o2manyfish 750g Tank, 1500g System "Built" Thread
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Tony,
Angels always have the potential for causing trouble.
100% Reef safe angels would be the Bellus Angels, Swallowtails and Zebras.
In my 30+ years of salt keeping every tank has always had a flame angel. And only 1 was problematic with clams.
I have been in love with Goldflakes and keeping them for 15+ years and they are really well behaved - but then one day they eat a clump of your favorite zoas - You may have 100 different clumps of zoas - and they will just eat one clump - and they will eat all of that clump and then no more for 6 months.
I have always had great luck with pygmy angels. I love the cuteness of the Cherub pymgy - But the Brazilian flamebacks are much prettier.
I'm not sure why I have the multi-color - They are so pretty when sitting in a small cube at the fish store - but once inside my tank they like to hide and there colors are always dark. But it's got purple on it - So I keep them.
My Red Sea Regal in the display tank has been in there for 4.5 years and has never mis-behaved.
I have a trio of Venustus in the display tank and they have never done any damage.
I have a trio of Golden Angels - They are super super reclusive. I actually have a better chance of spotting them when watching the tank during the day with the lights off. They come out and you can see them nip at the underside of a coral - But they never 'work' a spot. They nip and move on. They don't do any damage.
And then I have my multi-bar angel --- the Poorman's Peppermint angel. These fish are neat - They have such a nice slow movement thru the tank. Very challenging to get to feed and flourish in captivity. Mine has been around for 3 years and he as destroyed a bunch of Acans. The acans went into the tank slowly and did great for almost a year and then in a couple of days the multi-bar took out all the acans.
Now outside in the frag tank currently I have the Imperator, Navarchus, Red Sea Mis Bar Regal, 4 goldflakes - and am baby sitting some golden angels and some misbar - With that population of angels in a frag tank with no rock they are so well behaved. I have lost a couple of zoa frags - But I have other zoas untouched. The frags outside are not nipped picked or damaged with all those angels. - And the Navarchus and Imperator I would not label as reef safe.
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Dave.M --- Thank you - The sunlight colors can be really cool. It amazes me how some things can be so different. These crazy blue frags in the video, the mother colony in the tank isn't even close to a blue color.
Dave B
Angels always have the potential for causing trouble.
100% Reef safe angels would be the Bellus Angels, Swallowtails and Zebras.
In my 30+ years of salt keeping every tank has always had a flame angel. And only 1 was problematic with clams.
I have been in love with Goldflakes and keeping them for 15+ years and they are really well behaved - but then one day they eat a clump of your favorite zoas - You may have 100 different clumps of zoas - and they will just eat one clump - and they will eat all of that clump and then no more for 6 months.
I have always had great luck with pygmy angels. I love the cuteness of the Cherub pymgy - But the Brazilian flamebacks are much prettier.
I'm not sure why I have the multi-color - They are so pretty when sitting in a small cube at the fish store - but once inside my tank they like to hide and there colors are always dark. But it's got purple on it - So I keep them.
My Red Sea Regal in the display tank has been in there for 4.5 years and has never mis-behaved.
I have a trio of Venustus in the display tank and they have never done any damage.
I have a trio of Golden Angels - They are super super reclusive. I actually have a better chance of spotting them when watching the tank during the day with the lights off. They come out and you can see them nip at the underside of a coral - But they never 'work' a spot. They nip and move on. They don't do any damage.
And then I have my multi-bar angel --- the Poorman's Peppermint angel. These fish are neat - They have such a nice slow movement thru the tank. Very challenging to get to feed and flourish in captivity. Mine has been around for 3 years and he as destroyed a bunch of Acans. The acans went into the tank slowly and did great for almost a year and then in a couple of days the multi-bar took out all the acans.
Now outside in the frag tank currently I have the Imperator, Navarchus, Red Sea Mis Bar Regal, 4 goldflakes - and am baby sitting some golden angels and some misbar - With that population of angels in a frag tank with no rock they are so well behaved. I have lost a couple of zoa frags - But I have other zoas untouched. The frags outside are not nipped picked or damaged with all those angels. - And the Navarchus and Imperator I would not label as reef safe.
