Tomoko Schum
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By the way, I love the look of your orange and green blastomussa in the 3rd picture. When you get ready to frag that one, please let me know.
Tomoko
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Nah, I just skim wet and do frequent water changes... I've explored using ozone and may in the future, but haven't come to that yet...
Tomoko~ I'll keep that in mind, I've had plenty of requests...
Hopefully it will have grown out a bit in the next year... Out of all the Blastos that one is the hungriest and always grabs a mysis at feeding... 
Tomoko Schum
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Please, please keep me in mind. I really love the color of the particular blasto.
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Tomoko Schum
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Looks bluer than before. Green stands out really well. You have a really nice collection of zoanthids and other corals. Your clams are really beautiful, too.
I love the way you have the tank set up. A lot of open space which is great to circulate the water in the tank. It's really neat to be able to see all three sides. too!
I am rethinking the way I have my tank aquascaped. My tank has a lot of live rocks with big caves built in it. My fish love the caves, but I am running out of space for my growing SPS's. I'd like to rearrange my tank to be more like yours with open space around the rocks.
By the way, my male carpenteri is now out in the open most of the time. I added a tiny one Friday night and it's hiding. An LFS got two baby wrasses in. One was supposed to be capenteri and the other another type of flasher or fairy wrasse. The latter turned out a yellowfin fairy wrasse. Its dorsal was not yellow but it had a dark small spot on the upper part of the caudal peduncle. I took the other bright orangish red fish home. I am hoping this fish is truly A. carpenteri, but I don't know how juvenile one supposed to look. I saw the picture of juvenile/female form in books and in Dr. Tanaka's article, but the real baby fish looked more colored up.
Sorry for hijacking the tread...
Tomoko
I love the way you have the tank set up. A lot of open space which is great to circulate the water in the tank. It's really neat to be able to see all three sides. too!
I am rethinking the way I have my tank aquascaped. My tank has a lot of live rocks with big caves built in it. My fish love the caves, but I am running out of space for my growing SPS's. I'd like to rearrange my tank to be more like yours with open space around the rocks.
By the way, my male carpenteri is now out in the open most of the time. I added a tiny one Friday night and it's hiding. An LFS got two baby wrasses in. One was supposed to be capenteri and the other another type of flasher or fairy wrasse. The latter turned out a yellowfin fairy wrasse. Its dorsal was not yellow but it had a dark small spot on the upper part of the caudal peduncle. I took the other bright orangish red fish home. I am hoping this fish is truly A. carpenteri, but I don't know how juvenile one supposed to look. I saw the picture of juvenile/female form in books and in Dr. Tanaka's article, but the real baby fish looked more colored up.
Sorry for hijacking the tread...
Tomoko
Well, there is a lot of natural hybridization that occurs between the different flashers... P. Filamentosus and P. Flavianalis are commonly found interbred... But P. Mccoskeri and P. carpaneteri are also known to interbreed... I think its because these species are sooo closely related, and thats why its very hard to distinguish them apart... I am getting two P. Filamentous in next week... I can't wait...
Yeah, I really love the openness of my tank... I decided to go this way after having a 135 and all the rock was stacked against the back wall... I just can't believe the difference between a 24" wide tank and a 18".... The tank serves as a room devider between my eating area and living area... So I get to enjoy it while we eat, or I'm sitting at the computer or watching TV... Thats why I went with the cornerflo system...
The spectrum is definately bluer... But its still bright enough that it doesn't seem like twilight... I have more lighting to add... So, we'll see how it ends up... lol
Yeah, I really love the openness of my tank... I decided to go this way after having a 135 and all the rock was stacked against the back wall... I just can't believe the difference between a 24" wide tank and a 18".... The tank serves as a room devider between my eating area and living area... So I get to enjoy it while we eat, or I'm sitting at the computer or watching TV... Thats why I went with the cornerflo system...
The spectrum is definately bluer... But its still bright enough that it doesn't seem like twilight... I have more lighting to add... So, we'll see how it ends up... lol
Tomoko Schum
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I read the flow article on the January issue of Advanced Aquarist's magazine. It talked about creating a laminar flow circulating around the tank, eventually crushing to turbulence. Somewhere in that article, the author talked about setting two powerheads diagonally like you have done. I'd like to try that, too.
I sent a message to Dr. Tanaka and he responded back He is updating his CD. His new one will be ready in a month or two. In the mean time he sent me a link to a nice site which has a bunch of his pictures - mainly wrasses with some angelfish. If you want a link to that, I will PM it to you.
We have exchanged a few more emails so far. He shoots his pictures at the lobby of his medical clinic. He also shoots pictures from the shore, too. He said he does not dive, but he still manage to take pictures of fish from above without getting wet, using zoom lenses, etc. Truly amazing.
