Silentcivilians 120G Predator Tank

[silentcivilian]

So.. I moved.. with moving comes changes.. with changes comes well.. new tanks... I still havent moved from sumpless.. yes.. this is likely one of the largest sumpless tanks on Canreef that I know of, I just cant justify spending the $$ quite yet on a full proper system.. however im totally sold on this size. I love the dimensions, I love the depth. So when I go and drop the $$ on a right and proper system, promise it will be a 4'x2'x2'/ :biggrin:

So, really no big stories or changes.. the 55g moved effortlessly into a 120g. The fish love love love all the space. I love love love all the space. So, ill share a couple of pictures of the tank so far. Please be gentle reminding me of the benefits of a sump.. I know, I realise, but one day it will happen :biggrin:


Thats all for now.. No new fish for at least a month or two.. other equipment upgrades first, blubs, fixture, skimmer etc.. So only updates will be clean up crew.. whoo... :neutral:

[fishytime]

well that didnt take long for you to get hooked and upgrade:razz:......lookin good man....

[silentcivilian]

haha, this is far from a upgrade really.. its more like just more water for the fish to swim in. Ill have to upgrade some equipment soon though. It was just luck that a friend of a friend who knew a guy that slept with this girl where she knew a guy who talked to someone at a funeral who they saw later that week knew a hookup for a 12mm rimless tank for a good $$ value. Same price as the generic tank from big als just way better quality and i think 4mm thicker glass. So I jumped on it. So before more livestock goes in beyond clean up crew, ill do a few key equipment upgrades.

[silentcivilian]

haha, so it might be worth asking.. what you have for cleanup crew down there?? It wont be worth driving clear across the city for nothing.

[Trabby]

[QUOTE]
It was just luck that a friend of a friend who knew a guy that slept with this girl where she knew a guy who talked to someone at a funeral who they saw later that week knew a hookup for a 12mm rimless tank for a good $$.

That's Awesome ROFLMAO!! Congrats on the new tank, it's looking really good. What is on your future fish wish list ?:mrgreen:

:lol:

[lorenz0]

im buying you a stag frag pack for your birthday. the tank would look killer with a maze of stags on the right side

[silentcivilian]

im buying you a stag frag pack for your birthday. the tank would look killer with a maze of stags on the right side

Shall I hold you too that sir? Because I wouldnt complain to free coral :D

[Greenmaster]

Looks good. What do you have for fish in there?

[silentcivilian]

Well, current stock is:
Cardinal, Coral Beauty, Yellow Tang, Cleaner Wrasse, Lawnmower Blenny, 3x Blue Chromis, Red Starfish, Cleaner Shrimp, Pom Pom Crab, unkown amount of snails (but have Nassarius, bumble bee, Astrea, Trochus, Stomatella and countless small turbos that are hitchhikers) 2 halloween crabs, 1 scarlet crab, 1 blue legged crab

Wishlist: Chevron Tang, Mandrin, Foxface, Picaso Clownfish, Couple more chromis... That is the attainable and hopefully "do-able" list.

[silentcivilian]

Ok, so slight update:

Bad news, had some trouble at the start with some levels, alot of coral from the move never made it, the last 2 months has been very quiet just trying to slowly right the wrongs of the tank. Things are starting to look up, everything starting to show signs of positive growth again, so hoping to see that trend continue.

Today was a bad day though, I had bought a new fish on sunday, was out with the gf, we bought a new fish, she wanted a Flame Hawk, I said sure, he should be ok in the tank... ohhh no.. quite the oppisite really, ****ed fish off, kept swiming really fast and skimming the surface, so I wasnt happy, and didnt want the little guy to jump or die of stress related conditions, so I took him back to the LFS.. but the bad part was.. to get him out was a nightmare.. Litterally had to remove all my rock, and a large portion or water just to lock him down..

The upside, have a new pygmy angel (rusty) and a calgary raised clownfish, which was all done as a straight up $ for $ trade at the store..

