210 build PIC INTENSE

as you can see i added a few fish....
cromises
yellow tailed damsels
flame hawk.....so cool and small....i love this guy...lots of personality.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14771523#post14771523 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EleganceMan
l love the side view...and to think i almost painted them black too
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Dam your ready 4 some growth pics man.

Post some side by sides on those leathers.Lookin good mang.
 
wish i had a pic of that colt when i bought it....about four inches and now its about fourteen. I love that coral just because they grow so fast and are so hardy.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14771590#post14771590 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EleganceMan
wish i had a pic of that colt when i bought it....about four inches and now its about fourteen. I love that coral just because they grow so fast and are so hardy.
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Man lemme tell u.I was soooooooo huge on all that LE Acro stuff,went away,& had a temp swing,& lost $5000 in coral.Im keeping zoos,& leathers now,& its beautiful,& easy.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14771703#post14771703 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Toddrtrex
How long was this tank fishless after the Ick outbreak?
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because of the flooding around here i took down my qt tank in case i got any water so it was only two weeks....not long enough to get rid of the ich...but i am not adding anything that would fight or be stressed out enough for the ich to affect them.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14771755#post14771755 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EleganceMan
because of the flooding around here i took down my qt tank in case i got any water so it was only two weeks....not long enough to get rid of the ich...but i am not adding anything that would fight or be stressed out enough for the ich to affect them.
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I hope I am wrong, but 3 yellow, and 1 purple (( at least from what it looks like in the pictures )) will cause stress for at least one of them at some point, and could very well cause another outbreak.
 
The variety of tangs seems to be in your favor, as does your tank size. I just lost a powder brown last night to ich. He'd been in the tank almost 3 months and was peacefully living with my yellow tang in a 125g with no signs of stress or ich. Unfortunately about a week ago they decided the tank wasn't big enough for both of them, and started nipping at each other. I found out then that ich is alive and well in my tank despite never seeing it before in all the years the tank has been up. Now I'm in the same spot -- clear everything out and start over or keep what's not been effected and hope.

I'm such an idiot for not QTing that powder brown. Proves to me that no matter how healthy a fish looks and how clean you keep your tank, stress on fish is the X-factor that can mess you up. I'm buying a QT tank before I buy anything else. I guess while I'm at it a frag tank would be good to pick up as well.

*sigh*

Good luck with yours, you've got a lot of damsels in there as well -- also a fight waiting to happen.
 
I should add, your tank is moving nicely in a positive direction otherwise. A long way from that turf scrubber filled with green tea in the early shots. The look of macro growing out of the sand is starting to grow on me as well -- I like it.
 
alaskan reefer...
sorry for you loss...tangs can be a battle sometimes. thanks for the comments it has been fun....and i am designing a new tank setup already.... not going to stop until i have a david saxby tank...lol.
 
I noticed in some of your pictures the surface water was a little calm. I don't know if that was just for the pics, but if it wasn't you might want to add a little more agitation to the surface. I will help with gas exchange.
 
thanks dave,
i think the bio balls being gone has cut back the algae growth a lot. I plan on doing some of what Brady suggested but I am going to wait a little while so I am not making so many big changes all at once.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14771791#post14771791 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Toddrtrex
I hope I am wrong, but 3 yellow, and 1 purple (( at least from what it looks like in the pictures )) will cause stress for at least one of them at some point, and could very well cause another outbreak.
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I think this is a valid concern as the tangs mature and get more territorial. Not a guarantee of course because every fish is an individual. If they do get stressed and it sounds like the fallow time was too short, ich may become an issue down the road. There is some research that ich strains get less viable without new strains or hosts being introduced over the course of 18 months or so. Perhaps if there are no new fish in that time, the strain will be too weak to infect and die off. It would be better IMHO to eradicate it and be sure but that may not be an option with 3 or 4 tangs. :)

other than that the tank looks tons better.
 
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