3 fish and a stag 2007/Today

Dog boy Dave

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Here is an old picture that i dug up. It is dated 5-3-07. At the time this picture was taken this was a 180 system that had been set up since 2002. It was recovering from a serious AEFW investation and a couple of years of benign neglect.

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The corals were growing well and i was making good headway against the bryopsis that you can see through out the tank. Of the five fish pictured here, i still have three. The tang was removed when i upgraded to a larger tank so i could keep a powder blue tang and i recently removed the magnificent foxface as it had grown very large. Both were placed in large fish only tanks tanks to my LFS.
The three fish in the picture that i still have are the Emperator Angel. the common Foxface, and the Majestic Angel. Today, I also still have alot of the corals pictured here a in a larger tank. While its hard to pick most of them out, the large blue stag that ou see in the right hand corner of the old 180 is the same center piece stag you see in the today images.
Here is a good image of the Emperator before he changed.

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Here is an image of the blue stag today. Yes that is the same piece. The Angles and foxface are also in this image.

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If you look close you can see the old 180 in the room behind the tank. It is home to a very large fat red eared slider. The tank today is 60X 48 x 24 .

Here are some more images of the adult Emperator. and some random images of the tank. The lighting is a mix of 400 watt halides.

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Makes me think about aquaspacing for the future...

And I was worried about angels and coral.

How did you manage the bryopsis? I think I have a patch growing.
 
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I still have some bryopsis growning in the lower flow areas where the fish cant reach like in my sand bed portion in the sump. Any that gets in the main display is grazed mercilessly. I slowed it down by managing nutrients and introducing grazers. The Angels eat corals. Any Lps or clam would be eaten instantly. The Emperator eats 1/4 inch pieces of coral off the branching species like he is munching popcorn. Unless you have lots of room I would not recomend large angels in a coral tank. My 180 would have been too small for these guys i think.
 
Man thats an awsome tank. I live i Largo and if you ever wanna sell some of those sps frags I'll meet up with you. Awsome tank!!!
 
Thank you all for the kind words.

Dustin, come to tally with a large kooler and some bags. I hate shipping frags so if you pick them up I will set you up.
 
Lunde, He is about 5 inches or so. Yes he EATS (not nipping) any corals. He would decimate a softy, even leathers wont make it in this tank. All of the anglefish EAT corals. They do not "nip" , they remove 1/4 inch at a time from the tips of the accros they choose to graze. The smooth corals are their favorites.
 
Lunde, He is about 5 inches or so. Yes he EATS (not nipping) any corals. He would decimate a softy, even leathers wont make it in this tank. All of the anglefish EAT corals. They do not "nip" , they remove 1/4 inch at a time from the tips of the accros they choose to graze. The smooth corals are their favorites.

do they control themselves or will they decimate entire colonies of coral?

obviously, since the stag is SOOO big, looks like they show some restraint?
 
Accros are not their favorite foods so they dont cause any real damage to the accros in this tank. In a smaller tank, or if you really cared about an individual frag you might regret having the Angels.
 

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