75g w/ 33g frag tank system

Your frags look awesome!


I love that tank
it's the tank of the month on nanoreef

 

Thanks! There are still a few more I'd like to get a picture of as well.

I'm really a big of those NPS tanks, good to hear they're making the rounds on all the forums, they deserve it.

 

Turns out I was wrong on the joker paly budding new polyps a few posts back. Apparently it had just closed up and probably started to recede/shrink enough where when I moved it to the place where it is now (with more light) it started to come back, those spots I thought were new polyps were just where it was sort of bursting back out from where it had shrunk back. Amazing animals.

Got some reasonably good, for my camera and how much these fish move, pictures.
The unidentified female wrasse I think is turning out to almost certainly be a Conde's wrasse IMO. It has been steadily changing into a male's coloration, the black on the dorsal fin is becoming much darker and covering more of the fin. It has also developed a bright yellow streak/tip to the back portion of the dorsal fin.
He/she has been flashing at the reflection in the back glass the past few days and the coloration is really striking. I haven't been able to get a good picture but it has a pinkish purple streak all along the dorsal side of its body, the yellow and black in the dorsal fin are very solid and pronounced and there are streaks of purple and yellow and red in it's tail. It's also a VERY active fish, compared to my other wrasses, it does much more caudal swimming than the others when it's excited. The other wrasses almost never use anything but their pectoral fins.
Anyways here's the picture. You can actually see some residual pink here. This fish is rather difficult to photograph especially since it doesn't display anywhere but the back glass.


Here's finally a picture of my lubbocki wrasse as well. This is my most camera-shy fish, I have to sit in front of the tank for a long time in order for it to even think about coming out from behind the rocks.