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Me too, he's fairly personable so far. Not shy at all. The candy basslet took a couple days to really get comfortable in the tank. This guy and the two G.R. females were at the front of the glass waiting to be fed as soon as we put them in.

Wow that's great
I'm still a bit leery to add fish that cost as much as some of your's

I'm happy enough when my $50 fish eat right away :wink:

Haahaa I wasn't home when Wendy landed our candy basslet.... I was stressed with that one but she knows what she's doing :)

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Originally Posted by Scythanith (Post 937722)

B. opercularis is in the tank and eating like a pig :) The long-nosed Hawkfish is being a little bit of a jerk to him but nothing out of hand. Also, I witnessed my rhomboid flashing for the first time! Now that the two females are in the tank the supermale was seeing his reflection and flipping between a gold yellow and bright blue. I love Golden Rhomboids!

Awesome! I love the Opercularis. Is your Rhomboid a jerk?

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Also, my LFS just ordered a Claire's Wrasse... unreal! I'm not getting it, but I hope to see it before the proud new owner picks it up.

Yes, SO awesome!! We are so lucky we get to see these sweet fish pass through the LFS, and I'm lucky I get to hang out with them every week. :D

Rhomboid's an angel, just didn't like his own reflection that day :) The only two fish that seem bossy in the tank are the royal gramma dn the long-nosed hawkfish.

Are you doing weekly maintenance on that tank as well? If so good for you!

So spent a bit of time analyzing the PAR values/spread from a couple different light fixtures at Bayside (Thanks Colby for letting me in there!) and there were some neat results.

All lights are mounted ~24" off the water surface.

AI Sols (4 fixtures) Sorry I didn't take a lot of data points for this tank.
http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-z2CzH8f-L.jpg

http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-9C6KQDq-L.jpg

T5's (3 x 6 bulb fixtures mounted along the short axis - fixture on the right with a couple month old bulbs, other 2 fixtures almost a year old)
http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-btP4zGv-L.jpg

Data gap in the middle from centre overflow :)
http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-HZ3t6hp-L.jpg

http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-JPfJDDK-L.jpg

Hybrid (4 x 2 bulbs one LED strip fixtures mounted longitudinally)
http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-3HWnXwm-L.jpg

http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-pFzrTtV-L.jpg

http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-C98P8Vt-L.jpg

My observations:

Smaller frag tank
620 PAR at water surface
PAR levels at coral level concentrated under lights with poor diffusion anywhere other than under the lights.

360G
You can see where the centre overflow is on the 1” and 4” PAR graphs
Not much of a drop in PAR between fixtures, meaning good light diffusion from the T5’s (and reflectors)
You can see a little higher PAR values from the centre and right fixtures
light was predominately aligned along the length of the fixtures

270G
The light was surprisingly linear along the length of the tank, with the highest PAR values actually concentrated between the two fixtures, not directly underneath them
Concentrate corals with higher PAR requirements along the central third of the tank

Just thought it was interesting :)
Scott

And I am still having a tough time getting pics of the RR UOP but it's getting better.

http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-zpddCLN-L.jpg

http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-czvF3t3-L.jpg

RR Blue Matrix (looks like UOP almost)
http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-KRFTpwg-L.jpg