Pretty cool patterning!

These ones just came in on Saturday. So I dont think youve seem these ones yet.

Still a green one there for you Tony:wink:

All these random shipping days, it was much easier when all shipments came in on thursdays. Guess I'm gonna have to come down and take a look at the new stuff that just came in.

I knew I should have picked at least one of those clams...

There should still be a few there and I dont think there was a dud in the bunch.

A little equipment update. I swapped out a few bulbs. I removed four total (two per side) AM 10000k bulbs and put in two giesemann aquablue+ and two giesemann midday 6000k ( one each per side). It didnt seem to change the overall appearance to much but I have noticed slight changes in the colors of some of the corals. Some good and some bad. I may experiment further.

Well i cant wait till the next time i get to see tank. :mrgreen:

What do you got in the store for 36" lights? I called in on the weekend and was told you didn't have actinics....

We dont have true actinic. Aquablue+ is a 60/40 mix of blue and white. Supposed to be gooood for sps.

Josh we have the geisman actinics + 's 36".
Kevin

Let me re-phrase that. Aquablue+ is 60/40 more white than blue. Actinic+ is 60/40 more blue that white.

I thought I would do another round of growth pics. The date this shot was taken was July 10.
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP1996.jpg
Sept 6
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2141.jpg
Nov 24
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2431.jpg

July 21
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Sept 6
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2204.jpg
Dec 3
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2443.jpg

Sept 6
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2135.jpg
Dec 3
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2442.jpg

Sept 6
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2129.jpg
Dec 3
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2441.jpg

wow that monti growth is amazing. soo when are you going to start fragging

Here is a couple shots of some newbies.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o.../IMGP2445a.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2444.jpg


I must be a glutton for punishment.


http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2447.jpg

I could snap one off for you anytime bud.

I may officially giving up on trying to keep tangs. I lost the powder blue a couple days ago.:question: This tank has been a tang killer. I cant figure it out. So far I have lost two powder blues, a yellow, a regal, and a kole. I am at a loss. All tank parameters check out.All other fish are doing well. Paully (RC's computer guy) has a yellow tang that he wants to give me, but Im not sure I should take it. I may just be leading the lamb to the slaughter.

On a happier note, the new clams appear to be doing well and the green bta that I added (exactly in the same spot I put the rose bta I might add) has not moved at all(nems is evil).

I have a day or two off now so I will be working on the tank all day today doing a water change and surgically trying to rid the tank of the remaining xenia(my clowns are gonna hate me). I also need to get in there and glue some more stuff down. Its gonna be a great day:biggrin:

Damn.. sorry to hear about the PBT.. Ich free at the time of death I assume?

If it makes you feel better, my tank overflowed last night. I have no idea how long my return pump was running "semi" dry..

Congrats on the growth...looks like you're a naturally at growing these sticks! And if it makes you guys feel better I don't even have water in my tank yet. Especially in my sump...which has a leak somewhere.

Aw Doug, I'm so sorry to hear about the Tangs! GRR! Frustrating to say the least! :sad:

Man you have had some bad luck in the recent past. sorry to hear it.

No.... that doesnt make me feel any better. That sucks man.:neutral:


Thanks lastlight. I would probably get better growth if the system where bigger buget:lol:

Thanks yous two.


Operation xenia removal was implemented, and executed to the extreme.There isnt a squiff of visible xenia left in the tank. I tried to be as careful as possible to not let bits of it float of into the tank but some of the xenia had grown onto the glass. Will have to wait and see if it springs up again somewhere in the near future ..... I wont wait to remove it if it does. Thanks to ElGuappo for lending me the extra hand I needed to remove a rock that was a foundation type rock that was supporting a whack of others. I cant believe how much better I feel about how the tank looks without that big chunk of xenia infested rock that was in the left front corner of the tank. I have some shuffling to do now as Im not sure what to put where. Im not happy with where one or two of the new clams are. Catherine (one of the resident clam gurus) and Kevin are going to come and have a look at the flow patterns in my tank and try to help me decide where to put them. I know that clams are not crazy about alot of flow, which poses some problems in my tank. Just wanna make sure its a good spot before I let them root in. The bi-color angel seems to have taken an interest in the clams. There has been some nipping but as far as I can tell no damage and the clams all seem to have good extension with their mantles. Will have to wait and see with that situation too. There may be either a bi-color angel for sale or some clams in the near future. Hope not, I love them all:mrgreen:

Have an empty strawberry bucket? If not a nice eggcrate box will work well too to guard against clam raids.

I also can't believe you got a day off. How does one accomplish such a thing? I think you need to share your secret! :P

Not just 1!....but 2!!!!!!! :lol:

It appears, (and I hope it stays this way) that the nipping that I observed may have just been some exploratory tastes. I suspect that if the little shite was intent on eating the clam he would be much more relentless in his chomping. Would like to avoid putting a strawberry basket in the tank for obvious reasons. Thanks for the tip though. The bi-color has put a serious doubt in my plans to bring home one of the incredible potters angels that are at the store right now. I have always wanted a potters but they are supposed to be more prone to nip at corals and clams than the other dwarf angels. That coupled with the fact that if I added one, that would make three angels in my tank and that could be asking for trouble. The potters at the store are considerably bigger than the flame and bi-color that I have so I think there would be a big power struggle. But the fact that the potters are bigger may be the reason that adding him may work.....hmmmmmm.

