New Fishies

I bought a couple new fish, one large Niger Trigger fish and one large blue regal tang. I baught the trigger because he was so big and beautiful and yet only 45.00 at the local fish store. I believe a customer had bought it in a a trade is why it was so cheap. then I bought the blue regal tang because the huge trigger looked so good in my tank i needed another big fish. So I went online and baught the blue regal tang from liveaquaria.com. great website to buy live fish from. They have unmatched descriptions of all there fish and live stock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4mZsR5ES5Q&feature=g-upl







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LED's and Fiji Reef Mud update

Random Updates:

  I have now completely replaced the lighting in the tank from the 175 watt metal halides to the new LED’s. All my corals have adapted well and now are fuller than ever before. In the Refugium I replaced the T5 to a 175 metal halide I had in the tank before.

Fiji Reef Mud:

 I recently tried out a product called Fiji Reef Mud to see if it would make a significant difference in the health of my corals. They have a starter kit that has about 12 lbs of the reef mud and they have a booster that has about 12 oz. since I didn’t feel that I needed 12 lbs of this product in my Refugium I decided to get 2 orders of the booster, and since there was a significant price difference between the two sizes I saved some money.

 I will be showing another new video of progress of my 125 gallon reef aquarium soon so be sure to check back soon…

 

 

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Aquarium Logging

Aquarium Logs:

  I have found that logging everything related to your aquarium in a book only dedicated to that purpose has helped me out in many ways. Sometimes I forget when I last dosed certain chemicals for the corals or when the last time I added water and how much I added. By logging all of your information in a log you can now track spending habits, prevent over dosing chemicals like calcium and iodine. Now I track everything from what I bought, and how much I have spent, to when I last cleaned out the protein skimmer.  

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LED's For Coral Reef Aquariums

  I have decided to switch my lighting on my reef tank to LED’s that I was able to find on the internet that were very reasonable in price compared to all the crazy expensive lighting that I have seen everywhere. These LEDs are replacing my 175 watt Metal Halides that I originally had.  

   These LEDs that I have now are brighter and stronger than my Metal Halides so I find that some of my slightly sensitive corals I had to put to the bottom of the tank so that they could adjust to the new brighter lighting. That wasn’t until I lost a few of my small polyps.

  This video is a little example of the difference between the new LEDs and the old 175 watt Metal Halides. then i will add pictures of some of the corals under the new LEDs so you can see some of the groth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqzMULZboA&feature=plcp

 These last two corals have been fragged and have really grown and healed up great since I put them under the new lighting.

 

 

 

 

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Fragging corals

I have been reading a lot about fragging corals and from what i concluded it didn't seem tp very hard for a first timer to so it. So i went at it with a small frag of xenia coral i recently bought and it went very well.. I used a razor blade to cut between 2 stalks i then used a zip tie to loosely tie it on to another rock after about a day i was already able to cut the zip tie away and now its doing great.. The pics below are from day 1-3

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Sand Bed Change

I changed out my crushed coral sand bed with a finer grade sand this past week. I changed out the sand bed for the benefits of the new sand and to alleviate the hassle of the crushed coral sand bed. I like a deep sand bed and with a crushed coral sand bed its very loose and can't hold the proper bacteria used in a deep sand bed that breaks down the nitrites and nitrates in the aquarium. Because of this you need to shake up the crushed coral sand bed to sturr up the bacteria so that the filter can then pick it up and remove it from your tank. Now there's many ways to replace your sand in your sand bed but there is a more prefered method which is.  first remove all live rock fish and 90% of your water i normally put them all into a bunch of 5 gallon buckets then remove the sand bed that you dont want.. then add new sand bed and add the same water back in.. put live rock and run the filter/sump/pump again for a few hours before putting corals and fish back into the tank. this in my opinion is the best way to do a sand bed change. This time i made the change to my sand bed i didnt do all these steps due to lack of buckets and lack of time to complete this project so i was in a little rush and this pic shows how cloudy the water is. if you do the steps correctly then your water will clear up a lot easier than it will take me to get rid of this cloud.         Ignore the following.... Tags: Corals, Fragging, Xenia coral, mushroom corals, aquarium, 125 gallon, gal, Reef tank, huge aquarium, large, live rock, salt water, ocean, Fiji mud, Refugium, metal halides, 175w, 250w, 300w, calcium, iodine, blue tang, shrimp, yellow tang, clown fish, angel fish, foxface rabbitfish,Trigger, fish, Niger Trigger, Clown, Clown fish, Percula Clownfish, Tang, Yellow Tang, Custom Aquarium, Custom aquatics, living reef, reef, reef aquarium, 125 gallon aquarium, refugium, mud, live rock, live sand, deep sandbed, sand bed, corals, sps, over flow, blue regal tang, hippo tang, green chromis, foxface, foxface rabbitfish, one spot, anthias, mushroom corals, duncan corals, algae, LFS, Extreme aquarium, ultimate aquarium, coral beauty angel fish, lunar wrasse, DIY aquarium, Custom stand, LED Lights, 120 watt LED's, reef lighting, lights, salt water, deep sea, amazing aquatics, ocean,

Aquarium Update live stock

I just thought I would do a post just on everything new thats going on with my aquarium


  My chaeto has more than doubled in size in probably about 2 weeks. Here is the progress of that..

June 5

june 20

It is hard to see in the first pic but you can see the growth. As for the other pieces of live stock i have added to my refugium I havent seen much growth. the Red Gracilaria kind of fell apart but it still looks like it might come back to life so im not going to take it out quite yet. The Ulva has holes all through it i believe from the copepods maybe are eating it. Again no growth from thoes or the mangroves.