Cool-lookin' little guy!

Thanks, I originally wanted an orange one, but I agree, this guy's pretty cool.

I also got an sps coral (not sure what type) the lfs thought it might be a Pocillopora but I think it's a Rose Stylophora Coral.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2031.jpg

I also thought I'd add a close up pic. of my red zoas (they look more like a hot pink colour, but I can never quite get the picture to capture the colour right)

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2022.jpg

Non fish people are funny. I e-mailed pic.'s of my new frogfish to my Dad and this is what he wrote back:
"UGLY BUT COOL-----YET SOME VERY UGLY!!!!!!!!!LOL-----DAD"

Laurie,

You are going to kill me.

We got an orange, yellow and black (w/gold spots) in today. :mrgreen:

Heh

Ken

Ya I know, I was there today, where do you think my new fuzzy sps came from :mrgreen:

However it was funny, Taylor was saying "Ummm like ya....we got an orange one in today..." The orange one is cool, but so is the one I got. I like how mine is hairy looking.

So far he hasn't eaten, all 7 damsels are accounted for (my Mom was over today and she wasn't impressed to hear that the ugly fish might eat the pretty blue and yellow ones) and I tried to feed him a silverside and I offered him a mussel, but he has no interest yet. Hopefully he'll eat and be ok. He's been hiding for the most part today, but his colour looks good.

The sps is doing really good so far, all it's polyps are out, and I think I got a bonus brown sps on the side of the rock it's on :mrgreen:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2033.jpg

bonus sps at the bottom of the rock plug
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2035.jpg

Update
 

So I thought it about time I updated this thread. While I was away in Mexico my tank sitter way over fed the tank :sad: I came home to a layer of rotten food covering the bottom of the tank :twised: Amazingly everything is ok. I also added a rio nano skimmer which is helping.

While Mike aka asmodeus was visiting he bought me 5 new sps frags :cheer2: They were all doing really good until I decided to move everything out of the tank and give it a really thural cleaning on friday night, they are still doing ok but not as good as before I moved everything. Basically this week (on Wed. night) my frogfish started eating silversides YAY! Just to make sure it was going to happen again I fed him another one Thurs. night, which he ate. So I thought I'd take the remaining 4 damsels out of the tank. However after a 1/2 hour of trying I realized it was getting late and I'd probably have to take out all the rock to catch them, so I thought I'd wait until the weekend to do it. Unfortunately when I got home Friday night I noticed there was only 2 damsels left :surprise:

So I moved everything out of the tank; caught the damsels, cleaned a lot of gunk out of the bottom of the tank, waited for the water to clear, re-arranged the rock and corals and put the frogfish back in. This took the majority of the night to do, and while I saved my damsels from my frogfish, I'm not sure if they are still alive or if my grouper ate them :twised: I didn't want to put them in my reef tank because I didn't want them harassing my wrasses and gobies so that's why I put them in the fowlr tank. They are pretty small and just might be hiding right now, I guess time will tell, but I didn't see them in there yesterday. My only loss after cleaning everything was a cool anemone crab. I found him in the rock before I went to mexico, but forgot about him when I was taking rock out and moving everything, found him dead yesterday.

Pic.'s to come right away I just forgot to upload them 1st before writing all this

GRRRRRRR not sure why (maybe I'm maxed out for pic.'s?) but photobucket isn't giving me an option to download any pic.'s? Ok so it's going to be "one of those days" the reason it wasn't working was because I wasn't logged in! :redface:

that thing is amazing!!!! looks awesome!

All the gunk I cleaned out of the water
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2037.jpg

Cloudy tank
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2036.jpg

All clear, and a all new arrangement. I like where the corals are now, but I think I like how I had the rock before better. Unfortunately it never goes back the same way.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2038.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2039.jpg

Some close ups of the new corals

Pink birds nest
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2043.jpg

A brown acro that was turning blue on the tips but now it's not as happy as it was
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2044.jpg

? and ? green fuzzy stick with a bad sting to it
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2046.jpg

Monti
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2040.jpg

Zoa frag I found floating around all closed up in my 230g reef
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2045.jpg

I'll try to get a pic. of Mr. bumble bee (frogfish) but so far he's been hiding really well.

the tank looks great Laurie, your very welcome for the gifts of the frags. Its the least that I could do for driving me all over the city.

The frags are great, I'm so glad I didn't kill them when I cleaned and moved everything in the tank. Plus I had fun driving around and going to people's house's and LFS.

Looking good Laurie.
First looks like a purple polyp monti(I have one too) and the second a Hydnophora.

That sounds right for both (the 1st does have purple polyp's) thanks Dawn.

that looks awesome!!! when i end up getting a 65gl (tee hee) I think you should come over and help me scape it Laurie!! lol!

I'm glad you like it. I am willing to help out if you want, but I have to say it's much easier to aqua scape when you don't have corals attached to the rock. That's why I think I liked it better the 1st way I had it, so much easier to put rock exactly where you want it when there aren't corals getting in the way.

Looking good Laurie.
FYI: Keep an eye on that Hydnophora. It has long sweepers and a nasty sting to it. I have to keep everytlhing 6" away from mine.

