The quarantine tanks (QT) is up and running. It's just a small (about 14G) cube with a 96W power compact, a Koralia 3 powerhead and a fluval in tank filter with a venturi for aeration. I filled the in tank filter with ceramic "bio" media. I love this stuff. I'm convinced that it's as good as (or better than) live rock for biological filtration. A 20G with an Aquaclear 50 & bio-media was good enough to keep a 6-inch Tang living through a hyposalinity treatment. The QT does have about 10 lbs of cycled live rock directly out of my display. There shouldn't be any worry about a cycle since I've simply added an already working filter to the system.
I picked up five pieces of SPS coral today. The pieces you can't see are an ORA pearlberry frag and a nice dark blue/green granulosa. The small frag in the front middle of the QT is a green stylophora. The two large pieces are unknown pieces that have been sitting in a system for a long time and have been browned out probably for years. I can't wait to see how they color up in my system! I got them for $35 each. It took a lot of willpower not to buy all the fist size colonies that were selling for that price. (I might go back tomorrow, but don't tell my wife.)
The quarantine tanks (QT) is up and running. It's just a small (about 14G) cube with a 96W power compact, a Koralia 3 powerhead and a fluval in tank filter with a venturi for aeration. I filled the in tank filter with ceramic "bio" media. I love this stuff. I'm convinced that it's as good as (or better than) live rock for biological filtration. A 20G with an Aquaclear 50 & bio-media was good enough to keep a 6-inch Tang living through a hyposalinity treatment. The QT does have about 10 lbs of cycled live rock directly out of my display. There shouldn't be any worry about a cycle since I've simply added an already working filter to the system.
I picked up five pieces of SPS coral today. The pieces you can't see are an ORA pearlberry frag and a nice dark blue/green granulosa. The small frag in the front middle of the QT is a green stylophora. The two large pieces are unknown pieces that have been sitting in a system for a long time and have been browned out probably for years. I can't wait to see how they color up in my system! I got them for $35 each. It took a lot of willpower not to buy all the fist size colonies that were selling for that price. (I might go back tomorrow, but don't tell my wife.)
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