The time off is unexpected and unwanted, being that it is so close to x-mas. It did however allow me to get some of those "I'll do it later" type things that the tank needed done.

Those Potters make me wanna screw the looooooong cycle plans on my 75 and bring one home.. :lol: Gotta RESIST the urge!!

I find this is not an uncommon behaviour. If it's something new they may just be seeing what it is. After all, a lot of what your hands bring into the tank is pretty yummy.

But generally speaking healthy things don't usually smell like food so the exploratory nips stops.

No guarantees of course but just throwing my observations into the hat here. :)


FWIW that's not been my experience with this fish (with statistical sample size of 2 :lol:). Both were model reef citizens (past tense for one, present tense for the other. I lost my first a few years ago in a tank-move/upset-ritteri incident :( ). In fact I've always heard that of the Centropyge species, the C. loricula (flame) and C. potter tend to have the highest hit-to-miss ratios. I guess it's just anecdotal stories. Ultimate it's always hit or miss and you never know until you know... (y'know?)

those are some nice potters at the shop, made me think twice before leaving there without one.
Now I hear they may be alright with my coral (Tony), got me thinking again, just wondering how they would do with my established flame angel?

So I worked at the shop yesterday and spent much of the seven hours drooling over the potters(sorry Kev). I talked myself in and out of bringing one home several times. At the end of the day I left them at the shop. I have been reading that they dont adjust as easily as some of the other centropyge angels to a new tank. I will have to start a thread asking about others experience with them.

My clowns spent two days swimming aimlessly around the tank looking for their nem (xenia). I moved the nem to the corner where the xenia used to be and within a few hours the clowns where hosting in the nem. wooot :biggrin:. Im such a reef geek. I have pics but they turned out dark as the actinics where the only lights on and they are also a bit blury. I will take some better pics (hopefully) when the lights are one.

So I get home this afternoon thinkin "Im gonna take some pics of the clown and her new love" and there she two timing on the nem already. I caught her, all nestled in to my colony of yellow polyps.....tramp.:lol:

LOL :lol: Likes playin the field eh? At least she hosts in corals, mine are still in love with the featherdusters. Funny as hell watching them wait for the worms to re-emerge after they've had enough. They aren't even fully open before the clowns jump right back in.

I gotta see a video of that... :lol:

Duh where did my nem go??? I remember you telling my that before. Hilarious. Why are clowns such boneheads?

I see you updated your sig with the video link! Nice.

Im not above a little shameless advertising.:redface:

I was looking in the tank this morning and found this.
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2456.jpg

You may remember when I was so happy to get one exactly like this one out of the tank a while back. I have no idea when they came in to my tank but this makes two that Ive seen. Hope I can get lucky enough to get this one out.

I should start renting out tank space. I am babysitting again. This time a couple of zoanthid colonies from RC. We got tired of everyone trying to talk us into selling them. I accidentally put one of the colonies to close to my rock work and they have already spread to my rock....sorry Kevin.:wink: One colony is the blue zoas I already have and the other is a cool gold centered pink rimmed one.
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2457.jpg


My new squamosa clams have crawled their way out to where I could get a couple decent shots.
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2459.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP2458.jpg


I will be doing a battery of tests today so will post parameters later.

that blue clam is absolutely beautiful

Looks like a emerald crab. or at least some sort of mytrax crab. BANISH him to the sump.

The tank is looking great!
If you need help with the crab, I can come over and lend a hand like last time....:wink:

I didn't bug you guys that much did I? :mrgreen:

Thanks bud. We got lucky enough to get a few blue squamosas in. From what I understand you dont see blue sqamies very often.
The picture shows up more green but the crab is very black. Does look like its from the mithrax famaliy for sure. This was just the "shed" from last nights molt. Ya great...its growing:neutral:
Do guarantee a crab removal with each visit?
Aw man...if you only knew. Almost once a day someone asks "how much for those zoas" and then its followed by a "aw cmon... everything is for sale right?" Once the big tank gets set up they will be back at the shop, hopefully spawning frags.


I started operation "hacro":biggrin: The hacking off of the ugly PITA concrete bases that some of my acros are on. The bases have a nub of concrete on the bottom that makes them near impossible to just place on the rock. Some of the bases are almost 2" tall, and thats 2" less room that the acros will have to grow before I have to start pruning. Every little inch matters right?:redface: So the bases have to go. It is proving to be a little more difficult than I thought it would be. I expect that there will probably be frags.:smile:

Here are the parameters. Dkh is Elos, the rest are Salifert. nitrate 10, ph 8.0, mag 1290:surprise:, ca 360:surprise:, dkh 7 . Water change 1 week ago with kzrb salt, dosing nothing. Ca was 480 and mag was 1380 the day after the w/c. Suddenly (probably not so suddenly as I been lazy with the testing) my tank is using ca and mag...hmmm wonder why:lol: I am the type that is bad for remembering to do things like dose calcium every day, so I see a reactor and a dosing pump in my near future methinks... oh Santa.