time for a change!!! update on page 4

well its about time I show what I have learned since I started on this sight. I could tell you all about it but pictures say a thousand words.

here was the tank when I first got it LOL:







that was literally just live rock and a few fish and it did well for a few months.... was mixed with tap water and salt at 1.024 salinity and no dosing of any kind with what you saw in it.

Ignorance was bliss.....

 

equipment was a 2213 ehiem filter, 2bulb t5 48 watts, glass hood, with 2 damsels, and some diffrent things on the live rock including a sea urchin that was the size of a pice of gravel that grew to the size of a golfbal in like 2-3weeks.

used live sand and live rock with one big dry rock pice.

 

Yes it was....

 

I do not want to get in the way here rc mcwaters3

are you going to be putting up some - And this is now, images?

 

stuff died slowly after about 1 year, then we moved and told my wifes grandmother to add water to it as it got lower and to turn the light off. well she didnt put any water in it and left the light on the whole time I was gone, which was over a month. so when I got back to it I had about 9-8 gallons of water in it with the lights still on and about 5 lbs. of salt creep all over the tank with the water at about 102 degrees. I was ferious but both the fish lived somehow???? and everything else died...... so I cleaned everything washed the rock and rinsd the sand out and hoped everything would get better...... nedless to say that if I had put poo in one hand and hope in the other I would have had a dirty hand LOL.

 

yep I will ;D

 

so after getting on the sight this is what I had come up with:



new corals:


new fish:


and all this was thanks to to my wifes support and the help of three reef ;D ;D ;D

 

LOL, you right ignorance is bliss and whole lot less expensive.

Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing in this hobby.

Your persistence paid off. Nice zoanthids.

 

and now thanks to the continued help of all my fellow 3reefers and some cool equipment upgrades (to include 3 boost leds and a skimmer) this was pics fom this morning:











got some clowns off the sight for free and removed the blue damsel and they are great clowns ;D bonie and clyde ;D





coral that was in the eariler pics:



and jaws my yellow wachman goby

my little mushroom that still wont grow:




some more in a minute

 

here are some more pics:



frogspawn missing a rotten head, thanks to all that helped me with that:





some more growing corals:



so that is it, not the prettyest thing but a continuing effort of 3reefers helping each other out and is still dong great. ;D