Dukes 50 Gallon Clownfish Kingdom

[Darryl_V]

I just started reading this thread now....dang Duke. Sorry buddy.  Im sure you can turn it around.  Its a cool idea.  I have seen tanks like this before and what I would like to see is a carpet anemone tank in a shallow reef with all sand and barely any rock.....a some big and small carpets of different colours with clowns would be awesome.  Not that bubbles arent cool though....very nice.  Im sure you've followed marvin's reef anemone and clown tank?

 

[sunnykita]

man that sucks! I hope it turns around for you too, I was really enjoying this thread. Best of luck
sunnykita

 

[harleymike]

Wow
Sorry too read this about your tank Nick.
Sucks.
I'm sure you will having looking even better in no time.
Mike

 

[Duke]

Thanks everyone for the kind words of encouragement. Looks like most of the nems will pull through.. Some are severely wounded.. Another few hours and I'm sure everything in the tank would have died. I did a massive water change and was up till 2am cleaning up.. Work at 5am came really early today... Tossed some snails and crabs and about a dozen asterna stars in there and they were all alive this morning.. So I'm pretty sure nothing from the heater actually contaminated the tank.... I'm going to chalk this up as just a minor setback..  ;D

 

[Big_Als_London]

You could look on the positive side now and think most of the nems are going to split do to the stress.

 

[Duke]

You could look on the positive side now and think most of the nems are going to split do to the stress.

I'm sure a split or two will happen, they new purple one held up good.

 

[unibob]

Did the 3 large ones you picked up off me pull through?

 

[Big_Als_London]

[quote author=Big_Als_London link=topic=4152.msg38254#msg38254 date=1359571504]
You could look on the positive side now and think most of the nems are going to split do to the stress.

I'm sure a split or two will happen, they new purple one held up good.
[/quote]mine is splitting right now so if it doesn't I will have one for you.

 

[Duke]

Did the 3 large ones you picked up off me pull through?

I hope so.. That's by far the nicest flame tip morph I've seen.. Almost all yellow

 

[unibob]

[quote author=jerry_doucette link=topic=4152.msg38258#msg38258 date=1359579981]
Did the 3 large ones you picked up off me pull through?

I hope so.. That's by far the nicest flame tip morph I've seen.. Almost all yellow
[/quote]

Lol, ok If they pull through and you get one to split... haha

He had them in the sump so they never really had light on them when I seen them.

 

[Duke]

[quote author=Duke link=topic=4152.msg38269#msg38269 date=1359586544]
[quote author=jerry_doucette link=topic=4152.msg38258#msg38258 date=1359579981]
Did the 3 large ones you picked up off me pull through?

I hope so.. That's by far the nicest flame tip morph I've seen.. Almost all yellow
[/quote]

Lol, ok If they pull through and you get one to split... haha

He had them in the sump so they never really had light on them when I seen them.
[/quote]


ya there in my sump right now.. everything is looking 100x better today.. thanks a bunch.. def my new fav anemone.. its weird how only 1 is really really yellow.. i wonder what brings that out in them.. high light? low light? food? flow? who knows.

 

[unibob]

Yea not too sure. Good to hear they are doing better.

 

[Duke]

Before this all failed miserably. watch in HD

http://youtu.be/wjAri9uiBwc

 

[BIGSHOW]

Thats so sweet

 

[Duke]

another.. Moonlit this time. HD it up again.


http://youtu.be/XTi5y1bsSH4

 

[unibob]

Sweet videos. Hows it doing now?

 

[Duke]

Sweet videos. Hows it doing now?

not so good, the huge die off screwed the tank up royally.. i took all the rock and anemones out so theres nothing for biological filtration left.. the fish look great.. but i have some palys in there that wont even open yet.. im doing water changes and going to wait it out i guess, i have my big skimmer on this tank and its pulling much harder that it ever does on my main display tank.. i might try and drain it clean it all and start over if things dont turn around in a day or two.

 

[Duke]

ok.. Round 2.. seems im outta the "chance of everything dying" stage.. everything is still pretty hurting.. but 200x better than a few days ago. I had to put everything in my display again for a few days to let the nems fix themselves.. or whatever they do.. i just knew my main tank had water quality good enough to keep them healthy. I drained and rinsed the substrate and restarted it again with more "main" tank water and now im off to the races.




Hurry and watch.. Youtube didnt like my choice of music and they are removing the audio from my video.. Then you wont get the full effect.. LOL.. HD is better as usual.





Clownfish and Anemone Dedicated Tank

 

[Poseidon]

look sweet man, your lucky everything came through ok !

 

[Big_Als_London]

Looks great Duke. Glad it turned around for you.

This does make me sad however  :'(