Wow. Very nice. Glad your fiancee likes fish, and congrats on that too.
I have a 72 bow and a 95 wave neither have anything under them had
the 72 for a couple of years the 95 is fairly new. Touch wood have had
no problems. Keep the photos coming, I love them. Maybe one day I will
actually learn how to use mine. lol

Thanks everyone.

My fiancee is a VERY patient person when it comes to my hobby. I kind of jumped into fish tanks head first with my wallet wide open.
Since I went SW she really likes it. It seems like she's the one stocking the tank sometimes. I always hear "your only allowed the SW tank and the small FW tank, that's it!":wink:

I really like the Superman Monti I chose. Karen had so many coral to choose from I had a hard time picking one. So I chose the one with bright colors and or course the flashy name.
I'll post a picture of the zoos I also got when the lights have been on for awhile.

Big thanks to Karen for the coral. Your tank is beautiful.

So I went to the fish store and bought some fish. I bought a yellow watchman goby, tiger pistol shrimp and a red scooter blenny. I really need to learn to research first because the yellow watchman gody is dead the pistol shrimp killed one of my purple firefish and random crabs here and there. I was hoping the shrimp and the goby would pair up but no luck. Funny thing is I found out I shouldn't have bought the blenny until my tank was mature but the it's still alive. I hope it stays that way!! I also told my fiancee that I'm not going to anymore fish stores because I can't control my urge to buy.

I'll post a picture FTS tommorrow when the lights are on.

Ouch, that's to bad about the fish. Where are the pictures?????

I really think the tank looks bare. I can't wait until the tank is 6 months old then I will add more coral(sps). For now it's only the superman monti, pipe organ, zoos and mushrooms.

Here are pictures taken March 1, 2009
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o.../95gmar109.jpg
Not much change just some cyano which is finally starting to go away.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...1/pinkzoos.jpg
Pink zoos I was supposed to post with the monti a while back.

I finally found the charger for my camera.

My yellow watchman goby is alive after all. It just hid for a couple of days.

I currently have diatoms on my sand. They have been there for a month and refuse to dissapear. I will check my parameter to see if somethings wrong.

I bought some more LR and placed one on top of my rocks in the middle of the tank and two smaller pieces in the sand.

I also picked up a Tiger Goby (haven't got a pic yet) and a cleaner shrimp since I last posted.

Here are some updated pics:
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o.../fts033109.jpg
FTS

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...1sps033109.jpg
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...2sps033109.jpg
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...3sps033109.jpg
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...4sps033109.jpg
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...5sps033109.jpg
I have no idea what they are I just know they are sps! :)

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...mandshrimp.jpg
New orange mushroom and cleaner shrimp.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...zoos033109.jpg
I placed all my zoos on this piece of LR I got so they can spread out.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...wzoo033109.jpg
A nice small frag of colorful zoos I picked up.

I picked up some more LR for my tank. I think I have around 110 pnds in my tank now. I finally learned how to merge my photos so here is a panorama of my tank.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...orama1copy.jpg
I lika a lot

I picked up a Midas Blenny and some zoas today.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...dasblenny2.jpg
I could tell this guy had problems as soon as I put it in my tank because it's already hitting the pipe!:lol:

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...dasblenny1.jpg
Seen this kind of fish in the store before and I really liked it. When I went back next time it was gone. So when they had one in this time I took the opportunity to buy it. When I seen it inside the tube I attach nori to I couldn't help but laugh.

When the zoas open up I'll get a picture of them.

SPS #1 could be a rainbow stylo...hard to tell from the lighting, but I would definately go with a stylophora of some form or another.

#2 looks like it's also a Stylo...orange and green by the looks of it.
#3 & 4 I think are acropora species
and #5 looks to be a millie of some sort.


I think :D

Here are updated pictures of my tank.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...S_June2009.jpg
FTS
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...eftmay2009.jpghttp://i379.photobucket.com/albums/o...ghtmay2009.jpg
Right and Left sides


Cayano has finally gone away. Must have been a long cycle?
I have been getting into the zoanthids and it seems I can't get enough. I'm starting a zoo garden on the left side and I'm going to try the same to the right side.

I broke a handle off a ball valve on my drain about 3 weeks ago. I'm going to have to shut down my sump while I fix it but I'm not sure how I'm going to go about it. Not cool at all is all I can say about that.

I'm happy how the tank has come along since January.

If someone can help with this problem:

I have a 2 rocks with about 7-8 heads of hairy mushroom each. How if possible can I transfer the coral from one rock to another?