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[alton]

Bumping this up


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[Reefnub]

So where is the picture with the bump yo!

[Reefnub]

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[alton]

We have had an issue with tapatalk so it was a test. The coral look great


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[alton]

We have had an issue with tapatalk so it was a test. The coral look great


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[alton]

Moved wife's tank into office this weekend. I will slowly move everything from old tank to new in the next two weeks


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[Justin]

Nice, any pics?

[alton]

All the sps and lps will go into the new tankhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171127/74da1fec162819266061f36b7158f329.jpg


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[alton]

I guess I should of cleaned the glass before taking the picture?

[alton]

Another day, more corals moved from the old tank to the new.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171129/ec466904bc8cd48592f5eee63eb91585.jpg


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[alton]

Bored at lunch so I moved the final corals https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171129/2b5a25f35044b3f8562f6fa2ba22ac94.jpg


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[Reefnub]

Looking pretty slick man!

[SantaMonicaHelp]

We've got a winner here, folks!

-Kamran

[OrionN]

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28559&d=1516939206
My new wrasse

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[ACE]

I was just reading a thread on this wrasse on RC. Very nice looking

[Justin]

Nice Minh. Welcome back. I hope everything is well with you and your family?

[OrionN]

Thanks Justin. I am getting there. Get all my equipment's ready and will restart soon.

[OrionN]

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28575&d=1519087365

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[alton]

Very Nice! Question how are you getting to post larger pictures other than attachments?

[OrionN]

You need to get the address of the picture file then put ]img]..address of the file..]/img]
of course the first brackets around both IMG and /IMG have to have correct orientation

[OrionN]

Thanks.
This wrasse species may be very aggressive toward other Fairy and Flasher wrasses. I hope I can keep him in my 320 gal later on. His color is exceptional and it seem he is more colorful now that he settle in my 65 gal a bit.

[OrionN]

I was in SA last weekend and saw several for sale. Cheap like 20 at Aquarium Concepts and at Tropical Marine

[OrionN]

Got this guy yesterday. He is in my QT system. Look like he may not need treatment. Sorry the picture is under actinic. When the full light come on later, will take more picture. Under poor light he looks like he is having light purple color. Very stressed but seem fairly healthy for new imported. He is mostly bleached but still have patches of color. If I can stabilize him, he will recover very quickly. I just cannot resist saveable Gigantea Anemone. Once I have him healthy, I will have to try to sell him because I really don't have the room for him in my various systems.

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28580&d=1519475512

[OrionN]

Picture under normal light just now

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28581&d=1519478471

[alton]

Very nice, I think you like anenomoes like I like angels

[OrionN]

I love Gigantea that is for sure.
I see this Gigantea at Petco, I thinking that I can keep him a live. Can't help but really want to get him.
Picture today. Exceptional feeding response. He was able to capture Mysis and eat them despise the clowns trying to take these Mysis from him. This is extremely good prognosis factor. Here he is, able to catch multiple Mysis without me intentional squirt Mysis to him. I was not feeding him but the PH just blew them into him. His mouth is open to eat the Mysis.
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[Justin]

This pic is from Petco or you already pulled the trigger on it?

[OrionN]

All the pictures are in my QT system.
This AM
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[OrionN]

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My two Flasher wrasse in my QT tank. A Yellow Fin Terminal Male and a Carpenter sub male. Sorry for the dirty tank. They will go into my DT soon.

[Justin]

Nice, like 2 colorful sharks looking for pods. Hopefully they get along with each other.

[OrionN]

Our compression of the picture really cause it to loose color. The picture in my computer that I uploaded is a bit brighter and more vivid than the picture show on the tread.
Anybody notice this?

[OrionN]

They eat everything right out the bag, but eating more aggressive now than at first which is normal for all fish. I got them the day of arrival to the LFS (Petco for the Carpenter and GC Reef for the yellow-Fin), mixed flakes and frozen Mysis. Both are in my 40 gal QT. Display a lot but no biting so far.

[TexasTodd]

Nice pics Minh, hows the nem doing?
Todd

[OrionN]

He is still with me, but not doing well. I think he will not make it long term. One of these anemone that just not doing well, but not really infected.

[TexasTodd]

That's a bummer. I figure if you can't save it, no one can. Hopefully it makes it.
T

[Third Coast Tropical]

wow...those clowns!

[OrionN]

How about video instead of picture?
Flame Angel Pre-Spawn ritual. I did not have time so I did not stay to video the spawn. Interesting behavior nevertheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b8BvtwiGzs

[OrionN]

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[OrionN]

My Labouti Fairy Wrasse

[alton]

Very nice! I have gotten close twice to purchasing a wrasse, but something always came up and it fell through. (not including a cleaner)

[OrionN]

I keep marine aquarium since the 1980. I have never keep wrasse before other than Leopard and the yellow Canary wrasse. I never have a top on my aquarium so this tend to keep me from looking for wrasse.
I saw the Sailfin Fairy flashing at Petco and this really cause me catch Wrasse fever. Now with top on my tank, I am surprised at how long it took me to catch Wrasse Fever.

