North Dakota Mini-Ocean

[Doc_B]

Im thinking about getting an AC III pro how do you like it?

 

[benihana]

nice update...i will be up the 2nd weekend in May, hopefully you will be in town so i can see this monster and drool on your car!

 

[Reefaquariumnut]

What are you looking to do with the ACIII Pro? Might be easier for you to ask questions and I can answer based on my experience.

I should be around in May Ben!!

 

[Reefaquariumnut]

I just added a few more fish to my collection...Moorish Idol, Achillies Tang, and 3 Schooling Banner Fish (Heniochus)...I will be adding a couple more in the next few weeks. Pictures will follow...

I will also be adding some corals in the next weeks as well.

 

[benihana]

WOW....now I really need to get up there Moorish Idol's are awesome, but hard to keep (eating from what I have heard) and I have always wanted an Achilles, which will hopefully happen in the next tank I build....definately waiting (impatiently) for the pictures.....

 

[Reefaquariumnut]

I am trying to load pictures into photobucket as we speak...The Moorish is eating well and looks great!

 

[benihana]

Awesome! Good luck with both of those guys!!

 

[Reefaquariumnut]

 

[Reefaquariumnut]

Not the greatest pictures due to them being taken on a camera phone by my wife.

 

[Goodwin9]

Sounds like an interesting additions. Haven't has experience with Morish Idol's, but I didn't think that they were reef safe. My Heniochos went after the small crabs and snails in my tank. Seems they liked to pick on things a little.

 

[Doc_B]

Sorry for the question not being so direct. I was going to use it for lighting, water levels...... I guess a better question is what are you using it for?

 

[Reefaquariumnut]

its okay

I use mine for everything...my tank is about 90% automated now and will be soon 100%. They take a little getting used to, but in the end the possiblities are endless as far as what you can control and monitor.

 

[benihana]

Nice looking fish!!

 

[Jhardain]

Really nice set up. Would love to have that much room to aquascape in. Great looking fish room as well!!

 

[dew2loud1]

We just added idols a little while back to two of our tanks,
They will nip at feather dusters and obviously sponges, and I've seen on take a swipe a time or two at one sps colony when they were first added.
Now that they've experienced Nori, I haven't seen them touch anything else, even the sponges, lol.

We have a picture almost identical to your above pics, two idols behind our achilles, love the Hawaiian fish!

 

[jnarowe]

something to note is that it is my understanding that Moorish Idols need to be in at least pairs for long-term success. I don't find that written in many places, but enough to make me think there may be some validity to it.

 

[prostaff]

If you consider more than 3 years a long term success, I am pretty sure Jared (Cougarman) has had a single moorish for at least that long

 

[jnarowe]

interesting. I thought he had a pair. I think a lot of the info. about these fish is still a bit sketchy anyway. Michael Scott does not mention it in his Reef Fishes book either. 3 years is definitely quite sucessful for them.

 

[sltloser]

hey all, got some new additions to the tank over the past few days. Dave bought three henochis (black and white) they are doing great, and eating like pigs. Next to come will hopefully be a pair of wantanabi angels, and then six or ten ventrilas anthia

 

[Reefaquariumnut]

Don't forget my black tang...