MrMonte

Skeleton starting to show, thinking of moving it to a spot with slightly more light exposure....

Hi! A recent new addition to my tank is an Antennata Lion Fish. He has not yet been transitioned to frozen food and I am looking for any advice on the transition, experience in how long it has taken others and / or what live foods you’d suggest in the mean time. right now the lion fish (still looking to give it a name too) is on a steady diet of ghost shrimp. I’ve tried krill and cut up sliver sides but he won’t take them yet. I do feed thawed mysis shrimp every day or other day in the tank. The lion seems interested in all the thawed food but I have yet to see him take it.

A weird development if anyone is interested. at night it balloons way up and then during the day shrinks way down. Seems like it is shedding “flesh” some days.

How’s he doing? a similar thing happened to a fresh water betta a had, the beta didn’t make it. I inspected the fish after it passed and it looked like some sort of tumor had formed in the gill area. Not sure that’s helpful. I am interested in your Nemo though and if you were able to bring him back to health.

😂 good find!

Looks like the shade has helped, seems to already be bouncing back.

Good to know, thank you for the feedback. Makes me feel a little better knowing there is potential for recovery!

My once meaty doughnut coral had a rock fall on it, this rock had mini maxi nem that was touching the whole doughnut coral. the coral looks fleshy (and misshaped) at night but horrible during the day. I tried moving it to a more shaded spot... sounds reasonable but I’m not sure why I did that. today it looks a little browner in the center. I’ll post a picture this evening/or am if it meats back up. Does anyone have any suggestions to help it heal? Or do you think it’s done for? 😢

Wow lucky you! I’ve had the orange clown with a standard bta for about a year with no success. Picked her up a little bf hoping that might encourage, no luck. Finally I picked up the widow bta from another member one here, unfortunately the widow split but they paired up a week after the split! The time from the widow in the tank to the pairing was about a month! Impressive consdiering I had to save the flurry clown from a carpet his first day in the tank 😳 I figured he’d never touch a nem again! I think the trick was printing pictures of other clowns in nems and taping them to the tank. 😆 😂

A happy post of my clown fish that have finally decided to call an anemone home! IMG_2207.mov IMG_2196.mov

Sorry, my phone wigged out. Couldn’t Unpaste or type in the previous comment. thanks for the advice guys. @ocboatand @dunpeal I appreciate your input. I’ll def get a generator for just in case and potential future emergency’s, luckily we weren’t hit last time by the power outage but who knows if I can count on that again. Will the corals be okay without light for the day? I run four T5s, two white bulbs and two blue. Recently I’ve been just running the two blue. Thinking of replacing the white ones with a more blue or purple since they aren’t on very often and I’m not a huge fan of the white.

I live in one of the old portland houses and have to have the panel box rewired. They say the power will be off for 7hours the day it is worked on. Does anyone have an tips or suggestions for the tank? I have access to my grandfathers generator if needed, but I currently don’t have a power outage plan for the tank. Any reeefers out there who can offer some advice or products (preferably on the budget side of prices, today) would be greatly appreciated. Today is tank cleaning day, but for FYI it’s 120display and ~25-30 sump. I have snowflake eel, blue tang, 2 clowns, dotty back, chromis, two gobyos and a damsel. There are a couple hammers, lots of zoa frags, Monte, and a couple other corals (I’m new and forgot their names), also two bubble tips (one black widow and one (maybe 2 I think it split recently) Rose tip ) and a carpet.

edit- just saw your reply to my other comment. Shoot me a text and we can meet up! Do you have a black widow left? Interested in that guy and checking out anything else you have left. shoot me a text and we can figure out a time to meet up, 2069400653

Interested in checking out if you have anything left

Saw his setup yesterday, it’s pretty cool

Would like the 11, 12, LSP 4 and softie 5 if you still have. I could come by sometime today or this week. could you text/call me and we can set up the time. EDIT - Everything adjusting well especially the eel damsel and tang. Still waiting for the hammers to open but the purple one is starting to try this morning. Tanks for the new tank buds!

Update: was able to get everything to work again except one outlet on the energy bar (seems weird but will play with it more after work) thank you @SuncrestReefand @obrien.david.j! Things are much better, this was making me sick this morning!

I’ll try that again, that’s where I get stuck with the orange spinning circle. Do you know if it takes a little while to complete the process?

Good morning, hoping someone can help and FAST! My apex classic needs to be reset but I don’t have access to the display (cord got all chewed up). I am in the classic dashboard and everyte I do a reset I get stuck on a spinning orange circle. All lights are green it’s just the outlets aren’t working. can anyone offer advice? Maybe I could borrow someone’s display for a few minutes to reset my tank?

Does anyone know if something can be done for a fish that develops a blockage?

He looks so awesome, I love the fin coloration. Lonnie didn’t grow much longer in the time I’ve had him. I noticed his round pot belly and it seemed normal until it wasn’t. Tanks for sharing!

Rip indeed. Thanks for your thoughts.

Lawnmower blenny, Lonnie, had been eating and swimming okay but his belly started getting bigger and bigger and bigger.... today I noticed labored breathing while he was at the bottom of the tank. I helped him to swim and move about but it seemed his belly was too heavy and big for him to move. I put him in QT with same tank water and some meds.... he died shortly after. I wonder if he had an infection or blockage. All water parameters were normal for the system. Eating wasn’t an issue, online I see a lot about starving, this guy ate like no tomorrow... I was worried he ate himself to death.... Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas what could have happened to him? He was a beautiful, lively guy before today. 🙁

Hi ken interested in your apex items if still available. I can come by tonight or this week for pick up, text me at