JamesL

Looking great!

Well, the fish that are left now seem fine. The Foxface's breathing has slowed down to a much more normal rate, though he is even more skittish now as he is the only large fish in the tank.

The bluespotted goby made an appearance, and seems fine. In fact, a new dynamic to the tank has already occurred now that the damsels are gone. The Starry blend has been all over the tank exploring. And the Bluespottted goby's pistol shrimp has been going to town making new tunnels through where the damsels used to have caves. In fact, he made one right in the front of the tank.

Well, this has been a not so fun morning with this tank. I woke up to most of the fish dead.

Here are my thoughts on what possibly happened. Last night I took off the overflow box and scraped off a bunch of palys that had grown in it and where blocking the intake holes. I rinsed it and put it back in the tank. It seems I didn't notice that my skimmer air intake had clogged up. Well, there must have been enough paly guts left (I though I did a good job getting them off) to dump palytoxin in the water, and that combined with a reduction in oxygen in the tank caused the die off.

I have fixed the skimmer, changed out the carbon, and am doing progressive water changes through the day.

Only fish were affected.... and not all, though most. I lost all of my oldest fish: Scopas Tang, Twinspot Bristletooth tang, Coral Beauty Angelfish, and the two Talbot Damsels (can't say I am *that* sad they are gone, the little bullies).

My fox face is breathing hard, but still alive. My new Starry Blenny seems to be OK, and has been enjoying the bully free tank this morning by swimming all around. I haven't seen my bluespotted goby that lives with the tiger pistol, but I have seen the tiger pistol excavating new tunnels now that he is not competing with the Damsels (see, they were bullies to everything!).

All the inverse seems fine, and so do the corals.

Sad day, but I guess it could have been worse.

How do I get someone kicked out!!!! :-D

For the right amount of money, anything is possible.

The is pure awesomeness!

Any chance of stray voltage from a bad heater or something like that?

I am waiting for a video of the kids swimming in the tank

Looks like everything's growing in nicely. How did dosing calcium mess up your salinity?

I don't have/remember the specifics, but I think it was Dana Riddle at C4 this year mentioned something about too much calcium could cause extra salt to be produced in an aquarium. I was lazy dosing this tank with 2 part for the birds nest. Lazy in that every so often I would add some, but never test... a big no-no in this hobby, especially with small tanks. Well, at one point the anemone started bleaching and I finally checked sanity and it was way up.

I since have stopped dosing CA in this tank, and just let the water changes replenish it.

Wow! Great pic of the tube anemone. I can't wait to get one of those one of these days. I like the starry blenny too!

It has become one of my favorite additions to the tank (thanks Niko's Reef!). It is huge compared to the ones I have been seeing in stores lately. I am actually on the hunt for a non-orange one now.

It really pops at night when just the atinics are on.

Since I had the camera out, tried taking some pictures of the small tank. Problem was the tank walls needed scraped.

The clowns in their new anemone:

The clowns acting like sharks at the surface:

Artsy picture of my BML reflecting on the surface:

Meeting at a LFS to sell something can be damaging to profits

I picked up a Starry Blenny today while at RCA. He is cool, and the family is fascinated with him.

Broke out the camera to take some quick pictures... nothing stellar.

Had to take a shot of my tube anemone too... love that thing!

Sold!

Pending.

Bump.

bump.

Yay! An entry

Stunning pictures.

What month are we doing the chiton/limpet photo contest?

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Will have to do that for next month

150W MH light with blue and white accent LEDs (all controllable separately).

I upgraded the lights on my small tank to LED, so no longer need this MH fixture.

It has been working great, but does need a new MH bulb. The current 14K Phoenix bulb that is in it has well over 6-8 months of use.

Asking $75 cash.

Comes with the fixture, legs, and two power adapters for the LEDs.

Looking great!

I also need netting solution as we found our six line on the floor the other day.

Hey, this tank is still going

I just added a new RBTA this past Saturday... the clowns are really happy and started hosting in it that same day. My other one bleached out after a salinity spike (note to self, don't dose calcium in a small tank).

On a side note, these (very poor quick) pictures show how much my birds nest has grown on the year.

Photo Contest:

Enter a photo of a Crab.

Submit your photos to the following gallery: September 2014 Photo Contest Gallery. Submissions close at midnight September 30th. Voting will begin first week of October through October 15th.

1st place prize - $25 in Reefs2Go Gift Certificates ($50 if we have more than 5 entries!)

Happy shooting!

Please note the rules:

• Picture must be taken by you.
• One entry per person.
• Picture must be aquatic themed/related.
• You may win once every 12 months. I.E., if you win a in March, you will not be able to enter again until March of the next year. This gives everyone a chance to win the contests throughout the year.

* Photos submitted may be used to promote ARC or be reprinted in our annual calendar (with proper attribution).

Add the Winners are. . .

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Vote for your favorite picture. Voting ends at midnight on September 15th.

Would someone starting out be able to buy frags at this event instead of swapping frags?

Most definitely... people love to get the thin green paper frags

The novelty of it was neat, but I have found I am not using my Lytro camera anymore, so looking to sell it.

What is a Lytro camera? It is a "Light Field Camera", which allows you to change the focus of a picture after you have taken it.

You can see some examples here:

http://www.austinreefclub.com/topic/21615-reef-pics-using-lytro-camera/?hl=lytro

http://www.austinreefclub.com/topic/27029-jamesls-reef-related-lytro-pictures/?hl=lytro

https://pictures.lytro.com/JamesL

Asking $100 OBO $80 OBO (still retails for $199 new).

Included:

- 8GB Blue Lytro Camera with magnetic lens cover

- Box

- USB Cable

- Included wrist strap and cleaning cloth

- Bonus wrist strap and camera cover