My two 230g tanks and 80g add on

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Yesterday when Doug and I went to the lfs I saw this beautiful chocolate mimic tang at AI. The tang had been bought 3 yrs ago at AI as a juvi and was recently brought back to AI from it's owner. It got jumped in a bit by my other tangs but he's a bit bigger then them (he's about 5") and stood up for himself fairly quickly. About 4 yrs ago I had an opportunity to get a chocolate mimic (which I think is a beautiful fish) but the owner had two of them together and did not want to split them up and at the time I had a 120g and I did not want add two of the same tangs in it. Since then off and on I have been looking for a chocolate mimic that looked as nice as the one I remembered from all those yrs ago, happy to say I finally found one



more of a truer colour pic.


3 amigos

[Skimmerking]

love the powder blue Laurie

[The Grizz]

Wow Laurie I didn't realize you had this many tanks going looking good. I love the cow fish & the tangs too.

So I guess we can call Dougster the shroom dealer

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Originally Posted by asmodeus

love the powder blue Laurie

Thanks Mike, I've always love powder blues, but they can be tricky. I was happy to get him from Bob knowing that he was healthy and doing well to begin with

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Wow Laurie I didn't realize you had this many tanks going looking good. I love the cow fish & the tangs too.

Thanks, BTW can you tell I'm addicted Shoot me a pm next time your in town and feel free to pop over to see my tanks.

Originally Posted by The Grizz

So I guess we can call Dougster the shroom dealer

He does deal some pretty sweet shrooms He also has been wonderful in helping my broke a$$ by hooking me up with salt, very grateful for this since I do a 60g water change per week.

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GRRRRRRRRRR WTH!!!!!!!!

I just fed my tanks and I noticed that my orange spot blenny (same one in the pic. I took yesterday) wasn't out front and center gobbling up food like usual. I'm thinking to my self that that's strange and of course my first thought is "Oh sh*t he jumped" so I started to frantically search all around the tank and finally I see him in the tank (on the cheato and mangrove pod side) dead at the bottom His body looked perfectly fine and in tact and he was eating well yesterday. At a total loss as to why he died, I had him for 4 months and while he spent most of that time in the reef tank, he had been in the 80g for about 2 weeks and did seem fine in there. I seriously don't get it Also pretty sure that type of blenny gets a lot bigger (he was about 3" but i think they get to about 5") so I doubt it was from old age or anything like that

[es355lucille]

Sorry to hear about your Blenn Laurie.

You have some great looking tanks! Love the mushrooms and the new fish you purchased. I don't think I have seen a chocolate mimic tang before...wow nice fish.

Brad

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Originally Posted by es355lucille

Sorry to hear about your Blenn Laurie.

You have some great looking tanks! Love the mushrooms and the new fish you purchased. I don't think I have seen a chocolate mimic tang before...wow nice fish.

Brad

Thanks, ya it's not to often you see adult chocolate mimic tangs, juvi colours are more yellow. I always think of them as chocolate mimic tangs but they are also called Mimic Lemon Peel Tang (Acanthurus pyroferus).



I was talking to Doug and the only thing we could think of was that maybe the blenny somehow got stung by the fu man chu and that's what could of killed it. However I didn't see any marks on it's body and I would of thought a lionfish sting would leave a mark of some sort or some swelling or something

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Flame angel (I got him awhile ago, but he's fast and hard to get a pic. of)




Mandarin (Doug took this cool pic.)


My Duncan coral (Doug's pic.'s of it)

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My polypless sps coral thanks to my flame angel

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Yellow sponge