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Lol.... What a great fight tho, rampage really proved himself to be one of the elites. But the last punch woke liddell up from a nap.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10025195#post10025195 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
See Sherman, Liddell was just resting. No reason to call the fight off!

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Yeah, and when he was repeatedly asking "what happened?" With that bewildered look on his face he was just kidding too right? :eek1:
I can't wait for Henderson and Jackson. THAT will be a fight!
 
Sorry I haven't been posting pics but I have just been too busy.

Today I did a complete cleanout of my sumps with a shop vac and towel. Nice water change. Alk tested out at 9.6 dKh so I am continuing to move toward my goal 9.0.

Corals look good, and the pieces of orance cap that I have left all seem to be doing fine, so maybe I will end up with several this next time around. I mourn the loss of the purple polyp monti still and have a green encrusting that is still in regression.
All other corals are looking good.

I accidentally broke off a tip of the blue cali tort while cleaning the glass today. I have had good luck just popping tips into holes so that's what I did. As I lay over the top of the tank, it amazes me how many little coral "children" there are growing out of various crevaces. Much of that has to do with the maroon biting off pieces and spitting them all over the tank, but i think it will add to a more natural looking reef later on.

The chromis in QT is still alive, which I am very surprised about. I haven't been able to get it to eat, and it still has a fairly large wound, but hey, maybe it will make it!
 
I made an interesting discovery last night! For many months I have periodically seen some kind of very thin, see-through tissue swirling around in the tank. I have noticed it probably 10 times or so over the last 6 months, but could never figure out what it was.

Well last night I found the source...it is the slime coating off the Foxface Lo! How weird is that? I have seen it swim right through a GBTA on 3 occassions and thought that was quite strange, and last night I watched as its slime coating slowly sloughed off in the current.

The slime comes off in patches and strands, and maintains its form for quite a while. I am glad i know what it is now, but wonder why it is happening. Must be related to its forays into the GBTAs I guess, and that would explain why it has very slight rashes sometimes.
 
Well I just re-calibrated my pH probe and it came out about .40 less than what it had been reading! That's scary and now I don't know which one to trust...that could be part of the problem with my alkalinity being too high for so long though, since I control the CO2 at least partially based on the tank pH.

I guess tomorrow I will re-calibrate it again and see what the result is. I suspect that I forgot to use the temp. probe the last time I did it and that may be the reason for the disparity.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10062814#post10062814 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
I made an interesting discovery last night! For many months I have periodically seen some kind of very thin, see-through tissue swirling around in the tank. I have noticed it probably 10 times or so over the last 6 months, but could never figure out what it was.

Well last night I found the source...it is the slime coating off the Foxface Lo! How weird is that? I have seen it swim right through a GBTA on 3 occassions and thought that was quite strange, and last night I watched as its slime coating slowly sloughed off in the current.

The slime comes off in patches and strands, and maintains its form for quite a while. I am glad i know what it is now, but wonder why it is happening. Must be related to its forays into the GBTAs I guess, and that would explain why it has very slight rashes sometimes.
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Thanks for the heads up.. we have seen that same gossamer like tissue floating around our tank from time to time. It must be our magnificent rabbitfish. :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10078794#post10078794 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
Well I just re-calibrated my pH probe and it came out about .40 less than what it had been reading! That's scary and now I don't know which one to trust...that could be part of the problem with my alkalinity being too high for so long though, since I control the CO2 at least partially based on the tank pH.

I guess tomorrow I will re-calibrate it again and see what the result is. I suspect that I forgot to use the temp. probe the last time I did it and that may be the reason for the disparity.
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Make sure you check the date on the calibration fluid also. I was using some old stuff to calibrate and was getting false readings.
 
yeah Barry, I brought in new solution just to make sure. I am going to do it again anyway...

Tom, isn't that tissue-like stuff weird? I had originally thought it was coral slime.
 
coral slime was my first guess, but we didn't have any big leathers or anything that might have "shed" a piece that big. also, it started right around the time that we added the rabbit fish.. so that fits perfectly :)
 
I finished reading this over the weekend; including the splits, something like 16 hours, including following the links.

I learned a lot!

jnarowe: I admire your effort, successes and generosity. I especially admire your willingness to offer the sidesteps and missteps. It was the offering of those, to this community, that expanded my knowledge by this community's responses.

I can't wait for you to have the time and inclination to post more pictures!

:thumbsup:
 
token: Thanks for the kind words and if it hasn't been said already,

[welcome]

I hope to get to some pictures in the next week or two. :)
 
Quick update:

After much long vacillation, I picked up a CBB today. I know this is a risky move, but the 40+ peppermint shrimp in my display have done nothing to the aiptasia population and the problem has reached epic porportions.

I am acclimating him to the snail grow-out tank in which I will feed him nothing but aiptasia until I am satisfied he will do his job. Wish me luck!! :)
 
Thanks! Actually the glass is in fairly good shape although I have yet to sand out the scratches. It's mentally tough to post pictures with aiptasia in them though. :rolleyes:
 
so far it looks very healthy but a little scared. We'll see how it goes. I will have to move my Christmas Tree rocks out of the display when he goes in.
 
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