110g Mixed Reef V2

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Was feeling artistic last night and snapped a few pics.

Happy Mille




Various fiji purp/ aqua blue actinic shots

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As some of you may or ma not know, RC has had (and still does have) some pretty sweet tonga live rock in. Ive been slowly bringing 10#s ish home a week for the last three weeks. Im swapping some of my jakarta and fiji rock out for the tonga. The "old" rock will in the sump and in the QT tank. Ive already done some swapping in the middle area of the display that was easy to get to, but I need to rid myself of some frags and a couple colonies to free up some space to move things down while I work on the swap. I have a weeks holidays coming up so will try and get the rest of the re-aquascape done then. I got a little lazy with my feeding for a couple weeks(just fed flakes and pellets) and I am paying for it now with a cyano and hair algae bloom. So in lieu of this we ordered in some yellow eyed Kole tangs and have one waiting things out in my QT. He/she looks goooood. I cant wait until it is in the display...but I will.

[motokorth]

Looking good buddy. Question for you, where did you get the flexible hose? I'm thinking I will try to plumb up my tank like how you have it. Also where did you get the glass from? I'm thinking of doing some tweaks to the sump that the tank has before I get it wet :P.

[fishytime]

I got the flex hose from PPE, laguna is the brand. We can get whatever size glass you need. I used an old scratched up 20g tank for the baffles in my sump and I had ***** @********* cut the glass for the overflow.

[fishytime]

My week off was way to short and I didnt get near as much done as I thought I would. I made sure the re-model on the tank got done though.






The kole tang seemed really timid and wasnt eating much while in the qt tank (It may have picked at some seaweed). Every time I entered the room it would wedge itself under one of the rocks and hide for the next hour. I left it in the qt for a week and a half with no signs of it really eating and figured I would roll the dice and put it in the display. It hid for the rest of the evening it was introduced, but the next day it was like a completely different fish. It was out and about, checking things out and picking at the rock, albeit nervously. Im wondering if the 33g qt tank was to small to try and qt a tang? The kole is only about 4", so I thought the qt would be big enough, but the tang sure seemed to feel uneasy. This was my first time qt ing a fish. I had always just released new additions into the display, until my last addition and the series of events that followed prompted me to set up a qt. Im not sure that qt ing is the way to go.It just seemed to add another stress into the fishes life. I will however continue to qt the one or two last fish I plan on adding.Hopefully I will leave the next one in the qt for longer than I did with the kole. I have a small 3-4" regal tang in qt now and Im thinking either a mystery wrasse, bluespot jawfish or a magnificent foxface that A-newb(Francis) got me thinking about. So in the tank now is a pair of ocellaris clowns, a royal gramma, a flame angel, a bi-color angel, a talbots damsel, a hectors goby( I think) and the kole tang. That should pretty much stuff the tank. Speaking of stuffing the tank, I brought home three new acro colonies and a nice orange acan from the shop the other day.

[Hairytank]

Everything always takes more time than you expect...
Your tank is looking great Doug, I really like the open rock work.

[JDigital]

Your aquascaping looks alot different than the last time I saw your tank Doug. Looks good.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Hairytank

Everything always takes more time than you expect...
Your tank is looking great Doug, I really like the open rock work.

Ya like typing out that last post....took me forever Thanks Mr. Hairy.

[JDigital]

Did you ever pick up those 2 Tangs from my buddy?

[lorenz0]

doug those zoa colonies are amazing