The Scleractinia Shallows

[martinphillip03]

Andrew, since Dom is Acroless, you need to continue posting on this page until Dom gets Acro's again.Otherwise RC may move this thread somewhere else. Like the Lounge.

Marty

Sorry for posting pics on your journal Dom lol. When i ran the halide over your tank it was a 400W Radium with 4 x 39W T5's and an 81W LED strip..........

:wavehand:

 

[Rakie]

Sorry to read that

The good news is fresh starts allow us to fix the problem we lived with. Plus you get acros basically free anyways

 

[Scrubber_steve]

G'day Wrangy; i read one of your posts within this thread the other day concerning you leaving out the trace elements from your AF components 1,2 & 3 mix. You believed you noticed an improvement in coral polyp extension & colour, i think? Can you elaborate on this at all?

Cheers

 

[biggles]

More light, more light!

no all pink digi sorry Biggles, I'll keep looking though

Keep looking mate and if all else fails there's always my colony.........

You took this photo on the night the shipment arrived didn't you Sam....... it's AAA acro porn mate, your pics are always filthy good...... :thumbsup:

Andrew, since Dom is Acroless, you need to continue posting on this page until Dom gets Acro's again.Otherwise RC may move this thread somewhere else. Like the Lounge.

Marty

Let's not derail Dom's journal please Marty........ :reading:

 

[martinphillip03]

Sorry Dom. :headwallblue:

Marty




Let's not derail Dom's journal please Marty........ :reading:

 

[Wrangy]

Sorry to read that

The good news is fresh starts allow us to fix the problem we lived with. Plus you get acros basically free anyways

Thanks man I dunno about free but I do get prime choices :frog: At least with no ability to add acro I've been able to focus on some fish additions!

G'day Wrangy; i read one of your posts within this thread the other day concerning you leaving out the trace elements from your AF components 1,2 & 3 mix. You believed you noticed an improvement in coral polyp extension & colour, i think? Can you elaborate on this at all?

Cheers

It was simply because I didn't have enough acro in the tank to have the uptake into their skeleton to warrant the dosing and it meant that I was overdosing and once I stopped there wasn't an excess of the materials in the water and the acro's cheered up

Let's not derail Dom's journal please Marty........ :reading:

Now THAT is a bloody stunning piece of red monti cap :inlove:

 

[Wrangy]

Well as I mentioned I made some rather big purchases in the fishlist over the weekend and maybe some more to come in the next week or two :spin1:

I took a few frags to Deer Park on the weekend which helped out in my mass spending spree but I walked out with 4 amazing fish :inlove: Two I'd put on hold the previous week and a pair that I simply couldn't help myself! I ended up walking out with a gorgeous Colini angelfish, the teeny tiniest little blotched anthia you've ever seen and a pair of juvenile flame hawks :inlove:










The tank is still chugging along and doing it's thing though

 

[Wrangy]

 

[Wrangy]

Also a little video of feeding time

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[Pife]

That lil blotchy is cute. They are very cool fish!

 

[Wrangy]

That lil blotchy is cute. They are very cool fish!

Yeah I just had to have him when I saw him!! He's an absolute guts! Loves his pellets!

I must admit, I'm really starting to miss my sticks though :sad1: I literally can't wait to have the tank filled with them again!

 

[Rakie]

Great fish pickups Dom, stellar choices. Love hawkfish, damn things eat anything that'll fit in their mouths though.

I'm sure you know this, but if you're partial to any shrimp enjoy 'em while they last.

This little dude maxes out at 2", didn't stop him from taking a 3" shrimp

 

[reefmutt]

Well as I mentioned I made some rather big purchases in the fishlist over the weekend and maybe some more to come in the next week or two :spin1:

I took a few frags to Deer Park on the weekend which helped out in my mass spending spree but I walked out with 4 amazing fish :inlove: Two I'd put on hold the previous week and a pair that I simply couldn't help myself! I ended up walking out with a gorgeous Colini angelfish, the teeny tiniest little blotched anthia you've ever seen and a pair of juvenile flame hawks :inlove:










The tank is still chugging along and doing it's thing though

Looking good, Dom.. despite the lack of acros.. I'll let it pass for now... for now.
Love those fish. Flame hawk is a fav of mine. So is the anthias.
I don't seem to get email updates anymore since downloading tapatalk..
oh well.. I can stalk you the old fashioned way..
When are you good to put some sticks back?

