AWWWW come on, you know what they say "the more the merrier" :lol:

Looking good there Doug. Those clams you got are all show pieces.

makes me want to get one. (a tiny tiny tiny one) :lol:

:tsk:......Laurie!.......you disappoint me!.................just kidding.......actually I think I would like to get to know you better:eyebrows::mrgreen:


Thanks John......Im just fortunate and happy that I had the forsight to move them to a stable environment before the tank crashed.....at least something substantial from version 1 will make it back into V2...

but John....clams all start off small and then slowly get bigger as they age:wink:






Tank has been stable for a couple weeks now so I added the first of the new fish.......first was a small 2-2 1/2" yellow tang (to me, my tank just isnt my tank without a yellow tang)and second was a small juvinille chevron tang.....super stoked to get one while its still in its juvenille coloration.......the yellow still isnt eating mysis or Michikas blend but is fat with algae so Im not too worried about him yet.......the yellow gave the chevron a bit of a rude welcome, but that has calmed down and they seem to have accepted the fact that they are both living in the same space.....the chevron ate greedily for the first time yesterday so Im jazzed about that......V2 has fish!:multi:

Woohoo! Congrats on the new fish. Chevrons are such neat looking fish but so damned hard to find :biggrin:

An update isn't an update without a pic :D where's the update?

he was at the shop for three weeks! I talked myself in and out of taking him home for the entire time he was at the shop......Laurie harrassed me to the point I finally caved and took him home.....Im still slightly nervous about having put him in a tank that just crashed a month ago but.......

So what would ya like know :question: :lol:

But Doug you make it so easy to harass you :razz: and since I couldn't take him I figured your tank was the next best thing :mrgreen:

PMed:wink:

well at this stage of my tanks existence Im not sure it was the wisest decision........but he's been in the tank for a couple weeks now and you tell me.....he looks pretty good, no?....and he was blowing kisses through the glass at you:wink::razz:

well its been 5 weeks since the move and one good thing about moving this tank to a basement is, my temp hasnt been above 80 the entire summer:biggrin:.....and those of you in Cowtown will know that its been an unusually warm humid summer for these parts...... plus, my evaporation is WAY down so Im making way less water.....the tank is still a bit hairy but nowhere near as bad as it was three weeks ago......I added whole whack of snails(big arse tiger stripe turbos,and a mix of astrea and trochus) and a seahare to try and give the tangs a hand knocking this bloom back.....the freebie sps frags that I got from Wes are still sitting on the frag rack waiting for less hairy real estate to inhabit...... a couple have retained their color but the others have browned out....no doubt due to the elevated nitrates the tank is at....brown is ok.....they can come back from brown.....theres not really a heck of alot in the tank to take pics of, but heres a few shots for you anyway Greenmaster:mrgreen:

the barber visited the tank
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some zoanthid pics
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I'm pretty sure Doug and Laurie should just meet up and get it on so they can get it out of their systems and this thread can get back on topic! :eek: Holy mackerel! Don't you guys both have SO's? Don't they keep up for you?? :lol:

:lol: Actually Steve (my now ex-boyfriend) and I broke up last month in July and Doug and his ex-girlfriend broke up around February 2010.

FYI Doug and I have meet and we do enjoy each others company :biggrin:

what!......there was nothing smutty about my last post......I was trying to push my thread in the right direction:mrgreen:


some shrooms and acans

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These are "THe Days of Our Lives" :wink:

Tank looks good man. let me know when you want that birdnest frag..

It is looking up and up bud! Man those acans are looking good.

Nice acans dude... Good to see coral back in your tank... :)

PS: when did you add the Yellow Tang?

Nice pics... Also it's always nice to have someone that you can spend time with who enjoys some of the same interests as you... Glad you guys are having fun :D

Where did you get your Maxi Mini Nem?

wait.. never mind.. it looks more like a mushroom.. but very close to the maxi mini on the edges.. dang

thanks bud......I think pretty much anytime for the frag:biggrin:

Days of Our Lives????? thats way too tame to be an accurate description:twised:

Thanks man, on both counts......it is nice when you really "click" with someone:biggrin::wink:

thanks guys....the acans really seem to be enjoying these nutrient rich conditions

and Josh, the yellow went in a few days before the chevron


what!....a nem?????......where??? *runs to get his de-neming equipment*......I think thats a ricordia your thinking about.....V2 will have a strict no nem policy.....ricordia are the closest thing to a nem that will make it back into the tank

kind of an interesting set of pics here.....I fed the tank the other night and one of my larger left handed hermit managed to get a large chunk of food....he was happily munching away when he was mugged by..........a couple nass snails....
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heres a pic of the only coral that survived the crash.....still looking crappy but its alive
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Hey Doug. It's nice to see V2 well under way. Looking good!