The better upside, im happy with how my rock looks now then I was before. So here are some updated pictures.

[silentcivilian]

Alrighty... mild update here. So, I think any and all damage from moving is done, sadly, most sps is done, have a few peices.. but what I have noticed, is things are growing well again. Also my sun coral which has never had great sucess in my tank is now flourishing, and another new addition is also flourishing, and I thought I would post photos of them.

Really moving and fighting with sps and the stuggle taught me this, right now, with my setup and budget, a beautiful sps tank, isnt in budget, I need a cleaner running setup and then we can talk sps.. for now ill stick to my softies and lps that are doing well.

So, I know I have a carnation coral, and I know that people say omg it destroys your water quality, death to sps, and all that other jazz, ive pretty much said salute to sps till I can have a sps system. I mean I even have a large hairy crab that has taken up nest in my pink birds nest.. which I need to say goodbye too... but side track.. I love that coral, its done fantastic in my tank and looks better each day, and my water is still clean and happy and changed regularly. My Zoas love it, my once nearly dead chalice is coming back, my ricos, yuma and mushrooms are loving it! So ill keep doing what works. Trial and error and this time success!

[silentcivilian]

Sooo all my links have been going nuts, will have to try to track down copies of my photos

[silentcivilian]

Some extra new photos here.. ill try to update a few months from now when the leather corner is more developed.. plans are a clam and a mandrin soon... but thats about it other than letting this tank grow for along while..

[lastlight]

Holy did you ever turn the tank around! Things look really healthy and that zoa garden is getting huge.

[lorenz0]

tank is looking awesome kody

[fishytime]

looks like someone has a leather fetish:razz:

[Tetrarch]

That zoa island is starting to look really good.

[silentcivilian]

Holy did you ever turn the tank around! Things look really healthy and that zoa garden is getting huge. --- Thank you very much, Im very happy with the progress in the last couple months

tank is looking awesome kody -- Thanks for the help too man

looks like someone has a leather fetish:razz: -- It seems to have grown on me, and I know you want it! :wink:
But on a serious note, ya, I like the movement, and wow does it grow stinkin fast.. Dont quote me, but bloy picked up a frag of green polyp toadstool from Levi I believe, it wasnt all that big and wasnt even a complete circle, more like a blob on some old acro skelaton.. with in 3 weeks, its not only finished its top toadstool, has a thick stalk and is about a 1/2" off the skelaton.

But yes, im very happy with the tank and thanks for the compliments

[silentcivilian]

That zoa island is starting to look really good.

Oh ya, im very happy with it, honestly, im just counting down the months till I cant see rock anymore.

[silentcivilian]

Sooo.. the last couple weeks have just been a watch and let grow thing.. and then it happened.. I went out with Lorenz0 to do a drop in of a few stores and see whats kickin around town... and there is new stuff in my tank.. HOW DOES IT HAPPEN??

haha.. ok, so pics:

http://pqq08a.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pEf-A92ne2wSfE-dpMuxzwEc1nU9lEtQD50T3eNrwhUOb4CFdcVSfgfeCFJchS1cG Mw2JaxFRCA2MYgMHyyPgCOZwtHI4dgtY/DSC06009.JPG?psid=1

I love my Ricos, and I dont see alot of Blue//Purple Ricos around.. so I had too..

http://pqq08a.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pmvpk4QoLv8PDAiaXfhkb3Gpb52ru-ow1XKjfeC1j8vM-YO9HwDpt30nxiaO6GBwepU4kak29gSakvULn14MyHvnH__EmS1 13/DSC06028.JPG?psid=1

Some of you may be familiar with this little man.. often called the superman Rhodactis... so nice.. have 3 heads in different places around the tank.. hoping to find a bowl shaped peice of live rock to put them in so they kinda stay together

http://pqq08a.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pmvpk4QoLv8Oe6eOipM6e-VJPU_Q-uxKFdtHI_tYgzhvjQVRZCxQzqMvbKbXmVxew460dTHZ93lXmay yvYtKFqyXw03eXRdXm/DSC06034.JPG?psid=1

