No, No, not me! I need more fish! :lol:

i am too but its may way of buying more ok honey if i buy this bubble king skimmer you can get another fish and if i buy this zeo reactor 2 more haha works like a charm :lol:

So what IS the risk with majestics then? I thought I read it was SPS that they might go after. Is that the same as what you've read on them Dez? FWIW, all I could find on ulietensis butterflies was sketchy at best and they were model citizens for a month before I discovered what their tastes really were, so I'm curious how this works out for you after that magical month mark. Please keep us updated if you notice him nipping at anything. I hope it doesn't happen of course, but if it does please let us know about it. I've always wanted one of those as well.

I was more worried about my clams and LPS with them. I had the majestic in my frag tank for a few days before I introduced him into my display. Never nipped at my frags and was only interested in food. I have 5 clams in my tank and some nice brains/hammers. So I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. I'll definitely let you know if he nips. You'll know cause he'll be up for sale :biggrin:

i think i am going to do a drive by fragging. man that saltynuts stag looks good.

Looking great Dez ! Is the Fathead Anthias & Leopard wrasse eating now ? Loved my Fathead when I had one & I seem to really like Leopard wrasse's now, thinking of adding one with my Mystery.

If you think that salynuts stag looks good, wait till you see the saltynuts birdsnest and acro that I got from you! Come by sometime when your nano is set up and I can get you some frags. (That's if you're doing sps).

Unfortunately the leopard wrasse did not make it. He passed on while I was on vacation for a week this last week.:cry: However, the fathead Anthias is eating quite well now. He fins were looking rough when we got her, but after vacation she looks really great and is eating! I'm sad about the wrasse though - not sure if I'll try another one yet though cause every now and then the wrasse would kick up a sandstorm and I didn't like that too much.

yuppers fuzzy sticks.

I just spent the last hour skimming through all of the pictures and many of the comments in this thread. I cant believe its less than a year old! Very epic.

Tank is looking great Dez... I HAD a McCoskers in my tank, but I'm pretty sure my 6line stressed him to death.. He's been MIA for over a month now.. Sorry to hear about your Leopard.

Corals are looking awesome too!

HOLLY CRAP DEZ!!! That is one amazing tank build. Love the way you did the MD with the picture frame window and back cabinet. I gave me some great idea's dude. Thanks for sending me the link to your thread.

Grizz this tank is nothing like in the pictures. in person it is amazing, even more then amazing, the pictures do not give it justice

That is pretty much the consences on all tanks that I have seen in person. Carmen's, sharuq1, globaldesigns and coleus's tanks all look so much better in person.

Thanks for the comments. Wow, sorry to have drained an hour of your life that you'll never get back :redface: I too can't believe that this whole process happened so fast. It's been less then 6 months since I've had rock/good salt water in the tank. Crazy.

It is too bad about the leopard. My mystery wrasse went MIA as well :sad: Sometimes it's just weird, a fish is fat and healthy, and then...just gone. My McCoskers is really bold and always in the open water "flashing". I really like him.

Thanks for the nice words. Hopefully you can use some of those ideas as that's what I've done with most of my build is to take ideas here and there and customize them :biggrin:

Thank you Chase.

Maybe after 50 pages a quick summary and picture collage is needed to save time for future browsers? ... just a thought.

Well, just a few pictures here and there:

Here is a frag that I got on Oct 06, 09
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265687274
This is a picture taken Jan 22, 10. Pretty good for 3 and a 1/2 months of growth. I rescued it just in time as it was pretty much touching both sides of the rock. If I had waited any longer, it would have been stuck there or I'd have to break it to get it out. I like the colour of it so I moved it so it can grow out more.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265687424

Here it is in the new location. You'll see it in a full tank shot later
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265687599

This is a saltynuts frag that I got, picture taken Sept 22, 09
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265687657

This is a picture taken today, so roughly 4 1/2 months of growth:
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265687760

Here's a saltynuts birdsnest Sept 22, 09 (sorry - cell phone pic)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265687886

Picture today - 4 1/2 months growth
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688566

Birdsnest Frag (pic taken Oct 18, 09)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688191

Picture taken today (Less than 4 months growth)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688679

Pocci frag (pic taken Dec 22, 09)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688373

Picture taken today (about 1 1/2 months growth)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688474

More random pictures to follow. Thanks for looking.

Pokerstar Monti
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688735

Monti of some sort, whatever it is I like it
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688769

Red Milli
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688800

Living room FTS, actinics only
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688833

Den side FTS, this is the side with the fiji purple, I like it (sorry, left the canopy up when I took the picture)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688896

FTS Living room with halides
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688948

FTS Den side with halides
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265688978

Thanks for looking everybody :razz:

looks great, like it's been established for years.

Looking incredible Dez! I love all the big colonies! Beautiful colors! And some great growth pics!

