hazmat Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 The lawnmower blenny is my favorite fish. Mine used to "feed" on my hand. It's the weirdest sensation. He used to sit in my hand when I would put it in the tank. By far the most personality of all my fish. You need a beautiful purple wrasse! Just my opinion Edit: BTW, fantastic tank!! Link to comment
JDigital Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 Those frags are nice, I can see the digi looking brilliant once the polyps fill out. How's Kush settling into his new home? Yea, I am pretty excited about the frags. I got them from one of the best place's in canada for SPS frags IMO. www.coralmaster.com Great guy to deal with, and his corals speak for themselves. Kush is pretty much settled in... trying to train him to eat nori from my hand, as he was doing it at the LFS, but that's also how we tried tricking him to catch him... so he is a still a bit leary, but I'll get him eating from my hand soon enough. The lawnmower blenny is my favorite fish. Mine used to "feed" on my hand. It's the weirdest sensation. He used to sit in my hand when I would put it in the tank. By far the most personality of all my fish. You need a beautiful purple wrasse! Just my opinion Edit: BTW, fantastic tank!! Yea, I'd actually like something red or blue... I've got a royal gramma so I already have a bit of purple in the tank, same with my coral beauty.. A Ruby Red Flasher Wrasse would be nice... or maybe a Mandarin near the end of the year... we'll see how it goes... i think I am getting close to max bio-load for this tank.. Thanks guys! Link to comment
purplefirefish Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 hmmm maybe i missed it... but if the power fails, will your tank drain out?? Link to comment
JDigital Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 hmmm maybe i missed it... but if the power fails, will your tank drain out?? Nope.. I got a true union check valve on the return line.. the overflow would drain down to the top of the stand pipe, but that's not more than 1-2 gallons... Link to comment
mrbigshot Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 lookin great so far, just a few questions how far above the top of the water do you have your lights? what size tank are you using for a sump? Link to comment
JDigital Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 lookin great so far, just a few questions how far above the top of the water do you have your lights? what size tank are you using for a sump? Thanks, The lights are about 6" off the water surface. The sump is a 54G tank, which will be close to 30G volume whenever I get the refuge online... Link to comment
purplefirefish Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Nope.. I got a true union check valve on the return line.. the overflow would drain down to the top of the stand pipe, but that's not more than 1-2 gallons... i was thinking you had to have a check valve somewhere... lol Link to comment
JDigital Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 i was thinking you had to have a check valve somewhere... lol Yea, I test it every week when I do a water change and shut off the return pump... Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 Must have been my lucky day, as I was in there today when a fish shipment came in...... Surprise Surprise, couple Aussie Black Perc's. When I added the smaller guy first, my PBT, Coral Beauty and Foxface thought he was food for about 3secs... then left him alone, I added the 2nd bigger one, and she didn't didn't get charged the same way, but the copperband was sure checking her out. Anyways, couple pics. They seem to have paired up almost instantly... Hopefully the "female" doesn't attack the male, time with tell. And because "she" wouldn't get out of the frame for any shot, I figured I might as well snap her portrait as well. Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 Bit of a system upgrade earlier this week. Finally got a chance to add a Tunze ATO to my system. 77 liter reservoir with a Seio 620 power-head suctioned to the bottom pointing vertically to the water surface to circulate. Would really like to get the 2 stands skinned someday soon so it doesn't look so ghetto. FTS shot for March. Link to comment
HecticDialectics Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 lookin' great! that tank is going to be incredible when it's all filled in! Link to comment
WhiteShark Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Now that you've had them for awhile, has your butterfly, foxface, or angel attacked any of your clams or corals. I wanna get a flame angel but I'm warry of it attacking my corals (would also love a copperband and a foxface as well). Link to comment