Cup coral.. ive been looking for a peice of this for a long time.. and with my flower pot starting to suffer.. Took a gamble to see if my tank could sustain it as ive had great sucess with my carnations but not so much with flowerpot, I have a killer place to put it and hopefully have it spread like crazy!

http://pqq08a.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pCfU9L7ZdwX7EWk-1pg-0YHzCRlAAcnEdTTQ1zoEvi07ZG-5N7h_JrneXupNkKkitEvV6eg6Qpy2yWw5jJ8kvm9Ag-jfVXwAc/DSC06039.JPG?psid=1

Lastly, a new clam from red coral from the $40 section.. as I had a really bad clam experiance in which my tank is now recovered from and wanted smaller and hopefully a happier clam.. its lived past 24hours so fingers crossed it stay happy and mantle out as it is now.

Future plans:

Have a sump under stand now, have the eshopps hob overflow, and a Rio return pump for about 700gph at 4ft height.. want to setup a electrical cabinet to hide electrical since sump, water change tank and ATO will take up that space under stand.

Parts still needed: Plumping parts (going to run flex intake, hardline exhaust), new skimmer(currently HOB), cabinet for electrical (Ikea should have somthing), ATO unit with pump... thats all I believe..

Stuff ill have to part with, both Aquaclear 110's, PSK100H Skimmer by eshopps which sadly I love and its been soo good on the tank.

But the plan is in motion.. ill have pics when up and done :D

[kien]

.. and then it happened.. I went out with Lorenz0

awww.. spring romance. So cute. :)

Oh and nice grabs! :D

[fishytime]

I dont know what it is about rhodactis shrooms.....I swore I wouldnt do any shrooms in V@ of my tank ......but low and behold, some orange and green tongan rhodactis snuck their way int there..........I love the supermans too

[fishytime]

awww.. spring romance. So cute. :)

Oh and nice grabs! :D

:lol:

[lorenz0]

awww.. spring romance. So cute. :)


it was the perfect day. we even split the superman rhodactis frag lol

[silentcivilian]

So, the updates can resumes.. its now april.. Sump is almost ready to launch.. have all baffle measurements, pickup glass on monday at lunch, and hopefully hopefully have it setup this weekend..

But here is the updates -- New Additions: Pink sun coral, Figi Foxface, various Zoas and a reconstructed zoa island as the old one bugged me. Here are the photos, still ziploc shrimp feeding the suns, as I know barely any LFS feeds sun corals often enough.. its took my 6 months to get my oldest one to come out every night.. its seems like the bigger head of suns like I have, take so much longer.

Here is my NPC collections.. Orange grouping sun colony, Black branching sun colony, Giant grouping clear sun colony, Giant grouping Pink Sun colony, Orange and purple gorgonia, white and purple carnations.


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New zoa island setup

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Foxface:

http://pqq08a.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pP9VSkdZpFsFzhrXBqPJ-SDY0WNBS4CIH7XKWbmAgcDm7McQkyelOSysbQ14BR0Co2M5hDh cuYyemp25H9YAnez5rcTW3TUyl/DSC06061.JPG?psid=1http://pqq08a.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pkcrYqqa1B6dwzbGONHqJB5dl3Ol13onpZ_Y90GwYBEzGF__ A2tQXwx_62LWpAx9VVH8rEVXKxjaZ3mLf7AwW_zLf_K7g1tdV/DSC06102.JPG?psid=1

Foxface defensive stance #223251 - Opponent -- Yellow Tang of Timidness

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Moodshot and topdown shot of Ibox;
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[silentcivilian]

Ok. So its been a busy last couple months. Went from 7 years at Ford to the new service manager letting me go 15 minutes before vacation, to now starting at Infiniti. The total opposite of domestic. After a month off Im kinda ready to work even though a couple weeks were in Hawaii diving in Kona.

