Beware the Shallows! jedimasterben's 80g shallow reef!

Just got back from Miramar and meeting with 'Reefer Eric', he's a really cool guy! Got three acan frags, a piece of some sort of digitata (reddish orangeish), a pretty chalice, and a free frag of Miami hurricanes zoas! Was worth the four hour total drive time, IMHO.
 
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I tried getting pictures, but the little girls are small and hidey, and the big boy doesn't want to stay still long enough to get a good picture. A video may suffice though, I'll try and take one now. :)
 
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I didn't have any water mixed - I wasn't planning on picking them up right now, but the LFS I got the anthias from had them on a super special, and the LFS the tang is from had just gotten him in. I know not to bring home fish that have JUST been brought in, but at least this one wasn't shipped, it was hand transported from a couple of hours away and had been at that facility for a while. When the order came in, the wholesaler and the LFS owner were talking, and the wholesaler looks over at the tang and picks the bag up and says to the LFS guy 'I wouldn't put this in your tanks, it has ich, I will take it back if you want.' then looks at me and says 'wait, were you gonna take it?' I nodded and said he's going straight into QT to be treated, and he then said to the LFS owner 'ok, have him let you know if it doesn't make it and I will bring you a new one no charge.' And that's the story of how I ended up bringing home so many. :)
 
Three of them for now. They're freakin adorable! And they eat so daintily, it's so funny! My wife LOVED them. She didn't know I was getting them (and has been maddddd at me this week for getting in a large order of coral, which I forgot to pictures here of, whoops!) and told me not to get any more fish, but she saw them and loved them and is still happy, so score! :)


As for the corals I got, all those from Harry's frags were in perfect health, the birdsnest ranged from not broken at all to a couple have an 1/8" piece or so broken off, and all were bigger than listed, the ponape is over twice as big as listed! The frags and macros from Metrokat and ZephNYC were awesome, I got a giant piece of Red Planet, but it RTN'd on me and all I have left is a 1/4" piece that isn't doing well. Other than that, I got a nice big frag of Eagle Eye zoas (one of my favorites, and it's got 30 polyps or so on it if I remember right), a 4p frag of Rastas, a nice four polyp candy cane, and a nice helping of blue ochtodes and grape caulerpa, both of which are now chilling out in the display. :)

I'm gonna attempt to get some pics this weekend, but all the ones I've taken so far are completely crap, you can only tell general shapes, no color to the pictures at all, except for the blue tint. I need a real camera with white balance and can shoot in RAW.
 
Coming tomorrow:

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Sorry some of those pics didn't turn out well, there was a LOT of ambient light and I didn't have a good lens for the camera, just the kit lens.
 
Great pics. Thanks. Are those metal halides in your fixture oh great LED guru?
 
Great pics. Thanks. Are those metal halides in your fixture oh great LED guru?
No, sir. Except for two CFL bulbs on the sump/algae scrubber, I am 100% LED. My new fuge light consists of 28x deep red and 6x royal blue. My algae scrubber is lit by 4x deep red, 4x royal blue, 4x violet, and 2x cool white (basically a frankenstein array with stuff I already had, and the display consists of 12x neutral white, 32x royal blue, 6x deep red, 6x cyan, 6x cool blue, 6x hyper violet, and 7x true violet.
 
Haha. Didn't think so but couldn't really tell from the pic. Thought maybes you were sneaking some MH's in. What type of anthias do you have?
 
Haha. Didn't think so but couldn't really tell from the pic. Thought maybes you were sneaking some MH's in. What type of anthias do you have?
No worries. ;)

Two Bartlett's anthias for now. Lost one in QT, still not sure as to why. I want a lot of anthias in this tank and I'll slowly build up to that. I want lyretail, princess, dispar, resplendent, and sunset. Probably not all of those will be in this tank, I've got plans to get something along the lines of 220g or so (60"x36"x20-24"). :)

Nice photo update! I love them clams!
Thanks! The blue maxima is the healthiest. It's attached, always highly reactive to shadows, and not gaping. The little squammy is attached via her actual foot (not byssal threads), doesn't gape, but isn't too reactive to light. The purple maxima isn't attached, is responsive to light (not as much as the blue maxima, though), but she gapes during the day as of the past couple of days. Her mantle looks a bit ruffly, so I'm keeping a close eye on her. They have plenty of nitrate to eat, though, so I'm not sure why she would be gaping.
 
As long as they are growing and putting on new shell you shouldn't have anything to worry about.
The blue maxima is the only one with new shell growth. He's gained about 1/4" of growth in the short time I've had him. The squammy and purple maxima don't have any new growth that I can see.
 

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