I was told it could sting, but 6" away :surprise: Not sure I have that much space! Oh well I'll just have to keep an eye on it. I haven't seen any sweepers on it yet, but I moved the purple monti a bit further away just in case.

I keep mine 6" away, but it is much larger than yours so you may be OK a little closer.

Ya mine is only a little over an inch big, so it will probably be awhile before it becomes an issue.

My frog fish hiding as usual.

"Eek I've been spotted!"
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2048.jpg

Is good ya ya!

Meet Bumblebee's new roomie Fireflight, who also eats silversides :mrgreen: (and yes I do have a transformers name theme going on)

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2054.jpg

Show down..... unfortunately the silverside won. Note to self; veggie clip with silverside doesn't replace moving silverside with aqua tongs.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2034.jpg

Why you always look'n at me lady, don't you know I like to hide!

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2055.jpg

Fireflight is awesome Laurie!!!

Thanks :mrgreen: So far the frog and the lion seem to be getting along pretty well. I got Fireflight last Thursday and I saw him eat a silverside at the store, and yesterday he ate a silverside for me :cheer2:

Looks amazing, I'm quite jealous

that thing is AWESOME!!!! now I have to come see your tanks!!

You're welcome to come by any time, however I believe you are going on the tank tours and my house is one of the stops, so you'll see it next week :biggrin:

Fireflight my fu man chu lionfish

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2050.jpg

YAY :mrgreen: I just saw my anemone crab :mrgreen: He came in with the rock I bought, however last week when I did the big tank clean I saw what I thought was a dead crab :sad: But thankfully it was just a full body (perfectly in tack) molt.

Tried to get a pic. but it's kinda hard to see him. He hides under the rock at the back of the tank. I tried to zoom in as best as I could but he's still hard to see, he's hanging upside down under the rock in this pic.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2042.jpg

That fu man chu is bangin'!

Those crabs are super cool too. I passed on one at RC and got an Emerald instead since they're pretty good at eating algae but the Porcelains def looked better I think.

I got #3 eating silversides now too. :)

Ken

Thanks. I bought the rock from a friend of mine and the crab was a nice surprise (I also have a pistol shrimp in there, never seen him but I hear him often) I only hope the the fu-man or frog don't eat him. I have a bit of hair algae so I'd like to get an emerald but I'm pretty sure he'd get eatten so I think I'll have to pass.

Fireflight (fu-man chu) ate another silverside yesterday, but Bubblebee (frog) seems to have stopped eating :sad: He ate some silversides for me a week and a half ago but since then he's stopped. I tried krill and mussel yesterday but he just looked at it and wouldn't eat. :twised: I'll try some squid tonight and see what happens.

your 230 rocks...
I like your style...lol, I havea hard time sitting around planning when I can be doing as well.


This journal was a good read.

Cheers.

Thanks :biggrin:

For me it's just easier to jump right in and do it. If I sit around thinking to much and planing things out I'd probably psych myself out and not do it.

Here's some more pic's. I got some new frags but unfortunately in the process of attaching them to rock I ended up collapsing some of the rock work :eek: So I have a bit of a new look for the tank, which ironically looks a lot like how I had it the first time I did it. Also my frogfish has decided he likes to eat again and not just spit out food :whoo: So for the last few days both Bumblebee and Fireflight have been eating well :mrgreen:

Sooooo... my dinner is ready and for now I'll just post a full tank shot, and post the closer up pic.'s later.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2056.jpg

frogfish!!!
 

also j&l aquatics has them in theres: paint, wart, and I think theres some others, they usually get in the warts, but last time there was a purple and yellow one, 3 pink ones, and a brownish one!

Cute little tank Laurie.

Very cool!......I would love to leave nose prints on your little box Laurie(looking for your froggie).........the tank I mean:wink:

Just so you know the frogfish I have in the tank now (the one in the pic.'s in this thread) I got from Ken. I named him Bumblebee and he is alive and well and finally consistently eating silversides.

The reason people at the beginning of this thread said sorry to hear about froggy is because I originally I set up this tank for my friends small grayish frogfish. However once the tank was ready for that frogfish to come live in it, I went to my friends to pick it up, only to find it dead :sad: Murphy's law he had it for about a year and it dies the day I go to pick it up.

So a couple of weeks later I went to Blue world and found Bumblebee (a sargassum frogfish) and the tank is now his home along with a fu man chu lionfish I named Fireflight.

Here's some new pic.'s of my fish and my crab. (frag pic's another day when I have more time before bed)

Bumblebee, who was hungry today and actually came to the tweezers for food before I could go to him, and ended up eating 2 piece's of silverside because he stole Fireflights food! Don't worry though because I got another piece for Fireflight, which he ate.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...e/DSC_2049.jpg

Fireflight
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...DSC_2048-1.jpg

Mr. crab, who hangs upside down in the rock trying to filter feed.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...C_2043-1-1.jpg

I also often hear popping sounds coming from the tank and my friend that I got the rock from said he was missing a candycane pistol shrimp, so I'm pretty sure he's in there but I have yet to see him. When I do I will post a pic.

Looking good Laurie! I like it!