Robb in Austin

Way to go Brooks!

MEH!

Nice! I think they need a few more clowns though.

Now you did it Dave.

Took SWMBO to Perlas today for a birthday lunch. Great seafood, not too stuffy.

They have this large tank right in front. I'd say its 6ft x 18inch x 4 ft. Full of fish and fake(or at least dead) corals.

Partial fish list:

Naso tang

Clown trigger

Niger trigger

Pajama cardinals

Vlamingii tang

numerous wrasses

tomato clowns

some type of large angel

a small Genicanthus sp angel

Sailfin tang

two types of rabbitfish

a few hybrid tangs of some type

You call a guy keeping a tang in a 34 a class act?!

I say MEH again!

Looks nicer Brooks.

Looks nice!

Now...

gimme those nems!

Thanks for the fish Stephen, good to meet you as well.

Now, if I could talk the Mrs into letting me get the tank too...

member Dena, you just need enough to overcome the head height and provide enough turnover. the return should not be the main flow provider.

I say MEH.

Looks good B.

Dibs on blue chromis, pm sent

Ain't Karma grand?!

Congrats Gabe!

PK.

I don't have a definitive source for what is and isn't a softie. I think if you look at various websites, they typically list mushrooms/rics/zoas under various heading such as ricordia or polyps.

I do get your point and it is certainly up to debate.

Edit:

I remembered I have Shimek's Pocket guide to marine invertebrates so I looked there.

While he doesnt define soft corals, rics/shrooms are listed under corallimorphs, zoas under zoanthids(obviously), and under soft corals contain leathers, xenia, gsp, etc.

I'd recommend a six line; I've had mine about two years and he is only about an inch and a half.

Other recs would be for a lawnmower/ tailspot/starry blenny, royal gramma. All are inexpensive, hardy, and reasonably available. Well, the starry is kinda expensive but not too high. They all swim constantly in my tank.

Skip the coral food. If you are doing regular water changes, have good lighting, and have fish you should be ok.

You can feed any of those, except the zoos, meaty bits of mysis,shrimp but dont need to. Mine even take pellets!

Those you listed, BTW, aren't considered softies. They are LPS and shrooms, and zoas. Softies usually means leathers, Xenia, kenya tree, etc.

Did you call the local shops? They are usually available somewhat frequently.

Do you mean a Caribbean blue tang, or the hippo/regal/blue tang?

Live aquaria has both in stock.

He probably let Chris come over and look at it and it crashed in response to that visit.

Looks good, BTW. Love that green coris wrasse.

I went through this this summer and you are going down the right path.

The other thing I did was put my gfo/gac reactor inside a styrofoam cooler full of ice water.

Mike, goes by dudester on RC and IIRC Mojo here, had Kingfish put in a giant one at his office. It's mighty impressive. Full of Deltec reef porn.

But, from my one day at Dell, I only saw FW. All were in the 90g range. No idea who installed them or who maintains them.

Here's a link to Mike's office tank:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1016111

make an ice cube out of RODI, or distilled, water and put it on the foot.

The other thing to do is once it's let go, place it in a old clam shell or oyster shell for it to attach to. Makes moving them later easier.

Jeremy,

It is a slab foundation. One with a crack running front to back and, as of the last time we checked, a 3" drop from one side to the other.

The tank is it sits has about an 1/8" out of level from right to left.

Be thankful you live west of 35.

Dell has quite a few, all FW from the ones I saw.

Of course, I'd really like to see at in my ICU's waiting room but thats just me being selfish.

Simple: I don't like the height of the 90.

Regarding Mike's question; I don't have a real good answer there. Expense? SWMBO factor=high. Foundation issue? etc, etc, etc.

Please to be getting me the Eibli mimic tang, 44.99. Preferably on the larger size end of the listed spectrum.

Will contact you regarding bringing money over.

There was an add similar to that a few years ago, but it was a root veggie of some type, that was _really_ phallic and suggestive. Funny as heck.