see them, sometimes they just believe me. Have had no probs...

Well if your ever in the area, I can maybe show you the best places to go and you can go back up with some stuff.

Gorgeous Zoas and mushies, llj - fantastic pictures

Thank you.

L

 

[Biulu]

Well if your ever in the area, I can maybe show you the best places to go and you can go back up with some stuff.

Would love that Ademas sera bueno practicar mi espaniol de nuevo; me imagino que lo hables bien, no?

Just need to get a new job first which doesn't involve so much travelling as you can't put corals on an automatic feeder ...

 

[lljdma06]

Well if your ever in the area, I can maybe show you the best places to go and you can go back up with some stuff.

Would love that Ademas sera bueno practicar mi espaniol de nuevo; me imagino que lo hables bien, no?

Just need to get a new job first which doesn't involve so much travelling as you can't put corals on an automatic feeder ...

Si tu hablas espaniol mui bien! yo no hablo espaniol mui bien pero intiendo todo porques mis padres son de Cuba. Yo naci in Chicago, IL. Leo bastante bien tambien. I speak enough to get the best food!

Funny that you mention automatic feeders for corals... Because a lot of people keep non photosynthetics in the US, there's actually a market now for timed planktonic feeders. I don't link much to outside forums, but this is a very interesting thread. People are rigging these up themselves. It's pretty fascinating.

http/www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1760416

Right now, I keep the easiest of the nps, the sun corals, which just require target feeding of meaty foods. The harder gorgonians require planktonic feeding which is more difficult to do. Most corals, however, don't require such heavy feeding. You could certainly go a week without feeding mushies, palys, and zoanthids almost never are fed, though I squirt mine with planktonic food on occasion.

As far as automatic target feeding, that's not happened yet, at least not to my very limited knowledge, but you can get food to the tank automatically and at least feed your organisms. it just goes all over the place right now.