Tomoko
I sent a message to Dr. Tanaka and he responded back
He is updating his CD. His new one will be ready in a month or two. In the mean time he sent me a link to a nice site which has a bunch of his pictures - mainly wrasses with some angelfish. If you want a link to that, I will PM it to you. We have exchanged a few more emails so far. He shoots his pictures at the lobby of his medical clinic. He also shoots pictures from the shore, too. He said he does not dive, but he still manage to take pictures of fish from above without getting wet, using zoom lenses, etc. Truly amazing.
Tomoko
Tomoko~ Yeah, go ahead and shoot me that link... Always interested in getting to know a bit more... Daniel is shooting me Dr. Tanaka's CD right now... LMK whenever the updated one is available...
As far as the flow is concerned, I'm loving the way its set up for now... I have the two Tunze 6000's diagonal from each other, then the return in the "back" left... I plan to add two 6055's whenever they come out in March... They'll be placed where the 6000's are now, and I'll move the 6000's into the rockwork using the Deco Rocks, so they don't stand out as much... Its also easier to create "circular" flow using the Tunze controller... It has a sequential sequence which will create more of a wave like pattern within the tank...
As far as the flow is concerned, I'm loving the way its set up for now... I have the two Tunze 6000's diagonal from each other, then the return in the "back" left... I plan to add two 6055's whenever they come out in March... They'll be placed where the 6000's are now, and I'll move the 6000's into the rockwork using the Deco Rocks, so they don't stand out as much... Its also easier to create "circular" flow using the Tunze controller... It has a sequential sequence which will create more of a wave like pattern within the tank...
Tomoko Schum
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Sent you a PM, Randy.
My P. carpenteri is flashing very often tonight. He is so beautiful when he does that. I am so happy I got him
P. filamentous is a very beautiful flasher, too. Are you getting them from an online source?
I noticed that a number of you Tennesseans are TUNZE lovers. A few NARC members love a closed loop on Ocean Motion. After reading the article I mentioned, I am leaning toward setting up TUNZE powerheads diagonally like you are doing or even a Wave Box, although I heard a really good report on a Vortech on a controller, too.
Tomoko
My P. carpenteri is flashing very often tonight. He is so beautiful when he does that. I am so happy I got him
P. filamentous is a very beautiful flasher, too. Are you getting them from an online source?
I noticed that a number of you Tennesseans are TUNZE lovers. A few NARC members love a closed loop on Ocean Motion. After reading the article I mentioned, I am leaning toward setting up TUNZE powerheads diagonally like you are doing or even a Wave Box, although I heard a really good report on a Vortech on a controller, too.
Tomoko
I think I'm too lazy to do a closed loop system... Besides which, its kind of a permanent setup once you have it in place... I mean, its not as easy to reconfigure if you want to adjust where you have your flow coming from... From what I've heard Vortechs are really nice, but they've had problems with their motors burning out or something like that... There was a thread floating around somewhere... I'll try and track it down... Thanks for the link... I'll check it out tomorrow when I have more time...
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My flashing flasher wrasse turned out to be P. flavianalis instead of P. carpenteri. He looks just like these guys:
I wonder what the other little one really is.
Tomoko
I wonder what the other little one really is.
Tomoko
Very Nice Randy.
My all time favorite wrasse was a Red Sea flasher. He learned to flash when we set up the Christmas tree one year( I assume he liked the lights). From then on he would flash me every time I walked by the tank at night. His dorsal fin would turn a bright glowing red
Unfortunately he jumped out a little hole in the back of the hood. I found a female a few months later and she ended up jumping out of a small hole too
They didn't used to be so expensive. I probably payed less that $50 for my male and ~ $35 for my female. I think they just put rare on the name and started charging more
Good luck with them. They are great fish
Chris
My all time favorite wrasse was a Red Sea flasher. He learned to flash when we set up the Christmas tree one year( I assume he liked the lights). From then on he would flash me every time I walked by the tank at night. His dorsal fin would turn a bright glowing red
Unfortunately he jumped out a little hole in the back of the hood. I found a female a few months later and she ended up jumping out of a small hole too
They didn't used to be so expensive. I probably payed less that $50 for my male and ~ $35 for my female. I think they just put rare on the name and started charging more
Good luck with them. They are great fish
Chris
I've got the canopy on, so hopefully they won't jump out... One of my Jawfish jumped, so I had to alter my old canopy and throw it back up there sooner rather than later...
Thats a heck of a deal on the wrasses... Where did you get that price??? I didn't pay this much, and I know this is an expensive site, but I've mostly seen them around $100 each now...
http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/wrassereefsafe/redseaeightlineflasherwrasse/
I hate how things become "rare" and then prices shoot up... Its the same with most of the zoas/palys I collect...
One of my Jawfish jumped, so I had to alter my old canopy and throw it back up there sooner rather than later...Thats a heck of a deal on the wrasses... Where did you get that price??? I didn't pay this much, and I know this is an expensive site, but I've mostly seen them around $100 each now...
http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/wrassereefsafe/redseaeightlineflasherwrasse/
I hate how things become "rare" and then prices shoot up... Its the same with most of the zoas/palys I collect...
