Tony's 75 gallon mixed reef - new additions 3/3/2013

Man congrats at nabbing a pic of the flame angel! I have been trying for months to get a good picture of mine but he wont stop moving and every time he sees me with a camera he pays peek a boo with me from behind the rocks lol

 

Thanks! That was the only good one out of about 50 that I took lol, he kept moving on me too and playing peek a boo I just happened to catch him picking on a rock at the right time

 

Nice pics!

 

Nice pics and congrats on the new toy!

 

thank you

 

Tank's looking great. How do you like the light? I'm going to get one from a guy in our local reef club who is a distributor for evergrow now. (he also does service one them) The layout he uses was designed by another person in the club. I can'[t wait.

 

thanks, yeah the lights are growing on me

I'm curious to see what of growth I'll get

that's awesome about your friend I'm sure you'll love them

 

So I added a gbta last night to my tank, when I bought it the guy at the lfs had a hard time getting him off the glass that it was attached to I was afraid that he was going to injure his foot.

I got him home and drip acclimated then added him to the tank, he didn't want to attach anywhere and basically started to just roll and blow around my tank, afraid that he would get into one of my powerheads I shut the flow off and replaced him on one of the rocks.

After an hour and a half with no flow it looked like he finally attached so I turned the flow back on I watched it for another hour and then went to bed.

I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was checked on the nem, I looked in the tank and he was not where I left him last night, I immediately started looking around for him, then I started to see green chunks on the sand, I thought to myself that he got sucked into the powerhead and died. Then I found him, he was stuck in the intake of my hob filter, I quickly shut off the flow and filter, the nem fell to the sand and I thought for sure he was a goner but I scooped him up abd placed him back on the rock and hoped for the best, I actually took the day off from work to make sure he made it.

I left the flow off for most of the day and slowly he started to open up and move, he found a spot under a rock and finally attached. I left the flow off for a little while longer and then slowly turned things back on, first my filter, then an hour later my powerheads. He's been in the same spot all day today and his mouth has closed, I'm not out of the woods yet but I'm glad to see him doing better.

I will post a pick of him tomorrow

 

Hey Tony, those damn Nems have a mind of there own. The guy at my LFS had a hell of a time getting mine off the rock he was stuck on when i got my RBTA.

Once i shut off the flow when I put in my RBTA he took right away left it off for a little while. THen once he would take it I tried to get him to eat and once he started taking mysis he hasnt moved.

 

Yeah he's doing much better now, he hasn't moved from under the rock that he's chosen. I know I owe you some pics so I will post some tomorrow after work