The corals are saying "Yum magnesium" :lol: Your tank looks great and it was nice to meet you at the reef meet :biggrin:

Well, a slight update in terms of equipment. The 48" T5's always bothered me because of the shadows on the edges. Since my tank is 5', I wanted to switch to 60" T5 bulbs. I had an old PFO retro kit for 4 x 110 watt vho's, so I went to town and started making. I used standard sheet aluminum and bent it to my liking (I'm in the siding business so this is scrap material for window capping). Then I went to a custom lighting supplier and picked up some annalux (99.5% reflecivity aluminum that is used for reflectors). I got a cut off from them for $10 - this was enough to make 2 sets of lights. So now I have 4 x 80 watt T5 HO's. 2 on either side of my halides. I like it. It's super bright. Now you'll see in the pictures that I have an extra end cap in between the two 60" bulbs. I made room for a 48" bulb in between in case I want some extra bang or to tweak the colours a bit. I have an old workhorse 7 that I can wire up to those. But for now I'm super happy with the 60" bulbs.

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265948263

I still have to bend another aluminum "cap" to cover the wires above for a cleaner look.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1265948578

Anyway, thanks for looking. Kind of a boring update, but it's an update.

You are one handy guy! Nice job and at a great price too.

What bulbs? And where did you buy them?

I love the price too :biggrin: The endcaps cost me $21 total. The PFO ballast cost me $60 used a while back and the rest of the scrap aluminum is free. I like free. And my old lights are sold already to be picked up next week to cover some of the cost.

I have 2 KZ fiji purples, and 2 Giesman Aquablue +. I really like it. To be honest with you though, I still haven't seen them without the halides on. My halides kick off in about 45 mins, so we'll see. I have a feeling it'll be a bit on the pink side. But that's why I left the 48" option in the middle for tweaking the colours. I bought the bulbs at Marine Aquaria. Those are the only 2 kinds of 60" bulbs so that's why I went with that colour combo. I wanted lights today. I'll get them to order some other colours too down the road so I can play around with it.

Wow,
Looking real good Des. I didn't recognize the tank snce the last time I looked.. I think it has not even been 2 months and your tank looks like it has aged 2 years! Great job!
Probably won't be able to make it down for the Edmonton events :( but even if I did, I am sure I wouldn't do well. I haven't played foos since the last edmonton tourney in October. :redface: Every Monday I itch to go play but end up working on my basement, and every Thursday I wish I could skip work :lol: I hear your game has improved lots! Cant wait to play you one day!

I see you have managed to reroute the dilithium through the EPS conduits. Great job! hehe.. looks great :-D

Kien, dude, I have no idea what you are talking about:question:

I'm coming to Calgary on the weekend of the 19th. Are you free that Sat the 20th? Maybe we can get some foosing in. Let me know. I was actually going to see if you were coming up for the tournament. But I guess not. Maybe we'll get some foosing in while I'm in town.

Well, I've been busy and don't have much to report except for a lighting upgrade tonight. I added 2 x 48" 54 watt T5's in between my 60" T5's. I had an old workhorse 7 kicking around and everything else so all it cost me were the bulbs. I went with the KZ coral light II bulb (about 14k I think). I really like it. Now I have the actinics come on first, then the fiji purples next, then the 14k's, and then the halides and then everything comes off in reverse order. Not that my tank wasn't bright enough before, but it does make it noticeably brighter. I like having more stages of lighting because I can enjoy my tank in different colours it seems.

Corals are growing like weeds so I've been doing lots of pruning. Colours are great, and the fish are happy.

and the electric meter spins like a top:razz:.....so how many watts you running in total now Dez?

I'm only running 1174 watts on my display (5 x 2 x 2). Not too bad eh?:biggrin:

Although I run 300 watts on my 4 x 2 x 14" tall frag tank, but not a long photoperiod.

"Can you see the light-a".......Enmax loves you huh?:lol:

A few random shots from today with halides on

Pink Stylo
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918591

Red Milli
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918670

Green Birdsnest (Hystrix)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918709

Green Stag w/ blue tips....this had a rough go for the first few months - fell into a lot of things and got stung, it was browned out from a ballast that went for a week, I was considering getting rid of it, but now it's got awesome polyp extension and it turned green on me and has started growing like a weed.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918740

Derasa Clam
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918857

Pokerstar Monti
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918877

Saltynuts Hairy Acro (was completely brown when I got it)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918909

Green Acro (about 8" across and 8" tall - grew from a frag 5 months ago)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918956

Lobsterboy's pink milli
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919024

Pink Pocci
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919054

Amazing Pics Dez. Thanks for all the help. Hope my tanks look half as good as yours one day.

Red Milli
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919151

Pink Birdsnest (grew this colony from a 1" frag)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919178

Green Hummulis or Gemmifora, unsure of ID
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919216

Pink Stylo Frag - about triple the size from original frag
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919292

Bluish Milli with Pink tips - This is my largest colony, probably 10" across and I grew it from a 3" colony to start. Was brown when I got it. One of my favs
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919332

Lobsterboy blue stag (This started out with only a single growth tip, now it's finally branching out)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919406

Crocea Clam
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919463

Don't know what Acro species this is but I like it.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269919489

Saltynuts Hairy Acro (was completely brown when I got it)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1269918909
yuppers i am going to need that one back!!!!!!!!

wow, great pics!