Glad the affair with the cuda turned out alright. They are scary when that big.
What part of Mexico?

Ear seems to be pretty good now Brett. Flight home kinda hurt though.
As for the Cap, it was getting too big and I was thinking of fragging some good sized chunks from it. Guess I have to now.

I'm not exactly the most experienced underwater guy and I always wondered what I'd do if I ran into something scary down there. Would I be brave or a chicken ****? I guess I fall somewhere in between Rocky Balboa and Richard Simmons. :mrgreen:

Caribbean side. Near Akumal.

Glad to be back. The ear's pretty good.
Yeah, no fear in those fishies. I wish I had the camera with me but the wife had it at the time. Of course, I probably wouldn't have thought to get any pics. More interested in getting the hell away from it.

Welcome back buddy, I thought it had been kinda quiet around here lately. Next time your over I will show you my picture of the school of barricuda that my son and I swam through when I was in the Bahamas last summer. Must have been a thousand of them and then when we came out the other side we wound up right in the lap of a 5' reef shark. Whoo Hooo fun times!

Wow! Sounds scary......... I mean exciting!

I forgot to mention how many Lionfish I saw. I knew they were getting to be a real problem in the Atlantic, but I didn't realize just how many there are. In some areas I snorkeled in there was literally a Lionfish under every other rock ledge. As a reasonable guess I would say I counted over thirty of them in an area no larger than 1500 sq ft.

So this is what I came home to from my vacation:

As you can see the big pink Cap is about 50% dead. I was thinking maybe Mont-eating Nudis but I couldn't see good enough as the Cap is in the center of the tank. I broke off a good sized chunk and examined it; but found nothing. Any ideas?

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...1/IMG_2317.jpg


After fragging, this is what I'm left with. I dipped all the frags in a freshwater bath and then a coral dip. They will remian in Qt for awhile until I'm sure they're ok.

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...1/IMG_2323.jpg


This is what that part of the tank looks like now with the cap removed. Although I have had that cap for 3 years and grown it from a frag colony to a nice sized colony, it was actually getting too big and shading out my Crocea. It hurts to lose it but now I have space for more corals. :wink:

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...1/IMG_2320.jpg

More space is always good, sorry the monti didn't do well though. Glad the barracuda didn't get the better of you, and that you had a good trip over all :biggrin:

Thanks Laurie. Yeah we had a good time in spite of a few not-so-nice incidents. I can't figure out what happened to the Cap. All other corals are fine, including other Montis.