East1 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Now that you've had them for awhile, has your butterfly, foxface, or angel attacked any of your clams or corals. I wanna get a flame angel but I'm warry of it attacking my corals (would also love a copperband and a foxface as well). generally well fed fish dont attack corals, for the majority the angelfish that do attack corals are either under fed or fed the wrong food, same goes with moorish idols it was in an advanced aquarist or something i read a while back Link to comment
WhiteShark Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Interesting...I'll keep that in mind...Thanks Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 lookin' great! that tank is going to be incredible when it's all filled in! Yea, Im looking forward to seeing it myself in a 6months-year. Thanks! Now that you've had them for awhile, has your butterfly, foxface, or angel attacked any of your clams or corals. I wanna get a flame angel but I'm warry of it attacking my corals (would also love a copperband and a foxface as well). I haven't seen anything when I'm around the tank. I feed once a day, with a great food mix from a local reefer, it's got everything possible in it I think. The CBB is eating mysis and does "her" daily hunting of the rocks, the foxface and angel get their fill of the same food plus nori clips. I tend to feed heavily which does yield slightly quicker film algae production on the glass, but I believe fat fish are happy/healthy fish. So I roll with the negatives of heavy feeding. Fingers crossed though that none of them snap and go postal on any of the corals (except the GSP maybe.. ) Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 New addition to the tank today, and some misc. top down frag pics. Picked up a Blue Tuxedo Urchin today: Pink Mille: Green Digitata: Green Acropora.. still trying to get an ID: Alien Freckles: Blue Stag: Link to comment
Gerber77 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Excellent shots the tank is looking wonderful Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 Excellent shots the tank is looking wonderful Thanks Gerber... I added a few frags of Zoas today... LFS got in a great shipment on thursday and put them on sale this weekend, so couldn't pass them up. I'll get some photos of them once they open up.. Link to comment
jerzsky Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 tank is looking amazing!!! im always freakin JEALOUS everytime i look at this thread. your pictures are absolutely amazing!!! are you gonna hide the right loc-line?? dont even notice the left one. great great job!!! Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 tank is looking amazing!!! im always freakin JEALOUS everytime i look at this thread. your pictures are absolutely amazing!!! are you gonna hide the right loc-line?? dont even notice the left one. great great job!!! hahahaa... Thanks ALOT jerzsky... The right loc-line got slighty disguised today actually... I decided to bust up a large 10lbs piece of LR today out of my fuge, and with the great Zoa frags at my LFS got in on thursday, I made a "Zoa Island" rock.. as well as added a larger piece of the LR just to the left, which has opened up a lot more room for frags/coral. Also took a local reefers advise after loosing my last perculas, and am trying 2 normal, bone-head, occelaris clowns. Gave them a slow acclimation, added them and within 10-15mins they were hosting my Torch... both ate tonight as well with everyone. Here is Zoa Island, I will get some close ups once they start opening up fully: and 2 shots of the clowns, just incase anyone in curious, the butterfly doesn't bother the clams, just picks critters off the shell: Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 Going through a bit of a Clown/Zoa photo frenzy lately.. haha.. Link to comment
MSU Fan Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Beautiful shots - gotta love that powder brown! Link to comment
Boomboy Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 why oh why do you get all the great deals in calgary we never get nice zoas like that up here in edmonton. Link to comment
JDigital Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Beautiful shots - gotta love that powder brown! Thanks MSU... I gotta agree with you.. why oh why do you get all the great deals in calgary we never get nice zoas like that up here in edmonton. It's rare that the LFS has zoas like that in as well.. We just got really lucky.. Price was unbeatable... 5 or more for $20/each.. Very nice stuff! Thanks reefman... My LFS, Red Coral Aquarium, got some new SPS colonies in yesterday, and when I went in to do my weekly photos for the store, I ended up coming home with one. I gotta admit, I HATE the rocks/cement that most of these colonies come in on, so I decided to remove the colony from the rock and mount it on 3 frag stones. It's a deep water acro, but I'm still working on the proper ID.. Here's a few more misc. SPS photos... I've had LOTS of time to sit around and take pictures of my tank this week, hope nobody minds the pics. Quick shot of Zac and Miri.. Link to comment
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