Haven't posted pics in a while...
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DaKineReef
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WOW love the montis and hopefully will be starting a SPS dominant tank soon. Mahalo For sharing.
Aloha, Ike
Aloha, Ike
Tomoko Schum
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Very nice, Gary! Do your wrasses live in this tank?
gflat65
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Thanks everyone. The move to the 280 opened alot up for me.
The width is awesome, so it reinvigorated me in the hobby. It also prompted me to finish out the system. I finally got my ca reactor going and, though I'm about as lazy a reefer as they come, it has taken on a life of its own. I'm having intermittent issues with my reactor, but it's keeping everything in check for the most part. It's doing well, but with an attached seahorse tank and nightly feedings of dendros and suncorals (alls still small-1-10 polyps on most), I shoudl be doing more water changes... So far so good, though.
Tomoko-that's my wrassy abode
. I've only got the supermale yellow patch, the female yellow patch, the big male ornate leopard, and a C. rubriventralis as far as wrasses go, but am always looking for more. I tried adding two flashers (P. filamentosus), but the female yellow patch (C. lyukyuensis) killed them the first day. She was actively beating the C. rubriventralis, too, but that seems to have ended after the first three days or so. THe rubriventralis is now commonly in the water column. I want a tank full of leopards. I had a transitioning bipartitus and a few others, but the mystery wrasse killed them. Once I got him out of the tank, I nursed the ornate back and he's been rockin ever since. I'd love trios of several different species (geoffreyi, bipartitus, cyanoguttatus, and negrosensis are the main ones I'm looking for). Had a M. meleagris for about two years, then added large sand sifting stars and within three days, both my solorensis and meleagris disappeared (had had them both about two years). I'm hoping to be able to find some in Memphis when I head that way for the swap in October. I got the ornatus from Kermit's several years ago and am always on the hunt. Dave's wrasse tank at Kermit's was my favorite wrasse tank. So many different species...
The width is awesome, so it reinvigorated me in the hobby. It also prompted me to finish out the system. I finally got my ca reactor going and, though I'm about as lazy a reefer as they come, it has taken on a life of its own. I'm having intermittent issues with my reactor, but it's keeping everything in check for the most part. It's doing well, but with an attached seahorse tank and nightly feedings of dendros and suncorals (alls still small-1-10 polyps on most), I shoudl be doing more water changes... So far so good, though.
Tomoko-that's my wrassy abode
. I've only got the supermale yellow patch, the female yellow patch, the big male ornate leopard, and a C. rubriventralis as far as wrasses go, but am always looking for more. I tried adding two flashers (P. filamentosus), but the female yellow patch (C. lyukyuensis) killed them the first day. She was actively beating the C. rubriventralis, too, but that seems to have ended after the first three days or so. THe rubriventralis is now commonly in the water column. I want a tank full of leopards. I had a transitioning bipartitus and a few others, but the mystery wrasse killed them. Once I got him out of the tank, I nursed the ornate back and he's been rockin ever since. I'd love trios of several different species (geoffreyi, bipartitus, cyanoguttatus, and negrosensis are the main ones I'm looking for). Had a M. meleagris for about two years, then added large sand sifting stars and within three days, both my solorensis and meleagris disappeared (had had them both about two years). I'm hoping to be able to find some in Memphis when I head that way for the swap in October. I got the ornatus from Kermit's several years ago and am always on the hunt. Dave's wrasse tank at Kermit's was my favorite wrasse tank. So many different species...
gflat65
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I'll be using an acclimation box, if I find more wrasses
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FWIW, I'll never own a mystery wrasse again. I swore of the devil six lines 14 years ago when my first one almost killed my first mandarin (which was my fourth fish). Got the six line out and the mandarin recovered and lived another four years (something ate a hole in him while he slept later on...). The mystery is an absolute terror. Last into the tank when i set it up, but immediately started attacking others. He was moved to the frag tank when i caught him last Thanksgiving, and continues his rampage. All the baby Banggai's I had disappeared in the frist two days and I've not seen a single one since... With the skeleton like markings on his face, he really is death in pretty colors.
.FWIW, I'll never own a mystery wrasse again. I swore of the devil six lines 14 years ago when my first one almost killed my first mandarin (which was my fourth fish
). Got the six line out and the mandarin recovered and lived another four years (something ate a hole in him while he slept later on...). The mystery is an absolute terror. Last into the tank when i set it up, but immediately started attacking others. He was moved to the frag tank when i caught him last Thanksgiving, and continues his rampage. All the baby Banggai's I had disappeared in the frist two days and I've not seen a single one since... With the skeleton like markings on his face, he really is death in pretty colors.
Tomoko Schum
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Noted. I was very tempted the other day looking at a nice looking specimen.
I do not seem to be able to keep a flasher wrasse any more. I got the feeling that my small sixline wrasse has something to do with it
I lost a McCosker's flasher and two mandarin gobies within a few days after their introduction into the tank. Before I added sixline wrasses (the big male jumped out a month or so ago), I had no problem. I think the wrasse is after their competitors for food. It seems to ignore yellow coris wrasse for some reason.
gflat65
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Yup. My pearlberry has gotten almost as big as yours, but has a different growth form... It's tabled to about the same diameter, but doesn't have the long upward growth yours does. The table is all grown up
. The pokerstar owns the entire rock it was on. Overgrew the superman completely, and took over a barny monti that had been putting on size, too. The Hollywood stinger keeps it at bay, though.Since getting the reactor on line about a year ago (I think-I've lost concept of time...), everything's been growing by leaps and bounds. Just wish I could keep Hawkins blue alive... Lost the colony I got from you and every frag I've tried since...
How's MI treating you? Let me know when you are ready to get back in
.Tomoko,
I'd be suspicious of the six line. The one I had (15 years ago, now...) was more responsible for pigging out before the mandarin could get anything, but the mystery being a close cousin to the six line and my experiences with the mystery would lead me to believe the six lines can be just as aggressive. I was surprised by the aggressiveness of the female yellow patch... She's over it now, but initially upon introduction of the most recent wrasses, she was a terror.
gflat65
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Thanks Terry. Over the last six or eight months, it's been taking on a life of its own. I'm starting to see acans die slowly, so I'm suspicious of the rabbit. The acans and zoas may be moving over to the 65 soon, if it keeps up. He could munch on some SPS without me being concerned, but I don;t get growth out of my acans, and I've been adding lots of zoa frags lately (colonies in another tank, so when one polyp from a 2-3 polyp frag disappears, it's noticable).
Tomoko Schum
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Someone is eating my zoanthids (again), and my foxface rabbitfish and powder blue tang are the major suspects .
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Tomoko Schum
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I need to feed my fish more and move their favorite zoanthids to another tank. I am through with chasing fish down
