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@Kurkis493 I noticed there is a black longnose tang in your pictures. What happened to him?
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He is still in the tank. My current fish list in my initial post is up to date.
My "core" of fish has been with me for awhile.
Clowns - March 2013
Midas Blenny - August 2013
Achilles / Black / Hippo Tangs - February 2014
Orchid Dottybak / Neon Gobies - June 2014
Four-line Wrasse - September 2014
Borbonius Anthias - February 2015
I've tried to add dispar anthias twice and the tangs pretty much chased them around the tank and I lost them 1 by 1 over a couple of weeks.
My latest attempt was a Copperband from Diver's Den that I got a few days before Christmas. They left the butterfly alone after a couple of days and I was optimistic he would make it. Unfortunately, despite feeding an array of prepared foods (including what Diver's Den says they feed him) the fish never ate in my system and died 18 days after receiving him.
That was a sign to me that I shouldn't add anymore fish.
I've got my "dream" fish in the black tang and I am also fortunate enough to have the achilles and borbonius anthias.
The tangs are getting big and will need a new system sooner than later. We are moving before the end of 2016 and I am going to set-up something along the lines of a 225 or 300 gallon. I plan to keep my "core" and add to that a pair of crosshatch triggers and a sohal tang. I won't give up my clowns but I don't like the anemone in the tank. Over the past couple of months my clowns started to spawn and the female is getting more territorial. They will probably end up in a sectioned off part of a grow-out tang I plan to set-up to the main system.
My least favorite in the system is an orchid dottybak but I wanted a purple fish. I am not really fond of my achilles tang and only purchased him because a friend of mine insisted that I should have an achilles tang in my tank.
My "core" of fish has been with me for awhile.
Clowns - March 2013
Midas Blenny - August 2013
Achilles / Black / Hippo Tangs - February 2014
Orchid Dottybak / Neon Gobies - June 2014
Four-line Wrasse - September 2014
Borbonius Anthias - February 2015
I've tried to add dispar anthias twice and the tangs pretty much chased them around the tank and I lost them 1 by 1 over a couple of weeks.
My latest attempt was a Copperband from Diver's Den that I got a few days before Christmas. They left the butterfly alone after a couple of days and I was optimistic he would make it. Unfortunately, despite feeding an array of prepared foods (including what Diver's Den says they feed him) the fish never ate in my system and died 18 days after receiving him.
That was a sign to me that I shouldn't add anymore fish.
I've got my "dream" fish in the black tang and I am also fortunate enough to have the achilles and borbonius anthias.
The tangs are getting big and will need a new system sooner than later. We are moving before the end of 2016 and I am going to set-up something along the lines of a 225 or 300 gallon. I plan to keep my "core" and add to that a pair of crosshatch triggers and a sohal tang. I won't give up my clowns but I don't like the anemone in the tank. Over the past couple of months my clowns started to spawn and the female is getting more territorial. They will probably end up in a sectioned off part of a grow-out tang I plan to set-up to the main system.
My least favorite in the system is an orchid dottybak but I wanted a purple fish. I am not really fond of my achilles tang and only purchased him because a friend of mine insisted that I should have an achilles tang in my tank.
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Alot of people talking about this one... Better shot of the whole colony and even then I cannot fit the entire thing into the shot. I wanna say from left to right what you see in the image is about a foot of the colony.
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Dang!!
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What are you current maintenance routines for this tank, any changes from earlier?
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Everything at the start of the thread is up to date. I know I need to pay for the ability to edit posts but if anything changes for the system I will post it there.
I do a system update with any progression pics at the beginning of the month. I'll probably have something posted Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
January was a fun (however expensive it was) month to be in this hobby. I picked up a whopping 43 new frags for the system and now that Fedex is back on track, I have a couple of wild caught colonies arriving next week as well.
My tank is pretty full and to make room I blew-up my green digi colony today and I am parting that out to hobbyists in the area. The left part of my tank was a little too bland for my taste and the digi got so big that it didn't look balanced against the rest of the tank. I feel a little bad that I just broke down my hippo tangs sleeping spot but I think once I move a couple of things around and add a couple more pieces, the tank will look alot nicer. I hope.
Once I clean-up the million digi fragments off my barebottom and get some stuff moved around and my new corals in the tank I'll get an update up.
I do a system update with any progression pics at the beginning of the month. I'll probably have something posted Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
January was a fun (however expensive it was) month to be in this hobby. I picked up a whopping 43 new frags for the system and now that Fedex is back on track, I have a couple of wild caught colonies arriving next week as well.
My tank is pretty full and to make room I blew-up my green digi colony today and I am parting that out to hobbyists in the area. The left part of my tank was a little too bland for my taste and the digi got so big that it didn't look balanced against the rest of the tank. I feel a little bad that I just broke down my hippo tangs sleeping spot but I think once I move a couple of things around and add a couple more pieces, the tank will look alot nicer. I hope.
Once I clean-up the million digi fragments off my barebottom and get some stuff moved around and my new corals in the tank I'll get an update up.
