Chronicle of my 180g Aquarium - Page 16

Psyire · #**376** 03/19/2006, 04:33 PM

From my BTT Feeding thread:
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YES!

A large victory today! He ate a mixture of krill, mysis, plankton & cyclopeeze. However it had to be delivered via. the turkey baster. I'm thinking he's starting to dig this turkey baster as he isn't shying away from it at all. He comes right out and starts biting at the end. He's still not eating the food out of the water column yet, but this is a good start.

I'm happy to have got quite abit into his stomach today. He ate fairly well. He won't touch the food coming out of the baster if he dosen't get it 'right away'. If it happens to float down below him or behind him, he won't go after it. He just heads back to the baster. He seems to be most interested in the food moving inside the baster as I gently 'pulse' it to get it to come out.

I'd also like to point out that I witnessed him 'gulping' or trying to eat things in the water column while he was swimming around.

I plan to continue updating this thread with my trigger feeding adventure incase sometime down the road someone else has the same problem.

I'm very happy he's eating!
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alien9168 · #**377** 03/20/2006, 08:54 PM

WOW!!!!

I Just read the whole thread....ya 16 pages worth. And I gotta say WOW!!!

This is an amazing, multiple project thread. I really like the way it turned out!

-alien

alien9168 · #**378** 03/20/2006, 08:54 PM

OOPS.

Psyire · #**379** 03/20/2006, 09:42 PM

Thanks alien, I hope it was somewhat informative.

Cutiewitbooty · #**380** 03/20/2006, 10:02 PM

great news about the trigger

Do you have a current full tank shot?

alien9168 · #**381** 03/20/2006, 10:16 PM

Definatly informative. Thanks again1

Its threads like these that can realy educate al of us.
And lets face it. This project is just plaine interesting

Keep up the good work.

-alien

Psyire · #**382** 03/20/2006, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cutiewitbooty
great news about the trigger Do you have a current full tank shot?

No current tank shot but I hope to take a bunch of pictures on thursday, so I'll see what I can do.

Psyire · #**383** 03/20/2006, 11:55 PM

alien, no problem and thanks!

alien9168 · #**384** 03/21/2006, 06:03 PM

Your welcome

-alien

Psyire · #**385** 03/22/2006, 01:10 AM

I caught my Marble Sea Stars close together today so I had to snap some pictures.

Added March 5th and doing well so far:

NexDog · #**386** 03/22/2006, 01:16 AM

Awesome. I think I'm going to get some next month.

Cutiewitbooty · #**387** 03/22/2006, 10:30 AM

awaeome stars, wish i could have a starfish lol

Bax · #**388** 03/22/2006, 10:36 AM

Very nice stars

alien9168 · #**389** 03/22/2006, 07:21 PM

amber-
why cant you get a strfish?

-alien

Psyire · #**390** 04/10/2006, 01:50 PM

So I snapped a few pictures yesterday...

My trigger is doing well but he still will only eat from a turkey baster. Atleast I'm not worried about his health anymore, and I'm sure he'll come around to eating pellets and Nori.

I got a crazy flu a week or so ago and it took a lot out of me which resulted in very little attention to my tank. I was able to pick up some more SPS frags and Zoa frags which I hope to take some pictures of shortly.

While playing with my camera I figured out some settings that will allow me to take better pictures of my corals. (Manual White Balance) The full tank shot below is sort of a test of this as I was playing around with the settings.

Anyways, on to the pictures:

This shot shows the corals well but the color is off. It's more what it would look like if I was running 10K halides with no actinics. IRL it's more blue.

alien9168 · #**391** 04/10/2006, 03:02 PM

Beutiful trigger!

enamdjd · #**392** 04/10/2006, 05:23 PM

stunning pictures

hdtvguy · #**393** 04/11/2006, 02:27 AM

Great pics I see you are getting beter with that camera

Cprowler · #**394** 04/20/2006, 11:28 PM

Hey Psyire, I just stumbled across your thread. Looks great, I look forward to following your progress.

RonBuck · #**395** 04/21/2006, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Psyire
So I snapped a few pictures yesterday...

My trigger is doing well but he still will only eat from a turkey baster. Atleast I'm not worried about his health anymore, and I'm sure he'll come around to eating pellets and Nori.

I got a crazy flu a week or so ago and it took a lot out of me which resulted in very little attention to my tank. I was able to pick up some more SPS frags and Zoa frags which I hope to take some pictures of shortly.

While playing with my camera I figured out some settings that will allow me to take better pictures of my corals. (Manual White Balance) The full tank shot below is sort of a test of this as I was playing around with the settings.

Anyways, on to the pictures:

This shot shows the corals well but the color is off. It's more what it would look like if I was running 10K halides with no actinics. IRL it's more blue.

This probably got answered a few posts ago, but, what kind of Trigger is that?

tang_man_montreal · #**396** 04/21/2006, 10:19 PM

RonBuck,
It's a Bluethroat trigger (xanthichthys auromarginatus).

Psyire · #**397** 04/22/2006, 11:45 AM

Hey guys.. this thread badly needs an update. I hope to do so early in the week. Good news is that I've started (with the help of a friend) a website version of this thread. Should make things easier to find as this thread gets bigger.

Cutiewitbooty · #**398** 04/22/2006, 01:35 PM

wow really nice pictures!! Although some one needs to do a little coraline scraping lol I like the way the black sand looks, but i'm not willing to do the maintance on it lol How do you keep the black sand looking clean?

RonBuck · #**399** 04/22/2006, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tang_man_montreal
RonBuck,
It's a Bluethroat trigger (xanthichthys auromarginatus).

Thats what I thought. They are said to be reef safe, am I correct?

Cutiewitbooty · #**400** 04/22/2006, 08:19 PM

yup, pink tails are also reef safe