Got him at Big als back in April of this year (2011)

ooooo those jokers are niceeeee .....red coral??

lol i just picked those up to lol the last ones lol

Neat fish!!

Hey Laurie what are the dims of that 80g?

They are actually Doug's pally's but they are in my tank :twised: Also we're not sure if they are jokers or purple people eaters and we got them at Blue world.

Way to small for some of those fish....ummm good question I'll go measure and find out. Edit: I will have to measure tomorrow since it's past my bed time and I have no idea were I put my measuring tape.

FYI I'm kinda using that tank as my "grow out" fish tank. As soon as my cowfish is big enough to handle the flow and not get stuck in small rock work spots he will go into the 230g reef and as soon as my harlequin tusk gets a lot bigger (will take awhile since he's only about an inch long) he will go into the 230g fowlr, as well as the leopard and mystery wrasse when they get bigger.

The 80g tank is 4 feet long, 2 feet tall and 16 inches deep/wide.

My FOWLR tank

FTS
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0100.jpg

The star/pita of this tank my king angel.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0006.jpg

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My king's arch nemesis my blue line trigger
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orange spot rabbitfish
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0020.jpg

why hello there fancy meeting you here
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I bought them too Laurie but I'm not sure they're either of those. I truly hope they do color up to be Joker's though, that'd be sweet.

I love your fishies, they're awesome!

Just for Dawn, my new maxi mini anemone. It opened up even more last night then in this pic, but the pic I took was a raw file and I don't know how to access the image :redface: I must say I really like it and I'm tempted to get another one.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0007.jpg

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My reef tank

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tribal blenny hiding
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Ooooo, very nice laurie! I will have more once my tank is up and running :big grin: They're like chips, you can't have just one :lol: Next one I buy (or maybe even this one) I will frag.

Wow.
You really have to show me how to take pictures like that!
Nice wrasse, too!

I know, I was thinking about going back and getting more and eventually fraging them to make my money back :biggrin:

It's called spend a bunch of money on a new camera you can't afford and should not be buying just to take better pic's of your fish :lol: :redface:

It's a nikon D3100 DSLR

Hey Laurie, if you got them at Blue World, they are Purple Puddle Palys, I love them they are among my favs.... If you are looking for Jokers, Im up to 8 heads woot, so they will be available very soon!!!!

Steve

Looking great Laurie! Love that anemone(s are there 2 there or just one?). I assume cuz they're called "mini-maxi's" they stay small (ish)? They kind of look like hairy mushrooms but prettier :biggrin:

There is just one (for now :mrgreen:) I took that pic of it the day after I added it to the tank. It has since fully opened up, in that pic it's partly tucked into the rock. The maxi minis grow around 2-5 inches, mine is around 3-4". Very similar to mushrooms and apparently were mistaken as such for years. Also apparently you can frag them like mushrooms.

Oh neat! Do you know if they ever reach out and sting anything?(I have zero experience with anemones but people always seem to talk about losing stuff to them). I wonder how they'd fare in a nano tank?

Apparently they can sting corals but their sting isn't very strong and generally they stay in the spot you put them and they tend not to move around much. They are great for nano tanks because they stay small, don't need strong light and host anemone crabs and sexy shrimp. I went to the store to pick up another one (I had wanted the orangeish ones they had) but unfortunately they only had purple/green ones left. I posted a link in the maxi mini thread I started but I'll post it here too.

maxi mini info
http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/cont...l-sea-anemones

maxi mini thread
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79036

and a new pic of mine
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0169.jpg

When Doug was visiting at the beginning of the month he bought this guy

an orange formia starfish (funny thing is I'll try forever to get a pic of my flame angel and fail miserably but in both pic's I took of the starfish there he is :rolleyes: go figure)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0172.jpg

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Coral pic's

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A cool pic of my lion and tusk
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0146.jpg

Peek-a-boo
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I was looking at some of my old photos and saw this pic of my blue line trigger when he was a juvi about 2 inches

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...k/DSC_0041.jpg

It's amazing how much he's grown! He's about 5-6 inches now.

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I now know what my next trigger is going to be :biggrin: thanks Laurie. That mini is so nice, I want some now :surprise:

amazing how drastically some of these fish can change. think i prefer the adult colouration very nice!

Ya it's crazy how different juvi's look from adults. Normally it's mostly with angels so it's been cool to see change with my trigger.

He is an awesome trigger. A bit aggressive though and he get's huge, up to 24"
http://www.aquariumdomain.com/viewSp...ine.php?id=74#

I've seen them for sale at Ocean City (now called Ocean Creation) in Calgary and at Blue World in Edmonton. I'm sure Red Coral could also get them in.

As for the mini check big als next time your in Edmonton

Newest addition my juvi 1" Blueline angelfish

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These pic's were taken the day I got him on Oct 9th. He's in my FOWLR tank for now. I thought since he was so small that my king angel would ignore him, unfortunately that's not the case, but for the most part the King leaves him alone. Just chases him into the rock work every now and then, hasn't hurt him yet. It's strange to cause the blueline angel is literally the same size as the King angels tail so you'd think since he's so small he wouldn't even bother with him.

Nice Trigger! He's going to be trouble when he grows up, eh! :lol:

Never mind when he get's bigger he's already trouble :lol: He's always blown around the sand bed, only now instead of a little puff of sand he can create a mini sand storm. On the plus side though, it keeps the sand bed looking clean. He also lately taken to moving rock :twised: usually it was 2-3 smallish pieces of loose rock that he'd move around, but last week he decided he didn't like where this one rock was (about a 5-6 pound med. decent sized piece of rock) and kept knocking it over into the front pane of glass :evil: I ended up putting another piece of rock under that rock and finally got it tilted into a spot where he's left it alone for the past few days.

Also he seems to be the only similar shaped larger fish my King angel can't really bully. They do fight every now and then but the trigger will stand up for himself and not back down, so my King tends not to pick on him to much.

Bit of an update. On the sad side of things a couple of weeks ago my red fuzzy dwarf lionfish decided to jump out of the tank and a few days later my harlequin tuskfish didn't look to good and he's been MIA for over a week now :sad: (kinda wonder if my mystery wrasse harassed him to much or something as I've noticed he's started chasing my leopard wrasse around)

On the bright side of things awhile ago I got a rainbow wrasse and mandarin goby that are doing well and another maxi mini anemone purple/green.

So last night I go to clean up my mixing tank for water changes and I look into my refugium (I moved my cheato and mangroves back into the sump to make room for more rock in the 80g) and low and behold I see my orange starfish :surprise: I had been wondering why I hadn't seen him in the display for awhile, but I was surprised to see him in the sump! That means that he went through my overflow into my plumbing pipes and traveled through about ten feet of plumbing pipes before getting to my sump. Crazy! Happy he's ok though.

He's back in the display now here's hoping he stays put.

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My new maxi mini
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My old one
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0195.jpg

My rainbow wrasse
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...0/DSC_0191.jpg

Laurie,
Where do you get the new maxi mini? It looks quite nice. I want one :mrgreen:

I got it a month ago, basically a couple of weeks after I bought my first one, from Big Als. Not sure if they have any left or not. If I get brave enough I could consider trying to frag it.

Looks to me like your getting the settings figured out with the new cam babe.....pics looks good.....

That wrasse is gorgeous!

Nice to hear you found your traveling star :lol: love the mini's too, just goes to show you can find some good finds at Big Al's once in a while.