I do???:mrgreen:


noticed something in the tank tonight.....I sold my big birdsnest colony and the gentleman picked it up tonight.....the birdsnest was the local hangout for my group of chromis....all of the chromis interactions and squabbles seem to be centered around and inside the colony.....now that the colony is no longer there they have spent the last couple hours swimming as a group again(they did briefly when first introduced) and there has been no squabbling.....amazing to me how even removing a coral can effect the dynamics of things in a tank....

Don't keep your hopes up, they'll find something else to snark at each other over :razz:

oh I know they will:lol:......Im expecting they we be back at each other by morning:twised:......just found it interesting that their behavior changed when "the place to be" was removed from the tank.....perhaps I stare at the tank far too much:mrgreen:

Isn't this why you have it ??? :razz:

Didn't mean to marginalize your initial comment ....

Chromis is evil :biggrin:

Mayhaps I should have said ...

Nothing like changing the 'scape to mess with the fish :razz:

Once the chromis get into the new bigger tank they will behave differently and likely do a lot of spawning with less fighting. At least that was how they behaved in my tank.

All 7 of mine sleep in my blue digi and there's minimal fighting. Bought 7 and have 7. They swim mostly together or in 2 groups. Maybe it's the large tang or the fast wrasses but they're still schooling and behaving. Keeping my fingers crossed.

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that would be neat.....Ive been toying with the idea of adding more to the group when they go int the big tank, but then I talk myself out of it.....this group started with thirteen fish and within a couple months they whittled themselves down to five.....this five have been five for a few months now, so Im kinda nervous about messing with things.... given the track record of these fish Im pretty stoked that I have five, instead of one, like most people seem to end up with......but then I think, "ya five look cool, but fifteen would be awesome!:mrgreen:......

WTF!.....how did you get so lucky?.....I too have a largish tang and a couple wrasses??.....maybe I should get that big crosshatch/sargassum/bluechin trigger Ive always wanted....that should keep em in line :whip:

Steve at RCE has a crosshatch pair :twised:

Is cross-talk allowed between spouses ???
I mean, come on, isn't this supposed to be a build thread ???

:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

Also sounds to me like someone is lookin' for some fish from their "room mate"

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Ya, I'm evil :twised:

ya she has already said stuff like "ya buy that fish so I can enjoy him in your tank:lol:


so, yesterday was D-day for my SPS.....I moved probably 95% of it up to E-town and also took the 25g and stand.....Im happy to report that when Laurie and I went back to Red Coral E-town today everything looked just as it should.....*breeths sigh of relief*.....no RTNs so far.....now for the next phase.....fish, rock and zoos......this worries me even more.....I have two or thee fish that I can not loose .......my leopard wrasse was given to me by a close friend here, my powder blue came from a tank shut down and is the most perfect PBT I have ever seen...some of you my know that "powder" tangs had given me fits in my reef career... I had killed a half a dozen of them over the years and had actually sworn of trying again until this fish came into the store......and "Chevy", my big lumbering dumb arse chevron tang....he was one of the first fish I added after the tank crashed and Ive seen him through his color change and get to almost 6" now....I would be upset if I lost anything but devastated if I lost any of these three.....which brings me to a conundrum.....Steve at RCE has offered to temporarily house all my fish in the QT system until I feel the big tank is ready....now, the problem is this, and I dont want to seem in any unappreciative of Steve's offer but the though of all my fish in smallish tanks that have likely had some sketchy fish(health wise) in them doesnt entirely make me feel comfy........but the big tank isnt ready yet and Im worried about dumping 150lbs of LR that has just been moved three hours into a tank that has 100lbs of rock in it that isnt fully cycled yet along with my fish......I have a whole 30 vial set of "prodibio start" that I had intended for this very purpose but I am skeptical of using it.....what whould you do?

Is the 110 coming up with them?

