My two 230g tanks and 80g add on

[Delphinus]

Looks great!

[Skimmerking]

looking great Laurie, and Thanks to Dougy for helping ya what a swell guy.

[Lance]

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

looking great Laurie, and Thanks to Dougy for helping ya what a swell guy.

Gee.....thanks Mikey

some pretty sweet pics there Girly.....especially that last cowfish one!

[fishoholic]

Ok it's been awhile since I last posted. I took a bunch of pic.'s this weekend and I will share all the pic.'s over the next few days.

I'll start with a FTS of the reef (still working on getting a decent fts of the fowlr)



The cowfish in the previous pic's mysteriously died after 2 months of it doing well However they are one of my absolute favorite fish so I ended up getting another one. This time I put the cowfish into my 80g tank were there is less flow and and slower moving fish. I'm hoping that helps. I have had him just over a month, he eats like a pig but he does have some ich on him. I just hope he lives and does well in the 80g. He lives with my fu man chu lionfish, my matted filefish and my orange spot blenny who a couple of weeks ago decided to take a trip down the reef tank overflow and now lives in the 80g.

fts 80g


New cowfish




Orange spot blenny


Fu man chu

[Delphinus]

Ha ha ha blennies. They're so comical.

Great colour on the Fu Man Chu.

You must have a lot of fun with water changes at your place!

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Ha ha ha blennies. They're so comical.

Great colour on the Fu Man Chu.

You must have a lot of fun with water changes at your place!

Ya I love blennies, just glad he took a detour into the 80g tank instead of ending up in the sump.

I've had the fu man chu for just over a year now, he still eats like a pig (mysis and krill) and I do love his colouration.

Water changes are a minor PITA. I have a mixing tank that takes awhile to fill with RO and I pour the salt in until I get the salinity right, but I have a pump in there to mix it with and after I drain the water out of the main tanks, I pump the newly mixed water back into the tanks fairly easily. I have to watch the water levels in the sump and unplug pumps at the right time as I pump the old water out into the floor drain while I am doing the water change, but overall not to bad. I would be killer if I had to carry buckets around to drain the tank, TG it's set up to drain into the floor drain.

left side reef tank


right side


Cool new shrooms Doug surprised me with from red coral

[fishoholic]

Really missing my nikon DSLR camera, but here's an ok pic. of the 230g fowlr tank. Ignore the HA



Shrooms in the fowlr




and gsp


So in my fowlr tank I lost my cleaner wrasse due to carpet surfing and my cat I would of been able to save the cleaner wrasse off the carpet (was in the tank when I fed it five minute earlier) but unfortunately my cat saw it on the floor before I did and when I came downstairs (literally what must of been minutes after it jumped) I noticed my cat tossing something up in the air and catching it, when I went to check out what he was playing with, much to my dismay it was my cleaner wrasse That night Doug almost got his wish of me not having a cat anymore

On different days awhile ago I also found my 6-line wrasse and mandarin in the overflow. So I moved them to the reef tank were they both have settled in nicely. The red corris wrasse leaves the 6-line alone and my scooter blenny could care less about the mandarin, so moving them worked out well

[fishoholic]

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