Wow Laurie I didn't realize you had this many tanks going:surprise: looking good. I love the cow fish & the tangs too.

So I guess we can call Dougster the shroom dealer :twised:

Thanks Mike, I've always love powder blues, but they can be tricky. I was happy to get him from Bob knowing that he was healthy and doing well to begin with :biggrin:


Thanks, BTW can you tell I'm addicted :lol: Shoot me a pm next time your in town and feel free to pop over to see my tanks.

:lol: He does deal some pretty sweet shrooms :mrgreen: He also has been wonderful in helping my broke a$$ by hooking me up with salt, very grateful for this since I do a 60g water change per week.

GRRRRRRRRRR WTH!!!!!!!!

I just fed my tanks and I noticed that my orange spot blenny (same one in the pic. I took yesterday) wasn't out front and center gobbling up food like usual. I'm thinking to my self that that's strange and of course my first thought is "Oh sh*t he jumped" so I started to frantically search all around the tank and finally I see him in the tank (on the cheato and mangrove pod side) dead at the bottom :sad: His body looked perfectly fine and in tact and he was eating well yesterday. At a total loss as to why he died, I had him for 4 months and while he spent most of that time in the reef tank, he had been in the 80g for about 2 weeks and did seem fine in there. I seriously don't get it :evil: Also pretty sure that type of blenny gets a lot bigger (he was about 3" but i think they get to about 5") so I doubt it was from old age or anything like that :noidea:

Sorry to hear about your Blenn Laurie.

You have some great looking tanks! Love the mushrooms and the new fish you purchased. I don't think I have seen a chocolate mimic tang before...wow nice fish.

Brad

Thanks, ya it's not to often you see adult chocolate mimic tangs, juvi colours are more yellow. I always think of them as chocolate mimic tangs but they are also called Mimic Lemon Peel Tang (Acanthurus pyroferus).

http://www.liveaquaria.com/images/ca...onPeel-juv.jpg

I was talking to Doug and the only thing we could think of was that maybe the blenny somehow got stung by the fu man chu and that's what could of killed it. However I didn't see any marks on it's body and I would of thought a lionfish sting would leave a mark of some sort or some swelling or something :noidea:

Damn. :sad: Sad to hear this.

Thanks Lance, wish I knew what happened to him, really sucked finding my blenny dead all of a sudden.

Sorry to hear it. Blennies sure seem to be sometimes very iffy that way. I lost my ember blenny about 2 months ago (just before everyone got moved over into the new tank) in much the same way: everything fine, then one day at feeding he wasn't there. Found him floating near the back of the tank. Had had him for well over a year.

Couple other blennies I've tried have never made it past the first week (both ember blennies in those two cases). Just poof, one day, they're done, that's it.

Weird and disheartening...

Strange how that is :sad: I was thinking I might get an ember blenny in the future, but now I'm leaning more towards a starry blenny. Might just do a good old bi-colour blenny, I had one yrs ago and he was the most personable blenny I ever had.

Flame angel (I got him awhile ago, but he's fast and hard to get a pic. of)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020906.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020932.jpg

Mandarin (Doug took this cool pic.)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0050.jpg

My Duncan coral (Doug's pic.'s of it)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0033.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5213.jpg

Duncans look great! I'm really convinced I moved mien up too high I think they are getting too much light.

I recently couldn't find my bi-color and he'd been totally fine previously. Firecracker of personality I really miss him.

Duncans are non-photosynthetic, so they don't need much light. I target feed mine mysis and acan plus every once in awhile (which seems to help) and I do dump a lot of mysis in when I feed my fish so I'm sure it gets some mysis from the regular tank feedings.

Sorry about your blenny that sucks :sad:

mien???? have you had Kien on your brain lately :lol: :razz:

whaa?? are you sure it isn't YOU that has Kien on your brain ??? :lol: I suppose there could be worse things to have on your brain. I'm not sure what those are though.

