Minh 320 Reboot

[OrionN]

I also got a new WC Onyx Percula. Stumble upon the female somebody brought back to the LFS. I had a WC smaller Onyx I MO rom Aquatic Collection about 2 months ago, together with another WC Percula. The two Onyx pair up and promply kick the regular Percula out of the anemone. Do you think they are racist?
Two WC Percula I MO from Aquatic Collection. They were not Onyx when I got them

After several months, they really color up and one color up really nicely. Smaller but more dominant of the two.

The Female Onyx I got Friday

Another view

The two together:

 

[OrionN]

I also got another Black Leopard from Petco. The manager ordered a small one for me, but this guy arraved instead. He is so beautiful that I got him. The scales are florescent blue. The camera almost able to pick up this color. He is doing well. Seeing this guy, I believe that male Black Leopard is most beautiful of the Leopard genus. There is no other Leopard that rival his look.

 

[OrionN]

I went out of town yesterday AM before the light on and came back last night after the light out. This morning, when the light come on, instead of having one Purple Tip Magnifica, I have two fully formed. Sometime in the last 36 hrs my Mag started and completed the split. I did not even see it until it is done. Often, when this happened in the past, the Mag would looks poorly, partially deflated, then split. I did not see him yesterday and the split started and completed sometime in 36 hrs.

 

[OrionN]

I got a new blue Gigantea. He arrives sick. I detail his treatment here:


http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2697789


The short of it is that here is his pre-treatment picture, not attached to anything. I have to trap him with a cub handle to keep him from floating

After a few days in HT under treatment

Last day of treatment, day 10. Right before I moved him to refugium

Day 1 in refugium. Rock piled around him to get him to attach and not flow away.

Day 2 post treatment

Day 3 post treatment

 

[OrionN]

Feed him after work today. He is eating like a champ. Eating like this, he will be healed and healthy in no time.


Help him a bit by placing the salmon right next to his mouth. 2 pieces.

Going

Going

Gone, sorta

Really gone, done.

 

[OrionN]

A lot of new tentacles are forming from Friday PM to Sunday. Can be seen here especially compared to last picture above.
I think his baldness will grow out in no time. If he live, and I think he will, he will be the absolute sickest anemone that I got to recovered. Took me 10 days with 200 gal box of Instant Ocean and quite a bit of work. Most days in the first week I change water twice a day when he deflated. I am really happy about this anemone, and think that he will be quite a special anemone. Looks like one with both blue and green in coloration. The work and the money I spend on salt is really worth it IMO.

 

[OrionN]

Another day of tentacle growth. Less bald

 

[Michael Hoaster]

Very impressive, nursing that nem back to health. It looks pretty good already, but I bet it will be gorgeous with more tentacles. Nice work!

 

[OrionN]

Very impressive, nursing that nem back to health. It looks pretty good already, but I bet it will be gorgeous with more tentacles. Nice work!

Thanks. I feed him well so he can have the energy and raw material to recover. Took these picture just now before the light turn out. I just feed him a Mahi-Mahi (wild caught by my son a few weeks ago from the Gulf of Mexico)

 

[OrionN]

My Blue Gigantea today

 

[OrionN]

I got my Blue Gigantea into my QT system where I can easily feed him. He recovered a lot and got most of his tentacles regrowth. The denuded area still have shorter tentacles as compare to other area, but otherwise doing great. He eats well.

 

[OrionN]

Did water change of my QT system. I pump water from QT to sink, then DT to QT, then new mixed water to DT. about 50 gal so I change nearly 90% of water in QT. No lifting of water just pump water in and out.


Blue Gigantea recovering

Green Haddoni

 

[CrayolaViolence]

nice job in bringing him back. what are you feeding him?

I'm pretty sure that's a female and not a male. The males have a much longer spine on their dorsal fin.

 

[CrayolaViolence]

The females can have a very ornate sail it's just the actual spine is shorter than the male.

 

[OrionN]

The females can have a very ornate sail it's just the actual spine is shorter than the male.

I think you posted this in a wrong thread, but both pictures of the Mandarin above are male with one have smaller spike, either from youth or have it broken off. The female Mandarin have a rounded first part of the dorsal fin, not spike like the two mandarin pictured above. Look closely at the shape of the first part of the dorsal fins and you can see the different in shape, accounting for the broken spike of course, plus possible shorten of the membrane as the result.
These picture are not mine but I found on the internet.

This is a male Mandarin with broke spike

This is a male Mandarin, young or with broke spike. Two males fighting with the larger male biting the smaller one:

This is a Female Mandarin with extended dorsal fin

 

[OrionN]

 

[OrionN]

The females can have a very ornate sail it's just the actual spine is shorter than the male.

Same fish. You can see the pattern and coloration are the same, if you account for the growth.

06/03/2018

01/09/2019

 

[OrionN]

I got a good picture of m Naoko Fairy wrasse. Very beautiful, hardy, outgoing wrasse. Not aggressive in my 320 gal DT with a numbers of other wrasses, many of which are docile like two Pintail wrasse and a number of flasher wrasses.

 

[Michael Hoaster]

Gorgeous wrasse! Especially the tail. Good pic too. It's hard to get decent pics of active fish.

 

[OrionN]

Got better picture of the Naoko Fairy today: