150 peninsula

[salvini55]

[az]

looking good, I have 1 gold polyp acro waiting for you.

[salvini55]

Dah Im comming right now!!!!!! why do you do this to me!

[az]

looking good?

[salvini55]

oh ya, the polyps look more green in my tank almost like a garf bonsai

[az]

so i should have charged you more??

[salvini55]

suckker 

[Hookup]

suckker 

LOL!  Sounds like special prices for you next time...  Like 2x cost smart ass fee....

[salvini55]

LOL  im expecting the egg management fee

[Hookup]

LOL  im expecting the egg management fee

Pure awesome...  You are a king!   

[az]

or bagging fee haha.

[salvini55]

Oh for crying out loud! It was hard enough carrying supplies outta home depo without a bag, but frags and fish!!!! Next time I come to the store im bringing the blue reusable grocery bags. 

[salvini55]

cruise control is now on 

[salvini55]

Just wanted to talk a little about using Biopellets.

I am now in week three of using them on my tank. I have 500ml in a TLF 150 on an Ocean Runner 2500. My thoughts are, half the recommended dose for 200 net gallons and high flow through the reactor / controlled output via dosing pump would be the most ideal method. Essentialy making the reactor a closed loop and tap the reactor with a dosing pump. That way you are not limited to the reactors flow controlling the ouput of the effluent. I had an interesting idea the other day, after reading that azoo corals feed on phytoplankton trapped in bacteria film, about dosing the biopellet reactor with a phyto reactor to try and replicate that feeding habbit in the aquarium. I wonder also if adding the "skimmer friendly" food with co-polymers that trigger feeding response would increase the chance of corals eating the bacteria film? Assuming these foods adhear to the bacteria. I know they are working as a food source for sponges since I now have these beautifull yellow filter feeding sponges popping up everywhere. Im still in debate if they are in fact the generic white "cream" ones you typically find in your sump, changing color to yellow or a different sponge all together. I have had nothing but positive results so far. Diatoms have become noticably less visual on the sand bed in particular. I have not done a waterchange in three weeks to allow the bac cultures to settle in, tomorow I plan on changing 30 gallons. My nitrates have been steady at 2.5ppm (sailfert) and PO4 undetectable (Elos) but i dont believe it as the bubble "branch" algae is hloding strong. Id like to hear what everybody thinks about them wether you use them or not.

[salvini55]

just wanted to report I've noticed an impressive wave of growth in the last two days. recent addition of biopelets and changing the flow pattern on the mp40 from lagoon to reefcrest are all ive changed. Another positive to enjoy 

[salvini55]

sadly, one of the dragonface pipe fish has passed away at some point last night... 

Also, the ornate lepoard wrasse is picking on the smaller lepoard wrasse so bad that two days in a row now it has made the journey to the first chamber of my sump where i have decided to leave her for now. *sigh*

[Severum]

Sorry to hear about that. You'd think in a tank so big those two wrasses would get along.

[salvini55]

I have great news and bad news to share. The bad news is I somehow managed to introduce red bugs into my tank. I notice them on one of my acros tonight. I promptly removed the coral and dipped it in coralRX. During my examination I believe only one coral had the red bugs on it, I sure hope im right. After treatment there seemed to be about 30-40 red bugs in the tupperware. It took approx 45 mins for all the red bugs to die, some much quicker. There seem to be only a couple left on the acro that are not moving but a second treatment will have to be done tomorow.

The great news wich i am most excited about is that i got to witness AND get a video of my trochus snail spawning together!!!!!!! Im over the moon about this one as these are all captive breed snails from my previous tank producing the third generation of snails. This is the first time in over a year that they have spawned. I have a much better understanding of the spawning process now and why the trochus is so successful at sustaining new populations compared to egg laying snails such as nassarious and cerith. The sheer number of larva in the water column is outstanding compared to the few thousand eggs a nassarious snail lays on the glass. Getting to watch the females release batch after batch of larva or eggs and the males releasing sperm was quite the satisfying sight. Ill upload the vid soon so everyone can watch!!!!

[salvini55]

heres the vid, my SD card maxed out just as the male released his sperm. In the vid we start watching the male then move to the female releasing eggs or larva and back to the male releasing sperm. Other snails were releasing sperm but I did not see any others releasing eggs. every speck in the water is an egg. Enjoy

edit; click the image to watch

[JetJumper]

This is too Pornographic for my eyes!!!!!!!