430gal., L-shaped display

[Kieth71]

You got my vote as well! It was nice meeting you today at reefed-Kieth

 

["Umm fish?"]

Hey, thanks y'all! The pressure's on. I guess I need to add some content.

Here's the baby frogspawn. Sorry that the rock's moved a little. I can't quite tell, but it looks like a mouth's formed.

Nice to meet you, too, Kieth.

 

[EnglishRebel]

Andy
You got my vote on that daughter Frogspawn alone. Great tank and great remodel. I'm nominating you for remodel of the month.

 

[jnarowe]

Congrats Andy! I have always wondered why fish don't get sand in their eye?

BTW, are you ready for something that eats snails?

 

[RedClay]

Really cool stuff, especially the frogspawn!
Congratulations on the nomination, and I look forward to future updates - subscribed

 

["Umm fish?"]

Thanks, y'all!

I'm nominating you for remodel of the month.

I'll take that if the remodel ever ends (they just installed the curtain in the bathroom, though--yay!!!--but now the drywall and painters have to come back) and we ever get fully unpacked.

I have always wondered why fish don't get sand in their eye?

It's because they're always crying, man. Always crying....

BTW, are you ready for something that eats snails?

Umm. Well, none of the new generation have hit adulthood yet. Once they do, I'm going for a peacock mantis. Despite the fact that all of the original eggs packets have hatched and there are juveniles all over the glass, I still have more egg packets than I can count on more than one tank. Don't they ever stop???

Thanks, RedClay! Future update now:

FTS:

Bunch o' chromis:

Still fighting the cyano. To be fair, this is the low-flow, large polyp part of the tank:

My dussumieri managed to take the scalpel right off one of the purple tangs. Unfortunately, he used his flank to do it. So far he's healing fairly well, though. Any sign of infection and I'll be pulling him back out. It's weird because there hasn't been a whole lot of aggression for a while.

In other news, I'm cranking up the kalkwasser stirrer. My tests are mostly good except that my pH is running around 8.0. So, I'm trying to bolster that. Plus, I prefer to run with high alk so the pH stays steady and moderate (but steady) calcium and the tank's doing the opposite right now.

 

[jnarowe]

Once they do, I'm going for a peacock mantis. Despite the fact that all of the original eggs packets have hatched and there are juveniles all over the glass, I still have more egg packets than I can count on more than one tank. Don't they ever stop???

I told you dude...I have had this conversation with Brian...anyway, I think my marine beta and maybe a wrasse or two eats them. In fact I think I lost my blue face wrasse to choking on a snail too big to eat. I think my exact words were, "Be careful what you wish for."

 

["Umm fish?"]

I'm really scared. I just went down and some of the juveniles are around 3mm now. Do you know how big they have to be to hit reproductive age? On the other hand, none of them have made their way to the display yet. There's still time....

I could go for a group of marine bettas. Their spawn are supposed to be easy to raise....

 

[jnarowe]

:lol: I believe they reach sexual maturity about 5 minutes after leaving the egg sack. May God be with you.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Frighteningly enough, some of the cerith juveniles are getting pretty big, too....

I think Luis over at MOFIB is using veligers as a first food for fish larvae. Unfortunately, none of the ones you sent me have swimming veligers. Doh....

 

[jnarowe]

they don't really get too big. comparitively speaking, the ones I sent you are all on the very small side.

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, yeah. I meant big in comparison to the parents. Probably a little less than half size. Which is crazy since they start out as much smaller juveniles than the collumbellids.

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Check this out. I've been recording the filefish. The only problem is having to go back and review the recordings. Anyway, in this clip at about the 8 sec. mark the male shoots out from the left side of the tank in a crazy "flutter dive" display.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjNpZ3vyj1w

 

[jnarowe]

Wow...he's sending up some serious flares there. Does she give him the time of day? I think not. Just as bad as "last call"! :lol:

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, I was watching Matt's video again. Does that look like a post-spawning display to you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1bQfJ_e8Q&feature=channel_page

The spawn is at about 6 minutes into the video.

 

[jnarowe]

yeah. damn clowns. if they were alone that would have been a successful spawn I think.

 

["Umm fish?"]

More filefish videos.

Male display:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApFIDf1mdC8

And, I've never actually documented it, so here's a video with the filefish eating frozen foods (here, Nutramar Ova). Plus, bonus footage of fat gobies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErcGlk9j13o

 

["Umm fish?"]

So, do you think that the orchid is going to drop some eggs for me tonight?

And, here's the frogspawn baby:

 

[jnarowe]

what a phatty! so do you have a plan to capture?

 

["Umm fish?"]

Oh, I have a larval capture rig, but I don't have the cultures or set up to raise any yet. **Note to self: Need to go get lumber***

 

[jnarowe]

:lol: That would be cool though. You can only do so much!