OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

[jnarowe]

Bought, but from a seller that labeled my Turbos as "Vietnam" and my striped bristletooth tang as a "Blue Eye Kole" so there is no way to really know what I got!

 

[jnarowe]

Well today was a happy-go-lucky day on the reef! Everything looking great, huge numbers of nerite eggs, snails doing well. I moved my red macro back to the fuge. I just can't seem to get it to grow.

I moved an acro to more light and I am happy to report there is only one small patch of HA in the entire system. i am working through a bit of cyano but that seems to be managable. It does affect the GSP a bit.

So I was all smiles until I noticed a Hep tucking itself into a crevace and I was watching because I hadn't seen them do this during the daytime. Then it started struggling. And it appeared it had gotten itself stuck. I couldn't believe it. I watched for a couple more minutes (or so it seemed) and then it just stopped moving. I freaked out and went to the rescue. I lay down on top of the tank and dismantled the rock work to get at the one the hep was in. I couldn't shake it out in the tank so I removed the rock and got some tweezers...yeah I am not kidding here folks...


As I was working on my trapped friend, another hep fell out of the bottom of the rock and onto the table! I scooped him up and tossed him in a pitcher of tank water. He seemed OK so I poured him in the display and then tweezed out the stuck one. So how rediculous is that?

Anyway, after watching the tank for a while and the fish started coming back out, one of the misfortunate ones came out and you could tell he was a bit roughed up, but he quickly got his slime back and looked fine after about 15 minutes.

I spotted one more that had wedged itself back into a crevace again and I don't know if that is one of the original stuck ones or the third. So I just went back and checked and all three are swimming around like nothing happened and they all look good except there is slight damage to the dorsal fin of the one I tweezed out of the rock...

OK now, say it all together: WHAT A MAROON!

 

[818]

I demand more pictures of tank full view!

 

[melev]

I've never seen a fish get stuck that couldn't navigate itself back out when it was ready. They love tucking into small areas, and sometimes appear dead.

 

[jnarowe]

My F1sh R D34D! I really had planned to do that today but I can't get my camera to charge. And NOW the tank is a little cloudy from all my rock moving antics.

Marc I am sure that was the case but I just couldn't bear to see a fish die right in front of me. I have lost a Hawiian Yellow and a chromis and I don't know what happened to them. All I could think of is here we go again! Anyway, they look fine but now my rock work is different and it is ticking me off. Also one clam that got moved is not happy and seems to be trying to re-position itself. I know it will be gone in the morning, having fallen into some hole and I'll have to tear the whole thing apart again...

I need a Tank Maid! :lol:

 

[Sanjay]

The hepatus tang usually sleep tucked into rock crevice or in the branches of coral. The can get out of it and may often appear stuck.

I have transported live rock for miles... only to find a hepatus tank in there after the rock was put back into the tank. The rock was in water the whole time, and the fish never came out until it was in the tank.

Its not uncommon for these fish to do this. I think you paniced prematurely.

sanjay.

 

[jnarowe]

Oh I am sure you are right. It just really was struggling and then appeared to go limp. And it struggled several times over a period of time before it went limp. Anyway I just about freaked when I realized there was more than one in the rock and as soon as I put them back into the tank at least one burrowed in again. :lol:

I had no idea that they would sleep in the middle of the day time.

 

[jnarowe]

OK, so I did a little dance and threw some bones on the floor and my camera started charging:

My Little Friends:

These were completely full when I put them in the dish and when I came back an hour later you can see that two of them deflated.

Turbo Power!

Front side:

 

[jnarowe]

Back Side:

 

[sixxer]

Looks Great.

How many fish total now?

 

[jnarowe]

Uh, I think 22.

And for those of you who don't support Reef Central,

SHAME ON YOU!

GET YOURSELF A THONG!!!

 

[asnatlas]

............................ No comment :lol:

 

[melev]

:lolspin:

 

[mrcrab]

Looks like your crack is a bit off center.

If I were you, I'd have that looked at! :crazy1:

 

[jnarowe]

Come on guys...who needs a little surgery??? :lol:

 

[mrcrab]

:wildone: Hmmmmm... you maybe?

 

[jnarowe]

:lol: already got that! can't you tell?

 

[Lunchbucket]

 

[Hop]

:lol2: :lol:

 

[sharkinsand]

Those are to clean to wear:mixed: