280g Inwall

[Delphinus]

So today I moved over the crosshatch trigger from the cube. I've been meaning to for a while but I wanted to do it on a weekend so I could be around to deal with the catching, acclimating, and then the inevitable subsequent watching "is everyone OK???"... And then, one thing after another, weekend after weekend, never an opportunity arose. So this morning I thought, better try this now or it will be yet another weekend slip by.

I did a netless transfer using my fish trap. What a much nicer way to do this over chasing with a net, there didn't seem to be much stress at all, just maybe a little patience while waiting for the fish to swim in.

First I tried baiting it with mysis, but that didn't work out too well, too small I think. So I tried some krill and that was the magic: she swam in within a minute after adding that. I pulled out the trap and poof, 45 minutes later she was in the new tank.

First she found a good spot to lock herself in with her trigger fin. Solid as a rock, just watching the world around here. All the while the cleaner shrimp were all over her. Once in a while she'd twitch them off but they'd come right back. Anyhow 30 minutes after being let out of the bucket she was swimming around as if nothing was ever the matter and that this was her new home all along. No issues with any other fish at all, although I wasn't expecting much trouble since they were all together in the same tank before.

Here she is! In her "blue" colour mood. I'll have to try to get a photo when she's in a green or yellow mood. It blows my mind how much she can change.



This one shows the red in her fins a little more:


This one would have been a great shot of her but the lieutenant tang swam into view as I pressed the shutter button. Ended up being a perfect shot of the tang. What are the odds eh! If I tried to get a shot of the tang it would never work out like that.


Some random other shots since I had the camera out:






Frags are all starting to take off..


One of the BTA's has shown up (way in the back there):


I had to spend a few days out of town this week for meetings for work. On the way home from the airport I decided to take the opportunity to take 5 minutes of "me" time (since I never have any free time anymore without kids in tow) and stop in at Gold Aquariums since it's not far out of the way home from the airport. Turns out they had just landed a nice shipment of corals so ended up walking out of there with a couple new things. Ran into 24storm at the store, it was nice to catch up with him and say hi.

Bali:


Aussies (two of them, they are both probably the same coral, the colour isn't showing up quite right, I'm excited for their potential though, and both of them have little red acro crabs):

[abcha0s]

Wow Tony - That's really starting to look nice.

I really like your fish trap idea. Might have to use that myself.

- Brad

[Delphinus]

Unfortunately when I was down stateside this week my wife texted me mid-week that yet one more of my clams had died. Bummer. The clam was looking fine when I left but I guess that's how that goes. .. fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, dead. I'm down to two. No idea if their number is up soon too or if the serial-clam-death stops with this last one. I am wondering if maybe the problem is the zeovit and there isn't enough nitrate in the water for them.. No idea but I'm thinking I'm going to do some reading up on that to see if anyone else has ever wondered if there might be a correlation.

[Snappy]

Things are looking good Tony.

[Delphinus]

Thanks Brad! And yeah, the trap is great. Only thing is it's large-ish so a little cumbersome to work with and maneuver into a tank. I had to get it right into a corner in my cube to get it to fit right but once I had it pinned in place it worked out OK. I used a couple magnets to help hold it up, it was a super solid grip but better than flopping around in the current otherwise the fish are not going anywhere near the thing.

If you want to borrow it sometime let me know.

[Delphinus]

Thanks Greg!

[Lance]

Coming along nicely Tony, and that Trigger is a beauty. Sorry to hear about the clam though.

[christyf5]

Looking good Tony!! I'm having clam issues as well, this is the third one to go downhill since the start of the year. Frustrating as hell

[fishoholic]

Lookin good Tony

[Delphinus]

So I think another one of the Tunzes is starting to crap out. One of the waveboxes chatters pretty badly lately, I tried cleaning it out but I can't find anything inside the impeller assembly. It will turn for a while but eventually just sort of stutters. It still moves water but like 10% of what it should be pushing.

I might ping Roger Vitko on this but does this sound like a motor drive unit failure? It's one of the old style 6200's. Anyone with a wavebox or a 6200 on its own that I could borrow an impeller from for an afternoon so I can see if it's the impeller? I'd order a new one but if that's not it then that's sort of a waste.