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

[Hop]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11037033#post11037033 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dhnguyen
Hey J. My 4 orange lined cardinals arrived. Unfortunately one didn't survive (liveaquaria credited my cc for this promptly too)

But hte 3 remaining ones are indeed schooling and are out about not hiding like we feared they might be

Very cool looking fish too.

Very cool! I wanted to get a group of them, but I didn't have the ability to get my q-tank set up in time... Guess I'll have to wait for them. Let me know if you get some actual pics up, I was worried that they wouldn't look as good as the stock picture.

 

[dhnguyen]

They look pretty good in real life. I am still trying to slowly acclimating them in my tank so no lights for at least another hour or so. Then it's picture time

 

[jnarowe]

Very nice...too bad about the DOA. At least with LA you know they are going to take care of you.

 

[Micki]

Wow I'm anxious to see what they look like in person too!

 

[jnarowe]

Hey Micki!

 

[sherm71tank]

Oh Mickey, you're so fine, You're so fine you blow my mind Hey Mickey! Hey, hey, hey Mickey! Ok, wrong spelling but I had to for some reason. Maybe I'm having V-8 withdrawals?

 

[Micki]

Hey there jnarowe!

 

[Micki]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11037689#post11037689 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sherm71tank
Oh Mickey, you're so fine, You're so fine you blow my mind Hey Mickey! Hey, hey, hey Mickey! Ok, wrong spelling but I had to for some reason. Maybe I'm having V-8 withdrawals?

LOL Wrong spelling but I don't mind! :lol:

 

[jnarowe]

Just ignore Sherman. He's a heavy drinker.

 

[Micki]

Oh thanks, way to burst my bubble!

 

[Micki]

Oh thanks, way to burst my bubble!

 

[dhnguyen]

And... Here they are

PITA to take a pic of them too.

 

[dhnguyen]

Damn I should have ordered 6 instead of 4 Liveaquaria are all sold out of them already.

 

[jnarowe]

should have ordered twelve so you got nine...they look sweet dahn.

 

[Micki]

Very cool!

 

[dhnguyen]

Dudes... I'm stoked, they're eating already

 

[jnarowe]

That's great D.

BTW, I had a thought tonight regarding my recent reef troubles. It occured to me that a major change between before and after is that I put the CBB in and it ate ALL of the aptaisia. I have no idea how it did so quickly since there were literally hundreds, some being quite large, but it did. So what do you guys think about having a drastic reduction in mouths to feed, having an effect on water quality?

I realize that the catalyst was the heat wave and subsequent snail die-off, but i have to wonder if the loss of all those aptaisia didn't have some causitve effect as well.

 

[dhnguyen]

woah dp

 

[dhnguyen]

tripple even

 

[dhnguyen]

Hmm While it may have some effect on warer quality I don't think the absence of hundreds of aiptasia is going to make that much of a difference in a system of your size J.

Your tank would need to be overrunning with aiptasia for that to be a deciding factor. I think it (the problem) would have happened regardless of the aiptasia. At least now it's one less thing to worry about