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Nice growth in corals. Always good to such tanks. 
Five yellow tangs. Added them all at the same time, that is pretty standard advice for having more than one. I also think people say have at least 3, 5 is better. Lots of space, lots of rock for them to hide in etc. Feeding is very important. I probably feed 3 sheets of algae that are about 4"x4" daily. PE Mysis, hikari mysis, rods food, and nutramar ova twice a day. Live blackworms probably 5 times a day. Up until I extracted the convict, I had 10 tangs. I wouldn't hesitate to add back a healthy purple tang. Maybe something else if I find something interesting. I am not sure I would mix in another acanthurus tang again though, I find them to be horribly aggressive (powder blues, lavenders, convict, achilles, sohal etc)
Tangs currently: Blonde Naso, Blue Hippo, Sailfin, Yellow eyed kole, and 5 yellow tangs.
Other fish:
Purple Tilefish, two clowns, two bangaii's, two mandarins, midas blenny, tailspot blenny, copperbanded butterly, royal gramma and a diamond goby.
I had the hippo and the convict. Added the sailfin and a week later added the five yellows and the yellow eyed kole, the two bangaii's and a copperband I eventually moved to another tank. I didn't lose any of them. In preparation for that day, I ramped up my feeding ahead of time because food, for the most part, is the bioload, not the fish.
Anyway, good luck.
Tangs currently: Blonde Naso, Blue Hippo, Sailfin, Yellow eyed kole, and 5 yellow tangs.
Other fish:
Purple Tilefish, two clowns, two bangaii's, two mandarins, midas blenny, tailspot blenny, copperbanded butterly, royal gramma and a diamond goby.
I had the hippo and the convict. Added the sailfin and a week later added the five yellows and the yellow eyed kole, the two bangaii's and a copperband I eventually moved to another tank. I didn't lose any of them. In preparation for that day, I ramped up my feeding ahead of time because food, for the most part, is the bioload, not the fish.
Anyway, good luck.
BashfulBacterium
Senior Member
Yours was a 165? :doh: I thought it was a 180 and that you finally made a thread on it
So has the undata regained the blue in its polyps? I am loving that massive red monti you got in there.
BashfulBacterium
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Removed the ATS 3/8/2013. I had biopellets running in a spare tank for about 4 weeks. I put them online along with a BK Mini 200. The other thing I did was finish my water change station recently. I had been doing an embarrassing three separate 20 gallon water changes a week since....heck, may. I am now back to a single 40G water change per week. I can up the gallons if I need to. So far, everything is rocking along. No pics, except for what I call the octopus.....the height of this thing makes it an issue. Oh well, I will keep thinking.
your such a "Pill"
Same here. Jimmy James inspired me to do 5 yellows as well. I added them all at once. It just so happened that SWE had an overrun on yellow tangs at the time because the supplier messed up the order and sent too many so I got a pretty good deal buying 5 as a package deal so I jumped on it.
I have a sailfin, regal, and purple tang as well. Purple was and still is king. All new fish have to answer to him first. Not really much bickering between the yellow tangs themselves initially. Purple kept them all on their toes. Once in for a while, the yellows established a pecking order as well. I have 8 tangs total and they all get random nicks here and there. No clue if it's just all being agreesive during nori time or ocassional fighting when I'm not around to see it. I feed 1 full sheet per day many times 1.5 sheets. I have several flavors of nori, the tangs go nuts over the Julian Sprung purple nori far and away more than green, red, brown varieties. They eat all of them but only the purple gets devoured in seconds. The others will iet on the clip for a couple of hours and only picked at until eventually all gone.
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Here you go, Ray, just for you. I didn't even scrape the glass. Also, only the two Blue+ bulbs are on and the fish are all settling in for the night...
Grigor's rockwork certainly 100 times better than mine, but he's been doing this for 17 years, me 3. I can only hope that if I am lucky enough to build another large tank, I can do as good a job on the rockwork as he has. For now, I don't like to move rocks around.
