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the 6 line passed last week. It was pretty healthy and active. I guessed it died of old age. it's around 12 years old. Guessed it's time to look into getting two and pair them up. Missed seeing mating dance

LOL! I guessed the little guy don't want to be sold to a new home after all. He somehow escaped from the cage which are wrapped around using 1/4" mesh netting. Seem to be doing just fine and accepted by the other clownfish pair.

Has a minor change with the tank’s residency. The female bullet holes clownfish disappeared a few days after spawned. The male continues to guard over the eggs until the very end. I think the female probably got killed defending her eggs. Yesterday I introduced the B&W female with the remain bullet holes and less than 24 hrs they bonded nicely.

WOW! that's so cool.

I haven't yet witness it picking on corals. However, I'd noticed that some of my euphyllia are not happy. It's possible that the longnose nipping on it or could be something else idk . On the plus side, it's my new favorite fish and also the majanos has been greatly reduced since adding the longnose. It's much better than before as the filefish was not able get to them in the tight crevices.

The Longnose Butterflyfish finally eats flakes.

Nice angel!! tempted to get one too

fortunately for me I don't have clams and my corals aren't high end.

Ever since I loss my copperband, I have always wanted to get another butterfly. It”s no copperband butterfly but satisfying ?.

40-50% relative humidity is most comfortable. You might need to play with the settings to see how it’s keeping up with maintaining the 40-50% in your home. I am on the third dehumidifier. They died after 1-2 seasons. My tanks are in the basement. I have one exhaust fan vented on the inside the fish room as well as one outside the fish room but the humidity level is still way high during the warmer months. Dehumidifier works best but it usually runs 24/7 during the warmer months.

that’s great Ron. Glad to hear it’s moving along smoothly.

she is about to drop some eggs.

looking good.

Hope everything get back on track.

Tank redo is now completed to my satisfaction. Not a whole lot of coral breakage as I first anticipated. Pretty much able to sold most of the frags from the minor breakage. here is the updated videos I just uploaded.

nah! something will eventually grow to cover the height. Hopefully desirable one and not the heliopora .

Sounds normal! Just another phase of cycling process.

It’s about 90% of what I wanted to accomplish. Got most my my corals back in place and trimmed off some over grown colonies. Fish seem to enjoy extra swimming space. Got the algae scraped for nice clean photos ?

Thanks Eric, it's one of the risk of running bare bottom. yeah! it skipped a beat, but one the dark side of the brain, it's said new tank

Lights just came on moment ago. Tank looks so empty

last night I went full speed on the tank and pulled out 2 massive rocks with heliopora on them. after pulled them out, i was letting the tank settled and suddenly heard a bang! one of the large sized rock fell, my heart sank as I wasn't sure whether it cracked the bottom of the tank. quickly pull the rock and check but detritus was covered the bottom. brushed of the detritus and ahh!!! omg...no crack :0) Massive rock with heliopora

Congrat! she's beautiful.

Thanks Only dose 2 parts.

Since the heliopora has been growing out of control and suffocating corals, I have been thinking about doing an upgrade and get rid of the heliopora all together. So I have sold off some of my euphylia colonies in prep for the upgrade. My original plan was to get two 5 footer tanks to put in place of my 210 and 100 nems tank. After many back and forth thought, I decided not to proceed with the upgrade since it going to take a lot of time and hard labor. My new plan is to attack the heliopora issues one section at a time. I had some spare time tonight and dive right in. I removed some colonies into my sump and attack the heliopora. Pull some rocks along with it and trimmed as much as I could. Got a basket full of heliopora just from one section of the tank. Looking promising this far. Will have to move to the next section when I get a chance. Will update my progress. Thanks for reading ?.

Great progress. Keep those photos update rolling