JamesL

Pending.

Price reduction bump.

+1 to looking like a cold water species.

I know.. I am sad too. It was the brightest thing in my tank.

You are the Fungia master! And such a Fun Guy too I lost my little orange one from you It sluffed off it's skin (so did my other plate). I just don't have luck with most LPS in my large tank. I am keeping the skeletons around in case I can start a competing baby plate production line.

Looking great!

Well, the fish that are left now seem fine. The Foxface's breathing has slowed down to a much more normal rate, though he is even more skittish now as he is the only large fish in the tank. The bluespotted goby made an appearance, and seems fine. In fact, a new dynamic to the tank has already occurred now that the damsels are gone. The Starry blend has been all over the tank exploring. And the Bluespottted goby's pistol shrimp has been going to town making new tunnels through where the damsels used to have caves. In fact, he made one right in the front of the tank.

Well, this has been a not so fun morning with this tank. I woke up to most of the fish dead. Here are my thoughts on what possibly happened. Last night I took off the overflow box and scraped off a bunch of palys that had grown in it and where blocking the intake holes. I rinsed it and put it back in the tank. It seems I didn't notice that my skimmer air intake had clogged up. Well, there must have been enough paly guts left (I though I did a good job getting them off) to dump palytoxin in the water, and that combined with a reduction in oxygen in the tank caused the die off. I have fixed the skimmer, changed out the carbon, and am doing progressive water changes through the day. Only fish were affected.... and not all, though most. I lost all of my oldest fish: Scopas Tang, Twinspot Bristletooth tang, Coral Beauty Angelfish, and the two Talbot Damsels (can't say I am *that* sad they are gone, the little bullies). My fox face is breathing hard, but still alive. My new Starry Blenny seems to be OK, and has been enjoying the bully free tank this morning by swimming all around. I haven't seen my bluespotted goby that lives with the tiger pistol, but I have seen the tiger pistol excavating new tunnels now that he is not competing with the Damsels (see, they were bullies to everything!). All the inverse seems fine, and so do the corals. Sad day, but I guess it could have been worse.

For the right amount of money, anything is possible.

The is pure awesomeness!

Any chance of stray voltage from a bad heater or something like that?

I am waiting for a video of the kids swimming in the tank

I don't have/remember the specifics, but I think it was Dana Riddle at C4 this year mentioned something about too much calcium could cause extra salt to be produced in an aquarium. I was lazy dosing this tank with 2 part for the birds nest. Lazy in that every so often I would add some, but never test... a big no-no in this hobby, especially with small tanks. Well, at one point the anemone started bleaching and I finally checked sanity and it was way up. I since have stopped dosing CA in this tank, and just let the water changes replenish it.

It has become one of my favorite additions to the tank (thanks Niko's Reef!). It is huge compared to the ones I have been seeing in stores lately. I am actually on the hunt for a non-orange one now. It really pops at night when just the atinics are on.

Since I had the camera out, tried taking some pictures of the small tank. Problem was the tank walls needed scraped. The clowns in their new anemone: The clowns acting like sharks at the surface: Artsy picture of my BML reflecting on the surface:

Meeting at a LFS to sell something can be damaging to profits I picked up a Starry Blenny today while at RCA. He is cool, and the family is fascinated with him. Broke out the camera to take some quick pictures... nothing stellar. Had to take a shot of my tube anemone too... love that thing!

Sold!

Pending.

Bump.

bump.

Yay! An entry

Stunning pictures.

Will have to do that for next month