With all this change and time off I decided I didnt want to do a mixed reef of coral and fish. Wanted to focus on predator fish as I was reminded in Hawaii how awesome those fish are and just how much interest I have in them.

So last week the tear down began, and the rebuild started. First the corals went, then the fish. I kept two of my fish, one due to he doesnt conflict with the furture tank mates, the other based on need and he isnt too small yet. So kept my Figi Foxface and my cleaner wrasse.

This is what I was left with, ill take a new photo tommorow cause a slight rearrangement happened on the left side of the tank.

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Here are the new tank mates :)

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The only corals left in my tank are my dendros, sun corals, gsp and jasmine polyps.

But im loving it.

[silentcivilian]

Ok, some more photos so one can see what has happened this far.

Ill try to have some more shots of tank first. Then my ugly child that lives in my tank. Lastly a video of me trying to feed it.. note the word trying.

FTS
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Left Side Close Up
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Right Side Close Up
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Can you see him, he can see you.
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Boo!
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Ok that was alot of work.. back to hole..
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Black sand.. almost home.. god this is far for hopping along..
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Turn this wreck around.. and ill be home!
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Lastly -- trying to feed him..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7HT2gq71J0

[nlreefguy]

Is that a stonefish?

[silentcivilian]

Is that a stonefish?

Yup, thats my ugly duckling that for some odd reason makes me feel like my tank is that much more complete. I love that I managed to pick him up!

[silentcivilian]

So I just got a oppurtunity to measure my stonefish while he was fully streched out up against the glass. I was impressed find out he was 7" long.

Now there are other people on here who have kept active swimming fish with predators. Anyone see any problems with having a harliquin tusk fish? I love their colors, and it says a 120 will be fine for base needs. So I fgured I would ask and check on others experiances. I know this is more difficult as few have kept a stone fish. But im hoping a few have kept the tusk.

[fishytime]

7" isnt really all that impressive:razz:...........remember....they say it doesnt, but size does matter:mrgreen::lol:

Dude......your gonna be hard pressed to find any kind of suitable "tankmate/snack"......Laurie and I watched a show where a scorpion fish ate a lionfish!.......yes a lionfish!:surprise:.....they are capable of eating a fish that is 2/3 length....

[nlreefguy]

Yup, thats my ugly duckling that for some odd reason makes me feel like my tank is that much more complete. I love that I managed to pick him up!

Just checking but you do know how dangerous he is, right? (and not necessarily to his tankmates!)

[silentcivilian]

7" isnt really all that impressive:razz:...........remember....they say it doesnt, but size does matter:mrgreen::lol:

Dude......your gonna be hard pressed to find any kind of suitable "tankmate/snack"......Laurie and I watched a show where a scorpion fish ate a lionfish!.......yes a lionfish!:surprise:.....they are capable of eating a fish that is 2/3 length....

There are a few good candidates im looking for. But my foxface was almost swallowed whole, I think his venom saved him.

Just checking but you do know how dangerous he is, right? (and not necessarily to his tankmates!)

I realise how dangerous it is. Painful enough that some people request their affected area to be removed, can kill a full grown human in under 2 hours. How ever the treatment is simple. Because it is a protein based venom, it would be denatured by heat. So recommended treatment even over anti-venom is heat. Over 45C degrees will simply break it down.

Also, they are completely lazy, ive fed him by hand last time, you pretty much would have to grind your hand into him to anger him.

[nlreefguy]

There are a few good candidates im looking for. But my foxface was almost swallowed whole, I think his venom saved him.



I realise how dangerous it is. Painful enough that some people request their affected area to be removed, can kill a full grown human in under 2 hours. How ever the treatment is simple. Because it is a protein based venom, it would be denatured by heat. So recommended treatment even over anti-venom is heat. Over 45C degrees will simply break it down.

