430gal., L-shaped display

I've gone back and read as much of this thread as possible, but it is huge! I'm sure people following already know this. But, I noticed in one pic you have several tanks. Are you pairing the fish in small tanks and then moving them into your display or using the extra tanks as permanent homes for some couples?
 
I've gone back and read as much of this thread as possible, but it is huge!
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Sorry. I didn't have a lot to do while the house was being remodeled. :D Plus, there are days like today when I have tons of work to do but I can't do any of it 'til I finish downloading a huge software upgrade. Sigh....

Extra tanks are the way to go. Fish can be really damn mean to each other sometimes. I haven't had a ton of problems just keeping pairs, but that's with species that aren't too aggressive and when I get hermaphroditic species small. Banggais are just horrible to each other once they hit sexual maturity. And I don't know how anyone works with the scarier dottybacks. They rip each other to pieces just in normal courtship. And that's once they've paired up.

Actually, the extra tanks are mostly there to serve as support for the display. Lots of extra water volume and I can have lots of refugia. But they are secondarily a place where I can do QT (all of them can be cut out of the display loop easily). I've given my kiddo one of them and we are doing all of the research and planning up a tank together. She wants seahorses, of course. So, I've made her research tank mates and what the horses need as far as environment. Plus, I have connected in smaller systems for fish I want to try to breed. I have one for the filefish, a barrel tank for sixline wrasses, and banggais scattered around. So there'll probably always be some fish down there.
 
So, I thought it was about time to show an updated full-tank shot:

FTS_5-15-09.jpg


Thanks!
 
I always like you pics and this one is great it really gives you perspective on how big it is with all the fish i there. Looks amazing.
 
Thanks, y'all!


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Another busy night around here last night. First off, we have a long cleaner wrasse spawning video. I wanted to show you some of the courtship leading up to the actual spawning. The spawning ascent occurs right at the end of the video. Please note that they seem to be getting more used to the height of the water column as they don't break the water's surface. Hopefully that'll mean a better chance of fertilized eggs, if I ever manage to catch any.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jCq4_VspxA

Also up this evening were the filefish. Sorry about the quality of the video, it's just a webcam. Unfortunately, the actual spawning event happened mostly behind a rock tonight (you can still see some of the male's snout). But I wanted to show some of the important aspects of pre-spawning courtship behavior. So, you'll see the female pacing the tank, dorsal spine erect. She stops occasionally to nip at likely patches of algae ("thrust"). Their eggs are the green of algae, so they camouflage really well. You'll also see the male follow the female in her search for a likely spot, sometimes displaying with quick spreads of his caudal fin and other fins ("spread," if he combines with a headstand, "flutter dive"), sometimes nudging her abdomen with his snout, and sometimes nuzzling with his snout up under her snout and it looks like he vocalizes to her ("nuzzle"). After the spawn and after a short pause, the male's coloration changes and he engages in a whirling, crazy display with head stands, fin spreads, and flickering ventral flap ("flutter dive"). The male engages in flutter dives often during the day, but not usually with as much verve as after a spawn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhyBB7ggGkk

The quoted terminology in parentheses above come from:

Barlow, George W. 1987. "Spawning, eggs and larvae of the longnose filefish Oxymonacanthus longirostris, a monogamous coralivore." Environmental Biology of Fishes. Vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 183-194.
 
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hi, i have just done reading with the house remodeling part of your thread, it is indeed a fantastic read.. i know it is already way too late to ask this question but i'm just curious (you may have already mentioned it somewhere and i might have missed it) if the bottom pane of your tank came in one piece or your tank builder have to join two piece together to form the L shape? very nice tank you have there...
 
Well, I've had a lot of problems with that lately. RC comes back to me with a message that my post didn't go through and then when I repost it'll be there twice. Ah, the mysteries of databases.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15038416#post15038416 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by "Umm, fish?"
Well, I've had a lot of problems with that lately. RC comes back to me with a message that my post didn't go through and then when I repost it'll be there twice. Ah, the mysteries of databases.
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Andy
I have the same problem. I sit there for what seems like an eternity and get the error message. I click back and then submit again and it tells me I can only post once in 30 seconds. :mad: :mad:
 
So, it's not just me. Good to know. :) But sometimes it doesn't submit the message and if I just click the refresh I lose the text I entered in the quick message box, which is even more of a pain.

Sorry I haven't done a lot of updates. All the editors I work with have been just pouring rush projects onto me. The tank's doing okay. Algae keeps going away despite my insane feeding schedule. Some of the snails have started finding their way to the new tank. The pocillopora that I thought was a goner because of heat issues looks like the last few polyps on the tips of each branch might stay, so it might all come back. I lost a couple head off a torch coral for no apparent reason, but the rest of the heads seem fine. No luck collecting wrasse eggs yet, but they still spawn almost every day. No luck with the filefish eggs yet, either. The last two attempts to collect have been overrun by nasty bacteria, so I need to change procedure there. I'm thinking of trying a downweller with a drip of water from the top on the next try.

And there you go. :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15044229#post15044229 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EnglishRebel
Andy
I have the same problem. I sit there for what seems like an eternity and get the error message. I click back and then submit again and it tells me I can only post once in 30 seconds. :mad: :mad:
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RC appears to be having scalability issues lately where when the database is too busy - you submit you get that error. (I too have been seeing this recently) It's interesting because the timeout can occur at any point in the posting process. I've found that the forums actually send out a message to people watching the forums about a new post BEFORE it actually saves the post. I've had someone point this out that my post "didn't take" and when I asked how they knew, they said they got an email that I had posted but nothing had showed up. (which explains a lot)

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15044297#post15044297 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hotwired99
Dont click back and resubmit. Just click refresh. That usually works for me.
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I too prefer to refresh to repost when an error occurs because sometimes the browser doesn't save all the data in the form fields when you hit the back button. It's frustrating to have to type in a lengthy response a second time.

Later!

--Ed
 
I use Firefox, and just keep clicking refresh until it takes. I've never lost a post this way.
 
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