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Reefing is my middle name
Yeah what he said.
A Reef Tank in the Desert - +/- 1,400 gallon system
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Yeah what he said.
theReefKing
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DIT-TOooo.....
danfeig
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Come on... Give a kid a break! We just got back to town!!!
My vacation days are over except for MACNA, a quick trip to California, another one to Mirival and maybe a few other long weekends. The kids start school again on Thursday.
Griffin is in Wyoming and Sam is in Chicago. I will try to have Justin or one of my other good photo friends come out this week and shoot a pic or two. I also need to contact this photographer from Tucson Lifestyle that recently took a FTS.
I will get some updated pics shortly. Promise!
Crazy_Beaver
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I am happy to see that everything is going well for you Dan.Looking forward for the pics.
danfeig
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Thanks Loukas! It's wonderful to see fish in your tank finally!!!
LastMerovingian
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Finally done with this thread. Wow.
danfeig
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The sohals are in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sohals are in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since March 23rd, I have had the joy of acclimating my two Sohal Tangs together in one of my 75 gallon QT's. I can say that it has truly been a labor of love and that they have been my biggest challenge thus far.
I can't tell you how many times I needed to, or chose to, separate the Sohal's ("Time-Out" if you will) with some egg-crate in the center of the tank. One would start to get too aggressive. For the last month though, they have been perfect together. Even sleeping together in the same piece of PVC.
So, after 4+ months, tonight I decided to introduce them into my main display. I am not quite sure why tonight of all nights and I decided to dispense with my normal protocol of putting them into the tank when the lights were out and into separate egg-crate boxes. I just scooped them up with a net and put them in right after one another.
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The introduction went different than I expected. For whatever reason, I expected the Sohals to be the immediate "King of the Jungle" but that hasn't been the case at all. For an hour or so, they each were chased by some surprising fish. I was expecting my large Lopezi Tangs to go after them. Instead, it has been a much smaller Yellow Eye Kole Tang, a smaller Clown Tang and a Powder Blue that have been trying to flex their muscles.
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The Sohals have pretty much been staying side to side together. One of them might get chased, but 10 seconds later it is with its friend or mate (too early to tell the sex). After a couple hours, the chasing seems to have diminished a ton.
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Sorry for the crappy iPhone pictures. I need to get a good camera and until then, I need to have someone come out and shoot some good pics.
The sohals are in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since March 23rd, I have had the joy of acclimating my two Sohal Tangs together in one of my 75 gallon QT's. I can say that it has truly been a labor of love and that they have been my biggest challenge thus far.
I can't tell you how many times I needed to, or chose to, separate the Sohal's ("Time-Out" if you will) with some egg-crate in the center of the tank. One would start to get too aggressive. For the last month though, they have been perfect together. Even sleeping together in the same piece of PVC.
So, after 4+ months, tonight I decided to introduce them into my main display. I am not quite sure why tonight of all nights and I decided to dispense with my normal protocol of putting them into the tank when the lights were out and into separate egg-crate boxes. I just scooped them up with a net and put them in right after one another.
The introduction went different than I expected. For whatever reason, I expected the Sohals to be the immediate "King of the Jungle" but that hasn't been the case at all. For an hour or so, they each were chased by some surprising fish. I was expecting my large Lopezi Tangs to go after them. Instead, it has been a much smaller Yellow Eye Kole Tang, a smaller Clown Tang and a Powder Blue that have been trying to flex their muscles.
The Sohals have pretty much been staying side to side together. One of them might get chased, but 10 seconds later it is with its friend or mate (too early to tell the sex). After a couple hours, the chasing seems to have diminished a ton.
Sorry for the crappy iPhone pictures. I need to get a good camera and until then, I need to have someone come out and shoot some good pics.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
That Elegance looks like it is doing really well. Can't tell from the pics but it looks like it's solid bright green now ?
Are the Borbonious in the tank? Did they all make it through QT ?
Dave
Are the Borbonious in the tank? Did they all make it through QT ?
Dave
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Congrats on the Sohals. 4 months takes lots of patience and courage. Plus all that traveling contributed also.
Crazy_Beaver
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Great news!
kegogut
Active member
lolz. You've been apologizing for iPhone pics for almost too long Dan. I think its time to get a camera so you can take some nice pics of your tank. You wont regret it!
jjk_reef00
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Congrats, 2 Sohals is amazing!
danfeig
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Dave,
The Elegance is amazing. Bright green with pink tips.
All of the Borbo's are doing great! Yes, they made it through the QT just fine. One of them is in my overflow and I need to remove the Magi-Mufflers and pull out the PVC so it flows into my filter socks. Perhaps this week.
How was the big Frag Swap that you held???
