Amanda's contest build :)

[vmbfreekz33]

so i will be using a 14 gal biocube!!

i will be shapeing my rock to the way i want it!!!

pictures to come soon

**********UPDATE 12/30/2009******************
Heres my biocube that i purchased from seashells !!!!!!!
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/amandatank2.jpg
Heres my micro 150 gal nano tank :) this ones for you rye guy!!!! Let me see leds do this lol
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/amandatank.jpg

more pictures to come later tonight

[Sir Patrick]

Sweet! Cant wait to see the rocks!!

[vmbfreekz33]

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/IMG00124.jpg
yay finally has sand in it!!!
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/IMG00125.jpg
LOOK I HAVE LEDS TOO
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/IMG00126.jpg

[whitetiger61]

looks really good Amanda..im setting here patiently waiting to see this rock work..lol..this is going to be fun..

Rick

[Sir Patrick]

^ I am setting here pateintly with him.

[vmbfreekz33]

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/cr2.jpg

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/crcontest.jpg

[vmbfreekz33]

******************Update********************
Here is the latest of the tank. added saltwater,live rock, and koralia nano! Michelle was ever so nice to let me steal her water with a ton of copa pods in it!! doing a water test in a few days and then the fun begins.. best of luck to everyone in the contest
*********************************************

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/rockandwater.jpg

[whitetiger61]

Amanda

nice rock work..i like it alot..good luck in the contest

Rick

[vmbfreekz33]

just added my first two fish ever :)

salinity 1.25
ph 8.4
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/clowns.jpg

[vmbfreekz33]

also i added a theo 50w heater in with the clown fish.. all my levels are still looking good.. i am using stability to help keep any ammonia spike down that may or may not happen. the live rock is cycled the water came from a cycled tank and the sand was once from a cycled system. probley by the end of next week corals can hopefully start to emerge within the tank!!!

best of luck to everyone in the contest

[BShells]

Nice rock work Amanda! lookin good so far. :)

[vmbfreekz33]

thanks :) im going to possibly add one more small peice

[vmbfreekz33]

so i added in 3 frags of zoanthids and paly frag for a total of $60 from seashells.. recipts and pictures to come in a couple of days.. also added a peppermint shrimp

[vmbfreekz33]

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0497.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0496.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0494.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0493.jpg

[jimsflies]

Looking good!

[vmbfreekz33]

anyone have any pulsing zenia they want to sell or trade with me :)

[ryeguy28]

i know a place where you can get some

but seashells has it dont they ?

[vmbfreekz33]

yea but its attached to a rock and i dont want to take it off a rock and i know pruess has it i almost bought it

[ryeguy28]

yea i was gonna say preuss

they have some small frags of it -- but it is really really easy to remove xenia from rocks

[Sir Patrick]

Nice radioactive green dragon eyes and whammin watermellons!

[vmbfreekz33]

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/zoanthids001.jpg

my watermelons that are growing like crazy just a week ago they were 4 heads now there is 12

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/zoanthids002.jpg
my cool orange palys that have grown two heads you can also spot in the zoas that have two different types of zoas on them that came out of no where..they were all green when i got them now i have green and red

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/zoanthids003.jpg

and my dragon eyes have also grown a bit

[vmbfreekz33]

doing a 20% water change tonight :) so far things are looking good have a small hair alge and im not sure if it s coraline or cyano.. but so far just new tank syndrome.. my corals are doing great and i can see some copa pod growth

[Paulo]

As I said in shoutbox, tank lookin good

[vmbfreekz33]

thanks paulo... i did the water change and my peppermint shrimp came out and is now being social and my margarita snails are eating my hair alge which i didnt know they would do

[Sir Patrick]

Keep up the great work! Keep the pics coming!

[whitetiger61]

Nice growth tank is looking great..keep it up

Rick

[vmbfreekz33]

so i added a sea hair today and it is a fat momma.. its going to town on the little bit of hair alge and cyano once its done with my tank its going to need a new place to help. so i figured we can have a community sea hair so if u have an issue let me know and i can loan him out lol

[MizTanks]

Do you ship~LOL! Tanks looking great Amanda!

[vmbfreekz33]

so today aaron bought me a pink tourch with green tips its really sweet and i am getting frogspawn from rye guy and pulsing zenias from cash :) pics to come very soon

[vmbfreekz33]

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/1264260519.jpg

here is my pretty pink tourch that i got from reef paradise it was only $20.00 its with me at aarons untill sunday :)

[vmbfreekz33]

january 25th 2009 update

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/21252010.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/1252010.jpg

[vmbfreekz33]

most of the hair alge and cyano is gone thanks to the sea hare...swap this weekend should be fun pulsing zenia still coming from cash and frogspawn from rye guy :)

[vmbfreekz33]

my new starfish.. pink formia and i have new zoas pics will come later when they open up nice and pretty

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/pinkformiastarfish.jpg

[vmbfreekz33]

these zoanthids have green rings with blue burst through them with orange centers
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/zoanthid0004.jpg

and a full tank shot
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/IMG00192.jpg

[Sir Patrick]

Sweet starfish!!

[The Rugger]

Following along... looking good!

