iwishtofish
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The fish still doing ok?
Fianlly ..75 Gallon w/ Pictures Of Course
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hamiltonguy
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I lost one of the anthias and honestly, I have absolutely no idea why. Just a couple hours after the acclimation, it was eating everything except pellets. The aggression from the coral beauty had subsided. The next day (yesterday), I noticed it wasn't eating anything so I still fed the tank 4x ..flakes, baby brine shirmp, mysis and then this morning I found it dead on the sand bed.
The other two are still eating like crazy and honestly have an amazing personality. Every time I get close to the tank, instead of going into hiding they swim right up to the glass and just fool around. I'm really hoping these two will make it.
I'm going to get a bigger variety of food tomorrow, ie. cyclopeeze, spirulina, etc.
iwishtofish
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I'm sorry to hear you lost that fish. I'm rooting for the others!
dzhuo
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Are you sure that's zoas? It looks like a red goniopora.
Fury165
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Sorry to hear Hamiltonguy, on another note I picked up 3 Carberryi Anthias from SUM on Saturday as well (the line up and number system were insane huh?) All three are in the QT tank and appear to be doing fine so far.
hamiltonguy
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Yea it actually is a red goniopora, I'm not very coral savvy, I just really liked the color so I picked it up. Thanks for the ID guys.
Hahah yeah man, luckily I was the third one in line so I got what I needed pretty early on. I think stress got it. It was at least 0.5-0.75" smaller than the other fish and the added stress of being in a bag for 2 hours because I got stuck in traffic on my way home to Hamilton plus the stress of the acclimation did it in. I'm definitely going to plan out my travel better next time. What did you end up getting there besides the carberryi anthias?
hamiltonguy
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Yeah they're doing good so far. They keeping going in to the coral beauty's area to get cleaned by the cleaner shrimp and then CB chases them out. I might take it out and put it into QT for a week or so.
Fury165
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Picked up some food and Mg. test kit. I was lucky number 60 :thumbdown
hamiltonguy
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Oh man #60, most of the livestock must have been gone by then but hey can't beat those prices.
They still had carberryi anthias left huh? The only reason I got there at 9:30am was so they weren't gone later in the day.
How are your anthias doing so far?
jdantunes
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Well my friend, I will advise you not to do this anymore. Because an uninformed decision like this could not only cost you a lot of money, but you are putting at risk the rest of your livestock.
Save yourself from a big problem. If you don't know what your are buying, take a picture, ID, research and then buy. :thumbsup:
hamiltonguy
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This is definitely not a regular practice for me, I can see how the post you quoted may have sounded like that. I just meant I wasn't familiar with the specific species/genus of the frag I picked up. I maybe no expert but I know enough that zoas release a fairly harmful palytoxin, that bubble coral release stinging sweepers, etc.
I have already researched most of my livestock (corals and fish). Now it's just a waiting game. I can't a mandarin for another year or two, same with an H. mag that I've always wanted.
But yea, I understand what you're saying and will definitely keep that in mind. :beer:
Fury165
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I picked 3 of the remaining 7 that were left. I really wanted some Bartletts but long gone by the time my number was called. They are doing well so far, active and eating :fish1:
iwishtofish
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How are things going? Eager to hear!
hamiltonguy
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Oh man I was just about to update.
There aren't too many updates.
I added another 100mL of bio pellets to the reactor, it's now running at 3/4 the recommended dosage for my size tank. I've heard that running bio pellets at full dosage creates a low nutrition system in which leathers don't thrive so I'm hoping at 3/4 the dosage, I'll be able to keep some leather corals.
The skimmer's been off for the last 7 days (today's the last) because I had to administer PraziPro in the reef tank to treat the anthias for flukes and I must say it worked like a charm. Anthis are fatter and healthier than ever.
I'm seeing less and less PE on my SPS frags, the only thing that I can think of that may cause this is the CB nipping on them. I haven't actually seen it nip but there's no other explanation. I had the same thing happen in my old tank with a lemonpeel angelfish and as soon as I removed it the PE was crazy. So I'm going to continue watching and hope I don't have to get rid of it, it really is an amazing fish.
Lastly, and the most exciting part, I'm getting 4 SPS frags today! A local reefer fragged some of his mother colonies (below) and I got a frag of each for $105, not a bad deal I would say.
Pink Milleopora
Bonsai Acro
I believe this one is a Acropora Deswalli
Sunset acropora milleopora
hamiltonguy
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The frags should be here in about 5 hours or so (my brother is picking them up on his way back from work) so I'll have pics up then after I mount them.
hamiltonguy
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Ha, thanks but those aren't actually mine. Those are the mother colonies from which I'm getting frags later today. Hopefully mine will look like that in about a year or so.
hamiltonguy
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A little teaser:
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