davelin315 September 11, 2008 Author Share September 11, 2008 Well, I've got some new pictures to share, thanks to this thread in the member's section (sorry, to look at it you'll have to be a member!): Best Acrylic Scraper Money Can Buy. Anyway, here're the results of my work! The tank halfway scraped. The lights are raised up so I can reach in and one is off, so it's a bit darker than normal. Here's a new coral I picked up from the Aquarium Company this past weekend when I met up with Coral Hind to pick up the fossils he collected at Scientist Cliffs in Cavlert County, MD. Here's the chunk of what I think is pocillopora that is on the multi-type coral I got from there as well. This is the one that fell into the sand and I didn't pick it up so the piece of coral in the back was injured and then RTNd. Here's another coral given to me by Khanh (bendalat). It's a blue milli that I'm hoping will take off in the light there. This is the Montipora danae that I picked up a while back from the Aquarium Company. Just to rehash the original point, here's a shot of what the coralline coverage was before I scraped... Here's a shot of the Miyagi tort I have. It's morphed colors and is now a nice blue with greenish hued polyps. Right in front of it is a red table frag I picked up from Leishman. It doesn't show too well under the 20,000K lights, figure I need a lower K for better red, but not sure of that. Here's one of my female anthias that has morphed into a male. Pretty fish, probably one of the neatest in the tank right now. Here's the blue belly regal I got from the Aquarium Company. First good shot I've been able to take of it! It's out all the time and I have also added the yellow belly from BRK now. It was eating pellets so well that I felt it was time to add it to the tank. I will also add the emperor from the sump soon to see how it does in the main system. I'm very excited for this, but will allow the new yellow belly to get comfortable first. One neat thing is that the blue and yellow bellies have begun to swim together showing zero aggression or even dominance, so I'm thinking that I lucked out and they have already decided to pair up. Once I finish with the scraping I'll take some more shots. Hopefully I can get a shot of the sand where all of the coralline remains are sitting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLazar September 11, 2008 Share September 11, 2008 Enjoying your pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 September 11, 2008 Author Share September 11, 2008 Enjoying your pictures! And I'm enjoying being able to actually take one again! It's actually relaxing to scrape coralline and snap some shots when I've been grading tests... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amay121 September 11, 2008 Share September 11, 2008 Looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 September 17, 2008 Author Share September 17, 2008 An update with some new pictures now that the tank is nearly all the way scraped. If only I had arms that were 6" longer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoothtriqueter September 17, 2008 Share September 17, 2008 BRAVO It looks amazing! I'm 6'5'' I'll help with the last bit, but I'm in college park! keep up the good work! truley amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 September 22, 2008 Author Share September 22, 2008 Since I've been moving a lot of things back to school I decided that it was time to try the Imperator in my sump in the display instead... I added him a few days ago and what they say about large angels and LPS is certainly true! He immediately went to work on the Trachyphyllia and two of the three acans in my system. I removed all three after some damage (honestly, I didn't really care that they were being eaten by him but then thought that I might as well nurse them back to health and stick them in school or possibly trade them) and then also removed a couple of favias, one that he disloged and flipped over and another that he had yet to touch. There's still a couple of tiny LPS in the tank that are growing on live rock, we'll see if he touches them and whether I end up removing them as well! He has yet (knock on wood) to touch the clams in the tank. It's a wait and see as I'd rather have him in there than the clams, so if I must remove them, they'll go in the frag system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnguyen4007 September 22, 2008 Share September 22, 2008 Dave, Your tank looks really good. I can't believe you let the coraline grew as much as it did. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefmontalvo September 22, 2008 Share September 22, 2008 How long did it take for the Coraline to cover the front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason the filter freak September 22, 2008 Share September 22, 2008 just two fire fish? I thought you always went for 3 or did i confuse you with someone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 September 22, 2008 Author Share September 22, 2008 It overtook it in about 2-3 weeks. I bought 3 firefish and one jumped out the day I got it and never resurfaced after I put it back in (it landed next to the chiller where a lot of salt had crusted...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 October 4, 2008 Author Share October 4, 2008 The fish were especially hungry tonight when I put the algae clip in so figured it was a good time to take some photos. Most of them came up to the algae clip so it made for some interesting shots with the number of tangs that were in the shot and with one of the regals competing with the tangs that are nearly twice its size for some algae. Anyway, here are the shots. Just to give you an idea of the size, the tang below the imperator is about 5-6" long. The unicorn tang here, which is also smaller than the imperator, is about 6" or more. The blue belly regal is much shyer than the yellow belly, who will come out and compete with the larger fish. You can see the blue belly in the back while the yellow belly is in the front eating with the tang. Thought this was kind of a cool shot with the different fish that decided to be out for the photo op. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bshriver October 4, 2008 Share October 4, 2008 Nice pics. Does the big angel bother any coral? