Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

[SashimiTurtle]

Looks like a Cirrhilabrus lubbocki to me.

It does look like a Lubbock's fairy... but a male and not a female. Good eye. I have a post on evolved's wrasse ID thread. The experts should chime in in a little while.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

It's already eating. Looks healthy as an ox, but I'll give it a week or two just to be sure. I saw a very small rusty angel in another tank flash a time or two.... angels are so pretty, and centropyge are one of my favorite fish. But I like my squishy bouncy LPS too much.

 

[Brew12]

This member of the fan club approves of the changes!

 

[Scurvy]

Yikes! Another update missed and 160 posts later im caught up.

You know I Love the Wrasse!

Chemicleans messy but does the job!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

@Scurvy... my fellow wrasse man. I'll try and remember to just tag you every few days... glad you're still keeping up, even if you're getting drug behind the boat. Lol

 

[Scurvy]

I’m with ya!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Tank is 100% clear. Also, poor Tiny Tim is lost. I need some barnacles for him...

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Lights out quick inspection reveals a new critter. Micro brittle star!!! This, this is why I prefer actual live rock to dry rock. Life. Reef tanks need life in all shapes and sizes. To quote a great movie from my youth, "Life, uhh, life finds a way."

 

[Brew12]

This, this is why I prefer actual live rock to dry rock.

I hate live rock. It keeps wandering around my tank looking for a spot it likes better.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I hate live rock. It keeps wandering around my tank looking for a spot it likes better.

 

[siggy]

Brave lad with the Bubbles, I was thinking using something like that for bubble algae but chickened out and just removed the LR and gave them a acid bath and a good long soak in the garage. The new rock is sweet, at first I thought you got that coraline in a bottle and went back and witnessed your Bubble Bloom...I wish I could find LR like that around here they stick dry rock ($3.99) in a big tank for a week or two and charge $10.99 and the tank is just full of B.A. and aptaisa . BTW the corals didn't seem to mind the bubble bath and that's a cool little wrasse.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

That store charges $6/lb for most of their LR. Theres a Red Sea tank with some premium rock thats a little higher. They usually have a huge trough with rock in it but it sprung a leak and had just a little rock sitting in some water with no flow. Those were $3/lb. The rocks I got came out of a tank with fish in it. I ended up with 4 rocks that filled up my 5g bucket and just over 25lbs. That one tall one in the back of the tank is just as tall as the bucket. That was the first rock I picked out. It kinda jumped out at me.

Everything in that store is for sale. See a rock in a display tank you like? It's for sale. Cool fish, for sale. Coral, for sale. Tank, yea most of those are for sale too. Even the running ones. He's got a 300g deep dimension fully stocked with two AP700s over top of it for the low price of $14,000. EVERYTHING included, even the 5ft eel.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Its here...

 

[sfin52]

What is it?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Lobophyllia... it's all tucked up right now from shipping. Can't wait for it to get all comfy in my tank.

 

[najer]

Go new squishy coral.

 

[siggy]

NICE......I have a couple and I like-um. I use them to tell me when something is off in the tank. Mine like med flow and light..they also know immediately when food is in the tank

 

[sfin52]

@siggy how do they tell you when something is off

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Cool hitchhiker #2, purple star polyps. They're on the tall rock. SPS tower.

Had to move the Lobo, someone kept knocking into it and moving it around. This isn't the final spot for it, it's too close to those acans. It's still closed up and there are sharp little spikes poking out everywhere. Hopefully by tomorrow it'll open up.

 

[Zack K]

Those look like clove Polyps[emoji263][emoji102][emoji263]