 

[Alex Costa]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
That's a beatiful fish...

 

[Wrangy]

Great fish pickups Dom, stellar choices. Love hawkfish, damn things eat anything that'll fit in their mouths though.

I'm sure you know this, but if you're partial to any shrimp enjoy 'em while they last.

This little dude maxes out at 2", didn't stop him from taking a 3" shrimp

Thanks man This is my third pair of flame hawks so I'm pretty onto them and their behaviour haha After the loss of my original pair (a few years old) I was devastated and the second pair did the same thing so I was more than likely never getting more again as i was too heartbroken but these little guys pulled at my heart strings so I HAD too :lmao:

Looking good, Dom.. despite the lack of acros.. I'll let it pass for now... for now.
Love those fish. Flame hawk is a fav of mine. So is the anthias.
I don't seem to get email updates anymore since downloading tapatalk..
oh well.. I can stalk you the old fashioned way..
When are you good to put some sticks back?

haha thanks Matt! Not too much longer left to wait then I'm going to raid everyone's tank that I know for frags haha and maybe ask the guys at Sustainable Reefs very nicely to send some killer pieces to Dave's haha

Yeah, I went a little overboard with the fish haha but I'm super happy! You should see how fat the little borb is!! I'm feeding like crazy at the moment too, a couple of cubes of frozen a day and several big pellet feeds Everyone is starting to get fat haha and not to mention half a scallop twice a week or so! Burgers goes absolutely nuts as soon as I touch the food clip as he knows the scallop is coming and if I'm not quick enough he swims round pecking my hand to hurry me up haha

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
That's a beatiful fish...

Yep thanks Alex!! I just couldn't pass him up when I saw him at the store!!

 

[martinphillip03]

Wrangy, Do you realize how wrong that statement is? I never realized Sustainable Reefs held back their nice stuff! :rollface:

Marty

And maybe ask the guys at Sustainable Reefs very nicely to send some killer pieces to Dave's haha

 

[Rakie]

Hawkfish are intelligent and inquisitive little guys for sure. I had a small biocube on my desk with a little pygmy hawk that was just shy of 2". He would perch right next to me and watch me / my computer all day. He loved staring at the screen especially, I think he was just watching the shifting colors and waiting for food to come out of it -- kept his attention none the less.

 

[Wrangy]

Well I'd like everyone to know that I'm still alive and so is the tank :wavehand:

I had a fantastic time in the US and even the snow storms in NY that kept us stuck there for three days was an experience and a half haha :spin2: I did manage to visit AquaSD and Two Guys Corals which were both amazing! There was a couple I missed out on but I'll get to them next time!

The tank survived my absence really well, my partner was amazing looking after my babies The only big bad news was that we lost my big baby maxima she was lost under mysterious circumstances and no idea why. It certainly wasn't from lack of care from my partner though (her friends at work are calling her the "Clam Killer" now haha). So while that news was pretty upsetting as you can imagine all the fish are happy and safe and all the other corals are doing really well

The best part about getting back is now that the tank has been completely acro free for the last 10wks or so, it's time for the fun to begin again!! :celeb2:
I have a few big plans for the restocking process and it should be a rather fun time! I'm excited to say the least! My plans are to get at least 50% of the water changed in the next couple of weeks, run the battery of tests twice a week and get two or three Triton tests done over the next month or two done. On top of that, guess who's FINALLY getting a screen top made haha. TopLids are making my top for me and so far he's been absolutely fantastic to deal with so I'll be doing a small review on them when I get my top on the tank!!

I spend a few hours last weekend giving the tank a good scrub, clean, water change and rescape too. Cleaned all the glass, tidied the frag tank, got bullied by my female maroon lol and overhauled the scape! It looks like a big ol' pile of rocks but it's all lifted and open underneath using rebar mesh chairs (which are amazing to use for reefing purposes haha) and the reason I haven't gone super creative with the scape is it's tailored more for the happiness of the fish than having a crazy wack-a-doodle scape :lol: There's lots of acro mounting space and I already have the layout and acro placements in my head so it's just a matter of getting there now

 

[Rakie]

Next time you're down here and you check out Vivid Aquariums -- Ask about the back room. ALL the good stuff is hidden in the back, gotta ask to see.

 

[reefmutt]

Hey Dom, hows your American accent?
Glad to see you back..
Your clean reef is getting on my nerves...
I NEED ACRO BUSH!!!