A Newbie's Tank ... My 1St

[dkk08]

Bro Qxnviolet, I suggest u put a styrofoam board under the tank... ur table looks expensive

[Qxnviolet]

Ohz...forgot abt that, will get a piece tomorrow....I love that table, quite cheap actually...

[Qxnviolet]

Got this pinkish/greenish frogspawn frm RB today....

[Qxnviolet]

Another view...

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New Yellow suN!~

[dkk08]

the sun from reborn too? hahaha wanted to get that pc but didn't... they've nice goni and yellow cup corals too

[Qxnviolet]

Yup...the sun from RB....like that also can recognise? Haha.

[Firestarz]

Woah .. bro .. really nice .. even QT also so cool looking .. haha!

[Qxnviolet]

LOl....thanks....i think the blue tink in the QT after i added in the medication gave it a "cool" blue look... Thanks for passing by...

[jervismun]

So bro... how many tanks (or buckets of saltwater) u currently running? lol

I think we are all mad... madly in love with the hobby... and I think this forum plays an important part in building that madness! We all go "koo-koo" already

[Gorgonia850]

the sun from reborn too? hahaha wanted to get that pc but didn't... they've nice goni and yellow cup corals too

Heard & being told by friends that Yellow Cup Corals are dyed ones, hopefully i'm might be wrong

[dkk08]

Heard & being told by friends that Yellow Cup Corals are dyed ones, hopefully i'm might be wrong

I'm not sure abt that, I'm a newbie myself

[Qxnviolet]

Rare visitor in sight! Seldom see him perched outside....got him a week back and hope he'll get more daring... CUTE fish! Sry, abit OOF...

[Qxnviolet]

1 More!~

[jervismun]

Wow bro, what's the name of the coral on the background? It is pretty. Is it suitable for newbies?

[Qxnviolet]

Behind the fish? Not really sure but think its called star polyps....they are pretty easy and if the conditions are right, will spread quite fast.....

From LiveAquaria

Accurately described as an encrusting coral, Starburst Polyps rapidly grow over adjacent rock work, coral, or even the glass of an established reef aquarium. They are a peaceful coral armed with the defensive capability of being able to retract or deflate each of their polyps in response to predation. They will not harm other corals that are placed close to their colony, but are susceptible to being damaged by any aggressive corals in the reef aquarium. They are easy to maintain in the reef aquarium and make an excellent candidate for the beginning through expert reef aquarist. They require a medium to high light level combined with a medium to strong water movement within the aquarium. For continued good health, they will also require the addition of iodine and other trace elements to the water.

Mine are the cheap ones, some reefers have those super greenish ones....*dRooLs*

[godzillaliu88]

wah bro... your tank so nice... drooling liao

somemore the condition so good.

give u 1 flower.

keep it up

[Qxnviolet]

Haha, thanks godzilla....good to see you are revamping your tank, carry on the good work!

Latest Update: One of my newly aquired frogsppawn's head just melted. Found some brown substances hovering around it. It was perfectly fine the previous day....could it have been too close to my prata which stung it causing it to die off? Btw, i've already cut off the dying head, worried that it'll affect the rest of the coral....

[Qxnviolet]

My 2nd attempt at an Algae Blenny. Really small n cute fella....

[Qxnviolet]

Blue eyes....transferred into my display tank after quarrantine. They are much easier to keep than Purple Queens.....i never succeeded with the queens....

You can see the dying/melting off head of my frogspawn there....

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Got these specimens at AM...had 5, 1 died in QT the next day....but the other 4 are very healthy and greedy fellas...started feeding almost immediately in the QT.

[Qxnviolet]

Togetherness! All 4 of them together....they grown more daring and are off to explore their new surroundings now. Cleaner Warrase checking them out...

Had this cleaner wrasse for close to 6 mths now...hard to find specimens that feed so readily...

[nakazoru]

Haha, thanks godzilla....good to see you are revamping your tank, carry on the good work!

Latest Update: One of my newly aquired frogsppawn's head just melted. Found some brown substances hovering around it. It was perfectly fine the previous day....could it have been too close to my prata which stung it causing it to die off? Btw, i've already cut off the dying head, worried that it'll affect the rest of the coral....

Qxnviolet;

One thing funny that I notice about frogspawn is that always one polpy of the frogspawn will melt away. Mine also have one branch melted away even though I believe my water to be good. Go see at LFS to see some of their display tank with single melted branch.

No coral dies except this one branch of frogspawn after I convert to reef from FOWLR since July last year. I still have 2 out 3 branch. I did not cut away the melting one.

My theory for melting is that the water flow and the way that we place the frogspawn. When placing the frogspawn, all the branch with its tenticle has to be in upright in a smooth waving manner. Together with the flow, the frogspawn in the correct position will feel more at ease. But I guess I can never confirm this.

[Travy]

YOUR BUBBLES>>> woah... very nice. I never had success with them...

Hey bro, any ideas if the blue eyes will be compatible with dispars?

[Qxnviolet]

Qxnviolet;

One thing funny that I notice about frogspawn is that always one polpy of the frogspawn will melt away. Mine also have one branch melted away even though I believe my water to be good. Go see at LFS to see some of their display tank with single melted branch.

No coral dies except this one branch of frogspawn after I convert to reef from FOWLR since July last year. I still have 2 out 3 branch. I did not cut away the melting one.

My theory for melting is that the water flow and the way that we place the frogspawn. When placing the frogspawn, all the branch with its tenticle has to be in upright in a smooth waving manner. Together with the flow, the frogspawn in the correct position will feel more at ease. But I guess I can never confirm this.

Hrmz, this is my 2nd try at a frogspawn. The 1st died mysteriously after i added in some hammers which i suspect were diseased. Within 2 days, my true octo and frogspawn melted. Sianz 1/2. Was pretty worried when one of the heads of my new frogspawn showed signs of melting and when i came back at night and saw a layer of brown stuff hovering about the melting head, i immediately proceeded to cut the whole head off. Prob saved the other parts of the coral. Read about the dreaded brown jelly disease somewhere before...i wonder if thats what killed my corals.