kingjames

Lol, ya poped up as new post...didnt even look at the date

I'll take brittle 5122996615

awsome tank brian, really coming along

beautiful... nice to see an adult tang that is healthy and has been taken care of for so long

I ALMOST ALWAYS GET SOME TYPE OF REACTION EVERYTIME I STICK MY BARE HANDS IN MY TANK EVEN IF I DONT TOUCH ANY CORAL AT ALL, NOW IF I TOUCH CERTAIN PALYS MY WHOLE ARM GETS TINGLY AND ICHES, GUESS IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL THOUGH

Do you have any goniopora or alveopora? The article a few years back in Coral magazine said the employees at ORA couldn't put their hands in a tank with goniopora after working with them for a few weeks. They would get instant reactions just from touching the water.

NONE OF EITHER, WISH I COULD KEEP GONIOPORA ALIVE FOR MORE THEN A YEAR BUT NEVER HAPPENS

I ALMOST ALWAYS GET SOME TYPE OF REACTION EVERYTIME I STICK MY BARE HANDS IN MY TANK EVEN IF I DONT TOUCH ANY CORAL AT ALL, NOW IF I TOUCH CERTAIN PALYS MY WHOLE ARM GETS TINGLY AND ICHES, GUESS IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL THOUGH

tied twice with this fish after my tank had past the 3 year mark and in both instances i couldnt get either one to eat prepared food and they literaly demolished my pod population within 6 months and both eventually starved, you have a big enough tank though that you may be able to keep one pretty healthy but i would at least get some macro in your sump and wait till at least the one year mark, but JMO

juivinile dragon wrasse, looks alot diffrent when it matures,looses the antennas and changes coloration

yes, i have a 48in blue stunner complimenting my metal halides and there is a huge diffrence from when they are on and off. HUGE, and my corals also respond and expand when the stunner comes on before halides, so they do give off some par too

lol these guys

just snip it off, leathers heal real fast

ill come and get one from you on thurs

got some from pham awhile back

blue tipped tenius, i got a piece from him too,

lol, good stuff

i was thinking this also

LTA's prefer a very course substrate to bury their foot in. Do you have sand or crushed coral? If crushed coral, then he may not be able to get comfortable. i have an LTA that i have had for over four years and not once have i seen him without his foot buried in the sand

chad and belinday just got back from the coast with some

had no idea port a had this much diversity, very cool

def not baby trash palys, some other kind

i think its also refered to the emperors hat hydnophora

it also took my clowns over two years to host my nem to, idk what happened but all of a sudden on day they were in there

if that is a true LTA then, it looks like you have crushed coral in your picture, LTA will almost always bury their foot in the sand and that is where they are happiest, i have had my LTA for over 4 1/2 years now and have never seem him once try to attach to a rock and stay their, they prefer to bury their foot into the sand in between a rock and the sand, and if you read up on them almost 90% of what you read says they require a fine sand bed, prefrably deep. You are also right about the lighting too cause mine took awhile too adjust to my halides, and they do not like extreme amounts of flow either, mine would move every time, the cool part about LTA's is that when they finally find a place in the sand that they like they will not move for a looong time if at all, when mine moves is always in the sand so i dont have to worry about him stinging anything high up. I just recently went bare bottom in my tank for a better nutrient control, and i have had my LTA so long that i didnt want to get rid of him, so i built him an acylic box with sand and decorated rubble around it and he is happy

salinity being a little low or a little high should not cause any bad effects, as long as it is stable and is not swinging from high to low, stability is key in any reef, by looking at his picture 1.021 has been doing ok for his tank, but even so i still try to keep mine in between 1.024-1.025, which is recommended by almost every website and educational material i have read, jmo though from what i have read,

lol awsome