You should try some top-down shots of your clams :)

Man, there are some serious clam junkies here. I will get in the tank and snap a few more TD shots of the clams when the novelty of my new pumps wears of and I stop playing with them. Kevin ordered a millwaukee LUX light meter for the shop, so there is another toy I want to fiddle around with. It will be neat to see what the actual par readings are in the different areas in the tank. I still havnt got the ATO set up yet:redface:...to be honest the instructions confuse me. The translation between German and English is not so good. I read all the instructions for the nanostreams, controller and ATO at the same time and by the time I was done my brain hurt:mrgreen:. I will re-read the ATO instructions and maybe they will be a little clearer.

Oh... I almost forgot.... ROSIE!!!!:surprise: (bta) has returned from the dead:twised: Its been over a month since I thought she got chopped up by a powerhead. I removed as much of her as I could find but I guess I missed a spot. The increase in flow must have flushed her from where she was recovering. She looks very pale and isnt in a very good spot as far as light goes. I can however get to her to spot feed her. I have my fingers crossed that she will find a decent spot to settle down. Only thing now is, my tank( that I thought would never have one nem) now has two nems. Fortunately they are on opposite sides of the tank from each other atm and they are both BTAs, so if they do find each other they shouldnt fight....right? I may have said this before....nems is evil.

:lol: AAaaand your point is.. ? :lol: ;)

Glad to hear the RBTA is still kicking around. :)

Ultimately, two BTA's in a tank shouldn't be a problem. IME anyhow..

What model is your P&S underwater camera again?

I second the call for more top down clam shots

No point really....just a general observation:mrgreen: Didnt really plan to have two BTAs in the tank tho. I had my reservations about one:biggrin:


Catherine the camera is a pentax optio wpi. Mines a couple years old now but I think they still produce them.

My regal tang either suffered some kind of eye injury or has pop-eye:sad:. Ive done two large water changes this week in hopes of bringing my nitrates down a little(15). It looked a couple days ago like the swelling in it had gone down but it since has ballooned up again to where it looks like it about to explode. He doesnt seem to be visually impaired atm, still eats like a pig and is acting normally. Im not sure what else to do about it.

Sorry about his eye, I'm not sure what to suggest on that one. Medication maybe in a hospital tank? :(

As for the NO3, have you ever thought about using Taylor Aquatics Nitrate Destroyer?

WOW just read from page 1 took 1Hr 45 Min
Great tank amazing vid

I keep looking in to canreef from time to time now you got me thinking about getting a new tank, 0 fish at present havent had a reef sence 2001


Nice tank

No Fish!!! My gawd man ...what do you do with your time....and money:mrgreen: Thanks for the kind words.

Ok....nitrates wernt high( not that 15 is that terrible). The nitrate test kit I was using was a left over from the fresh water days. I picked up an API ( not the best I know but, no salifert so...) and it tested out twice at 0 (surprised me actually). So this leads me to believe the swelling is the result of an injury. I dont know if all regals are like this but mine does this "happy dance" after a feed where he rips around the tank in top speed bursts. He has made a couple sps frags for me this way so this is likely when it happened. Removing the tang for treatment would be a huge undertaking:neutral: Everything I read seems to suggest a week or two for a healing time. Its been a little over a week. I hate seeing him like this:sad:

bulging eyes...hmm....you undressing in front of your fish again...sheesh