Almost 11 foot long tank!

just a quick update , since i havent been on here in a while the tank is doing great other than my nonstop fight to rid the tank of aptasia. i do have some new inhabitants , wich of them my favorite is my achilles tang, i will be trying to update both of my threads asap with some nice pics
 
Your tank is definitely large enough to house a copper banded butterfly, which will take care of your aptaisa problem :)
 
i have an absolutely huge copperband who will not touch the aptasia , so i tried to add another smaller one into the system who after just 20 minutes was killed by the large one
 
Maybe you should "move on" the large one and replace it with a small one. The large ones are just too big to get in all the nooks and crannies to get the aptaisa.
 
Glad all is good. I am still fighting aptaisa myslef. I bought a coper band before we had fires around my home and lost power and he didn,t make the transfer.

i got a good idea from John, he said I could try and fill up a qt tank with a lot of aptasia and try and make sure he eats aptasia before I release him in the display.

I think I am going to try this soon and get another one

. Good luck...

I have question about your skimmer. Now that you are skimming do you think your corals have noticed a difference, I know you did the move and then out in a skimmer so hard ot compare but I am sure you have some feelings with being skimmer less and now running a skimmer.
 
i would say with all the sps and all the fish i have in that system that i did notice a difference with some of the corals. now i am still running the system at work skimmerless but i do have a 12 inch deep sand bed in the fuge on that one and it is all softies. and i do plan on keeping that one wothout a skimmer unless when i get it fully stocked the fuge cant keep up , then and only then will i add a small one.
and the only problem with the copperband idea is that i already have the huge one in the display that will kill and has killed a smaller one.
 
what I was saying was get the big killer CBB out of the display, and replace it with a smaller, gentler CBB :D
 
i would love to tewks but have you ever tried to catch a fish in an 11 ft display with around 5 to 6 hundred pounds of rock?!!! lol. i am actualy starting to gain control over them( wich means a lot of time spent standing on a chair with a syringe and a cup of kalkwasser lol. by the way jeremyblaze took a bunch of nice shots of the display the other night , now we just gota hold our breath and see if he posts them!!!!
 
i would love to tewks but have you ever tried to catch a fish in an 11 ft display with around 5 to 6 hundred pounds of rock?!!! lol. i am actualy starting to gain control over them( wich means a lot of time spent standing on a chair with a syringe and a cup of kalkwasser lol. by the way jeremyblaze took a bunch of nice shots of the display the other night , now we just gota hold our breath and see if he posts them!!!!
 
Just read through the whole thread.. the post move rockscape is awesome and i love the size of your colonies. We want pics!!!

Btw..... nice rides!!
 
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thanks all, the coloration of everything is a little off, as it is getting time to change bulbs again, and about the nori, and the fish looking skinny , some of it is in the pics as most of the fish stay pretty fat , they have thinned a little since the power outages out here, i lost all of the fresh seafood mix that i make for them and have been eating flake , but i am making them a new batch tonight.
 
Everything's really starting to fill in, the aquascape is looking really good...there's lots of room for those acro's and monti's to grow into.
 
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