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Dave.M --- Thank you - The sunlight colors can be really cool. It amazes me how some things can be so different. These crazy blue frags in the video, the mother colony in the tank isn't even close to a blue color.
Dave B
sfsuphysics
Active member
damn the display tank, I think I could just stare at that frag tank all day.
Natural sunlight is amazing, huh
I am actually surprised by the colors if truth be told. Scuba diving most if not all SPS I've seen is nothing like what we keep in our aquaria. O2 - thanks for the angel list. I may have to actually find a couple that are soft and LPS coral friendly - or more I should say. The golds are out of my price point comfort level for now but every time I visit your updates it wants me to add a couple of the standard angles and pygmies. The good news I guess is that I'll have room after upgrading from my 40 breeder to a 240
I would get a kick out of adding a couple of the angels I see while diving in Hawaii but their names escape me nor do I even know if they are for sale let alone friendly. One thing I notice with your tank, or those that keep them, their tanks are more mature. 1/4 of my tank will be mature while the rest is catching up (new rock, etc).
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sfsuphysics
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The reasons for that is that the corals that actually make it to be sold/traded to us are the 1%ers of the group, the majority of what you see in the ocean is not what collectors will grab, whether it's "WC" or mariculture So they are already the bright purples/blues/pinks in the ocean, and it's no wonder they look phenomenal in his frag tank.Natural sunlight is amazing, huh
dave.m
Active member
Best to learn the differences between angels and butterfly fish. Your first image is of a four spot butterfly, Chaetodon quadrimaculatus Kona. Second one is of a milletseed butterfly, Chaetodon miliaris. The previous issue of Coral Magazine had a whole article on butterfly fish.saf1 said:
Dave.M
o2manyfish - I'd like to file a complaint regarding your purple tang! I was trying to grab a screen shot of this fish you have but the purple tang kept photo bombing and hanging out in the same place. It is like it knew what I was trying to do and trolling me.
There was a smaller, slender, purple looking fish hanging out around the Ora Red Planet (pre-set video). It caught my eye so I wanted to see what sort of fish it was. Anyway, the big old purple tang decided to hang out there. I tried a few more times but the fish ended up moving away then someone else took control and alas I'll never know what fish it was.
Kidding of course regarding the complaint but did have some fun even though your tang was seriously trolling me.
There was a smaller, slender, purple looking fish hanging out around the Ora Red Planet (pre-set video). It caught my eye so I wanted to see what sort of fish it was. Anyway, the big old purple tang decided to hang out there. I tried a few more times but the fish ended up moving away then someone else took control and alas I'll never know what fish it was.
Kidding of course regarding the complaint but did have some fun even though your tang was seriously trolling me.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Saf1,
I am pretty sure the fish you were trying to take a photo of is one of my ORA Frimandi Pseudochromis, there are at least 3 of them. 2 have been caught spawning.
Dave B
I am pretty sure the fish you were trying to take a photo of is one of my ORA Frimandi Pseudochromis, there are at least 3 of them. 2 have been caught spawning.
Dave B
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Finally a positive update.
Finally a positive update.
Hey Guys,
The past 5 months my tank has been assaulted by instability from so many different issues, and then when we had the big rains last month a 14 hour power outage while I was up in San Francisco.
But things are starting to stabilize. I got motivated to take some photos of the happy corals.
Shooting with a Canon D70, 105mm Macro and no tripod.
Lighting is Radion G3 Pro running 20k color profile at 70%
Miyagi Tort Outside in Frag Tank
Bizzaro Chyphastrea
This is the tip of my AEFW Proof Purple Tip, Turquoise Stag. This is huge and right next to my Red Planet that has been filled with AEFW for over 2 years. And not once has there been one on this colony. Colony is huge and I have tons of frags available (free to locals)
My Grafted Monti Colony is amazing and huge. It keeps getting 'Fragged' by the glass magnet cleaner. This little plate was under a bigger plate I broke off a few weeks ago - entirely in the dark. Now look 3 weeks later... Amazing Coral.
