My new kuiteri wrasse

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um.....nice wrasse baby:wink:

ooh thats purdy! :mrgreen:

Very nifty!

Thanks guys I hadn't heard of this type of wrasse until I looked up leopard wrasse on liveaquaria and kuiteri wrasse showed up. Then AI got them in and needless to say I'm glad I got him :mrgreen:

When I first came home after work he was hiding. However when I got home (after going out for dinner) I was very happy to see him out in the open. The yellow tang gave him a bit of a hard time when I fed the tank, but on the plus side he did eat some mysis :mrgreen:

Dang you Grizz this is your fault!
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Pic of my cool urchin
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um....nice clam baby:wink:

and now I see why you added the emerald crab and the filefish:razz:

:eek::rofl2:

and...:eek::rofl2:

Thanks and yes, the emerald crabs and filefish are very muchly needed ATM

Iphone pic's so not the best but I thought I'd share

New ultra maxima clam

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squamosa clam

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The Ultra Maxima is Gorgeous!!!! :mrgreen:

How much is AI paying? I would like to apply for a job there please so I can afford these $200 beautiful ultra maxima clams :mrgreen:

You have to remember Laurie is collecting her sunshine girl pension! :wink:

:lol: :wink:

Pretty sure I need a job at AI too :surprise: Or maybe a rich boyfriend. :redface:

Thanks

No rich boyfriend needed, just a well off Mom who loaned me some money then told me not to worry about paying her back :mrgreen: (let's hope she doesn't read that :redface:)

The clam was from Steve at red coral and unfortunately I make less a month (working only Saturdays) then the $200 clam

:lol: Ya right I wish! Unfortunately sunshine girls don't get paid it's strictly volunteer and in my case (back in the day) I got volunteered for it. Originally a friend of mine was supposed to go but she called me saying she was sick (pretty sure she just chickened out) and begged me to take her place.

That sounds good to me. Anybody wanna hook me up with a sugar mama? :lol:

I still would like to work for AI though. They seem to have the best selection in town. If they don't pay me enough, I will just use my "two-finger" employee discount :twised:

Pretty sure that's frowned upon.

These maximas are amazing and, BTW Laurie, yours is spectacular. I was waiting for this shipment a long time myself. Snagged one myself, I'm quite fond of it, even though it put me in the doghouse for a bit on account of cost. :lol: (I should get a picture up soon I guess.) But it was nice to be able to actually participate in a shipment for a change, for a guy like me who's chained to a desk all day and then chasing after little kids for the evenings and weekends, by the time I get to the stores, everything is picked clean and all that's left is whatever everyone else didn't want. Also noteworthy to consider IMO, the price isn't that hugely different than the Cook Island clams from a few months ago but whereas those were 1" in size, these are 6" and up. The value is incomparable.

At any rate - very nice new clams there. How many are you up to now? I think I'm up to 9. A far cry from the 14 I had at one point - but slowly climbing back up there!! :lol: I'm such a sucker for tridacnids..

Tony, was it that spawning event that caused the loss of your clams or something else? I can't remember.
Laurie. Nice score! Beautiful clams.

Thanks Tony and Lance. I'm up to a whole whopping two clams now :lol: I had one a long time ago that I sold cause my CBB developed a taste for it and one awhile ago that decided to commit suicide while I was in Calgary for a weekend, came home and found it upside down in the sand :sad:

wow, your clam really does photograph well hunny.....maybe I should have bought the other one Steve had:wink:

:jaw: :tape2:

He's still got one I do believe. I had a hard time walking away from it even knowing it wouldn't be happy in my 5 month old tank.

what???...I had this one clam that was beautiful through the glass but I couldnt get a decent pic of it to save my life....sometimes lighting conditions and how your clam is positioned can make a huge difference to how it photographs....

It might have been, hard to say. The last spawning event the clam did perish shortly after and that seemed to kick off a chain reaction that lasted a few months but they would basically let go one by one.

did you end up with one of those hippo clams that were around a couple years ago?

I couldn't agree more.............

Doug's clam
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My lovely new sandsifter's home :rolleyes: right under my expensive clam of course!
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Mr. Moo moo
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Finally got an ok pic of my red fuzzy dwarf lionfish. He was so fat when I got him he looked like he swallowed a golf ball, so I call him Rolly Polly. He hid for the first week I had him but now he's starting to go out in the open a bit more.

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oh!....there is the proof.....you do have a "Rolly Polly" lionfish:wink:

hi rolly welcome to canreef:whoo:

:lol: You should know since you bought him :mrgreen:

:lol: Rolly Polly say's hi

My awesome new fish a thornback boxfish :mrgreen: He's very tiny still 1" but seems to be doing well so far :cheer2:

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and since I was already taking pic's here's some more

fu man chu
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bi colour goat
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and I took Doug's flame black angel
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So working at AI has been fun and I also managed to get these beauties

Tiara anthia (had been in QT for 3 weeks and is eating well :biggrin:) brought him home today and thought for sure he'd go hide and stay hidden in my 80g for awhile but to my surprise he went to the back of the tank for a minute and has been out in the open since I added him :mrgreen:

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also scored this beautiful maxima clam

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and since I was taking pic's here's some more

Doug's favia
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I added some rock that Doug didn't have room for so here's a FTS 230g reef tank
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lookin good!

Steve

Also took some pic's of my sump area

first crawling into the crawl space to get to the sump
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refugium area
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SWC in sump skimmer
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Skimz skimmer external
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ATO container
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Mixing tank for water changes
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Thanks :biggrin: