As promised, photos of my first corals! I'm so happy! It's been 24 hours and nothing is dead (yet): Zoanthus: A single head of branching hammer coral (Euphyllia parancora): I love hammer corals and plan to make them the centerpiece of my tank. This one has bright green ...
Updated 01-07-2011 at 01:59 AM by gerbilbox
I'm scaling up the cliff that I fell off of. Nothing unusual kept me away from Reef Addicts, but I just got lazy The biggest news is that I added my first two corals yesterday! The bad news is that they're acclimating to the light, so my lamp hasn't turned on yet; I'll post photos later. I have a small colony of zoanthids (Zoanthus, orange with green tentacles green) and single ...
Updated 01-07-2011 at 02:08 AM by gerbilbox
I bought some pet r...I mean live rock on Friday! I actually said "pet rock" when describing live rock to a friend today. Most of my aquascape is base rock from Marco Rocks, and I purchased several small pieces of live rock from a local store to seed the tank with yummy bacteria. The live rock on the right side will eventually fill the gap near the center of the aquascape, but I have it in the open sand and close to the ...
Updated 11-16-2010 at 12:48 AM by gerbilbox
My rocks arrived! Creating an aquascape was a little more challenging than I expected. My first attempts at stacking a bunch of rocks looked exactly like a stacked bunch of rocks. I had a specific vision in my head, but my early attempts were not cohesive. After an hour of playing with them and some great suggestions from my roommate, I got something I like, but not quite final: My basic vision is to be mindful of negative space, use the rule of thirds ...
Updated 11-09-2010 at 01:39 AM by gerbilbox
I collected more equipment from fish stores and online the past few days: AquaticLife T5HO 2x24 Ebo Jager 50w heater AquaClear 70 Power Filter Test kits Refractometer My setup philosophy is that I will start out with basic but capable equipment, and I can add more to supplement instead of replacing them. For example, the AquaClear filter is providing a lot of flow on its own, but if it proves not to be ...
Updated 11-06-2010 at 07:36 PM by gerbilbox