My Millies are amazing. They don't catch my eye, they always have AEFW, and then I get up above them over the tank, and I am just stunned by what they are hiding.
I have a Miyagi Tort that just keeps growing and growing. The first photo is from a piece I mounted Horizontal and it keeps growing just horizontal. First photo is the tips and you can just see the green starting to appear at the top
This is the base of one of the Miyagi colonies
Part 1....
Finally a positive update.
Hey Guys,
The past 5 months my tank has been assaulted by instability from so many different issues, and then when we had the big rains last month a 14 hour power outage while I was up in San Francisco.
But things are starting to stabilize. I got motivated to take some photos of the happy corals.
Shooting with a Canon D70, 105mm Macro and no tripod.
Lighting is Radion G3 Pro running 20k color profile at 70%
Miyagi Tort Outside in Frag Tank
Bizzaro Chyphastrea
This is the tip of my AEFW Proof Purple Tip, Turquoise Stag. This is huge and right next to my Red Planet that has been filled with AEFW for over 2 years. And not once has there been one on this colony. Colony is huge and I have tons of frags available (free to locals)
My Grafted Monti Colony is amazing and huge. It keeps getting 'Fragged' by the glass magnet cleaner. This little plate was under a bigger plate I broke off a few weeks ago - entirely in the dark. Now look 3 weeks later... Amazing Coral.
My Millies are amazing. They don't catch my eye, they always have AEFW, and then I get up above them over the tank, and I am just stunned by what they are hiding.
I have a Miyagi Tort that just keeps growing and growing. The first photo is from a piece I mounted Horizontal and it keeps growing just horizontal. First photo is the tips and you can just see the green starting to appear at the top
This is the base of one of the Miyagi colonies
Part 1....
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
This is the base of my Rainbow Millie
And this is the tips
Here is my Rainbow Monti that is slowly starting to color and expand
And here is my Kung Pao Monti
Dave B
And this is the tips
Here is my Rainbow Monti that is slowly starting to color and expand
And here is my Kung Pao Monti
Dave B
thetedinator
New member
Very nice. Thanks for posting these macros.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Hey Ted,
Thanks, I was really impressed that the shots turned out so well without using a Tripod or remote shutter release. I would say only maybe 1 out 8 photos I shot were not in good focus.
The Anacrapora you brought over (was that a month ago) has tripled in size on the bottom level of the outdoor frag rack. And the color is outrageous with super bright red polyps. I just gave Joe Kelly a Frag on Thursday, and I cut a frag to put inside, and its still twice as big as what you brought over.
How is Buddy?
Dave B
Thanks, I was really impressed that the shots turned out so well without using a Tripod or remote shutter release. I would say only maybe 1 out 8 photos I shot were not in good focus.
The Anacrapora you brought over (was that a month ago) has tripled in size on the bottom level of the outdoor frag rack. And the color is outrageous with super bright red polyps. I just gave Joe Kelly a Frag on Thursday, and I cut a frag to put inside, and its still twice as big as what you brought over.
How is Buddy?
Dave B
Hi Dave. Thanks! That is it.
Added to my list. Appreciate it. Also - was kidding about the complaint
tmantaylor18
Active member
amazing colors man
thetedinator
New member
What! No pics of the WWC Slimeball? J/K.
Buddy is doing great. He has adult colors now and the misbar is still there.
Ted
Achilles Torben
Member
Hello Dave,
fantastic pictures! Fantastic corals! Fantastic tank! Hope in a few jears I make nearly the same journey. Congrats
Grüße Torben
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fantastic pictures! Fantastic corals! Fantastic tank! Hope in a few jears I make nearly the same journey. Congrats
Grüße Torben
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o2manyfish
o2manyfish
New Toy For the Tank
New Toy For the Tank
Hey Guys,
Check out the new Toy for the tank.
Enjoy
Dave B
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New Toy For the Tank
Hey Guys,
Check out the new Toy for the tank.
Enjoy
Dave B
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