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Setup really is looking great!

Wow! Very beautiful tank and awesome pictures.

It was nipping at anything with a polyp or a mantle. I saw it nip clams, SPS with polyps, Acans and Chalices. It didn't bother with all SPS, just the ones with large polyps. I put up with not keeping certain corals that it would nip at until one day the fish started to nip the 3 clams I have, that was the breaking point.

I'm leaving the Flame and Potters in the tank, they seem to be fine with the corals. I'll be testing them with the corals and clams that I had to move to the frag tank. If I see either of them nipping they will be going too. The Potters won't be hard to catch, it was swimming in and out of the trap picking at algae. If I have to catch the Flame it's going to be tuff cause I never saw it go anywhere near the trap.

Very nice Eibli Angel for sale. Asking $30. NOT Reefsafe, i found that out the hard way. I've had the fish for about 8 months. Eats anything. SOLD

Look what I caught today. Only took about 20 minutes. The Angel couldn't resist the algae. Anyone looking for a really nice Eibli Angel?

A close up of the trap, think it will work? Door to the trap is hidden in the sand and there is some fishing line tied to it. My wife finds this very funny!

I was suprised no one commented on the eggcrate contraption in the third pic. Hopefully it's going to be a fish trap. I'm planning on catching the Eibli Angel because it took a liking to the clams that I had in the tank. I still have them but they are in the frag tank. It always picked on acans and some other corals but it didn't bother me that much till it started picking on the clams. The fish trap has been in there a week so all of the fish are used to it. I plan on using a clam for bait. If i find the Potters or Flame are picking on stuff too they'll also have to go. It will be a sad to see them go but i'm getting into corals more.

I picked up a large Efflo from Snorkelwasp(Mike) on Friday. It's a great piece and i'm really happy I made the drive(to Corvallis) to go get it. I'm not sure if this will be it's final placement but that's where it ended up for now.

I get a buildup of this "stuff" in my sump, I siphon it out once or twice a month when i'm doing a water change. Sump is bare bottom and it has a tendency to accumulate in one area so it's pretty easy to remove.

Dennis is always generous when I'm getting corals from him. I got two different colorations of hammer coral from him and they are doing great. Thanks Dennis

House with a finished basement is the way to go. Our basement is currently 68 degrees and tank is at 79, upstairs the house is at 75. Got to have AC for the upstairs, can't sleep when it gets real hot.

Edit to my previous post -Zoas I got from Dennis are no longer doing well and my last colony of DW Zoas also appear to be melting. This all happened within the last couple days and it's really discouraging! (scratch)

Thanks Steve for all the frags you gave me in return for the rbta. They are doing well, I need to take some pics. Is the rbta staying where you want it? Also, thanks to Dennis and Troy for the kind words.

my experiences I bought some "African Blues" from Dsoz and they are doing fine. I have them under low light per Dennis's recommendations. I also bought three colonies of Japanese Deep Water Zoas(not from oiab) about a month ago and I only have one colony left. First colony melted in the first couple days and the second colony melted just last week. The third colony that is still alive looks great.

Wow, awesome variety of corals with great colors!

I have a Sixline and I too think it's from the devil. I also have a Melanurus wrasse and a Scotter Blenny. I don't think the Scooter Blenny gets many pods because of the two wrasses but it does eat frozen. I would not recommend a Sixline because I think the Pyscedelic Mandarin is a much nicer fish and if it's not eating frozen the Sixline may reduce the pod population enough to hurt the Mandiran. JMO

Congrats! Glad to hear all went well.

Sold Everything is Sold.

58 gallon Oceanic Tank and Stand asking $100. SOLD Sump (dimensions are 20" L x 10" W x 16" H) asking $25. SOLD Skimmer asking $25, don't know much about the skimmer. SOLD

Like we were talking about skimmers there are a lot of options out there. I would suggest that you try the MH bulbs that are currently in the fixture with actinic supplementation. The actinics are VHOs not PC. Currently the MH bulbs are 10k and the VHOs are a 10k and an actinic but you do have the extra actinic bulb that you can use in place of the 10k bulb. The MH ballasts in the ballast box are just a standard pulse start ballast and should run any 175 watt mogul base bulb.

don't know what it is but i like the looks of it.

bubble tip anemone you got from dsoz make it?

New Frag tank I found a 75 gallon tank on craigslist. Crazy to think someone scratched a glass tank this bad but it was the right price. It came with some other equipment like a stand, overflow, sump, 260 watt PC light, pumps and heaters. rather than having the tank separate from the main display i just plumbed it to the display's sump and now i don't have to worry about adding top off water or testing two tanks. The lights on the frag tank are only temporary, they are 400 watt MH and will be going on the display.