265 gallon setup

[michika]

From the pictures they look like Threadfin Anthias (http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesS...name=carberryi ), particularly because the yellow on the dorsal doesn't start to appear until behind the eye. Click on the fish picture for more images. My second guess would be Bartlet's Anthias, but the yellow starts from the mouth and goes right from the tail. (http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesS...e=bartlettorum ) Some of the fish seem to have the yellow starting from their noses, and one from behind its eye. Either way a nice harem!

Your SPS are just beautiful. Do you find you get more of one color under you lighting? E.g. more pieces turn blue/purple?

[niloc16]

thanks for the info catherine. still not sure if it is either of them.

its one of my favs too jason. and there is a good story behind that, it was a big wild colony about 7" across and during the dino outbreak it stripped out over night on me. i was really choked but i was able to clip 3 or 4 tips to try and save it. within 2 days they rtn'd as well. about a week or so later once the dinos were gone i was doing a big tank cleanup and pulled out a bunch of halimeda and in the bunch was this chunk that i fragged and it must have fallen down and i never noticed. it struggled for 2 weeks and finally recovered and now its really starting to grow. i'm so glad because its a wicked tri-color plana.

here it is before the death. its with my old camera and it didnt adjust well for color. its not this purple its more white base with purple and blue tips

[Chowder]

On the Anthias I would say they are Barletts.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...fm?pCatId=1128
or http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...duct_ID=F-2010

[niloc16]

[niloc16]

[Jason McK]

Always a Great joy to come back to this thread.

Great looking Coral Colin..

How is you Angel doing any issues?

J

[niloc16]

thanks alot jason

the angel is doing really good actually. he seems to nip at the corals a tad but i have yet to see any damage or polyp retraction even right after he hit it. i'm not sure if it the coral or something else he goes after. he eats anything given to him and is not bothered by anything else even the flame angel which is a major bugger to anything new, he didnt even look twice at the emperor when added

[Sebae again]

Your corals look freakin amazing !

[niloc16]

finally the tank is starting to pay for itself. i'm completely hooked on fragging. if i had room i would have tons of frags. i did some more tonight and the frag rack i built is jammed packed. i'm seriously contemplating setting something up in the stand to make as a frag tank. having a bit of a cyano attack lately. i changed reactor media and didnt adjust my co2 accordingly and it shot alk up to 18dkh which kicked the cyano in gear. its slowly coming down now but i hate looking at it.

[niloc16]

heres a newbie that i'm hoping turns into something awesome. seems to have potential.