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01-07-2008, 07:55 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
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Welcome! I just added a large bubble tip and a Cinnamon clown to my system. I drip acclimate in a 5 gal bucket. I put them both in the bucket for acclimation. I go slow for my drips so acclimation takes a while. When the drip was done they were great friends and have remained so ever since.
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180 Gallon Reef, 150 lbs of LR and 4" LS. 4-175w 10k MH. 8-110 W actinic VHO, 2 Wave2K, LifeReef Skimmer . A 90 gal sump, Top-Off. 2Mag 9.5 return, Life Reef CR LCR-1. 1 Cin Clown, Bub coral, Xenia, Purp Tang, Yellow Tang, Pogoda, 4 Gobies, Niger Trigger, Angel, Brittle Star | 
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01-07-2008, 09:25 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lakewood, CA Age: 34
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My brother in law has a pair of clowns that fiercly protect their home...Xenias! It's the funniest thing to watch them nip at his hand when he cleans the tank and gets too close to their adopted home. | |
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01-08-2008, 11:59 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Age: 24
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So I went out and bought myself a BTA. I put it on a huge piece of LR, and by nightfall it had settled in a crevice. After I turned the lights out, it really shrunk, and I freaked as if it were dying... I let it be.
This morning when the sun had been on my tank for about an hour, the BTA had puffed back up, and was attached pretty solid.... so I fed it  .
I'm allowed to be over-excited... it's my first piece of coral!!
My girlfriend came over later, and bought me a fire angel. Now she's DEFINATELY a keeper  . I freaked this morning though when the fire angel was just lying on its side inside some LR. I thought it was dead, so stuck my finger in there. He's just fine... so WTF???
Do fire angels sleep or something??
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60g: Yellow Tang, Fire Shrimp, 6-Line Wrasse, Lawnmower Blenny, Blue Linckia, Emerald Crab, Purple Condy Anemone (Hosting), Paired Ocellaris Clowns (Rare-Took to Condy), Aggregate Anemones, Pulsating Xenia, Open Brain, Kenya Tree, Button Polyps, Star Polyps, Mushrooms
20g: Ruby Scat, Yellow-Tail Damsel, 4-Line Damsel | |
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01-08-2008, 04:42 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: the valley, CA Age: 23
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my gf and i have a blue hippo tang and it sleep in the rocks. sometimes it is propped sideways.
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50 gallon reef tank. coralife 36 in 96w 10,000 k/96w actinic/ lunar lights, 40lr, 4inches ls, RemoraAquaC skimmer, closed loop flow, refugium, oscellaris clown, bluegreen reef chromis, green mandarin,turbo snails/reef crabs, sand sifting stars, corals: blue striped mushrooms, toadstool mushroom,yellowgreen cup, purple gorgonian, greenblue pipe organ, favites brain, torch, frogspawn, sebae anemone.
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01-08-2008, 06:24 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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Originally Posted by TankBoyME  So I went out and bought myself a BTA. I put it on a huge piece of LR, and by nightfall it had settled in a crevice. After I turned the lights out, it really shrunk, and I freaked as if it were dying... I let it be.
This morning when the sun had been on my tank for about an hour, the BTA had puffed back up, and was attached pretty solid.... so I fed it .
I'm allowed to be over-excited... it's my first piece of coral!!
My girlfriend came over later, and bought me a fire angel. Now she's DEFINATELY a keeper . I freaked this morning though when the fire angel was just lying on its side inside some LR. I thought it was dead, so stuck my finger in there. He's just fine... so WTF???
Do fire angels sleep or something?? | The sun hits your tank for an hour every day? Do you have any problems with algae growing everywhere? You should never let the sun hit a tank, directly or indirectly. _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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01-08-2008, 06:28 PM
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| | Wobbegong Shark
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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TankBoyME, BTA's are not corals, they are invertebrates! 
and yeah how's the algae in your tank? _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
R.I.P. Big Blue 12/02-10/22//07
p.s. I'm a woman! 
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01-08-2008, 10:17 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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My first inflated and deflated often. My second rarely did.. Amazing creatures.... | |
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01-09-2008, 06:24 AM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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yea angels sleeps.sun!!!!ahhhhh!!!!  thats no good. nice purchase and yea shes a keeper if shes a reefer.lol gotta love a woman when she recognizes a good looking fish. | |
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01-09-2008, 04:43 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fairport, NY
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Originally Posted by lunatik_69 The sun hits your tank for an hour every day? Do you have any problems with algae growing everywhere? You should never let the sun hit a tank, directly or indirectly. | As long as its not raising the temp theres nothing wrong with a little free zooxanthellae fuel! I have my tank positioned so that when the sun angle is low in the winter my tank gets more natural sunlight. In my 450 I am going to use a solartube to pipe sunlight in! Why? Cause its FREE.
If your tank is free of phos and NO3 you won't have any problems with algae. Remember we are trying to replicate the sun with our fancy high intensity lighting.
Its cliche but theres something about the Percs and a 'nem. 
I want a colony of 12 in my 450. With a giant Heteracis Crispa or even a RBTA
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01-09-2008, 05:28 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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^ holy poop, talk about loving your clowns........ _________  | |
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