Ouch! What happened?

It was a frogspawn attack

When the pumps get shut off the tentacles can travel a long, long way

Damn Euphyllias got both of our corals!

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! :bad-word: Sprung a leak in the return line.
I think the vibration of the pump has broken the glue seal around the flex hose where it fits into a true union. I closed the gate valves from the overflow and drained the return section of the sump to allow it to dry out overnight and will fix it tomorrow after work. Any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening again. Should I replace the flex with PVC? Will a glued PVC joint hold up to the vibration better than a glued flex to PVC joint? The pump is a Reeflo Barracuda and vibrates pretty good. Or maybe there is some sort of sealant that I can seal around the glue joint?

I use one of those plumbing boots they use when joining different material (ie: cast to abs etc.) Also helps to cut down on the noise from vibration, Petes has quite a selection in stock, if you need a hand give me a call.

Leak is fixed! :biggrin:
Now if I can only find a way to fix SPS growth in this tank. It's very confusing. :noidea: Some SPS have good colour and growth while others are not so good. The weird thing is that some of the corals that are not doing so well are the same species as those that are doing fine. OK, so I move the ones that are struggling to the same spot as those that are thriving. Doesn't help. For example: 2 orange Digi frags that I fragged from the same colony at the same time from my 90 gal. One has grown nearly twice as much as the other and has much better colour. They are in the same area of the tank; same light, same flow. WTH!

My wife bought a new camera (Canon PowerShot SX120 IS) for our Caribbean trip, so I thought I'd take a few random shots of the tank to see if I can work the damn thing. Anybody who owns this camera and can give me a few tips for aquarium pics?

A few of the fishes:

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That's a beautiful Kole! What's the other crazy colorful guy?

Lunare Wrasse. He drives the Tuskfish crazy. Teases him and then buggers off at Mach 1. The Tusk spends half his day trying to catch it. :lol:

Always shoot in manual mode....adjust your exposure and see if your white balance has a bright light or florescent settings. Not sure if Ive said it before, but very cool mix o fish.

Ok Doug, I'll try that, thanks. One more fish to add: Male Blue Throat Trigger.

wow Lance your tank looks great man the pic are great too.

Great pics Lance, love that wrasse :cool:

Thanks Mike

Thanks Christy. And I love your Blastos! :mrgreen:

My new GBTA. It wasn't in the tank more than 2 minutes and the smaller Fire Clown was hosting it. 2 days later the larger Clown decided it wants it and kicked the smaller one out. Then they decided to share it. Now the larger one ignores it and the smaller Clown has gone back to hosting the large Toadstool. Stupid Fish! No wonder they are called "Clowns".

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It's comments like this that really motivate me to keep my wife just a little educated on a few reef terms. Who knows if she lurks on the board and what she might read into such comments!

Ha Ha Brett. This is the one you don't want her to read:
Quote: "So that's why I wear womens underwear!" :mrgreen:

Backup a second...that sounds familiar!

Yeah I live pretty dangerously. If she ever DID post here it'd be to tell everyone I hold back on the baords bigtime haha. Randi was somehow involved with that whole underwear thing...where the heck IS she nowadays?

Randi's out touring the west here tattooing everyting in sight LOL

ANd if my wife came here, I'd have to disapear, cause she;d undoubtably tell a story or two

Yeah, Just the other day I was wondering where Randi had gone myself.

Gotta come on facebook, were partyin there daily LOL

Whoo Hooo! My CBB is eating Mysis! :Banane01:
I bought it sometime ago from a fellow Canreefer who informed me that it would only eat clams, mussels and oysters. So I was faithfully putting one small clam or mussel in the tank every day. I even rigged up a little feeding station for it: A small plastic box with a snap lid that I drilled small holes in; just large enough for his long nose to fit in, but too small for the Tuskfish, Lunare Wrasse, Hawkfish, et al. This way I was sure he was getting enough to eat without the other piggies getting most of it. Last week I noticed the CBB eating Mysis and then spitting them back out. This was some progress because he ignored all foods other than shellfish. Now he is eating the Mysis with great gusto, as well as Spirulina-enriched Brine Shrimp. I'm not quite sure why he changed his diet, but I'm glad he did; I wasn't looking forward to digging clams in the middle of January.

