Re: Here's my 120
Bax that's a great pic. How come you never enter POTM?
Bax that's a great pic. How come you never enter POTM?
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Here's my Big Office System
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Re: Here's my 120
nice tank....its grown in well
nice tank....its grown in well
Re: Here's my 120
The anthias seem to be doing OK in QT. Although they seem interested and hungry, and they are eating, but not quite as vigorously as I'd like.
To make them more at ease, I've moved the three stripe damsels into a small CPR HOT fuge I keep just for such issues (they are headed to the prop system or a trigger tank if they don't behave), I also sequestered the Flame angel (also in QT) in a clear gallon jug (that a PH pumps water through). Maybe they'll be less cautious about rising to the surface to eat.
Still can't get a pic, maybe today when I go to the office to feed the tanks.
The anthias seem to be doing OK in QT. Although they seem interested and hungry, and they are eating, but not quite as vigorously as I'd like.
To make them more at ease, I've moved the three stripe damsels into a small CPR HOT fuge I keep just for such issues (they are headed to the prop system or a trigger tank if they don't behave), I also sequestered the Flame angel (also in QT) in a clear gallon jug (that a PH pumps water through). Maybe they'll be less cautious about rising to the surface to eat.
Still can't get a pic, maybe today when I go to the office to feed the tanks.
Re: Here's my 120
Welp, went to the office to feed the tanks, ... and I lost two of the anthias overnight! Ugh!!! :-\
I haven't lost a fish in QT since my efforts to introduce a heniocus butterfly. I am really pretty suprized, I thought they were doing OK. The remaining one is eating with gusto, so I am hopeful it will be OK and I'll Keep an eye out for more.
Just another reefing moment where you need to put your dark glasses on I suppose ... :
Welp, went to the office to feed the tanks, ... and I lost two of the anthias overnight! Ugh!!! :-\
I haven't lost a fish in QT since my efforts to introduce a heniocus butterfly. I am really pretty suprized, I thought they were doing OK. The remaining one is eating with gusto, so I am hopeful it will be OK and I'll Keep an eye out for more.
Just another reefing moment where you need to put your dark glasses on I suppose ... :
Re: Here's my 120
Somethimes, a reefer just can't catch a break!
The final anthias was gone this morning so my first effort at adding anthias, something I have strived for since filling an SW tank is offically, a washout. :-\
To top it off, when my lights popped on today, my recently re-introduced deresa opened, as it usually does, and the pesky Blue Stripped Rabbit headed striaght for it and planted his raspy lips on the mante and gave a huge tug!
THAT'S IT!
The BSR is a great maintenance fish, just beautiful, and gets along well with others, but the zoo eating and clam nipping are too much, he's bound for a FOWLR. Any body want him? ???
Needless to say ... The BSR is in QT :
Somethimes, a reefer just can't catch a break!
The final anthias was gone this morning so my first effort at adding anthias, something I have strived for since filling an SW tank is offically, a washout. :-\
To top it off, when my lights popped on today, my recently re-introduced deresa opened, as it usually does, and the pesky Blue Stripped Rabbit headed striaght for it and planted his raspy lips on the mante and gave a huge tug!
THAT'S IT!
The BSR is a great maintenance fish, just beautiful, and gets along well with others, but the zoo eating and clam nipping are too much, he's bound for a FOWLR. Any body want him? ???
Needless to say ... The BSR is in QT :
momof6kids
NJRC Member
Re: Here's my 120
Hey Bax,
Sorry to hear about your problems. I haven't had much luck with anthias either. Maybe in the new tank.
Do you have a picture of the Blue Striped Rabbitfish? And how much would you want for him?
Erna
Hey Bax,
Sorry to hear about your problems. I haven't had much luck with anthias either. Maybe in the new tank.
Do you have a picture of the Blue Striped Rabbitfish? And how much would you want for him?
Erna
Re: Here's my 120
JRWOHLER
Thanks!
Perhaps a better name for this thread would be "My Office 120 ... The Good, The Bad, and the very ugly" ;D
Hey, the truth will set us free .... and it's the only way we learn.
Erna
Here is a poor pic of The BSR. This does not do him justice ... a very attractive rabbit fish IMO. ...
I got him from another reefer because he was eating his shrooms. I don't have or want shrooms so it was worth the risk... He ate my zoos, so I pulled those.
He was very small when I got him & I figured he was just young, so he tasted pretty much everything, once. The only thing I know he has ever eaten is the zoos & shrooms, and now ... the clam nipping : On the plus side, this bugger eats almost every type of including bubble algae as though he'll never see algae again!
I want him to go to at least a 120 so your 150 FOWLR would be great! I bought him for $20, so you can have him for $20. If I were in a position to do a FOWLR I'd keep him for sure
JRWOHLER
Thanks!
Perhaps a better name for this thread would be "My Office 120 ... The Good, The Bad, and the very ugly" ;D
Hey, the truth will set us free .... and it's the only way we learn.
Erna
Here is a poor pic of The BSR. This does not do him justice ... a very attractive rabbit fish IMO. ...
