That would be great. Thanks for the offer. I definitely will be taking you up on that. Right now I'm just making sure my params are good.
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Thanks Randall. It's all coming together now.
My yellow tang is agressive and extremely territorial. I know I have too many tangs in the tank, but the relationships/personalities are like this: The naso tang basically minds his own business, just constantly grazing. He is like the unofficial king of the tank and only gets mildly aggressive when hungry. A couple of times he's chased my lawnmower (the offiicial king) who got a little bit too close while feeding.
The yellow and powder brown are always following him around (I think because they believe he knows where the food is, or maybe trying to intimidate him). In the very beginning when I introduced the yellow and the naso together the yellow tried to dominate the naso which would have none of it. The powder brown is not aggressive towards the naso either but both it and the yellow take turns going after the powder blue (which is a little smaller than the yellow). At times the yellow and powder brown take aggressive postures against each other and "tail" fight but not very agressively, just when they go into each other's territory, or when hungry. I feed once daily. Except for the naso, they eat anything I throw into the tank. The naso will eat algae, flakes and he may nip at pellets. He doesn't touch the meaty stuff, at least I haven't noticed.
My favorite is the naso, even though I had originally wanted a blonde naso. I'm thinking of getting additional fish, so I have to decide which of the tangs to get rid of. One thing I'm considering is that it is possible for the naso to outgrow my tank and I don't want to get too attached only to one day have to get rid of it. So...
The yellow and powder brown are always following him around (I think because they believe he knows where the food is, or maybe trying to intimidate him). In the very beginning when I introduced the yellow and the naso together the yellow tried to dominate the naso which would have none of it. The powder brown is not aggressive towards the naso either but both it and the yellow take turns going after the powder blue (which is a little smaller than the yellow). At times the yellow and powder brown take aggressive postures against each other and "tail" fight but not very agressively, just when they go into each other's territory, or when hungry. I feed once daily. Except for the naso, they eat anything I throw into the tank. The naso will eat algae, flakes and he may nip at pellets. He doesn't touch the meaty stuff, at least I haven't noticed.
My favorite is the naso, even though I had originally wanted a blonde naso. I'm thinking of getting additional fish, so I have to decide which of the tangs to get rid of. One thing I'm considering is that it is possible for the naso to outgrow my tank and I don't want to get too attached only to one day have to get rid of it. So...
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lol what i thought it was a funny post! oh and hahaha copycat on the swallow tail! r u getting a pair? BTW i love ur tank! i wish i had done more planing cause i would have rather went with a none RR tank and drilled it like urs better flow. oh and lets get a recent FTS 
Thanks. I'm getting just one (for now) as I'm planning to get a few different fish for diversity. The glass-holes overflow is great. I haven't posted an updated tank pic because I'm not happy with how it looks right now. I'm not good at aquascaping and then I see Strendo's tank (tank of the month) and now I absolutely hate my scape. My nem has not been doing too well (I'll probably raise the rock it's on, change the flow a bit). The tentacles are starting to extend again since I changed bulbs so that's a good sign. My female clown keeps digging up the sand bed and that blows (literally). Every now and again she creates a sand storm in the tank and the area in front of the nem is almost down to the glass. She's completely remodeled my hills and valleys. I have to be blowing sand off the few corals. I also started with sps (got some great frags from Mo~idol - setosa, purple bonzai, and I don't remember the name of the other) and those are growing , beginning to encrust the glue on the plugs. I'm looking to get more into sps. I like the idea of starting with frags and watching them grow into colonies. I'm inspired by Strendo's tank and want colorful sps. Right now I'm just taking it slow enough that the wife doesn't ask too many questions about how much things cost inlove: I love you honey - just in case she reads this). Biopellets (from Tito) have left my nitrates and phosphates undetectable by API kits so that's good.
inlove: I love you honey - just in case she reads this). Biopellets (from Tito) have left my nitrates and phosphates undetectable by API kits so that's good.yea aqua scaping is a pain! it took several tries till i saw a pile i tolerated...lol im not too happy with the way things are now, but i dont want to move things again....im big on the diversity too, but i love pairs! its fun to see how they behave with each other. get a male for that clown! maybe it will keep her preoccupied lol.
nl i am feeling the same way about my tank (not too happy ) i wanted to upgrade but few thing is in the way so upgrage not happening any time soon soo it time put the shine back in the 65 am going to change the whole thing up i have not got the sps bug yet still a fan of the lps and softies but strando tank got my mind thinking also. so we will see what i end up with in a few
I hear ya bro.
After three days I finally found my exquisite wrasse :grumpy:. I had looked under every rock and all around the tank but he was nowhere to be seen. That is, until I found my flashlight. He's lying peacefully on the floor in the narrow space behind the tank, not saying much, just lying there. Apparently he found the only gap in the diy tank cover and decided to make a break for it. It was fun while it lasted, now on to repairing that hole and giving him a proper burial.
Started dosing esv 2 part a couple of weeks ago. My ph has come up to and kinda stabilized at 8.1. I was dosing calc but stopped for about 3 days because it had gone up to 500. I checked it last night and the calc was down to 340 so I'm getting an idea of how much I need to dose. I also don't need to dose as much alk as before either so it does look like those params are stabilizing.
Everything in the tank looks happier!!
Everything in the tank looks happier!!
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