Looks great!

looking great Laurie, and Thanks to Dougy for helping ya what a swell guy.

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

Gee.....thanks Mikey:razz:

some pretty sweet pics there Girly.....especially that last cowfish one!:biggrin:

Ok it's been awhile since I last posted. I took a bunch of pic.'s this weekend and I will share all the pic.'s over the next few days.

I'll start with a FTS of the reef (still working on getting a decent fts of the fowlr)

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020919.jpg

The cowfish in the previous pic's mysteriously died after 2 months of it doing well :noidea: However they are one of my absolute favorite fish so I ended up getting another one. This time I put the cowfish into my 80g tank were there is less flow and and slower moving fish. I'm hoping that helps. I have had him just over a month, he eats like a pig but he does have some ich on him. I just hope he lives and does well in the 80g. He lives with my fu man chu lionfish, my matted filefish and my orange spot blenny who a couple of weeks ago decided to take a trip down the reef tank overflow and now lives in the 80g.

fts 80g
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020942.jpg

New cowfish
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020925.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020937.jpg

Orange spot blenny
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020939.jpg

Fu man chu
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P2090887.jpg

Ha ha ha blennies. They're so comical.

Great colour on the Fu Man Chu.

You must have a lot of fun with water changes at your place! :lol:

Ya I love blennies, just glad he took a detour into the 80g tank instead of ending up in the sump.

I've had the fu man chu for just over a year now, he still eats like a pig (mysis and krill) and I do love his colouration.

Water changes are a minor PITA. I have a mixing tank that takes awhile to fill with RO and I pour the salt in until I get the salinity right, but I have a pump in there to mix it with and after I drain the water out of the main tanks, I pump the newly mixed water back into the tanks fairly easily. I have to watch the water levels in the sump and unplug pumps at the right time as I pump the old water out into the floor drain while I am doing the water change, but overall not to bad. I would be killer if I had to carry buckets around to drain the tank, TG it's set up to drain into the floor drain.

left side reef tank
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0001.jpg

right side
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0026.jpg

Cool new shrooms Doug surprised me with from red coral :biggrin:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0031.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5210.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0034.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5215.jpg

Really missing my nikon DSLR camera, but here's an ok pic. of the 230g fowlr tank. Ignore the HA :redface:

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4030945.jpg

Shrooms in the fowlr
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4030947.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5224.jpg

and gsp
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5223.jpg

So in my fowlr tank I lost my cleaner wrasse due to carpet surfing and my cat :evil: I would of been able to save the cleaner wrasse off the carpet (was in the tank when I fed it five minute earlier) but unfortunately my cat saw it on the floor before I did and when I came downstairs (literally what must of been minutes after it jumped) I noticed my cat tossing something up in the air and catching it, when I went to check out what he was playing with, much to my dismay it was my cleaner wrasse :cry: That night Doug almost got his wish of me not having a cat anymore :twised:

On different days awhile ago I also found my 6-line wrasse and mandarin in the overflow. So I moved them to the reef tank were they both have settled in nicely. The red corris wrasse leaves the 6-line alone and my scooter blenny could care less about the mandarin, so moving them worked out well :biggrin:

Yesterday when Doug and I went to the lfs I saw this beautiful chocolate mimic tang at AI. The tang had been bought 3 yrs ago at AI as a juvi and was recently brought back to AI from it's owner. It got jumped in a bit by my other tangs but he's a bit bigger then them (he's about 5") and stood up for himself fairly quickly. About 4 yrs ago I had an opportunity to get a chocolate mimic (which I think is a beautiful fish) but the owner had two of them together and did not want to split them up and at the time I had a 120g and I did not want add two of the same tangs in it. Since then off and on I have been looking for a chocolate mimic that looked as nice as the one I remembered from all those yrs ago, happy to say I finally found one :mrgreen:

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020909.jpg

more of a truer colour pic.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020941.jpg

3 amigos
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020913.jpg

love the powder blue Laurie