Grigor's rockwork certainly 100 times better than mine, but he's been doing this for 17 years, me 3. I can only hope that if I am lucky enough to build another large tank, I can do as good a job on the rockwork as he has. For now, I don't like to move rocks around.
Thanks for the compliment but the down side, you would never be able to mount all those corals on my rockwork. Maybe half of them if your lucky.
Pics, or it didn't happen, Tommy.
My local fish consultant said I could have blue throat triggers, so I added a pair. In a week or two I may post about the bugger of a time I had removing them, but for now, the wife is excited....
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Female:
My local fish consultant said I could have blue throat triggers, so I added a pair. In a week or two I may post about the bugger of a time I had removing them, but for now, the wife is excited....
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Female:
tommylee22
Senior Member
Nice pics James
Someone asked me for an update. I said there wasn't anything to report, but I will oblige anyway.
The only 'news' is that I have a bubble king super marin 250 (used) on the way that will replace the Bubble King Mini 200. Since I got some help building a new sump, I have more room and flexibility for larger equipment. I owe that dude.... The BK mini will go on the 120G...
Triggers in a reef tank!
Went back to Auto White balance....probably shouldn't have.
The only 'news' is that I have a bubble king super marin 250 (used) on the way that will replace the Bubble King Mini 200. Since I got some help building a new sump, I have more room and flexibility for larger equipment. I owe that dude.... The BK mini will go on the 120G...
Triggers in a reef tank!
Went back to Auto White balance....probably shouldn't have.
I do like the AWB photos better, beautiful tank James.
The auto white balance ones look more correct. It takes quite a few photos to find the correct manual setting for each tank. I probably took 10-15 different pictures of white pieces of paper, plastic, walls etc before I got one that had the correct amount of blueish magenta that made my tank photos look correct. I find this to be even more important under LEDs, your lighting with AWB seems to be a little easier on the camera.
The growth looks great James! Tons of pieces I recognize have grown an inch or two.
The growth looks great James! Tons of pieces I recognize have grown an inch or two.
veloboy
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I too prefer the AWB photos James. Tank looks great nice growth. Jealous! Keep us posted on the new skimmer and any changes you notice when its online.
Not much to say. I have been pulling out the LPS/Softies. Still have a few to go. If I can get four yellow tangs out and the tube anemones out, I might get a raccoon butterfly fish to eat the aiptasia, but it is more likely I will just try an aiptasia eating filefish once the softies/lps are fully gone.
I am now running a Bubble King super marin 250 and bio pellets. I also just switched to an apex lite with 16 outlets. Somewhere in there I got a new sump built too, maybe I mentioned some of this before. I don't know. No issues with fish or corals, just trying to weed out things to maintain space for all the fish.
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How big is your blue tang? Everyone is always shocked to see mine come out from behind the rockwork...
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This is the 120, this is where the majority of my LPS/Softies have gone. The montis are in my tank to rehab for someone that was having tank problems, they should vacate shortly.
Working on an orange spot filefish or two for this tank. Had some issues with fish after the changeover from the 40B. I won't be adding any tangs back to this tank.
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I am now running a Bubble King super marin 250 and bio pellets. I also just switched to an apex lite with 16 outlets. Somewhere in there I got a new sump built too, maybe I mentioned some of this before. I don't know. No issues with fish or corals, just trying to weed out things to maintain space for all the fish.
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How big is your blue tang? Everyone is always shocked to see mine come out from behind the rockwork...
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This is the 120, this is where the majority of my LPS/Softies have gone. The montis are in my tank to rehab for someone that was having tank problems, they should vacate shortly.
Working on an orange spot filefish or two for this tank. Had some issues with fish after the changeover from the 40B. I won't be adding any tangs back to this tank.
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DIZZER
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Beautiful tank! I thought I saw a white urchin in some of the pics, does he ever move or break stuff? I always had trouble with mine tipping over newly placed corals.