William's Fijicube 108 EXT, Bananna Eel

[William]

This tank is cursed …

[William]

All of my fish are in QT, With CP and copper. 
 

they can return to the main tank in 72 days…. 😩

[mitten_reef]

21 hours ago, William said:

This tank is cursed …

what is it?  dead nem, sick nem, split nem?  looks ok, but hard to tell from the glass glare...

[William]

13 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

what is it?  dead nem, sick nem, split nem?  looks ok, but hard to tell from the glass glare...

My H. malu, with my copperbanded butterflyfish in its mouth. 

[mitten_reef]

3 minutes ago, William said:

My H. malu, with my copperbanded butterflyfish in its mouth. 

ohhh, wow.  I actually didn't quite make it out as a fish, I thought it was some sort of striations on the oral disc.  sorry man

[William]

Wasp fish is dead 

[William]

While the display is fallow (until 10/1/21), I think I will add a group of peppermint shrimp to the display in order to tackle the
Aptasia currently plaguing the tank. 

 

Hopefully my current fish make it through quarantine, but this extremely unfortunate event has made me reflect on what direction I want to take the tank.  So far this Ich outbreak has killed: Mombassa lionfish, Flame angel, Bluethroat trigger, Red bandtail waspfish.

 

 

[William]

I will be quarantining all new fish additions from now on, and potentially all coral additions as well….. the past three weeks have been brutal.  I am also debating removing the sand from my Aquarium. I have never had an Ich outbreak like this when I ran bare bottom tanks. 

[William]

I also plan to keep all of my dead fish on my first post page. I think people should do this .

[William]

So far there have been no other casualties in QT, all of the other dish seem to be doing better. I will have to keep them In QT until October 1st. 
 

Now I just have to decide on what other fish I want to put in there with them. 
 

I think I want another copperband butterfly fish, bluethroat triggerfish, and a tang of some type. I would also consider getting another Mombasa lionfish, or a marine Betta, or potentially even a bananna eel. 

[William]

I purchased another H. mag from Nemguy on R2R. Should be delivered on 8/4. 

[William]

My two H. mags “Riterri” anemones 

[William]

And a video of the new anemone:

 

 

[William]

Fts

[William]

 

my three H. mags, under ambient sunlight. 

[DevilDuck]

That anemone is magnificent! I heard they grow large and fast. 

[William]

1 hour ago, DevilDuck said:

That anemone is magnificent! I heard they grow large and fast. 

It’s true, and I have three of them 

[DevilDuck]

12 hours ago, William said:

It’s true, and I have three of them 

There’s a smaller one that has been at my lfs for a while and I’m thinking of purchasing it. Any tips or advice? I keep reading about how hard they are to keep alive.

[William]

Aquarium fish stocking list:

 

Current (in a separate QT tank):

2x ocellaris clowns (designer)

Fuzzy dwarf lion 

Long nose hawk fish 

One spot foxface 

 

I will also absolutely be getting a Copperband butterfly

 

Possible additions:

 

Clownfish: pair of spoticinicus 

Pair of black saddleback 

 

Algae eaters (will pick one):

Additional one spot fox face 

Tomini tang 

Scopas tang (likely an abbarent one) 

 

Large fish (will pick one or two) :

Blue throat trigger 

Marine beta

EEL (snowflake, skeleton, bananna) 

Mombasa lionfish

 

Medium sized all over fish (will pick one or two) 

Flame angel  

Flame back angel 

Coral beauty angel 

Swallowtail angel 

Swissguard basslet 

mystery wrasse 

leopard wrasse 

 

Open water fish:

3-4 Cardinals (flame, kundrens) 

3-4 Atlantic chalk bass 
 

any thoughts? Additions ? I am

obviously not getting all

od these fish, but there are some of the ones I am considering:

[William]

Found this guy at an LFS in Texas. Going to pick him up on the way to the airport tomorrow to take back to NYC with me. 

[William]

And now in QT. 
 

was pretty crazy taking him on a plane flight though…. TSA was not amused. 
 

he/she is now in QT

[Ratvan]

Hows the Eel doing today? 

[William]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CVVcioqscnd/?utm_medium=copy_link

[Jaren45]

How are you liking the unos? Are they super purple or more light blue in spectrum?

[William]

21 hours ago, Jaren45 said:

How are you liking the unos? Are they super purple or more light blue in spectrum?

I like them. Ans both too be honest. If I turn the violets down, it’s more of a crisp blue. If you run all of the “blue” channels at 100, then I would say it’s more of a purple/blue.