PinayReefer's 10g Turbid Lagoon w/Sump

[yardboy]

Due I suppose, to several factors including using tank water and live sand from my display, well cured liverock, and mostly base rock, I never saw any ammonia, nitrite and there's a non-detect on nitrate in our nano. I even fed the featherdusters with blender mush and still no ammonia. We did get a blush of cyano on the sand and a few places on the rock, but I put a couple of blue-legs, astreas and three nassarious and that disapppeared. The star polyps have been on the return for a week and no ill effects so, while doing some rearranging of my display, I found a cute little colony of Pocillipora that had bailed out from it's mom some time in the past. Talking another page from Calfo's propogation book, I epoxied the Pocillipora onto the return in the front of the tank. In theory as it grows up towards the light, it'll completely hide the return and you'll get a more 3D effect as you look past the colony into the tank.

[yardboy]

Since we're still thinking lagoonal setup, here's our first softie, a Cladiella frag from Seacrop (all the corals will come from either our tanks or Seacrop as we're going completely with frags.)

[yardboy]

I've had some good success with Yellow Leathers, (though they're reputed to be more difficult to keep) so here's our frag of Sarcophyton elegans:

[yardboy]

Here's a frag of a "Colt Coral", Capnella sp.?

[yardboy]

We'd hoped for a long-polyped fluorescent green Sarcophyton, but while they were selling for $50 for awhile on eBay, suddenly they've gotten very scarce and the few I've seen are well over $100 for a 1" frag. The price jumped up so fast, I even had a vendor who'd posted his price as $30 about to ship me one, then suddenly just stopped communicating with me.

Anyway, we got this short-tentacled one from Seacrop for considerably less, and he's a double-head!

[yardboy]

Of course, we'll be sticking zoanthid of all varieties to the back wall amongst the softies, here's the first colonists, an orange-eyed brownie.

[tims]

Very nice roger!
how did you " glue" them to the rocks?

[yardboy]

Tim,
I used super glue gel after drying the end of the coral to increase adhesion.

[skeety]

nice, nice, nice!!!

LOVE this part...coral placement!!!

now how about the "big picture!" (i.e. the whole tank)

[yardboy]

Lights out, that'll have to wait.

[VWD]

Taking shape . very nice

[fish.freak]

I am going to be living vicariously through your tank for the next year...

[yardboy]

I sure hope we can make it worth your while!

Here's a new zoanthid frag I plucked out of the 150

[fish.freak]

Arg! Blasted dial up! Waiting for photobucket...

Ohh worth the wait, it is so nice I dont even know how to describe the color.

[alaskaknucklehead]

nice!