Author: Vicki moore (---.dhcp.jcsn.tn.charter.com)
Date: 05-19-08 23:52
Trent, I have 4 reef tanks, one of which is a "frag tank". I am an active member of our local reef club and have been for 3 years. I buy corals from other members or order corals, frag them into smaller pieces, super glue gel them onto live rock rubble or frag plugs and allow them to grow out in my frag tank. I go to 2 frag swaps a year and have my own table where I sell the frags I have raised. I have many types of SPS corals, LPS, Zoanthids, Leathers, Xenia, Green Star Polyps, Palys, feather dusters. I also have 1 pair of clown fish who have taken to my frog spawn just like it was an anemonae, a Royal Gramma, a Blue Spotted Watchman Goby paired up with a tiger pistol shrimp. These two are great fun to watch>Mugs and Bulldozer. You need to read about the symbiotic relationship between pistol shrimp and watchman goby. It is fascinating. I have a 38 gal tank with a 15 gal sump, a 20 gal frag tank plumbed to a 10 gal sump. Both of these are lit with 250 W Metal Halide lighting. I have a 12 gallon nano cube in my dining room downstairs. In it a clown and a pixie hawkfish as well as assorted mushroom corals, palys, etc. My most challenging tank is my 3 gallon picotope I keep on my kitchen counter. It is a challenge to keep the water just right. A tiny bit of evaporation and you go way up on your specific gravity. I just put more powerful lights on it tonight, so that should help my corals, etc in it. I keep 3 sexy anemonae shrimp in there along with a rock anemonae. This is my passion, much to my husband's dismay!! He hates my tanks (too much work). I love diving so much that this is a little part of what fascinates me about the underwater world. I am heading to Florida mid June for a conference and will go a couple of days early and dive out of Tarpon Springs with Narcosis(LOL to divers) for a couple of days of diving. Then on to Culebra for a week and Vieques for a week. We will dive on both islands.
Vicki in Tennessee
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