:jaw: sweet acans

*look at me, I'm Doug, I have amazing Aussie Acans* blah blah blah

Those are some definate stunners Doug, great job

you acan addict lol. for sure some nice stuff you picked up

Thanks guys. Funny how coral trends show up. For about a year it was all about zoanthids for me. I had to have them all. Now I am going through a serious acan/favia/blasto phase.

And a bit of a wrasse phase. Added this one yesterday. He has got a bit of ick but is out exploring and eating already. Full, healthy looking fish, so I expect he will kick the ick. Best pics I could get so far....sorry.

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That last shot is a good one of the mystery wrasse! Beautiful face!

Wow!
 

Congrats on the TOTM Doug,

I agree those Acans and the wrasse are incredible! By the way, you do us T5'ers proud...it is looking great. :lol:

Hairy

Congrats on TOTM again..

That wrasse is gorgeous. I love the colour combinations on him.

what a WRASSE Fiend you are.

Congrats on TOTM, looks fabulous!

Thanks alot guys! The TOTM is a bit of a shocker for me. I always thought my tank wasnt "big budget" or "high tech" enough....Did that make sense?:mrgreen:

I definitely dooooooo love my wrasses. The mystery wrasse has been on my want list ever since I started keeping a reef. I am really happy to finally have one. He is doing really well...so much so that he has taken a serious disliking to my female hooded wrasse. Good sign I suppose but not so good for the little lady.

Speaking of my love for wrasses:biggrin: My "holy grail" fish has always been a Lineatus wrasse. Kevin told me last week that lineatus wrasses were on one of our suppliers lists and asked me if he should bring one in. I was like.....YA! He arrived yesterday afternoon and after his acclimation went in to the display. I fed the tank an hour or so later and he ate!!!:surprise: I am soooo jazzed. He is a little bigger than perhaps I would have chosen but crap....its a lineatus! Once again sorry for the poor picture quality...best I could do so far.

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Beautiful fish, I wish my tank could hold one of them without the risk of one of my other fish killing it.

Nice...but... :)
The Mystery wrasse is nicer :)

Very pretty Doug!

I think that's my holy grail fish too. One day ... I have some major saving up to do. In the meantime you might have to put up with me coming over to visit and drool at the sight of yours! :lol: Congrats, hope he does well and .. I can't remember, do you have a cover over your tank or a skirt? Wrasses being jumpers and all ..

man you have just gone wrasse CRAZY. lol but a nice fish at that

Really??? Why do you think that? Not trying to be a jerk ....just really curious about what you like better about the Mystery wrasse.
Tony you are welcome to come and check it out anytime man. A lineatus may be easier to save for than you think. If you want, pm me and I can give you an idea of what we are charging for them. No cover yet.

Wrasses:crazyeye::scramble::madgrin: lol

What do you have that you think would take out a lineatus? Your corris???


Thanks Carmen but I was hoping for input on my fish:redface::mrgreen::biggrin:

Heres a few random coral pics.
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I like the coloring and the eye placement and look....it`s like a sixline that got dressed up to go out :)

The coloring on some of the fairly and flasher wrasses looks to Hodge podge for me....to much going on. The Mystery wrasse just appeals to me aesthetically that's all. But remember I like the scoprionfish and frgofish though so :)

Hey Doug you said that the Lineatus wrasse came in a little bigger then you wanted, around what size are you thinking it was? Ya I'm thinking the Red Coris wrasse would kill it, as I tried a Carpenters Wrasse a bit ago and it lasted 3 days. From my signature you can see the rest of my current fish, I don't think any of the others would be the culprits, but I could be wrong. Pm me the going rate for one, as I'm gonna try to get the Red Coris out to put one in.

I think they both have their pluses. Mystery wrasse has the slightly more subtle beauty, funky eyes and cool behavior (the hunting part anyway). The fairies have that in your face beauty and are much more well mannered.

I didnt know what size it was...I didnt really care to be honest. Kevin said "so and so" has some, I said I want one. The one I got is probably four inches or so. If I had the luxury of choosing, I would have picked one 2"-2 1/2" to enjoy watching it mature. Also Ive noticed that my regal tang doesnt care to much for the lineatus. All of the small fish I have added since the regal was in the tank have gone un-noticed, so I think if the lineatus was a touch smaller he would have blended into the crowd a little better.