Also, they are completely lazy, ive fed him by hand last time, you pretty much would have to grind your hand into him to anger him.

Do you plan on testing your theory? lol Then you can test your heat theory too! haha Seriously though, good luck with your tank man, interesting fish selection.

[silentcivilian]

Do you plan on testing your theory? lol Then you can test your heat theory too! haha Seriously though, good luck with your tank man, interesting fish selection.

Well, I consulted two experts in the area.

1st expert is the well known National Geographic - http://youtu.be/7aLt5gxwTx8


Second link was invalueable for determining the level of pain id be in.

http://youtu.be/qenzQaXM6Pw

As for selections, I have to say, there is somthing about the fish, im not sure what, but ive always had a facination for the creepy crawly fish. When I saw it in the store I was like ill sit on this one for a bit.. a month later was still there, so I started selling stuff and moving stuff out. After 3 months of being in the store I figured he was waiting for me. So without further hesitation, picked him and a eel up and made it official that I was going predator.

So ive heard my "Welcome to the Darkside" package is in the mail courtesy of the big V himself welcoming me to the club. :biggrin:

[silentcivilian]

Ok.. update.

So, first off, sump is now fully setup and been running for 4 days without a leak. Awesome! Not bad for a jim rig job.. ill have pictures later of the true level of ghetto ive achieved. As for those who didnt hear by word of mouth, had it set up for 48 hours and then a intake line snapped in half.

Next, I had a lionfish.. but it didnt like my moray.. and love to sit on my stonefish.. so as I favour those two far over a lion.. he is gone.. he didnt make friends, so bye bye.. Another store has taken him in, and will love him, and nuture him in a tank full of lions, and he will become more loveable im sure.

I tried another tank mate as well. A 6" long chubby Harlequin Tuskfish. That lasted two hours before he became a sub $100 snack. And! I missed it.. at least if I had seen the lion take out the tusk, it would have been some what worth it.. but no such luck.. just missed it all together.

So I took some pictures tonight, so lets take a peek!

So lets play the game of find the stonefish :)

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Future plans, Looking to get some more scorpions in the tank.. at least one more kind. Im kinda loving the pictures ive been finding of the raggy scorpion..as seen here click (http://www.ardeaprints.com/image/tassled_scorpionfish_mouth_wide_open_facing_camera _1455557.jpg) and here Click (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5144/5700689329_b51463052a.jpg) and here Click (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5124/5349510517_3bb40301ab.jpg).

As for the daytime portion, I have a huge nest of Jasmine poylps, green star poylps. So like looking to add some cloves on the last section and just kinda let them take over. As always, look for more dendros in small colony's that I can add too. Considering a trigger too, but going to wait awhile till I can track down more scorps and let the puffer get used to the tank. As for swiming fish, its him and my cleaner wrasse of 2 years.


So im working on collection videos of feeding everyone, right now have a good one of the eel.. working on puffer and stoney.. but when I get all 3. ill post all 3 feeding.

[silentcivilian]

Whole new video.

Enjoy people :biggrin:

Youtube link right here (http://youtu.be/-Z9fbnjrpiM)

[fishytime]

Cool vid Kody...... Btw RC got in a whack of dendros:wink:

[silentcivilian]

I hate you.. ill be in as soon as I can...

[silentcivilian]

So its been a week or so since I posted, but its now been almost 2 weeks with the puffer, and I wanted to share some photos of the tank and the puffer, get any comments, ideas and feelings on my tank.

And Doug, ill be in for Dendros soon.. they looked buggered due to a tank error when I was in.. so didnt want to blind buy $90 of Dendros that werent coming out.

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Now ive been contimplating for sometime what to get for other fish.. I have 3 LFS in my city on scorp hunt for me, a shop in town just got 2 orange toadfish in (not eating yet) and I do want to either do a Majestic Foxface or a bluethroat trigger.