By the way, Duncans do contain zooxanthella and are capable of photosynthesis. :)

:lol: that backfired, you were supposed to bug Brett.

Hummmm.....and here I was tryin to sound smart because Doug told me they were non-photosynthetic and that they didn't need light, usually when it comes to corals I just take Doug's word for it :biggrin:

Found some info about ducan's and thought I'd share the link

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...70&pcatid=2670

This info stood out to me:

"In the home aquarium, place in low current areas with low to moderate light."

"Though they feed through photosynthesis via the symbiotic algae zooxanthellae that thrive on the colony, this coral also benefits from regular target feedings of meaty marine foods such as enriched mysis and brine shrimp."

I have a Duncan in my tank and it has learned to open at night instead of in the day as my Angel kept nipping it.

I thought Duncans are "facultative" which is a fancy way of saying they swing both ways.

It is always good to keep your options open. :wink:

I've found Duncans to be very forgiving corals. If you don't feed them they will grow slowly. Feed them often and they explode in growth. They prefer low to moderate light and slower flow.

I did not know that!.......I just assumed that because they are related, that they were like other Dendrophylliidae........my bad

Just realized I should of posted my tank video in my tank journal, oops! :redface: http://youtu.be/3ZZ2udUF2Eo

The Blonde naso was brought in for me from Red Coral thanks to Doug and Kevin :biggrin: and Keith 24storm brought it to me from Calgary :cheer2: Thanks Keith :biggrin: Also the naso is eating like a pig, ate lots of nori and mysis yesterday :mrgreen: I will try to get a video of the fowlr tank and post it soon.

Coral pic.'s

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0038.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0044.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5219.jpg
This sps (above and below) was getting stung by my anemone so I moved it and in the process of doing so I accidentally broke off some pieces :redface:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0032.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0051.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5222.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5216.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5217.jpg

My polypless sps coral thanks to my flame angel
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5220.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0047.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5221.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020945.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0045.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5214.jpg

Yellow sponge
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0053.jpg

My fowlr tank. Ignore the HA :redface:

http://youtu.be/zoTnvzv4CAk

Got a decent pic. of the blonde naso, so I thought I'd share (not sure why the pic. is grainy looking.....man I miss my DSLR :sad:)

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P5080957.jpg

so tell me baby, do blondes have more fun????.....even if it is grainy its still better than any picture Ive ever managed to get of any fish that doesnt just sit there motionless waiting for the shutter to snap....he sure do have purdy long.....streamers....:biggrin:

Girly wanted me to post the pics I managed to snap of her new addition while I was there last w/e....

Tribal Blenny

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5427.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5428.jpg

and a pic with the little dude showing some style and "flare"
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5429.jpg

Love him Laurie...beautiful fishy!

that blenny is AWESOME!

never heard of them before

Ya it's really hard to get a decent pic. of a moving fish. Not sure if blondes have more fun or not :lol: Thanks for posting the pic.'s of my new blenny :biggrin:

Thanks Leah :biggrin: I wanted another blenny but I wasn't sure what kind I wanted, however when I saw this guy (never seen a tribal blenny before) I just had to get him.

Ya I never knew they exisited until I saw him at the store, just couldn't pass up his unique colour pattern.

Here's a link to some info on them, you have to scroll down a bit, but he's there
http://www.aquacon.com/blennies_saltwaterfish.html

Neat!

Thanks Leah.........oh!..... You were talkin bout the blenny weren't you? :redface:

:fish:

Haven't updated in awhile and I got a new camera so here's some new pic.'s :biggrin:

I'll start with my 80g tank

FTS
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0101.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0094.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0093.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0085.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0091.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0065.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0068.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0060.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0063.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0052.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0053.jpg

Love the Cowfish Laurie!!! Did he follow you home???? :lol:
Where did you get him.

Had to copy the pictures!!! :wink:

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0054.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0055.jpg

new joker zoas/pally's might be purple people eaters not sure and they belong to Doug (however they are in my tank :twised:)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0056.jpg