Leonardo's BB ShallowCube

[King-Kong]

I meant your montipora digitae

[Leonardo's Reef]

Pff stupid, I must read things more carefully... I just bought the digitata, so I don't know what it will do. I have seen digitata colony's that encrust like you describe, but I don't know why they are doing that instead of growing upwards.

Leonardo

[Jflip2002]

This tank makes me want to go BB. I like how the tank doesnt have any trim, you dont have a bunch of clunky equipment in the tank, and it seems very seemless. Terriffic tank, and I'll be looking forward to more progress. Im a softies fan myself, but the BB with the SPS forest is gorgeous.

[Leonardo's Reef]

Thank you very much Jflip!

When I was planning this tank, I wanted it to be clean and simple. BB contribute to that look IMO.

Tomorrow I will travel to the beautiful country Belgium () There I will buy some more Apogons (maybe 20 more...)

Leonardo

[Wiskey]

Very cool! Enjoy your trip That's a great way of doing a growth pic, how did you do that?

Looks great as always!
Whiskey

[gman0526]

Photo shop 2 layers overlaid (that's how I would do it )

[Leonardo's Reef]

Yep, I did it with photoshop. 2 layers, make one transparant, so that you can fit them together. After that colour the transparant one red (or blue )

The trip to Belgium was nice, I just returned. The Apogons were not in stock anymore
So I bought some other fish;

(not my pictures)

6 Myripristis Jacobus



1 Acanthurus coeruleus (juvenile colours)




I'll make some pictures soon

Leonardo

[Little Luey]

Very nice tank Leonardo! good job man.

[Leonardo's Reef]

Some new pictures of the new fish mostly.















Leonardo

[King-Kong]

Leonardo; it's official: I hate you and your tank!

That is AWESOME!!

How many fish total are you up to, and how have the smaller cardinals (?) been schooling? I always fear that over time, schools in our "smaller" tanks break apart, and dont stick together.

[Wiskey]

Very nice!!!! I really love what you have done with this tank!

Whiskey

[Leonardo's Reef]

Haha, thanx!

The cardinals don't always school closely. They are fish that hang stattically between coral etc. They don't swim around much.

Sometimes (feeding, etc.) they swim in a large school, together with the Myripristis.

So, they do school, but not a close one. They don't break up either. I think in larger tanks the schooling effect is better visible then in my (smaller) tank.

Total fish at the moment:

6 Myripristis Jacobus
9 Apogon Leptacanthus
1 Acanthurus Coeruleus
1 Acanthurus triostegus
1 Zebrasoma Flavescens
1 Salarias Fasciatus

Leonardo

[Leonardo's Reef]

Thanks whiskey!

[Leonardo's Reef]

btw, I upgraded my lighting in the meantime. I was getting too much shadows from the center colony, and the frags underneath were not recieving enough light anymore.
Because the corals have darken up lately, I thought I could take the risk and add some light.

I DIY a little. I removed the ballast from the pendant, and put another 250 watt in in (that ballast also external) I made a new reflector out of aluminium sheet, in a spider-reflector shape.
The current lighting setup is: 2 x 250 Watt DE AqualineBuschke 10K + 4 x 24 Watt T5 Actinic

Leonardo

[Wiskey]

Originally Posted by Leonardo's Reef

btw, I upgraded my lighting in the meantime. I was getting too much shadows from the center colony, and the frags underneath were not recieving enough light anymore.
Because the corals have darken up lately, I thought I could take the risk and add some light.

I DIY a little. I removed the ballast from the pendant, and put another 250 watt in in (that ballast also external) I made a new reflector out of aluminium sheet, in a spider-reflector shape.
The current lighting setup is: 2 x 250 Watt DE AqualineBuschke 10K + 4 x 24 Watt T5 Actinic

Leonardo

Woh, quite an upgrade How far off the water are you running the lights? How far apart are your two bulbs?

Whiskey