Wow great thread! It was awesome to see the progression of your tank. Very well done. Maybe I missed it but what are you using for lights?

Photos look phenomenal! And great collection of reefy goodness you've got going on in there.

He is a puppy dog. Being a juvenile i don't think he has full spread his wings on his personality yet, so I may be kicking myself later. It also helps that the other tank mates are fairly passive, aside from the pixy hawk fish who is a jerk.

I am using a pacific sun Metis crp300. One of the relatively fist fixtures out there. I liked it because it used warm white and cool white leds on top for the blue/royal blue combo. considered old technology by todays standards, but it grows coral, gives me good color, and is pretty much worthless from a resale point of view(haha).

Thanks Kien, Wayne did a great job. He wasn't even using a tripod.

After talking a bit with Wayne, I am going to move aorund some of the colonies to balance the look. Maybe attack it this weekend, right now im too busy enjoying the surfing in Tofino
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Well little bit of an update. Woke up yesterday to find out the tusk was not to be found. I fed the tank in hopes to lure him out then started poking around. looked inside the tank and all around/under the stand with no fish in sight. I had to work so i decided i would give him some time in case he was sleeping or something.

Still nothing, Decided to rip the tank apart to find his body. Pulled out 3/4 of the rock, unmounted all coral pieces and did a search...No fish. put all the rocks back in and glued down some of the coral pieces. going to finish off today.

In my "conditioning" tank i had a cbb fattening up for the 90. looked in there today and saw that he had wedged himself in between two rocks.

Some days this hobby can just suck your soul out.

:( Sorry to hear that ...

Jon, I still can't believe that the tusk have just vanished... :sad:

It happens! I had a Leopard Wrasse in my 180G vanish. Probably the healthiest fish I had in the tank at the time, ate like a pig, never stressed, left the office on a saturday after feeding the tank (he was present)... Monday morning, GONE. Never to be seen again.


Sorry to hear about the Tusk, Jon. Strange that only days after me asking about him that he disappears. :neutral: (No, he's not in my tank.. ;) )