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Jimroth's Big Ol' Tank

jimroth

jimroth

I tweaked the color here to try to make the pic look the way the coral looks to me...

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This millie is such a crazy grower. I broke it off the base and moved it to the right. It made a new base in only a couple of weeks, and the very healthy old base is already sprouting fat branches.

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The old base. This is like a month's growth...

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This yellow millie is coloring up nicely. The 400s initially kicked its butt, it bleached and pulled in all polyps. Better now.

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Pearlberry, no flash...

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The ever-growing efflo. It's saucer-sized now, someday it's going to want to be pizza sized, and I will have to frag it!

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mnat

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The emperor is amazing. Really nice coloring on that fish. I am glad the tank has adapted to the 400w, the SPS looks great.
 
jimroth

jimroth

mnat said:
The emperor is amazing. Really nice coloring on that fish. I am glad the tank has adapted to the 400w, the SPS looks great.
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reefsandrotts said:
Nice pics Jim,love the emperor...
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Thanks, he's only about 1.5" but he's eating and not getting hassled, so here's hoping. He got a prazi treatment for flukes and that was it. I'm calling him/her Napoleon, because of being little and an emperor...

I would totally wear a shirt in that pattern.

The 400's are an adventure. I don't want to run a chiller, but I'm preparing just the same. I do love the results, light all the way to the bottom.
 
9supratt4

9supratt4

Hey Jim...I just went through your entire thread....Gorgeous tank!!!

How has the CBB and The Yellow Longnose done with the corals?? I've been afraid to add the CBB for that reason.
 
jimroth

jimroth

9supratt4 said:
Hey Jim...I just went through your entire thread....Gorgeous tank!!!

How has the CBB and The Yellow Longnose done with the corals?? I've been afraid to add the CBB for that reason.
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CBB has been a model citizen.

My long term Yellow Longnose jumped out, after more than a year. I lost my replacement Yellow Longnose last week. It went over the overflow and got sucked against the drain. I'm not buying any more of them. While I had it it was a good reef citizen, didn't bother any corals.
 
jimroth

jimroth

Good News/Bad News

Good News:

The experiment begins! I successfully added a small adult Majestic Angel (P. Navarchus) to the tank. It's already a little less shy and has begun eating, checking things out, etc. Since I mailordered it I also added a Foxface Lo (Signanus Vulpinus?) to attack my bubble algae, and a new color of Cypastrea (Cyphastrea).
I was woried about agression by my powder blue tang, but I did the old trick of haning a mirror outside the tank and darned if the tang didn't spend two whole days trying to keep the evil mirror fish from invading his tank! At one point on the first day I removed the mirror and the tang immediately started to smack the foxface around.

Bad News:

My male Square Anthias turned up dead this morning! After 18 months. He had been getting lighter in color, and less active. Some books I have read suggest that this is not uncommon, but what a drag. He would never eat anything but frozen mysis, (the remaining female will eat pellets) I wonder if he got a vitamin deficiency? :-\
 
jimroth

jimroth

Hey, that's not pizza, get away!
Listen, I have a rock with about 500 palys he's welcome to eat. Then there's my long suffering favia brain coral, he can have a go at that before I pull it out. Having done some research on this, I think my "sticks" are safe, he may taste a polyp now and then but not eat the whole thing like corn on the cob! I hope, anyway. It is an experiment of sorts.
Have you ever tried the angel thing Merv?
This is the HUNGRIEST fish I have ever had. he is going to grow quickly. He eats PE mysis like Pac Man! He eats the whole shrimp, then shoots around scooping up the crumbs and heads! He eats flake food! He eats blackworms! The CBB likes mysis and blackworms but has a limited stomach, she eats her share then stops. This new guy is a bottomless pit.
Sadly, tiny Napoleon the Emperor has disappeared without a trace. He was the size of my thumb and it it such a big tank. He never ate much of the food I fed, mostly just picked off the rocks, I can't tell what happened. He may even show up, but I doubt it.
 
blange3

blange3

Enough of this angel in the reeftank madness! ::)

Too much temptation for me; especially when it comes to a Navarchus.

My fleshy LPS remain the priority. ;D
 
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Jim, yes I've tried raising an emperor myself- they are non stop eating machines which is a great thing especially for angels. I had the ability to get the fish as a juvenile but once he started nipping on my efflo, I made the hard decision to let him go. The emperor now resides in Taz's tank and during rods meeting, he let me know that the fish is in the transformational phase, something I had hoped to document when I first acquired it.

A friend of mine who had an emperor in a 220 was able to keep it well fed and it stayed away from the sps. He wasn't able to keep zoos though, the fish decimated every zoo like polyp in the tank. Emperors actually croak like a drumfish, it sounds weird but is also cool at the same time

emperors are beautiful fish, I plan on getting one when I'm able to go with a tank larger than 200.
 
jimroth

jimroth

blange3 said:
Enough of this angel in the reeftank madness! ::)

Too much temptation for me; especially when it comes to a Navarchus.

My fleshy LPS remain the priority. ;D
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Ah, the temptations of the flesh...y LPS...

Good to have you back on the board Bill!
 
jimroth

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concept3 said:
Jim, yes I've tried raising an emperor myself- they are non stop eating machines which is a great thing especially for angels. I had the ability to get the fish as a juvenile but once he started nipping on my efflo, I made the hard decision to let him go. The emperor now resides in Taz's tank and during rods meeting, he let me know that the fish is in the transformational phase, something I had hoped to document when I first acquired it.

A friend of mine who had an emperor in a 220 was able to keep it well fed and it stayed away from the sps. He wasn't able to keep zoos though, the fish decimated every zoo like polyp in the tank. Emperors actually croak like a drumfish, it sounds weird but is also cool at the same time

emperors are beautiful fish, I plan on getting one when I'm able to go with a tank larger than 200.
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I had this awesome daydream where the Majestic and the Emperor would grow up together and get along. May still look for a (larger) juvenile. Probably just doubles my chance of chewed-up acros!
 
jimroth

jimroth

The Majestic is very camera-shy. This is the only good picture I've gotten so far:

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It's incredible, when you consider the way he cruises around that tank. He sees that camera, and BOOM, he dives into a cave. He must have been caught by someone wearing an SLR!

Still doing well. Has eaten some palys and tasted a few SPS, no damage to speak of so far.
 
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Baxreefs said:
Great looking angel Jim!

Hows the fox face doing?
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Foxface is fine. Not eating bubble algae YET but really plows through those nori sheets and the ulva I got. It's really like watching a cow eat, they don't stop. the funny thing is that now the PBT thinks he's not getting his shere so he eats more nori. Fish are crazy, man!

My two different blue torts have developed a ton of active growth tips and really taken off. Bubble alage or not, feeding the oyster spooge really makes a difference.
 
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jimroth said:
My two different blue torts have developed a ton of active growth tips and really taken off. Bubble alage or not, feeding the oyster spooge really makes a difference.
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That stuff really does look gross, but it works. How often are you using it?
 
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