Badfish's Hand Built 45g Rimless Starphire Tank

[Badfish]

Went to a Frag swap last week and picked up a few goodies....
(Just a Few)


It wasn't until looking at the tank yesterday that I realized I had a little bit of an Sps collection going on and didn't even know it.


The Wife's new Nightmares!


Had to moved the Cyphastrea, it seems happy in it's new spot, lots of new polyps.



The wife bought this Snowflake for a great deal. But I'm a little worried because it's is an Ocellaris and we already had a Picasso Perc, I have read that they will pair up but not always. We are keeping a close eye on the two, so far so good, a little nipping but nothing major.


Killer Green Acro from Happy Coral,

I've always wanted sun coral but was too affraid of keeping it because because of the whole NPS thing. But Heidi talked in to getting this huge cluster of Sun polyps for only $30 (what a deal) from Happy, and gave me some great feeding tips. Sooo glad she did, Thanks Heidi!

This being our first NPS coral we are I keeping our fingers crossed. Right now I'm feeding it a little reef snow to get the polyps to open then 30 mins later I hit it with a mix of coral frenzy and baby brine. I target feed just the Sun coral and then the rest of the tank is broadcast feed from the blow off, this method seem to be working well.


Thanks for taking the time.

[Badfish]

Looks like twitching to me.

Bow-cha-woow-wow

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[MizTanks]

LOL~looks like it Badfish you have got one of the prettiest tanks I've ever seen...awesome job

[Badfish]

LOL~looks like it Badfish you have got one of the prettiest tanks I've ever seen...awesome job

Aww thanks Miz that means a lot, it still has a lot of growing to do. One of these days I'll get around to taking a video of the whole set up and post it.

[Heidi]

Looks great!! I was wondering how the sun coral was working out looks pretty plump and happy like I said I have had a chunk for about a year plus some months and it's just as pretty as ever. Wish I could say that for the rest of my reef this crash is killing my self-esteem. You guys still have one of my favorite tanks! Keep up the great work.
Heidi

[larryandlaura]

Looking amazing! Keep up the good work!

[Badfish]

Well I must have angered the Reef Gods with that video, because when I got home yesterday the Snowflake was MIA, me thinks it was what may or may not be a Bobbitt worm in the tank. Looks like my weekend is going to involve last nights and a red lens.

[Heidi]

Well I must have angered the Reef Gods with that video, because when I got home yesterday the Snowflake was MIA, me thinks it was what may or may not be a Bobbitt worm in the tank. Looks like my weekend is going to involve last nights and a red lens.

OH NO!!! not the DREADED BOBBIT.. no really I hope it's not.. bristle worms are creepy enough IMO. I hope you find out whats snatching fishes if it's a bobbit we will be wanting to see some creepy video footage

Good Luck

Heidi

[Badfish]

Ahhggg.. well its been about a month and no bobbit sightings, I'm almost positive we have one though. My wife swears she saw it, and a while ago I remember seeing a big worm and thinking to myself "huh, I should probably get that out one of these days" . Well for now I guess I'm going to have to just keeping an eye out and hope he chokes to death on his next meal.

Aside from the bobbit the tanks has had a few other "problems". The biggest was my skimmer decided to start pumping water out of my sump on to my floor.... 3 times in the last month. The first two times both happened the day after I had some people over, so i assumed that one of my party guess had gotten curious and turned the skimmer valve without me knowing. But then it happened a 3rd time Monday and no one was home all weekend. So after breaking my skimmer down to clean it out (which is what I should have done the first time), I found the problem.




Apparently when dosing Kalk your equipment gets a calcium build up, which can block the air-intake line of a skimmer....... go figure.



On Sunday the wife and I made a trip to paradise coral* and they cuts us a killer deal on some nice pieces.

* Correction it was Reef Paradise in Flint.

This beautiful Sunset Monti



Sunny D's


Unknown Zoas


We also picked up some Magician Palys but I forgot to get a good pic.

Thanks for looking.

[jimsflies]

They look great! Paradise Coral or Reef Paradise?