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right on, now if we could just find one of those kind for me :wink:

Well, against my better judgement I brought home a Blue Chin Trigger. My wife has been wanting a trigger for some time and seeing as she puts up with a lot of my bull**** (like spraying her with return line gunk), I finally relented. Hopefully I got lucky and he's a mild-mannered guy. He certainly is handsome, I'll give him that. He's about 7 inches long and currently living in the QT.


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What a great looking fish! Also I really like the photo of the CBB. :cool:

"Sigh"..... She's named him already.....
His favourite food is shrimp and his lower lip sticks out so we have to be call him "Bubba Gump"
Why do women feel the need to name every fish? :silly:

Very cool fish Lance....always wanted a trigger...."Bubba Gump" huh?:lol: Just remember no cleaner or peps or it will be "shrimp gumbo, shrimp frikese, shrimp salad, shrimp cocktail, butterfly shrimp, garlic shrimp, shrimp kabob:mrgreen:

Wow, he shore is purty! :biggrin:

georgeous fish

The only shrimp he'll be getting is the "dead" variety. He's still pretty shy, hides out in the rocks when I approach the tank; but throw in a small prawn and he's out of the rocks in a nano-second. So far he's eaten everything I've given him: Flakes, shrimp, clam, mysis, pellets and nori.

I thought bluethroat triggers were water column feeders? In terms of "reef safe" triggers, I always heard it was the bluethroats, crosshatch, sargassum, and ... um .. I forget what the 4th one is offhand... pinktail maybe?

You're right Tony. Bluethroats are zooplankton feeders, but I've done quite a bit of reading on them and although mostly reef safe you have to make sure you keep them well fed or they may sample your crabs, snails and shrimp.

I'm mostly concerned with how he's going to get along with the Harlequin Tuskfish. The Tusk is fine with the other fishes in the tank, but goes ballistic when anything new is added. He tore a huge strip of flesh off the Kole tang when it was added. After a few attacks though it settles down.
The trigger is larger than the Tusk though so I'm hoping there won't be a problem.

Well, so far so good with the Trigger. He's been in QT now for a week with a smaller fish, snails, small hermits and some corals and has been a model citizen. Eats like a pig and has been playing in the flow and likes to carry small rocks in his mouth and spit them out. He's pretty smart too. He's learned that if he bumps the powerhead with his nose soon after feeding, Mysis that were sucked into the intake come shooting out. It's pretty funny to watch. He bumps the PH and quickly swims about 12" directly in front and waits for small pieces to shoot out at him. I'll try to get a video of him doing this.

How do you have your QT setup? How big? Sorry if the details are already posted (I have a very short memory!!)

FYI not all women name their fish. Although I fully admit I'm one of the only women I know who doesn't :redface: I always have other female reefers ask me what name I gave my fish, and they are always surprised to find out they don't have names. That being said though, I do call my Sohal "Scar face" after the name Marie gave him (seemed only fitting after everything he went through with marine velvet) and for the life of me I can't help but call regal tangs "Dori" :redface:

Pinktail triggers is right Tony. Actually the pinktail trigger is supposed to be the most reef safe of them all. So far my pinktail trigger has proven that, my sexy, peppermint & pistol shrimp he leaves alone as well as my crabs and my sandsifting starfish.

Lance I love your Harlequin Tuskfish, very pretty fish. I was kinda of wanting one myself but I think my lunare wrasse (maybe) and my miniatus grouper (definitely) would pick on it too much, to warrant getting one. Ironically it's one of the few fish my King angel would leave alone.

Tony, the QT is a 30g with a 20g sump. The QT is a functioning tank where I put all new fish and corals for observation and fattening up. If I need to treat a fish I can turn off the gate valve on the drain to the sump and use the sump for a hospital tank. There is nothing in the sump but a powerhead, the return pump and some macro algae. I just take the algae out, put in some PVC pipe for hiding spots and place the fish in there.

Laurie, The Tuskfish (Sydney) :mrgreen: chases my Lunare (Zippy) :mrgreen: all over the tank, but can't catch him as he's too fast. Actually I think it may be as much playing as serious because the Lunare teases the Tusk to get him to chase it.

OK, here's the video of him working the powerhead for some food. This is about 2 minutes after the last pieces of mysis were eaten. Notice how he bumps the PH and then waits to see if any food will come out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKbXa-X2M8