Reef Pilot's Undersea Oasis

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by H2o2

You need to buy some more stuff off Nick so I can deliver and have another look at those beautiful tank and I can get some frags this time :-)

Hey, Harry, drop by any time... I'm keeping an eye on Nick's site, and sooner or later will get something again.

[Reef Pilot]

Can't believe what an algae eating machine my Kole Tang is!... He has only been in the upstairs tank now for 2 days, and almost totally cleaned the whole back glass (acrylic, actually) of all algae, leaving only the coralline. Here is a pic of part of it from before.

You can see how green it was (upper right). I had to regularly clean it with a scraper...


And this is today. You can see a bit of a pattern to his cleaning...


No wonder my downstairs tank (same sump and water as upstairs tank) was always so clean of algae... For sure now, am going to have to get another bristletooth tang for it, or it will likely soon get algae again.

[wreck]

hot damn that thing is a cleaning machine!!!.

do u have any pics of him and your melanarus wrasse?

i have a juvi melanarus and colors are bleek. cant wait for it to grow

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by wreck

hot damn that thing is a cleaning machine!!!.

do u have any pics of him and your melanarus wrasse?

i have a juvi melanarus and colors are bleek. cant wait for it to grow

Not yet. Although color wise, no different than most pics on the internet. Haven't had the time and patience yet to try and get pics of my fish, except a few chance ones. They don't sit still,... like corals... But I will have to try,... one of these days...

I do most of my pics underwater, so the fish tend to hide when they see the camera. From outside the tank, I have a lot of trouble getting a good focus, because this camera only has auto focus, no manual capability, and often will focus on the glass, not the tank inhabitants. That's the only thing I don't like about this camera (Olympus TG-2).

[mrhasan]

Kole tangs are just awesome

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Kole tangs are just awesome

Mine hates any kind of blenny and chases harasses them. Killed a tail spot and hates my lawn mower blenny. They kind of have similar mouths so I think he's protecting his precious algae.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Mine hates any kind of blenny and chases harasses them. Killed a tail spot and hates my lawn mower blenny. They kind of have similar mouths so I think he's protecting his precious algae.

Must be defending its "turf"

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Mine hates any kind of blenny and chases harasses them. Killed a tail spot and hates my lawn mower blenny. They kind of have similar mouths so I think he's protecting his precious algae.

Strange,... my Kole is totally peaceful, with everyone. I have a lawnmower blenny in there, too, but they totally ignore each other. Same with my yellow and purple tangs, which was my big concern. I had a lawnmower blenny in the downstairs tank, too, so maybe he was already used to them.