Feelings?
Ideas on my tank and livestock?
Comments?

Thanks!

[silentcivilian]

So here are some pictures of my very hungry stonefish tonight. I ran outa my Hikari 3" silversides and the little guys from sally's dont leave him full and cause me a headache cause he latchs his mouth around my whole feeder stick. Shaking him off is difficult more so cause I worry about hurting him.

So here are updated pics of the big boy..

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[fishoholic]

Great pic's

I tried a toadfish once but unfortunately due to his passive nature my grouper killed it :sad: Personally I wouldn't try one in your tank.

[silentcivilian]

If they were the same size, id gamble it. But if smaller... id sit on it for awhile. He has been pretty well behaved of late. Last night proved to me he was the king of the tank.

While feeding the puffer or eel, your in a race to get food away from the puffer, or throw food at the puffer than quickly feed the eel... its a challange to fend of the garberator known as puff. But last night I took some silversides in my claw, and put them in front of the stone, the puff raced at the stone, then stopped dead.. and just stared at the food as if pondering.. "I know you are a little crazy.. but if you dont want it, I do.. so you going to take it.. hmm.. come on, make up your mind" then proceeded some slow cautious snags at the food. It was kinda fun to watch my puffer being cautious.

[silentcivilian]

So, with the puffer gone, its so much easier to feed, and to make everyone happy, I took a video of what I use when the stonefish in a tricky place.

Stonefish eats food (http://www.youtube.com/embed/bN8IzYd3dGY)

[Boomboy]

:lol::lol::lol: i was looking at your pictures and i was trying to find the fish, not until i got to the third picture i realized i wasnt looking at a piece of rock.

[fishoholic]

:lol::lol::lol: i was looking at your pictures and i was trying to find the fish, not until i got to the third picture i realized i wasnt looking at a piece of rock.

:lol: So true it took me a long time to find the fish too. A few pic.'s back I was looking and wondering why there was so many pic's of rock and not of the fish :lol:

The video is cool but it's strange too as it does sort of look like a rock moving suddenly to grab the food. Pretty cool fish though

[silentcivilian]

Haha, it why I often refer to him as my ugly muppet. He is a very unique looking, behaving fish. I personally love having him, and dont mind the way my tank is so empty.

The trick to finding him is looking for his eyes, when he does burry up to his eyes in sand he is much much harder to find, the most ive spent looking for him in a 4x2 space is 14minutes.

[silentcivilian]

Here are some updated shots of the big boy himself, and the new little S. Neglecta

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[lorenz0]

someone has to adopt the ugly ones

[silentcivilian]

Haha, yup. But if I recall, you said my eel was awesome! This tank aint all ugly.

[silentcivilian]

Hey, so I was jamming out to breaking benjamin before I started a tank detox to kill some aptasia and flat worms. Everything went ok, no nuclear nitrate spike. So this isnt a last memory, its just another page in the book.

So here is a little somthing to show a update of my tank. Eel is a monster now, stonefish still hides alot, and yes, the first time I went to feed him, I couldnt tell which way he was facing, so my gamble failed and I learned his arse wouldnt accept silversides, but the other end loves them!

Click me to go to youtube! Gets my views up too (http://youtu.be/mSlj6YIL9wg)

[silentcivilian]

Me, Click Me! (http://youtu.be/4xNyzpM-rfs)

So im pumped about the new video of my stone, he actually was out, not hiding, got a nice close up.

Its been a tough bought this week with tanks, so ill provide some updates into the weekend when everything stable! So far, opccupants seem healthy.

[lorenz0]

I was expecting him to raise one of these :rockon:

[silentcivilian]

Im working on teach him that trick. Then he would be totally bada$$!!! Ya! As of right now, he is just 99%.

[silentcivilian]

Ok, time for update via photos.. most of which are of the new, 24G JBJ cube predator tank.. Enjoy!

