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[JRWOHLER]

I agree with Hawkeye...find someway to attatch the hose just to keep if from draining onto the floor....you know if it can happen it will....especially after we have jinxed you. 

[TanksNStuff]

Here's a small update... it's too late to post the details I normally give, so here goes the short version.

I tried to use a JBJ ATO controller to prevent my skimmer container from overflowing.  I set all the floats perfectly and everything worked as it should when I tested it.  However, the controller has a built-in "failsafe" runtime timer that automatically cuts off power to the pump after a max setting of 14 minutes.  This was bad news since I had already tie-strapped all the wires up in the stand after testing that the sensors all worked where I had them.  The manufacturer says there is no way to disable the failsafe, but I'm hoping they are just saying that for liability issues.  Maybe someone can reply to my post in the Equipment section of our forums and tell me otherwise.

Anyway, here's some good news at least.  I got a few new corals and a couple new fish.  When I gave Ray (r2reyzer) some large sheets of glass to try to repair his cracked tank, he was grateful and generous to offer me some nice corals for the glass.  Here are some pics:

Bright Green Acro (it's coloring is much better than the pic shows)



A Brown/Green Cap (The green isn't showing well in this pic... but it definitely has green coloring.  It was also much bigger than shown, but I broke some pieces off when trying to glue it to my rocks.) 



Really nice green Favia (glows something fierce!)



Some Green Star Polyps (I'll watch this to make sure it doesn't grow out of control.)



A nice Zoa Frag (has green centers so it seems to fit in with the scheme here, lol)


He also gave me one other Zoa Frag, but it hasn't opened since the day after I put it in my tank.  It did fall to the sand a couple times and I don't think it was very happy.  I'm hoping it will recover, but it doesn't look good right now.  Not really worth posting a pic, it's just a plug with a bunch of purple dots on it.

Ok, now some pics of my 2 new fish:

Six Line Wrasse (He's tiny, just like I like em... was hard to get a good shot of him in the QT tank though cause he's a super fast swimmer.)


And My replacement for Herman... A Target Mandarin! (He got right to work on eating pods as soon as I put him in my display tank.)


Well, that's it for tonight... I'll update when I can.  Both fish were bought from East Coast Aquatics on Sunday 2/8/10.

[TanksNStuff]

Eh, I knew I was too tired last night.  That was a replacement for "Manny", not Herman.  I'm still looking for another yellow watchman goby to replace Herman.

[Hawkeye]

beautiful mandarin!  I should have gotten one.  instead i have a fat aggressive yellow coris wrasse lol.

where's the GSP situated? I picked up some GSP from herbieK (thanks!) and put it on a disc.  The thing is totally overgrowing the disc and trying to get off the sandbed now...   Jrwohler's got them covering his overflow...pretty neat idea. 

[TanksNStuff]

Thanks Phil!  Yea, I fell in love with him as soon as I saw him.

Below is a really old pic, so the GSP isn't shown here, but this is the area I placed it.  If you look below and to the right of the highest clownfish, you will see a sideways v shaped crevice (looks like this...   >  ) where the rock on the far right rests on the bottom rock.  I sort of wedged it into that crack and it's stayed there ever since.  I don't know if I want to keep it there or not, but it's there for now.



To give you an idea of where that is overall in my tank, I'll repost my most recent tank vid so you can see the whole tank again.  (None of the new corals above were added when this was made though.)  The cave area shown in the pic above is around 1:12 on this vid.  If you let it run til around 1:36, you will get a pretty good idea of where it is by viewing the side.  If you can last through all my shaking as I walk around the tank and get to 2:28, you can look through the cave and see that crevice again from the back.

[mnat]

Be careful with those GSPs guys, they can become a problem.  We started with this in march:

This is august:

Now it looks like this (and you cannot see the back of the live rock that is completely covered:


Be careful if you have sensitive skin, it stung my wife's hand and has left a mark for several days now.

[TanksNStuff]

Thanks for the reply mnat.  Yea, I've heard plenty of stories of these getting out of control... which is why I plan on keeping an eye on it.  I wasn't aware of them stinging you though, so that was good info.