My Red Sea Reefer Build thread

[canadianeh]

It seems you know a lot about anthias.

which ones are compatible with the following fish stock list? Tank is 3 ft 55 gallons with 10 gallons sump.
-2 clowns
-1 banggai cardinal
- 1 royal gramma
-1 pink streaked wrasse
-1 Tanaka Pygmy wrasse
-1 yellow watchman goby
-1 Molly Miller blenny/lawnmower

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Randalls and resplendent anthias would be a good fit in my opinion, they stay somewhat smaller and arent overly difficult. Id say add them before the royal gramma, if its not already in the tank, i dont imagine therell be much of an issue there, just ive found my black cap gramma not to be a fan of new anthias too much, so it may scare them.

Dispars and ignitus may work too but ive no experience with them. Other species like the red saddle and their cousins like the aurulentrus and lori may work too but they can be somewhat difficult to condition, and subject to washing out under the bright lights of a reef tank, ive found, but that may just be a diet thing for me or bad choice in lighting for my tank.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

I love these crabs, pretty sure ive seen them eat bubble algae.

These corals have been doing pretty well too.

And a photo of Mr burgess

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Last night there was a huge thunderstorm here so we had to unplug all sockets. Including the fish tank. Unfortunately this resulted in the last red saddle anthias passing away, and sadly my little randalls anthias has been MIA for a few days, im worried an aiptasia got her, as theres a few big ones i meant to kill but forgot to. Quite upsetting and frustrating .

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

On a lighter note, a drawing i attempted.

And my 4ish years old ikea orchid bloomed

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

A few nice old photos i found of some of my fish

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Update video

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Cute photo i got

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Bad photo but i love it lol.

And aome nice pics.

Readded the filefish to solve aiptasia issues, but of course he decided he no longer likes it after, i saw him eating it a week or 2 ago lol. So maybe a contraption out of an orchid pot to.protect the duncan he tried to murder a while ago, which is he weird plastic thing in the photo

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Got some new frags today, they look a little questionable in parts which i didnt realise but hopefully they recover. Knowing my luck they wont.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Im not very happy with my tank lately, but heres some nicish fish photos

 

[zzyz]

Im not very happy with my tank lately, but heres some nicish fish photos

Amazing! Were the two fish in the first pic fighting with each other?

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Amazing! Were the two fish in the first pic fighting with each other?

Thanks. They were just sort of play fighting. The angel chases the butterfly and they flare fins every now and then, but thats all that really happens. The angel just likes to boss him around sometimes lol

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

One of my corals that doesnt try to die. Think its called a watermelon psammocora. Idk lol

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

The new stylo hasnt died yet too, so i guess thats a plus

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Black cap gramma doing well.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Theres currently a very tiny and cute 1 inch vampire tang at my lfs which is making me question all my morals. I must resist lol.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Really wish these were more common (not my photo)

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Stuck the stylo down so lets hope it grows and bes pretty. Think i may increase lighting intensity also as i believe its a little low maybe.

And my oldest big daddy lyretail lol. Hes rather chubby haha.

If anyone wants a simple, non invasive xenia type coral, i recommend sympodium, its rather slow growing compared to xenia and nowhere near as invasive.

Blastos doing well too, definitely one of my favourite corals.

Mr pencil wrasse. A real pain in the wrasse the photo (i hate that pun but it feels apt lol)

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

A full tank shot that proves i need morw colour in my tank in terms of corals lol. Unfortunately my pretty hammer died for unknown reasons. I also moved the gorgonian into the spot light a little