New fish and corals! Some pics

xdestry

xdestry

SPS Addict
Took some pictures today and thought I'd share!

Saw these Lyretail anthias at SPS coral and had to have them. Ended up buying 3 females, hoping one will turn male soon!
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Starry Blenny - This guy took my cleaner goby's hole the second he got in the tank. Cleaner goby hangs out near the entrance and the blenny comes out and tries to bite him. Guess the goby's gonna have to find a new hole :(
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You can see the cleaner goby in front of the clownfish and the starry blenny guarding his new home.

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Filefish I picked up from larry a few days ago, haven't seen him eat any aiptasias yet but hopefully he'll wipe them out eventually

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copperband butterfly I saw at pasadena tropical, was only 25 bucks! He's picking at copepods/amphipods but not eating the black worms I bought him. Maybe once he gets more used to the tank he'll start eating. Along with the filefish my aiptasias should be goners

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Superman milli and sunset milli - never seen such a beautiful color on a coral as on the superman milli. Green base that turns red, into blue tips. CRAZY! Can't really see all the colors in the pic unfortunately.
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SPS island. Gonna have to sell some stuff off soon, running out of real estate! Hard to choose which to keep, I like them all!
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Hope you guys enjoy the pictures!
 
dodgerblew said:
Love it! Tank looks fantastic Ryan. Really have got that tank looking great! Is that the Setosa nub I gave you?
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Thanks Rik! Yeah that's the setosa. It half died off during one of my alk/salinity swings but has been doing pretty good recently. It's starting to encrust onto the rock so I think I'm going to break it off soon. Would like to just keep it as a frag so I can move it around at will haha
 
Great stuff. I never saw my file fish eat any aiptasia but it in about 2 weeks they were all gone.. unfortunately it took a chunk out of my acan and I had to get rid of it.
 
arashsheikhpoor said:
Great stuff. I never saw my file fish eat any aiptasia but it in about 2 weeks they were all gone.. unfortunately it took a chunk out of my acan and I had to get rid of it.
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Haha if the filefish eats all the aiptasias it can eat a few of my LPS, it deserves it!


BeanMachine said:
Great pictures. Good stuff.
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Thanks!


dodgerblew said:
Try reef frenzy or chefs Chowdown for the copperband
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Yeah I am going to eventually buy some shrimp/scallops and chop them up if he doesn't start eating... none of the fish stores around me sell those good frozen foods...


kevin.st said:
Great photos! Which lens are you using?
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Thanks! I'm using the canon 100mm 2.8. mostly its just the editing that makes them look better haha



m0nkie said:
I'm super impressed with the photo skill also!
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Glad you liked the pictures! I'll try and get some more when I have a chance, takes a lot of shots just to get one good picture...
 
Have you tried the smaller frozen mysis (such as Hikari brand) for the copperband? That worked well for me when I had a copperband. Live brine shrimp usually works well too.

Your corals looks great:)
 
tjdouglas said:
Have you tried the smaller frozen mysis (such as Hikari brand) for the copperband? That worked well for me when I had a copperband. Live brine shrimp usually works well too.

Your corals looks great:)
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Thanks! Yeah thats what I normally feed my fish, he doesn't seem interested in those either... I'll try feeding some blackworms again in a bit, hopefully he'll eat them!
 
Ryan, Chefzillas Chowdown is made by Brent/chefzilla. He's in the valley. Message me and I'll give you his number. Sps coral store might sell RF and I know there's a store in Simi that does. I have a pack of RF if you want to come get it or meet me.
 
dodgerblew said:
Ryan, Chefzillas Chowdown is made by Brent/chefzilla. He's in the valley. Message me and I'll give you his number. Sps coral store might sell RF and I know there's a store in Simi that does. I have a pack of RF if you want to come get it or meet me.
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oh yeah I remember, i bought a pack from him a while back at a SCRK meeting haha. Thanks for the offer, I'll check sps coral tomorrow and see if they have any. Still no luck getting him to eat the black worms today he swims right by them. Only third day in the tank though, I'm sure he'll come around eventually. Till then hes still picking at the rocks and I'm assuming hes eating amphipods....

vuqchu said:
Pictures and corals look awesome. That picture of that copperband though is just stunning. Nice work!
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Thanks vu! It's such a nice fish, I wish it wasn't so hard to keep!
 
Some I took today

male lyretail anthias

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ricordea - went a bit over editing this one :strange:


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another ric- the base is bright orange! cant see it here unfortunately

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