Some more coral pics (Hey lobsterbi check out that little frag you gave me in my last set of pics)

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Not a bad bonus shot of the acro crab living in this colony.
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Looking good, all those shots are nice, but that last one is a real eye catcher! Nice work.:mrgreen:

:hail: I am a mere grasshopper to your sensei.

lookin good doug!!!:biggrin:

I think I convicted and sentenced my bi-color angel on a case of mistaken identity.:neutral: My acans are still being eaten. Last week I lost my new alien eye favia frag and my "lord" acan frag. I have three suspects....flame angel, regal tang( who I have seen picking at another favia colony I have) or my pepermint shrimp. The flame and regal are staying...Im not getting rid of either of them, so my coral stocking plans will have to change. I have a line on a rainbow acan frag(my Holy Grail coral) that I will seriously have to think about passing on:sad:

I am also going through a serious macro algae, kelp type seaweed bloom. Its everywhere in the tank.:redface: I finally got a few hours off yesterday afternoon and used the time to remove the 2x24w HOT5 retrofit kit I had in my old frag tank canopy and installed it over the fuge area of my sump. Sooooo....I now have a functioning refugium:lol: Only a year after I started the tank:redface: The only bulbs I had were a fiji purp and a reef blue, so I will have to bring home a couple new bulbs and a handfull of cheato from the shop. Hopefully a good ball of cheato will make a dent in the algea that I have in the display. I also am going to step up my efforts to remove a couple more fish, in hopes of reducing the bio-load in the tank. My coral feeding has also been reduced.

Sorry to hear about the algae problem! Believe me when I say "I feel your pain" as I'm going through an algae war myself...first the red turf followed by a bad case of cyano.:cry: (thankfully I believe the tide is turning in my favor) I'm sure your in much better shape than me judging by your photos. Your tank still looks great to me!

Sounds like some middle of the night tank watching is in order to find your culprit. I think fish are like dogs and only misbehave when no one is watching, I'd swear mine all look as if saying "it wasn't me!" when I discover an entire colony has disapeared overnight:biggrin:

You sure your flame doesn't want a new home? I think my potter's would like a buddy:wink:

OK Doug, I am not sure what you are doing to that Pokerstar monti, but mine is more of a brownish green..yours is looking wow!...I need to check my parametes again..

I have nobody to blame but myself for the algae problem....my efforts to keep everything well fed coupled with a high fish load = excess nutrients. If I cant remove the two fish I am hoping to remove, I may have to think about A BK skimmer or something similar. Hopefully a big ball o cheato will at the least keep the algae from spreading further.
I am really leaning towards my peppermint shrimp(s), as the culprits. Kevin and I watch the peps at the store attack a recently fragged acan.

You have no idea how long it took me "sharpie" in the green on that colony.:mrgreen:

*cough, cough* zeo to remove your nutrients *cough cough * :biggrin:

i second this statement he he he

Nah... and loose the great color? Better off getting a BK Skimmer.. :wink:

:lol: Im not "mad scientist" enough to do zeo. I have enough trouble finding the time to do the little bit of testing and dosing I do now.... never mind try to fit the zeo program and the associated time on the zeo forums.

And I dont have a thick enough wallet for a BK:lol:

Maybe a bigger tank would help.:mrgreen:

Doug, so are you coming over to my lab? if so can you bring some eye of newt, its going to turn my acropora blue. :lol::lol::lol:

just jokes, shoot me a pm, and let me know when your off

Zeo! Just do it!! :)

Maybe thats what you are dosing...zeo wont tell you whats in their stuff :lol:
Ya but it will be a pastelie blue:mrgreen:

You guys are killin me....:biggrin:

Seriously though I feel like my tank is to much of a mixed reef for me to run zeo. I like my zoanthids and acans wayyyyy to much and think they would probably suffer from a low nutrient environment. John, weren't you recently selling some stuff that was unhappy because of the zeo ?:wink:

My tank is totally mixed and on full zeo, you will have to see it sometime.

I have SPS, Zoos, Anemones, LPS - Brain, acan, lots of euphyllia (as you could tell by the rash :p) and they all seem to do well.

The solution to pollution is dilution.... SO UPGRADE!!

That's some good propaganda.. I might have to quote myself for a sig.. :mrgreen:

Id love to see your tank sometime.

I have been seriously tossing the idea of a 72"x24"x24" tank around, but I really enjoy having a g/f.:lol: She would leave me for sure if I upgraded. She darn near fainted when she found out what my last four fish cost.:lol:

More pics.
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