I kinda hope not.....Im gonna try and get rid of it here.....mainly so I dont have to move it:lol:

I won't give you any advice but I'm glad to hear that your move went well which is a relief (to all of us I think :biggrin:). I'd be a bit worried about the "fish storage" issue as well but it seems like you're sort of caught between a rock and a a hard place (no pun intended). The 100lbs of uncycled is really sketchy? Thats a lot of rock to be mixing in with your 150lbs, if it was only 40 or 50 I'd say go for it but....:question:

It's too late for this now but it's too bad you hadn't found a friend to setup a fish storage tank to keep them a month or two that was cycled and of a suitable size. Sounds a bit scary putting them in the large tank and less scary to keep them at RCE. Glad the sps are doing good so far!

I could babysit as many as you needed buddy I have no fish in my tank that would bother them:)

Actually the 100 pounds in the tank came from Red coral and has been kept in a rubbermaid with SW heater and powerhead for the past 6 months. I've had that 100 pounds in the display for a week now and tested everything and got 0 readings. Seems like the rock is cycled but even I was shocked that ammonia nitrite and nitrate was all at 0. However I'm sure when he moves his rock up it will cause a spike or mini cycle of some sort. Then we still have to scape it and add sand :eek:

get yourself a power inverter to keep the rock warm and power head running while transporting or find someone who has one and borrow it. it may help keep it stable.

I didnt even think but your fish can be put into the same tank as your SPS....

Steve

May 28th tank shot.... ill try and do this daily for ya!

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Steve

We'd appreciate that actually... You take a much more white balanced photo that does his corals proper justice :lol:

haha i tried to buy a few of these :P

Doug in the new tank with lots of room they act more naturally and you could likely keep 15-20 no problem.

oh come on now doug... i like your pics too :mrgreen:

I'm sure you that thought about it but why not eggcrate a section of Lauries big tank for your fish?

Because I have lots of fish in my tanks as it is :lol:

like Laurie said, there is about 100lbs of rock in the 260 atm....all readings were at 0 a week after the rock went in (Ive had this rock sitting in bins waiting for at the very least 2 months (longer for some of it)....the 110g has about 150lbs of rock between the display and sump....this is the rock that Im worried about....I have the means to move all of it with water covering the majority of the rock (I have 10 rubbermaid bins and three cooler that are dedicated for the aquarium) the prodibio start claims that you can add rock from the LFS and fish in the same day and have pretty much no cycle....its a three part procedure that involves a bacteria, food for the bacteria and an ammonia neutralizing product....Im just still nervous about putting my faith in the product....after all these are my babies Im dealing with:wink:


would have been a nice scenario, but that is a lot to ask of someone ya know....its like, heres a 100 gallon tank with thirteen fish for you to take care of for me:biggrin:


thanks for the offer mang but the other thing that I worry about with the "keeping the fish at RCE" scenario, is the simple fact that I will then have to move the fish and stress them out twice.....I hate putting a net to a fish....I think we vastly underestimate the stress we put on our fish when we chases it around a tank and net and move it.....game fish are known to die after release from lactic acid build up and I would assume that our aquarium fish experience the same thing....some fish simply will die from the stress of being moved.....so keeping them anywhere else but the 260 is gonna force me to move them twice......

as long as the rock is in water it shouldnt die off too much.....is the time spent in the air that does it in....


you blow me away mang.....thanks again for the help and and letting me take up retail space in the shop and thanks for posting the pic.....and daily pics are not necessary:wink:.....


Lauries tanks are what you might call, "moderately stocked":wink::wink:

hey!:twised:




I wasnt sulking:wink:.....I spent the night last night staring at the tank stressing out about the whole thing:neutral:


and I hear Steve had to slap your hand:mrgreen::razz:

has anyone ever told you, you are a bad influence Greg?:mrgreen:.....I didnt need to hear that:lol:



and "lots" is an understatement:razz:

I actually have less fish then then other people keep in the same size tanks, however I do have fairly large fish which take up space. I have 13 fish in my 230g reef (5 of which are large), 6 fish in my 230g fowlr (2 of which are large and fairly mean), and 8 (small to med. size) fish in my 80g.

May 30th pics... some close-er ups....

Enjoy!

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