I got him from another reefer because he was eating his shrooms. I don't have or want shrooms so it was worth the risk... He ate my zoos,
so I pulled those.He was very small when I got him & I figured he was just young, so he tasted pretty much everything, once. The only thing I know he has ever eaten is the zoos & shrooms, and now ... the clam nipping :
On the plus side, this bugger eats almost every type of including bubble algae as though he'll never see algae again!I want him to go to at least a 120 so your 150 FOWLR would be great! I bought him for $20, so you can have him for $20. If I were in a position to do a FOWLR I'd keep him for sure
momof6kids
NJRC Member
Re: Here's my 120
Bax,
I will take the rabbitfish, it was on my wish list for my FOWLR tank. Either that or the Red Sea Starry rabbitfish. And since you posted about your Blue Striped Rabbitfish, I am going to take it as a sign.
Let me know when I can pick it up.
Thanks,
Erna
Bax,
I will take the rabbitfish, it was on my wish list for my FOWLR tank. Either that or the Red Sea Starry rabbitfish. And since you posted about your Blue Striped Rabbitfish, I am going to take it as a sign.
Let me know when I can pick it up.
Thanks,
Erna
Re: Here's my 120
Erna
I'd be thrilled to see him go to you, I know you'll take good care he's a great fish, just not a great reef fish.
...Live and learn.
Remember he is a venemous fish, I have never been stung, but you have to watch yourself when you're setting an algae clip as he is right there!
PM or post me with times that are good for you, he's at my office (I think you were here for a meeting in March) so it's catch me as you can around my 12+ hour day and I am out in the field a lot! (It pays for reefing though so I don;t complain ... college is another matter!) Worst case, I'll bring him ot the Frag Swap! He'll be fine in QT until then!
Erna
I'd be thrilled to see him go to you, I know you'll take good care he's a great fish, just not a great reef fish.
...Live and learn.
Remember he is a venemous fish, I have never been stung, but you have to watch yourself when you're setting an algae clip as he is right there!
PM or post me with times that are good for you, he's at my office (I think you were here for a meeting in March) so it's catch me as you can around my 12+ hour day and I am out in the field a lot! (It pays for reefing though so I don;t complain ... college is another matter!) Worst case, I'll bring him ot the Frag Swap! He'll be fine in QT until then!
Re: Here's my 120
i just read through your threads bax, amazing growth
i just read through your threads bax, amazing growth
Re: Here's my 120
Thanks David. Since the meeting, I've recovered from that Alk issue by stabilizing the Ca Rx and most recently I hooked up that big MRC skimmer I have. BIG difference there!!! The corals have really responded to this. I am very pleased, but there are still a few changes to the system to come 8)
Thanks David. Since the meeting, I've recovered from that Alk issue by stabilizing the Ca Rx and most recently I hooked up that big MRC skimmer I have. BIG difference there!!! The corals have really responded to this. I am very pleased, but there are still a few changes to the system to come 8)
Re: Here's my 120
Welp, over the last couple of weeks, I've been looking at all the equipment I've been collectng for the last couple of years (I could literally build an entire second system with all the gear I have collected) and wondering .... what will I do with it now? With the impending sale of my office, I am not inclined to do this 220 up grade at the moment.
However .... I am not inclined to sit and do nothing with all this cool stuff. 8)
So, I am planing to re-vamp the fish room with out punching through any walls that might tick off a new owner right off the bat. (We'll do that after he/she writes me a new lease ) I'll limit everyhting to the tiny fish closet and keep the 120 as the main display for now.
That leaves me with a problem. Literally days before I found out of the listing of my building, I bought a Flame angel and put it in QT as an "insperation" to get motivated on the 220. At the time my advice to others was always to never add a second dwarf angel to a 120 with one established already. My plan was to add the Flame with my Coral Beauty to my 220. Hence the reason we so often advise others not to buy a fish for a tank you'll get "some day"! My 220 is sitting in my shop! What good is it to the Flame or CB when it's dry!!!
So, I'll follow some other advice I have freely given. I will very slowly, and methodically, introduce the Flame to the 120 and the CB.
We'll see how it goes!
Stay tuned ;D
Welp, over the last couple of weeks, I've been looking at all the equipment I've been collectng for the last couple of years (I could literally build an entire second system with all the gear I have collected) and wondering .... what will I do with it now? With the impending sale of my office, I am not inclined to do this 220 up grade at the moment.
However .... I am not inclined to sit and do nothing with all this cool stuff. 8)
So, I am planing to re-vamp the fish room with out punching through any walls that might tick off a new owner right off the bat. (We'll do that after he/she writes me a new lease
) I'll limit everyhting to the tiny fish closet and keep the 120 as the main display for now.That leaves me with a problem. Literally days before I found out of the listing of my building, I bought a Flame angel and put it in QT as an "insperation" to get motivated on the 220. At the time my advice to others was always to never add a second dwarf angel to a 120 with one established already. My plan was to add the Flame with my Coral Beauty to my 220. Hence the reason we so often advise others not to buy a fish for a tank you'll get "some day"! My 220 is sitting in my shop! What good is it to the Flame or CB when it's dry!!!
So, I'll follow some other advice I have freely given. I will very slowly, and methodically, introduce the Flame to the 120 and the CB.
We'll see how it goes!
Stay tuned ;D