Here we go! Chuck's new build

[monkiboy]

Glad to hear of action and time to make it happen!

[YHSublime]

Are you dosing at all? I bet you that will change things!

[flooddc]

10 hours ago, monkiboy said:

Glad to hear of action and time to make it happen!

Thanks 

10 hours ago, YHSublime said:

Are you dosing at all? I bet you that will change things!

Only dose 2 parts. 

[flooddc]

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

 

[flooddc]

Lights just came on moment ago. Tank looks so empty 

 

[WheresTheReef]

I bet your heart skipped a beat or two! Glad you didn't end up with a crisis on your hands.

[flooddc]

13 minutes ago, WheresTheReef said:

I bet your heart skipped a beat or two! Glad you didn't end up with a crisis on your hands.

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 

[flooddc]

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 ?

 

 

 

[YHSublime]

Need to get some pieces with height in there! Looking good, Chuck. 

[flooddc]

1 hour ago, YHSublime said:

Need to get some pieces with height in there! Looking good, Chuck. 

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

[flooddc]

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. 

 

[flooddc]

she is about to drop some eggs.

[flooddc]

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

 

[WheresTheReef]

Pretty fish. I've thought about a butterfly but always concerned about it eating my corals and/or clam.

[flooddc]

47 minutes ago, WheresTheReef said:

Pretty fish. I've thought about a butterfly but always concerned about it eating my corals and/or clam.

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

[flooddc]

The Longnose Butterflyfish finally eats flakes. 

 

[lowsingle]

Have you seen the longnose butterfly picking at your corals?  I have a copper banded butterfly and would love to include a longnose as well….

 

Darren

 

[flooddc]

4 hours ago, lowsingle said:

Have you seen the longnose butterfly picking at your corals?  I have a copper banded butterfly and would love to include a longnose as well….

 

Darren

 

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. 

[flooddc]

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.

 

[flooddc]

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.

 

[flooddc]

On 4/5/2022 at 9:57 PM, flooddc said:

My 11+ year old sixline wrasse has something on its mouth for the past year or so. I think he got bucked teeth. Still eating well. 

 

i went into ky YouTube and dig out my very first post of the reef tank. Can’t believe it coming up it its 10 years. Some of the fish and corals are still in my current tank.

 

 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   

Edited October 21, 2022 by flooddc
typo

[flooddc]

Finally got around and scraped coralline algae off the front of the tanks and water change.

Everything seem to do well except the frogspawn/octospawn and rasta zoas. I am pretty sure the filefish has something to do with those. Here are video of the 2 tanks:

 

 

[lynn.reef.nerd]

Looking good chuck. 

[flooddc]

On 11/3/2022 at 10:33 AM, lynn.reef.nerd said:

Looking good chuck. 

Thanks Lynn!

[flooddc]

Yesterday marked the 8th anniversary of this build . WOW time fly!!! 

Coincidently, for some reason I decided to clean the tank last evening.  WEIRD!!

 

the longnose butterfly has been growing quite a bit and now eating everything.

 

Edited December 2, 2022 by flooddc
correction