Dougs Reef

[fishytime]

Sorry to hear about your stuff Doug (great name btw)......once an sps junkie, always an sps junkie......and glutton for punishment.......hope it goes better for you this go-round man.....

[Doug]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Sorry to hear about your stuff Doug (great name btw)......once an sps junkie, always an sps junkie......and glutton for punishment.......hope it goes better for you this go-round man.....

Thanks Doug. {yea, my uncle whom I named after agrees}. This time it will be a mix however, as I already have several lps and some softy frags in there, along with the sps.

The saddest part is I have been finally having success with the sps. Never had a problem growing huge soft corals for the last 20yrs. but never much acro luck, although never tried much until recently. They were all frags from Mikes tank, from the mother colonies, {many of which I grew in another tank before giving them to Mike}.

And I have done so many transfers with never a problem before. My clowns have been moved so many times in the last 7 yrs. they just swim into the bucket when they see it.

[Doug]

Lumenmax3 pendant with a Phoenix 150w 14k

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Doug

FTS will be soon. I have more to load on PB, of the progression of the tank first, then a full tank shot. Last night just could not load or download from there.

Crab is DOA it appears. Just wondering if its a molt. I believe they molt also?? Looks nothing like my shrimp molts though.

Sure sure make me wait for the fts Don't give up on the crab just yet. A couple of weeks ago I did a big tank clean and had some rock out of the water for about 10 min.'s. Unfortunately at the time I did this I forgot I had an anemone crab in there and the next day I saw what I thought 100% for sure was a dead crab body. However a week later I look into the tank and there's my little crab alive and well. So it could very well just be a molt, and just so you know it really did look nothing like my shrimp molts and very much like an intact dead crab.

[Doug]

Full tank pic



Full stand and tank

[Doug]

New skimmer still in the box......



One of my Fire shrimp



One of the cleaners



Various coloured mushroom frags, cut from Mikes tank. Some are growing through, others staying under the netting. Will be fun cutting around them.



Took a few more tonight also. Will post them later. The 800 by 600 size seems better than the couple huge ones I posted. Those are fine on large monitors but I imagine need to scrolled on smaller ones.

[Delphinus]

Looks great so far. No issues with the two kinds of shrimp together? I thought fire shrimp were supposed to be be fairly aggressive with sharing territory?

[fishoholic]

YAY FTS!!!!! looks good

[Lance]

Lookin' Fine Doug! Lookin' Fine!