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While it kills this Digi lover to hear that, I'm excited to see what you have in store! Knowing your skills, its going to be great. Do you think this will cause a major shift in your tank's parameters?
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For February, to celebrate the up coming release of the "JF Homewrecker" a FTS under my Reef Brite LEDs using a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge set on auto with the exception of the ISO which was set to 250 and an orange gel filter. No post editting was done besides cropping.
The green digitata in the front left was removed recently and replaced with a few pieces (some new, some moved from the backside of my rocks). The green digi grew so large it blocked out my rainbow monti and a couple of milli frags from getting light so they are pretty browned out. Hopefully now they will color-up quickly. The rainbow montipora sort of went out of sight, out of mind for over a year and it was cool to see how much it managed to encrust off the plug.
I've never been a frag guy at all however, this past month I sort-of went all in and ended up getting 45 frags from various places. I've been able to get several popular RR pieces, a Fox Flame along with a Walt Disney and CC Disney Jr. I picked up 5 of the 45 pieces from a Gonzo live sale a couple of weeks ago and I am hoping to receive those this week.
As for my dosing and what not, I struggle with color across _all_ pieces in my tank. I really stepped up my amino acid and pohl's xtra dosing in January and I saw some positive results. I've been asking myself alot lately if my tank is grown in enough to where the corals can actually be my nutrient export and that Zeovit at this point is doing my system more harm than good. I read Adam's post on this subject on his sponsor forum and while I am not going to drop Zeovit cold turkey I am going to loosen its grip on my system this month to see what happens. My dosing regiment will remain unchanged however, my Zeovit reactor is now set to run 3 hours on and 3 hours off. This went into effect this past Sunday and while I do not think much is going to change this week, I will start to watch my nutrient dosing to make sure things don't go sideways. I am expecting to see more improvements in coloration by the end of the month.
Once some of these new frags and new pieces get some color on them I will get some nice close-ups.
The green digitata in the front left was removed recently and replaced with a few pieces (some new, some moved from the backside of my rocks). The green digi grew so large it blocked out my rainbow monti and a couple of milli frags from getting light so they are pretty browned out. Hopefully now they will color-up quickly. The rainbow montipora sort of went out of sight, out of mind for over a year and it was cool to see how much it managed to encrust off the plug.
I've never been a frag guy at all however, this past month I sort-of went all in and ended up getting 45 frags from various places. I've been able to get several popular RR pieces, a Fox Flame along with a Walt Disney and CC Disney Jr. I picked up 5 of the 45 pieces from a Gonzo live sale a couple of weeks ago and I am hoping to receive those this week.
As for my dosing and what not, I struggle with color across _all_ pieces in my tank. I really stepped up my amino acid and pohl's xtra dosing in January and I saw some positive results. I've been asking myself alot lately if my tank is grown in enough to where the corals can actually be my nutrient export and that Zeovit at this point is doing my system more harm than good. I read Adam's post on this subject on his sponsor forum and while I am not going to drop Zeovit cold turkey I am going to loosen its grip on my system this month to see what happens. My dosing regiment will remain unchanged however, my Zeovit reactor is now set to run 3 hours on and 3 hours off. This went into effect this past Sunday and while I do not think much is going to change this week, I will start to watch my nutrient dosing to make sure things don't go sideways. I am expecting to see more improvements in coloration by the end of the month.
Once some of these new frags and new pieces get some color on them I will get some nice close-ups.
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Electrobes
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It's looking great! 45 frags!?!? Wow!
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Yeah... I look at my colonies and then my frags and think, "this maybe fraggable in 2 years".
Eight of the ten frags on the bottom right corner are encrusted on the plugs and I don't like gluing plugs to my rockwork so they will sit there. The other two are an experiement. I have two frags, one attached to the plug horizontal and the other vertical. I want to see just how much faster the horizontal frag grows out over the vertical one. I got a couple wild aussie colonies recently and one of them had 4 zoas polyps attached to the same rocks. I put them on a plug which is also on that rock so that would actually make 46 frags this past month!
On that frag rock I have a JF Sour Twist, Walt Disney, CC Dreamcatcher, CC Jolly Rancher, Hot Stuff Secale, Looney Tunes Tenius, Hawkins Echinata, Mother of Pearl, Goldflake and the zoas.
Eight of the ten frags on the bottom right corner are encrusted on the plugs and I don't like gluing plugs to my rockwork so they will sit there. The other two are an experiement. I have two frags, one attached to the plug horizontal and the other vertical. I want to see just how much faster the horizontal frag grows out over the vertical one. I got a couple wild aussie colonies recently and one of them had 4 zoas polyps attached to the same rocks. I put them on a plug which is also on that rock so that would actually make 46 frags this past month!
On that frag rock I have a JF Sour Twist, Walt Disney, CC Dreamcatcher, CC Jolly Rancher, Hot Stuff Secale, Looney Tunes Tenius, Hawkins Echinata, Mother of Pearl, Goldflake and the zoas.
