Biffy Finally Gets a Build Thread!

[Piggy]

Wow Looks like you got some good ones.

 

[LionFish]

the best part of that was watching biffs fingers get more and more water logged at the pics rolled in.

im kiddin' they look Great biff, did those cats get fur all over your egg crate?

 

[Bifferwine]

I have four cats and a dog! They get fur on everything!

The white acros look really good under the tank lights -- lots of greens and blues. Everyone seems to be doing fine this morning; they all got fed last night too.

I have more cleaner crew coming in today (shrimps, crabs and starfishes), and the Zomania order coming in tomorrow. Stay posted!

 

[LionFish]

FTS ! please TANK SHOT TANK SHOT please please!!!

 

[Bifferwine]

I'm getting more frags in tomorrow. No full tank shot until those ones get placed! :p

 

[reeffreak]

Good deal,I want to see the other frag packs too.

Looks like your going heavy on sps,what are you going to do to keep your calcium up?

 

[Bifferwine]

Don't know yet, that's why I asked you about the calcium reactor :). Actually, I only have 3 more SPS frags coming in Friday, then I'm done for a loooooong time. I tested my calcium last night, it was at 450. I'm going to start testing it regularly to see how quickly the corals consume it. Then I'll decide if I can get by just with water changes and dosing, or if I need a calcium reactor.

 

[NewPortRichey]

god i'm jealous. looks awesome biff! can't wait to see everything together. that'll prob be on page 150 tho. lol.

 

[fishbait]

awesome frags biff. I can't wait to see the full tank shot.

 

[yote]

Awesome frags Biff.
Just wait till they all get used to your tank and start growing,Your calcium will go from 450 to 300 in a week.:mrgreen:

 

[jhnrb]

Nice start. howsbout some pics of the corals in your system with the lights on. congrats on the buy.

 

[winyfrog]

yep you will want to get a reactor at some point, especially with those acros, unless of course you like to add calcium and alk buffer all the time.

Do you remember the pic of the old 240, it was 98% acro and we was dosing it 2 times a day.... there is nothing better then an acro tank.

 

[Bifferwine]

I actually like zoas and shrooms/ricordeas better than acros. Maybe it's because you just can't kill them, no matter what you do!

 

[winyfrog]

this is true. Acros tend to just go sometimes without any reason...

 

[Bifferwine]

Look! The Tripod Fairy came today! Thanks, Tripod Fairy (aka NewPortRichey). The tripod is awesome. I honestly thought it was going to be a little 6-inch one, but no, this is the REAL DEAL, with a leveler and everything. So cool. You know I'm going to try it out ASAP.

 

[Bifferwine]

I got my Zomania order in today. The zoa frags haven't opened up yet, so I will have to take pictures of them tomorrow.

But here are the three SPS frags I got:

And man. The ricordeas. These are top-notch. I would recommend this website for ANYONE wanting a nice variety of ricordeas. They have 5, 10, 20 and 50 packs. These look small in the pictures, they ended up spreading out to be quite large once they were in the tank. Much bigger than the usual ricordeas I see at my LFS, at least.

 

[hibye]

very nice

 

[RigoSharon]

nice pics

 

[fishbait]

gotta get me some ricorias! very colorful little buggers aren't they.

 

[winyfrog]

nice ricordias, one of my many favorites.