[vmbfreekz33]

so here is the latest update since the MMMC Swap

$10 acan from cherry corals
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0528.jpg

Candy canes from sir patrick
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0529.jpg

frogspawn from ryeguy
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0530.jpg

Pulsing zenia from cash
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0531.jpg

radioactive ragon eyes from reefers wife
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0532.jpg

full tank shots :)

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0534.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/100_0533.jpg

[Paulo]

Looks Nice!

[Sir Patrick]

Tanks really comin along!

[Sir Patrick]

The candycanes will get better looking for ya- they take time to aclimate to a new tank.

[vmbfreekz33]

the candy canes have opened up alot since ive put them in my tank

[ryeguy28]

the froggie looks alittle mad
make sure the flow isnt beating up on him

[Cash]

Tank is looking great Amanda

[thefishgirl]

Looking good Amanda! Can't wait to see some more pictures!

[vmbfreekz33]

At the Ann Arbor swap on sunday i picked up a nice chunck of acans for $20 and some sweet blastos for $10... pics will be posted later today of the new stuff and also of a FTS

[thefishgirl]

pictures pictures pictures! :)

[vmbfreekz33]

here is the latest update of my tank since the ann arbor swap!! from the swap i picked up a green orange and blue acan and a frag of blastos... the acan was $20 and the blastos were $10



http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010008.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010007.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010006.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010005.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010004.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010003.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010002.jpg

and here is the full tank shot
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/loseyamanda/03-01-2010001.jpg

[tazzy695]

its looking good amanda keep up the good work

[vmbfreekz33]

here is the damage so far...

sponsor purchases:
seashells
kiwi starburst zoas $30.00
watermeleon zoas $10.00
paly & zoas $25.00
red and green zoas $10.00

Reef Paradise
tourch $20.00

cherry corals
pink acan $10.00


non sponsor spending
acan green and orange $20.00
pink blastos $10.00


things that have been traded

traded a bag of salt for pulsing xenia from cash
traded radioactive dragon eyes for frogspawn with rye guy

then i cut off a peice of my xenia and donated it to argent :)

[thefishgirl]

Pics look good Amanda!

[The Rugger]

Right On Track

[vmbfreekz33]

thanks guys.. i'll add maybe only a couple more things to the tank and thats it :)

[vmbfreekz33]

today i traded with reefer rob and got birdsnest, white zenia, red cap, a green ricordia, and some type of palys not sure what the palys are yet..i wont be able to get pictures up untill like saturday.

[ReeferRob]

today i traded with reefer rob and got birdsnest, white zenia, red cap, a green ricordia, and some type of palys not sure what the palys are yet..i wont be able to get pictures up untill like saturday.

Protopalythoas, they are two or three shades of orangeish gold and with little white tips to the skirts.!

[vmbfreekz33]

thanks reeferrob my seahare keeps crawling on them so i havent seen them as of yet :)

[iyachtuxivm]

Cool cant wait to see the new pics!

[kgood1]

cool tank. i cant wait to see the new pics.

[schminksbro]

Moving right along Amanda.:) Lookin good!

[vmbfreekz33]

sorry guys i havent been able to update with recent life events taking place tomorrow i will have a picture update with current price standings in the tank. unfortunatly my starfish was dead this morning though he lived 4 months which was awesome

[ReeferRob]

I hope the talks of bailing on the nano contest was just a publicity stunt to get more people to come check this nice tank out?

[vmbfreekz33]

no i was just having a moment or something but sir patrick told me i need to stay in so i am going to stay in. i cleaned the tank and did a water change today so once everything opens up and looks all pretty i will take pictures and do price updates and growth counts and all that good jazz

[vmbfreekz33]

for some reason its not letting me add photos or a link to my photos.. so its going to be a day or so before the update

[vmbfreekz33]

heres a picture update hopefully these work

[thefishgirl]

Nice set of pictures!! And thanks for staying in!

[vmbfreekz33]

thanks becky and ya. it looks like this is the last things that will be put into the tank unfortunatly

[jimsflies]

You can always do some trades....

[vmbfreekz33]

true..lol but i need to find that time thing :)

[Sir Patrick]

I see spot of coraline setting in!

[vmbfreekz33]

sir the back of my rocks is covered in it

[igot2gats]

Wow, Amanada! You really know what you're doing. The pics are great, & your coral growth is coming along nicely.

Thanks for all the updates.

[vmbfreekz33]

thanks jeff!! its pure luck :)

[card16969]

lookin good babe

[vmbfreekz33]

i started moving frag plugs around and attaching them to rocks so new picture updates coming soon

[Sir Patrick]

Cant wait!

[vmbfreekz33]

due to recent events my tank will be going up for sale. With starting my new job at gm and not being home the tank must go. I will eventually get another tank but for now I'm unable to have one :(

[iyachtuxivm]

Wow sorry to hear that. But good luck in your new job thats good news.

[vmbfreekz33]

Thanks jamie I will still be in the hobby through Aaron though just untill I get a bigger tank and all that stuff

[thefishgirl]

Congrats on the new job!! Sorry to hear about having to give up your tank, but I know how quickly these things can get turned upside down when not paying constant attention. At least you can stay in the hobby even if from a distance!! :)

[vmbfreekz33]

lol thanks becky.. im going to keep most of my corals. and i keep dragging my feet about deciding if im going to sell the tank and what not. so i'll still be in the hobby. just my corals and stuff will be in a much much larger system :)