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[silentcivilian]

Updated video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1lJcin-DTE)

Ill try to have some new pictures soon! Having issues with my upload site... have to try somthing new maybe.

[silentcivilian]

Some new photos of the 24 Bio:
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[silentcivilian]

Now some new Pred tank shots:

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa397/silentcivilian84/DSC07298.jpg

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[fishoholic]

Cool pic's. Must sometimes be a bit like "where's waldo" when trying to take pic's eh?

[silentcivilian]

Cool pic's. Must sometimes be a bit like "where's waldo" when trying to take pic's eh?

Haha, sometimes, yes. Only with the stone, since I changed the rock work, I wont see him as much, he found a new den. If order to see him, ill need a coraline scraper.. which dont exsist, they are called razors by hand, and thats too close for comfort!

But they do have their normal spots so to say.

[fishoholic]

Haha, sometimes, yes. Only with the stone, since I changed the rock work, I wont see him as much, he found a new den. If order to see him, ill need a coraline scraper.. which dont exsist, they are called razors by hand, and thats too close for comfort!

But they do have their normal spots so to say.

The easy blade attachment fits on a mag float and they make razor scrapers with long handles.

[silentcivilian]

Still tricky, I only gave myself a small window in my topper for access... so I kinda shot myself in the foot there. So long handled razors just dont work in my current setup. :(

[silentcivilian]

Some pics I deem worthy of posting.. I might clip a few out up above cause they are not as good as id like... but here they are!

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa397/silentcivilian84/Tank%20Life/DSC07350.jpg

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[silentcivilian]

So, for the last 2 and a half years ive been applying for a job with the government of Canada. Today, I got my contract and leave to the training site in Regina for 6 months. So this tank will be shut down.. for the time being, livestock going to Lorenzo.. who I have forced to keep his closed down tank running. So it sadens me to do this, but this thread is officially in shut down mode as per Jan 31st, for 6-10months till I can get somthing new going. Fire sale to start soon on equipment & corals.

[Delphinus]

Ah bummer you had such a neat setup but you seem happy about this opportunity so it must be something pretty cool. Good luck, hope to see you back at it soon down the road!

Edit: Regina eh. Hmmmmmm. Do you have to learn to ride a horse? :lol:

[lorenz0]

It's funny cause he probably will!

Lol there goes my shut down. Now I get the muppets moving in

[fishoholic]

Sorry to hear you have to shut down, glad you were able to convince lorenz0 to take them. Congrats on the new job :thumb:


http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa397/silentcivilian84/Tank%20Life/DSC07343.jpg


Is this a frogfish with the eel? I was wondering what kind of a tankmate I could put with my frogfish and I was wondering if an eel would be a good choice. How do they get along?

[silentcivilian]

Ah bummer you had such a neat setup but you seem happy about this opportunity so it must be something pretty cool. Good luck, hope to see you back at it soon down the road!

Edit: Regina eh. Hmmmmmm. Do you have to learn to ride a horse? :lol:

Yup. 2.5years of application processes, turned down once.. been a battle but im there. Now to survive training.


It's funny cause he probably will!

Lol there goes my shut down. Now I get the muppets moving in

Thank ya buddy!

Sorry to hear you have to shut down, glad you were able to convince lorenz0 to take them. Congrats on the new job :thumb:
is this a frogfish with the eel? I was wondering what kind of a tankmate I could put with my frogfish and I was wondering if an eel would be a good choice. How do they get along?

Yes, they got along fantasticly till my heater blew up, and my tank shot down to 17, and everyone was burrowed but the frogfish.. and he passed away from shock.. so the expensive heaters arnt always the good ones. Luckily everyone else burrows and got under with the sand to stay warm till I got the temp back up with back up heaters.

[silentcivilian]

So only 20 more months till I might be able to setup a tank again.. count down begins..

here is my current project..

http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/575440_10151155905653034_1561319989_n.jpg

Till the end of the count down I will be stalking all of your tanks...