Renton's Evolution from 200 to 440 gallons

revsgirl · Nov 19, 2012

Looks amazing!! Thanks for sharing!!

Renton777 · Nov 30, 2012

A couple days ago I noticed the colors on my blue star leopard wrasse looked kind of strange. After looking at it for a bit I realized she is changing into a he

A few months ago (she is the top one):

Today:

SeahorseKeeper · Nov 30, 2012

Very cool! I think it is neat to see progression pics like this.

MarvinsReef · Dec 1, 2012

very cool.

Renton777 · Dec 23, 2012

Updated leopard wrasse pattern change:

I got several corals as early Christmas presents over the past couple weeks

Space Invader Pectinia:

Blue Mouth-Green Rim Lithophyllon:

From back to front, TG watermelon Orange Psammacora (has a green rim but can't see it in the picture), Magenta Psammacora, WWC Tiger Stripe Psammacora:

Renton777 · Dec 23, 2012

After the transfer to the new tank I had serveral corals that had colors fade. They have all made a nice comeback in the past month. Here are a few update shots of some of them:

Bonsai

Jason Fox Outerspace Psammocora

Pumpkin Pie/Pimpin Pie

Jason Fox Freak Hair Pavona

No name, bleached badly but making a nice comeback

Unknown, bleached badly but making a nice comeback:

forgot the name

Neon Green Deepwater:

Pink Panther, encrusting nicely!

Renton777 · Dec 23, 2012

Green Hummulis:

Too Lazy to look the name up right now:

I think this is a pink lemonade:

Blue Tip Stag:

Length Veiw:

Renton777 · Dec 23, 2012

Jason Fox Jack-O-Lantern Leptoseris:

Green Leptoseris:

Renton777 · Dec 23, 2012

Flame Thrower Blastomussa under the royal blue led's

seth&angelle · Dec 23, 2012

Would you mind telling us more about the file fish. I could see in the video that they pick. How does affect your corals? What corals do the mainly pick at? You tank is beautiful by the way. I've been thinking about adding a pair, but I've been afraid to.

skinz78 · Dec 24, 2012

Very nice update, things are looking great!

Renton777 · Dec 24, 2012

seth&angelle said:
Would you mind telling us more about the file fish. I could see in the video that they pick. How does affect your corals? What corals do the mainly pick at? You tank is beautiful by the way. I've been thinking about adding a pair, but I've been afraid to.

Here is a summary I wrote in a different forum. I will say you will not see any sps polyps during the day, but the corals seem to grow just the same.

I had my first pair in a 93 gallon cube mixed reef. They ate ova and sometimes Roggerâ€™s food, however after 6 months one of them quickly lost weight, stopped eating and wasted away over a 2 week period. The second fish did the same thing after 9 months even though it continued to eat well. That was about 5 months ago.

I have since upgraded to a 210 gallon mixed reef and added significantly more sps corals to my collection. While I tried to resist the temptation to get another pair, I could not resist last week when Diverâ€™s Den had a pair up for 4 or 5 days.

Before the fish even arrived I sought out additional Pocillopora frags/colonies as my first pair had always liked to snack on it.

When the new pair arrived they were in great shape and had more weight than my first pair had when they arrived. They were nipping sps in no time. Additionally they ate ova right away. After watching them for a week there are a few differences between this new pair versus my first pair that has me optimistic that this pair will fair better. First, the new pair has already accepted a wider variety of food - ova, cyclopeeze, sustainable aquatics hatchery diet pellets and mysis shrimp. The old pair really only ate ova on a regular basis. Second, the new pair both eat right out of the water column versus the old pair only picking food off the bottom. Third, I have a lot more sps that they may be able to snack on and if needed I can get a steady supply of pocillopora from the local reefing community.