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Old 05/20/2005, 10:40 PM
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125 Gallon 8 Month Birthday

Well it's that time again, the 21st will be 8 months since I put the water in.
Updates on some of the fish I have taken out my dragon wrasse and loaned him to someone until I set up a FOWLR, he decided to kill 5 of my clams, my remaining clams are still alive but are missing their feet.
The flounder is also gone, I believe that my foxface stung him, for what reason I have no idea but I will have another one in my FOWLR down the road. I will post my fish list below, most of the larger ones will be transferred to the FOWLR so please don't flame me, I'm sure not everyone will read this first post so I'll have to repeat myself.
1 Foxface Rabbitfish
3 Chromis
2 True Percula Clowns
1 Gold-Striped Maroon Clown
1 Male Squampinis Anthias
1 Female Squampinis Anthias
1 Flame Angel
1 Sailfin Tang
1 Clown Tang
1 Blonde Naso Tang
1 Chevron Tang
2 Green Mandarins
1 Engineer Goby
1 Niger Trigger

As far as corals go there is too many to list. I was trying to go for a true mixed reef and not be dominant by one type. I think that I have a very good mixture of LPS, SPS, and softies.
Aquascaping is also very important to me and was one of the most time consuming parts of the project.
Let me know what you guys think.

Full Tank Shot


Left Side


Center


Right Side
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Old 05/20/2005, 10:44 PM
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Old 05/20/2005, 10:46 PM
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OK let's start with LPS



Blastos, Acans, and a Lobo


Here's some Blastos

Blue


Lime Green


Red/Green
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Old 05/20/2005, 10:49 PM
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Red Blastos


Bubble Coral


2 Types of Frogspawn


Purple/Green Brain


Rainbow Brain
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Old 05/20/2005, 10:50 PM
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Purple Brain


Orange Plate
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Old 05/20/2005, 10:52 PM
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Here's a couple of my clams, it's amazing how different they look from the top.




My Orange Scolymia


2 Scolymias
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Old 05/20/2005, 10:55 PM
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How about some SPS now
First a blue-tipped acro


These two pieces are highlighter yellow




Here's a green gem acro
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Old 05/20/2005, 10:58 PM
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Here's a few softies,

First my Yellow leather, definitely one of my favorites.


Green Ricordia


These 2 Ricordia rocks were started with one ric of each color.


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Old 05/20/2005, 11:01 PM
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Some Zoas and Rics




I'll do some more pics in a minute when my Gallery let's me
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Old 05/20/2005, 11:06 PM
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wow....kool tank.love all you fish but lil too much for the tank?let me know if you going let some that nice corals go....lol..love the tank
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Old 05/20/2005, 11:06 PM
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Here's my 2" baby clown tang with my pair of true perculas, just 3 clowns hangin around


Here's the perculas without the flash by the torch they're hosting



One of my Green Mandarins



Here's a couple pics of the fish eating nori


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Old 05/20/2005, 11:09 PM
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Here's a couple of pics of my feather star, I know someone who has had success with these and I'm going to try it, I defintely do not reccomend anyone go out and get one of these.


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Old 05/20/2005, 11:22 PM
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all i have to say is awsome..wish my tank looked like yours
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Old 05/20/2005, 11:35 PM
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I'm soooo jealus. I love your yellow leather. They are my favorite.
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Old 05/20/2005, 11:44 PM
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that is soooo nice. great job with the tank.
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Old 05/20/2005, 11:53 PM
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She is a real beauty. I was wondering if you went throught any problems like cyno, hair algae ,ich etc. to get to that masterpeice. My tank looks like crap and I was wondering if there is any hope for me or is it a lost cause.
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Old 05/20/2005, 11:56 PM
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How long have you had your feather star? and where did you get it? I love it!
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Old 05/21/2005, 12:17 AM
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Great looking tank. Lot of fish, lot of corals but it doesnt have the overcrowded look that I have seen with many tanks. Good job!
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Old 05/21/2005, 08:17 AM
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Thanks a lot guys for the comments, I tried to make the rockwork and coral placement as natural as possible, although you'll never find these different types of corals in the same ocean, you know what I mean.

Sean48183, This tank was actually not so bad, but I did have obstacles like algae, cyano almost every tank has in the beginning but can usually take care of itself. On this tank I run a 25 watt UV sterilizer so fish illness really isn't an issue other than the 2 previous flame angel I lost to cyanide.
In this hobby there are many learning stages, I guess we call this experience where everything just seems to go wrong. In my previous 55g after setting it all up my last fish introduced had brokklynella, killing all 7 of my fish and not letting me add fish for 7 weeks. I almost gave up the hobby, I'm glad that I didn't and I know that there are times where you just want to say screw it but that's why there are forums like this that will help you fix your problems and help you prevent them from happening again.

Micki, I picked it up last week, they've had green ones there for a little while but I wanted something special and I think I found it. That star is blood red and just gorgeous. They are a pain having to feed them often and with different food than the fish so we'll see if it's worth it or not.

Nuhtty, I have a lot of fish and corals but like you said it doesn't look like a LFS sale tank on shipment day. What's great about the tank is whenever you look at the tank you notice something different even if it's been there because there is just so much to lool at. As far as the fish I have no aggression issues not even with the clowns and it's really cool to watch the fish play and share nori together.
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Old 05/21/2005, 08:34 AM
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Micki, I picked it up last week, they've had green ones there for a little while but I wanted something special and I think I found it. That star is blood red and just gorgeous. They are a pain having to feed them often and with different food than the fish so we'll see if it's worth it or not.
What does it eat?
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Old 05/21/2005, 08:42 AM
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Greg:

Simply awesome.
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Old 05/21/2005, 08:42 AM
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I feed it phytoplankton, cyclopeeze, and daphnia, you can also feed them zooplex.
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Old 05/21/2005, 08:47 AM
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Do you hand feed or just add to the tank it's self?
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Old 05/21/2005, 09:00 AM
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Thanks Alberto, you should come by and check out the progress some time, pictures never show a tank well as you know. You may want a piece of some of these new SPSs.

Micki, I already dose those normally but you have to direct feed the star.
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Old 05/21/2005, 10:41 AM
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I took a few more pics today so I thought I would add on.

First is one of my starfish next to my blue spotted squamosa, a goniopora, and a madagascar leather frag I got yesterday.



Here are some more SPS shots







 

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