184g basement 8ft reef

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

Looking good! Here's hoping mine will look as good as yours!

How high are you mounting those 3 Radions at the moment? Light coverage seems decent.

Right now they are about 9 and bit inches from the water, also with 120 degree lenses. On the right theres actually 2 together, 1 xr15 pro and a xr15Freshwater lol, softies seem to like it. I need one more on the left and i should be good for all corals in some spots..

your tank plan looks awesome, an idea for a bright coral (there are some red ones) instead of having to hand feed each sun coral every day, you could try a Cynarina.. this is mine after hand feeding, (maybe twice a week).

[Roskoreef]

little garden coming along..new inhabitants

[Roskoreef]

here some more pics of corals and new fish..

can you see the fish in this one??




Fish list so far:

10 blue chromis
2 spotted mandarins
2 Coral Beautys
golden rabbit
lieutenant tang
red fairy wrasse
flounder
juvenile blue ring angel
sub-adult (currently changing patterns) Emperor angel
ocellaris clownfish
magnificent angel





best picture i could get of the magnificent, very shy..





new emporer changing colours..

[rishu_pepper]

Nice fish collection so far!

Has any of the angels nipped at your corals though? My cousin's emperor in Hong Kong ate all his coral and now he has a FOWLR...

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

Nice fish collection so far!

Has any of the angels nipped at your corals though? My cousin's emperor in Hong Kong ate all his coral and now he has a FOWLR...

Not too much, the emperor likes to nip at the edges of the zoa pieces and some other soft polyps, nothing nice so far! (knock on wood). The others ignore them completely. I made sure i only bought fish i saw eating suppliments and were doing well. The emperor loves pellets.

[Roskoreef]

here is a better pic of the flounder, he wasnt as hard to find this time

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

Nice fish collection so far!

Has any of the angels nipped at your corals though? My cousin's emperor in Hong Kong ate all his coral and now he has a FOWLR...

ok now he is a problem lol, what a jerk fish.. started to eat anything fleshy, aswell as kick up sand and scare all the smaller fish. I swear he almost got a chromis..he was returned.

Lesson learned, sort of, decided to try a less destructive fish and still play with fire. I exchanged for a Tomini Tang, a Powder Brown Tang, a bi color blenny and the fire - a coris wrasse...I know he might eat my clean up crew and move stuff at the worst, i can glue and replace crew. i have heard some dont bother anything, we will see how badly i get burnt.

pics to follow..

[rishu_pepper]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

ok now he is a problem lol, what a jerk fish.. started to eat anything fleshy, aswell as kick up sand and scare all the smaller fish. I swear he almost got a chromis..he was returned.

Lesson learned, sort of, decided to try a less destructive fish and still play with fire. I exchanged for a Tomini Tang, a Powder Brown Tang, a bi color blenny and the fire - a coris wrasse...I know he might eat my clean up crew and move stuff at the worst, i can glue and replace crew. i have heard some dont bother anything, we will see how badly i get burnt.

pics to follow..

Ouch! That's too bad, an emperor is such a beauty...at least it's returned to a place where it won't get your corals.

From what I've read (I have no experience with this) PBTs are very ich-prone. Hope yours is a nice and healthy fish!

[Roskoreef]

Added a small uv for general fish health a few days ago, they all seem more active in the day and feed more agressively.




got this guy back in...