280g Inwall

[Delphinus]

So I did pull the teardrop on Saturday before leaving town. It was one of the hardest things I've had to do in a very long time as it was the largest maxima I had ever known of. But it was clearly gone.

It had been looking a little off for a little while, I had hoped that it might turn around and it had its moments where it looked fine but then other moments where I could see something was not right inside. So I think the treatment may have had nothing to do with it.

The squamosa caught me off guard I did not think anything was amiss with it but honestly it takes so little to do these things in. Again it could have been a case of it not being well for a while and just not really noticing it until the last moment.

Losses aside I'm sort of regretting not doing the treatment earlier, with the cyano gone it's evident the damage it left behind most notably in receded tips on the gorgs (they are a cyano magnet especially when shedding) and the blue zoos I picked up from Greg are toast. Darn it all.

Other than that though tank is looking nice, the red planet I picked up from Lorenzo is looking smashing killer and laying down growth like crazy, a cali tort I've got looks amazing and the pieces I picked up from John are looking awesome too.

I just wish I could take a picture of them that's in focus. They are in some kind of strange dampening field or cloaking device or something because I can take 50 pictures of them and not a one, not a ONE will look anything other than a cat barf.

So you'll have to use your imagination for now. Sorry about that..

[lastlight]

Glad to hear you've escaped your sps curse Tony! Looking forward to the pics... even cat barf will do =)

[Delphinus]

Picktchoors!!!

There is a weird dampening effect over some of the corals that completely prevent a picture being in focus of them, no matter what. The tort in particular, even the photos are kind of hard to look at. Guess I need to keep experimenting to find the ideal settings. But here are some non-throwaways from tonights efforts..

Red planet!


Cali tort


Supposed to be a blue polyp stylo but seems to be slowing turning pink..


Rainbow stylo but also seems to be pinkifying..


Dunkin' duncans.. (danke!)


Acans..


MOAR ACANS!!



Lavender tang, totally underrated tang in my opinion..


Cleaner shrimp plus survivors of caulerpa damaged Stylo from my 40g. Effecting a recovery (I can see growth) and has gone from brown to .. um .. moar pink. Good think I have a thing for pink stylos!!


Male bellus angel


Potter's angel


Growing fast and darkening up (had bleached a little in a pellet incident over the summer in my 40g)


Canary wrasse


Purple sherbet! Yum yum.


Insert Monty Python accent: Anyone else have something better to do than march up and down the square! The .. PIANO?! Right-oh, off you go .... (Lieutenant tang)


And this girl needs to be moved over soon. Still chumming with the butterflies and eel in the 115g for now:


Thanks for looking

[christyf5]

Great photos Tony! Go SPS go!!

[fishytime]

those shots are more than acceptable mang.......in fact they are bordering on kick-ass

[fishoholic]

Looks great Tony I also love lavender tangs, very pretty imo.

[es355lucille]

I am lik'in everything you have there Tony! Wow your fish are beautiful!

[smokinreefer]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Picktchoors!!!

Lavender tang, totally underrated tang in my opinion..


Thanks for looking

beautiful fish.
but, they sure dont look like that in the stores.
i'm guessing it is showing mature coloration? probably didnt look like that as a juvenile eh?

tank is looking good buddy!

[Delphinus]

It might be the adult colouration? Although he's actually looked like that at the store when he was maybe 3". So if it is a juvy/adult thing then this one turned adult colours pretty early. Mind you I have seen orange shoulder tangs at 3" and you'd think they'd still be the juvenile yellow at that size so I guess adult colours can come pretty much whenever they feel like it in the fish world.

A couple things that I have observed however between seeing lavenders in the stores, other peoples tanks, and in Hawaii - there do seem to be two major colour morphs. A darker one like this one, and a lighter one where it's more of a pinkish grey in the body with a purple/pink/lavender border along the fins and so on. (I'll see if I can dig up a photo.)

But, lighting can play tricks on you. I've had people see this fish in person exclaim that they didn't even realize the fish was that colourful because between swimming so fast and it being hard to look at because he won't sit still, and the light needing to shine on him just right, he can appear like a brown colourless tang unless you're really looking at him closely.

Of course there's also that fish store tanks are stressful places for fish with seldom the most optimal lighting conditions to showcase subtle colours on fish, so that could be a factor too maybe..

[fishytime]

Ya I get that with my chevron too..... Most times he looks kinda drab and plain, but when the light hits him just right you can see the color and patternation on him.....sweet fish none the less Tony