Ha ha, great sequince pics of the hermit & nass snails :). I'm really happy for you that your tank is well on it's way rebounding back. Keep the pic's coming.

thank you gentlemen.......

have I ever said before how much I love the canreef community???.....a customer(at the shop)/canreefer tidal waters (formerly LLK) offered up and then dropped off a 6 polyp "darth maul" frag at the shop.....big time shout out to yous two....thanks again guys!

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and a couple shots of a maze coral that I brought home last w/e....

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Looking good Doug!!:biggrin::biggrin:

I was so happy to see your clams at a fellow Canreefer's (cant remember who it was, thinking maybe xtreme's).

Glad things are progressing, love those acans

Creeping on your thread is always good times!

Did you go back to Zeo with V.2?

I have to make a trip to the store one weekend you're working. We can shoot the...ah breeze...and you can tempt me with clams, tangs, and SPS. Deal? Good!

thanks guys....Greg, it was Sean(xtreme) that is clam sitting for me(thankfully)


How did I know that you would enjoy some of the content in my thread, Catherine?:twised::wink:

well I was never really on full Zeo....I just dosed heavily with a dozen or so of the products:mrgreen:.....I will likely start dosing again when the coral load starts to get up there a bit.....

well its my job to tempt, there Girly......what do you think, do I do it well:wink:.....ps. Jorge thinks your hawt and wants to come live with you:biggrin:






a few newbie zoabies

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Nice additions. Man you're already stocking this thing at lightspeed. I think we need a new FTS with every update if you continue at this pace Doug.

Looks good buddy. You need to get some clams in there Doug :wink:

Glad to hear those mauls made it okay and looking good!!

Tell Jorge he can move in soon, hopefully the end of the year?!

Do you work this weekend? I have a rare free Sunday.

I believe Doug has decided that V2 will not contain any clams and he has since donated them to a fellow reefer.

That's pretty nice of him to donate all those clams he had!! I would like to meet the lucky guy that got them all.

ya.....um......I dont think so there guys:lol:.......oh, and hows the fishing going Sean?:wink:



Im finally becoming a little happier about the tank.....algae bloom has been knocked back with a massive CUC and the addition of the yellow and chevron tangs.....the rock isnt looking so bare anymore, thanks to $10 zoa frags and a couple sps frags.......I still havnt aquascaped the anti-pony tank yet but managed to replace the blue assessor, that was in that tank, that I lost in the crash....he seems to be loving the overstuffed, randomly thrown in rock work that he has atm.....Im gonna have to get motivated and get on scaping that tank one of these days:redface:.....also a couple new fishies found their way into the big tank......a shrimp type goby of some sort, who made his home right up front where I can actually see him on occasion.....the last goby I had, lived at the back of the tank and I saw him like once every few months(there was a great purchase:mrgreen:)......The second new fish is a tail spot blennie(or TSB, as Ive affectionately called him).....LOVE this fish, soooo much character.....

ok so enough rambling and on to the reef porn


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Cute tailspot Doug! Since I lost my bicolor in the tank move somehow...well more like the tank SLIDE into the kitchen...I'm on the lookout for another but maybe I'll try one of these guys too.

No luck fishing yet. Is that trap back at the shop yet? I'll probably move the clams down to the sump today until I get that little bugger out.

Looks good glad you got a good pic. of TSB.

hey the tank is looking awesome. sorry about the quick in and out, the wicked witch of the west wanted me to spend some time with them asap.

Well i think its been long enough now and the wounds of losing the tank may have healed by now, so i will show you what dougs tank move looked like..

outside old house

http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/P6271138.jpg

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Inside the new house..
http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/P6271141.jpg

one of my fav fish fursure....


I recently went to Kiens and got my "cant loose" stuff back from him...."RP" included.....some of my sps is looking pretty dang good and some is.....well.....not looking so good:lol:....I know not to expect too much out of my sps considering I basically restarted the tank just a couple monthes ago, so all in all Im fairly happy that some looks as good as it does......

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which tank was he keeping the RP in, the growth is amazing. mine just created one big branch. that one looks like its going to have multiple branches

I kept it in the 150 mixed reef tank. The same tank where over half my SPS collection died and the other half went south :). Isn't that crazy?? The red planet just kept trucking along as if nothing was going on. I was starting to suspect that maybe it was the cause of my SPS meltdown :lol: