aquemeni's 6G Nano

[EDGRAY]

Really nice additions especially the anemonea crab i love does when they are eating...:lol:...uhh yeah keep an eye on the coral banded they are :twisted: i love them too but if i put one it will eat my gobies for sure :lol:...and well look at those mushrooms taking over the first level really nice. and well about your torch keep moving it you'll find the best place for it!! but well im like TIM i wish i could see your tank in person too...cause looks really nice and always pics dont make justice really, i know that cause i always take some pics but never show the true intense color of my corals....anyways nice tank.. congrats... :mrgreen:

 

[aquemeni5110]

Erik - Thanks! I will definetly keep an eye on the coral banded. I've had them in the past but never a gold one. I'm looking into a better clean up crew so I thought that the Six Line, cleaner & coral banded would be great to start off with.

Tim - I would do the frags swap, I just don't completely understand how everything works yet. I can't say that I have a bad camera because it can take really good pictures at times but yes the coloring very different from in person to camera.

Eddy - Thanks for your comments. The good thing I've noticed is that the coral banded dwells at the bottom and the goby stays at the top of the tank. What if I got a Watchman goby? Would that make a difference? Don't they team up? Or is that with other shrimps? The mushrooms weren't opening as big when they were up top so I place the majority of them on the bottom or in shaded places. I've moved the torch coral at least 3 or 4 times and where it's at right now seems to work.

 

[EDGRAY]

LOL i mentioned that will eat my gobies is cause i have the tiny versions you know the 1-2" kind that can be easily caught by the coral banded shrimp and well about hosting with the YWG i dont think so normally shrimp goby type will mate but with any type of pistol shrimp for sure well thats what i know ..... :lol:

 

[aquemeni5110]

I've done a few upgrades and down grades. I sold my HOB refugium/skimmer. I just got tired of the anoying micro bubbles and well it just didn't work out. I've decided to convert my 2nd chamber into a fuge . To do that, I removed my UV filter and will probably use it for a bigger tank in the future. I also replaced my Finnex heater with a Visi-Therm Stealth. Same 50 watts but this time I don't have to set the temp each time I plug it back in. I brought my chiller back from the dead. This time I made a bracket for it to sit on the tank. I used black 1/4" acrylic.

Here it is completed an hour later.

And the reason for the chiller: 70 watt DE metal halide retrofit with 20k bulb. Purchased from Aquabuys.

MH Installed. I've also added a 13 watt daylight for the fuge.

20k !!!

Here's how everything looks now from the back of the tank. I also added some live rock rubble in the first chamber. It was my first time seeing the back of the tank in a long time. I found a lot of filter feeds and feather dusters. If the water level looks low in the fuge, it's because I took out a few pounds of live rock.

Here's a last look of the tank before the change. With the HOB refugium gone, doing water changes would be difficult because the water level would drop about 2 inches in the main tank. So I removed about 5 to 6 of pounds live rock and remodeled a bit.

Here's how it looks as of today. I'm running the lights only 6 hours a day for aclimmation and will move up to 8 and eventually 10 as the weeks go buy. No heat problems at the moment. Temp stays at 79 degrees during the day and 78 degrees at night. Enjoy! :lol3:

 

[drty811]

wow lookin great. awsome DIYer

 

[reefman23]

Looks pretty sweet! How do you like the MH?

Jesse

 

[reefermike]

i cant belive thats a 6 gallon tank .. amazing....awesome job

 

[brandon]

sweet MH

Did you acclimate the coral to the lighting at all?

 

[aquemeni5110]

Thanks Erik and reefermike. I am trying best. :mrgreen:

Jesse - I am definetly loving the new lighting. My first time doing MH and for one I just love the shimmering. I thought about getting a 10k bulb because I already have 2 18w actinics laying around but I want to see how blue the 20k really is. I'll eventually experiment with the 10k and maybe a 14k.

brandon - I've cut back the lighting schedule to 6 hours and will gradually work my way up to 10 as the weeks go by. Is there any other methods of acclimation?

 

[Anonymous]

cool tank - i've always liked the way you did your false wall/back space area
that 20K is blue - but it sure makes your corals look nice

 

[EDGRAY]

WoW nice shots and great update.... but well looks like the 20k of aqualine is bluer than the ushio mine never look that blue at all... mine looks more like a 14k or alittle bit bluer but not as the aqualine... that makes me think i want to see the 20k aqualine in my tank. and well acclimating with 6 hours i guess is alot but is up to you a read that there is 2 good ways to do it but at sametime people say with a 20k u dont have to aclimate that long as with other Kelvin...

but one is to start 30min a day an so on.. 30min more a day, or the one i did first time 3 hours and then 30min more every 3-4days... until decired time i just run mine 8hours and 10hours the 2x24 PC... best luck ...

and well looks nice i cant wait until your corals color up with the new :idea: ... :mrgreen:...

P.S: keep the shots comming... (love the hood i copy your hood in some way for my 2.5g)

 

[reefman23]

but well looks like the 20k of aqualine is bluer than the ushio mine never look that blue at all... mine looks more like a 14k or alittle bit bluer but not as the aqualine...

Eddy,

The aqualine is probably a little more blue than the Ushio you are running, but it is very tough to get the true color in a picture. I use to be able to take a pic of my tank with a 14,000k Hamilton (VERY white almost yellow) that would look like aquemeni's. It is all in the white balance and all the other settings in the camera.

Jesse

 

[aquemeni5110]

Thanks John. Eddy, Is it too late to change my lighting schedule to 3 hours? I'd like to do that plus the 30 minutes every 3 to 4 days. I agree with Jesse, It depends on how your camera is set. On my Sony I have Normal, Natural, and Vivid settings and it really makes the picture look a lot different than it looks in person. I really like the Vivid setting but it can really put more shadows on dark places.

Eddy, What's up with your 2.5? When are you going to post pics? :bash1:

Here's a before shot with the quad pc:

And now with the MH:

:bash1:

 

[EDGRAY]

BRIAN dont worry ill soon MUAHAHA is just that im doing alot of DIY and the tank might be 2months of running but cause of the DIY is new everyday.. like right now im doing a surface skimmer with a black pipe and doing the mod of 2x24w PC for it..adding 3 small fans too, to keep temp stable... just need to find a mini heater so far no luck....

 

[aquemeni5110]

Nice Eddy, I myself have a work in progress so look out!

 

[aquemeni5110]

Here's today's catch

I caught these today just as my lights came on. What a drag. I'm so close to giving this whole damn tank a dip. :hwall:

I also found 3 more after I took this picture.

 

[drty811]

:shock: holy s&#$.........man that sucks. nuke'em. :evil: i really hope i never have to go through that :shock:

 

[reefman23]

Truly a bummer. I hope that you have luck removing them all. :sad:

Jesse

 

[EDGRAY]

Gosh that suck... alot of little bugger :lol: .. that reminds me when DICKIE was removing his nudies too the count kept increasing :???: and well if is possible you really should do the dip better than fighting something you cant win for sure by just removing and removing... SO DO IT!! and then wait a week or so to give time to the eggs to hatch and then dip again so you do really kill all does buggers :twisted: :twisted: :evil:

 

[Angel]

I hate it for ya, they really are hard to get rid of. I have been dipping everything that goes into my tanks for a few years now, but some still get by. Luckily, though, I have a six-line that hunts anything that moves and catches the few I have missed. He seems to enjoy them like candy. I am not advocating getting a six-line, because they all aren't like that, just stating how mine is.