Lance's 225 gal tank

[Lance]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

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!

[Lance]

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.

[Lance]

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?




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.




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.

[fishoholic]

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

[Lance]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

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

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.

[Lance]

A few shots of the 90 with the Pink Cap removed.



The clam was getting shaded from the cap; now it's in better light.



FTS




Got this frag from O/A awhile back. It was just a browned out little guy but was very hairy so I grabbed it. The pic doesn't really show it but it has turned a bright lemon-lime colour.

[Mrfish55]

Tank still looks great Lance, Bob just got some sand sifter gobies in that will clean that sand bed up for you.