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dschflier October 5, 2008 Share October 5, 2008 Very nice tank. I hadn't seen pictures of your tank in some time. I love the regal angels. Are they difficult to get to eat ? I would love to get a pair of those. I used to have an emperator and she ate most of my soft corals. Have you ever had an issue with lateral line disease? I am still trying to figure out the cause. My yellow tangs and hippo all have it and it is very upsetting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDiver October 5, 2008 Share October 5, 2008 very nice looking tank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 October 5, 2008 Author Share October 5, 2008 Still just the one yellow tang that has it come and go. It's got a bit right now, but it's not severe at all. The unicorn tang also has some weird stuff going on with its head, but that was going on well before I got it. The imperator ate my lps, but I thought that it would. There are 4 zoanthids in the tank that he has not touched (there was a single one that has grown a bit, I didn't want it in there so I was hoping it would eat them) and he has left my clams alone as well. Other than the lps, which was expected, he has been a model citizen in the tank. The regals didn't eat much the first few weeks although they had been picking at least before I bought them. I followed a suggestion from Copps that I keep them with plenty of rock in a darker or shaded tank, so I kept them in a 50 gallon tray with sand, rock, and no lights. I kept the first one like that for a long time until it was eating everything I tossed in there and coming to the surface to "beg" for food. This was the blue belly which I then added to the tank before putting the yellow belly in. This one spent less time in the tray but did stay there until it was eating everything I offered. I then added it to the main system knowing that it would eat. I also waited, though, until it begged at the surface. They are both doing really well in my main display now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 October 24, 2008 Author Share October 24, 2008 A couple of updates on the tank, not all good! I once again replaced the media in my reactors and... there it goes again, bleached some corals. This one was a bit more severe than last time as I also replaced the bulbs. Of course, this all began when I was out of town and having someone watch the tank, so of course, I didn't notice it and the damage was already done. Then, to top that off, the toilet above the tank leaked a few nights ago and some of the water drained into the tank. Maybe instead of saying leaked, overflowed would give a better idea of what went into the tank... On a positive note, my water is still pretty clean and my clowns decided to begin breeding! Saw eggs last night for the first time and they are still there. Looked like they were going to eat them, but they're caring for them instead. Hopefully this will help my corals recover! I may also place a tile in there next to their anemone and see if I can raise the fry separately. Would be neat to have black ocellaris frye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capsfan July 24, 2009 Share July 24, 2009 Any updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoozilla July 25, 2009 Share July 25, 2009 Any updates? Yeah, bring on the updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 July 25, 2009 Author Share July 25, 2009 Yeah, bring on the updates Nothing good... the corals all died and I lost a few clams as well recently, but the water is back in order and the clowns are once again breeding like clockwork so I am getting ready to ramp things up again. Since I lost all of the corals, I turned off the calcium reactor so I'm getting geared up to do a large scale water change and then turn the reactor back on. After that, I'll add in a simple digitata and then start to restock. It was really depressing for awhile, but it's also a chance to rework some things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoozilla July 25, 2009 Share July 25, 2009 Nothing good... the corals all died and I lost a few clams as well recently, but the water is back in order and the clowns are once again breeding like clockwork so I am getting ready to ramp things up again. Since I lost all of the corals, I turned off the calcium reactor so I'm getting geared up to do a large scale water change and then turn the reactor back on. After that, I'll add in a simple digitata and then start to restock. It was really depressing for awhile, but it's also a chance to rework some things. Gahhhh Hope, you were able to spread some of your corals around? You had some 1st rate stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 July 25, 2009 Author Share July 25, 2009 No idea, most of it was from others in the club. Some of them I hadn't had a chance to frag and spread around yet. The only truly unique one was the Christmas Tree Tabling Acro, there's a couple pieces out there, though. The questions motivated me... I hooked up the calcium reactor, replenished the kalk reactor, cleaned out the skimmer, and scraped the entire front panel and added the fish that was acclimating into the main system that I wanted to add (powder blue). I also added a pair of pink skunk clownfish to the tank to see how they would react with the black percs. The percs are on the right side of the tank and never go more than a foot away from the anemone and I added the skunks on the far left side and they've taken to hovering in the back behind a bridge - also out of sight of the percs. After a major water change (will have to wait until I replace my RO filters) I'll add sps back into the system bit by bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanman July 25, 2009 Share July 25, 2009 The Christmas Tree Acro: Davelin's frag - waiting for his tank to be ready: bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 July 27, 2009 Author Share July 27, 2009 Here's a few full tank shots. One of the lights went out already, but you get the picture (no pun intended) of how much coral I have lost. The front panel is clean, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoozilla July 27, 2009 Share July 27, 2009 I still love the Rock Work! That will be filled up in no time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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