[OrionN]

My Regal Angels, I got from Alton.
http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28629&d=1526267799

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28630&d=1526267825

[OrionN]

My P. mccoskeri

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28631&d=1526681441

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[OrionN]

Changing Red Sea Eightline Flasher Wrasse. I got this wrasse 2 weeks ago. She is clearly changing. Below are the pictures of when I got her, today and the fish that I hope that she will become:

Two weeks ago:
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This AM:
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This is the fish that I hope she will be (not my picture):
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[OrionN]

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My Male Mandarin. Very fat. His dorsal muscle have bulk up and is higher than the base of his dorsal fin. I got him when he was emaciated but is much better now. I am looking for a small female Mandarin to pair with him. I love this fish.

[OrionN]

How about some pictures guys? I can't be the only one with a phone and a tank. :)

[alton]

Give me a week Minh, my cleaner crew is working fast

[alton]

And off topic but you do not have a live aquaria 40% discount code? I sure want that Hawaiian Chevron!

[OrionN]

No. I just got an expired 20% off

[alton]

Picture of my Adult Blueface

[OrionN]

Very beautiful angel Alton. I really thinking of getting one.

[alton]

I loved this one also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14yzOB_sBRs
Reef safe and everything, but then I fell in love with the Regal Angelfish and traded the BF to elegant reef

[alton]

Not a great picture but the sub-adult is quick! No aggression while eating, the sub-adult hangs out in the rocks and never seen unless it is feeding time.

[OrionN]

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My A. neoguinaicus, The China Wrasse, in QT since Thursday. I hope she will do well. Eating well and is full. I feed her twice a day, but she hunt for Pods all day. My QT system have plenty of pods. The name is kinda appropriate. She does nook like a porcelain fish.
This is my very first Anampses wrasse

[OrionN]

My Potters
Male Poking his head out of the sand.
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One of the Female poking her head out of the sand.
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The three of them. I did not get to see the other female get up. They were lazy and did not get up until about 1 PM
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[alton]

Very Nice!

[alton]

This guy normally hangs out in a hole in a rock. But feeding time my tail spot blenny gets very brave

[OrionN]

Neat looking fish. Is he in your large home tank? With all those large fishes, he should be timid.

[alton]

He is in my office tank, not scared of anyone in this tank.

[OrionN]

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Better picture of my Yellow-Fin Flasher wrasse

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My Blue Flasher. A very beautiful fish. He is not flashing above. Multi iridescence color when he is flashing, with a lot of iridescent blue when he is flashing, thus named Peacock or Blue Flasher wrasse.

[OrionN]

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My New Pintail Fairy wrasse, C. isosceles. He is a looker.

[Justin]

So beautiful. Def. on the list but with so many other Wrasses, I"m afraid of aggression. How is the tank coming along Minh?

[OrionN]

It coming along great. I will post a picture later.
Regarding multiple wrashes, if your tank is big enough for the numbers of wrasses you want, and you choose wisely by not getting the mean ones they will be fine.
I am having 20+ wrasses in my 320. So far no problem.

[OrionN]

It coming along great. I will post a picture later.
Regarding multiple wrashes, if your tank is big enough for the numbers of wrasses you want, and you choose wisely by not getting the mean ones they will be fine.
I am having 20+ wrasses in my 320. So far no problem.

[Justin]

Wow, 320 offers a lot of swim room. I have a 135 and I think I'm at my cap on fish in comparison to rock work. I had less rock before but my scape looked too open for me and I didn't have enough room for sticks. Everyone has plenty of caves, and overhangs to make them happy and safe.

[OrionN]

My Yellowfin Flasher is the Alpha wrasse of the flasher wrasses in my tank. He flashes often and is a joy to watch.

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[OrionN]

My Bluethroat Fairy. I bought him from Petco in Corpus Christi. He was in the store for several month, color all faded but regain his health quickly. Very nice and bold fish, on the aggressive side with other Fairy wrasses, but my tank is big with a lot of other wrasses. I would give it second though if anybody want to keep him in a smallish tank with other Fairy and Flasher wrasses.
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[OrionN]

I can't get over how beautiful this fish is. He is not even fully developed here. Not quite a terminal male yet.
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My Exquisite Fairy Wrasse. Small only about 1.75 inches. Smallest wrasses in the tank, doing well and really color up since I got him months ago.

[OrionN]

H. biocellatus Wrasee
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H. melanurus Wrasse
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[alton]

Very Nice Minh! My Flame Wrasse has become very brave in the home 180. I will need to take a picture this evening.

[OrionN]

Thanks. Love to see your flame wrasse.

[OrionN]

My Solorensis. It is hard to get the color accurately with this wrasse. I am somewhat happy with this picture. I have better resolution but MAAST can only take so much resolution.

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[alton]

As requested by the king of wrasses my Flame

[alton]

My Imp is finally changing at around five inches

[alton]

This one you have to excuse my dirty glass because I do not clean it very often. This tank is in my storage room so nobody sees it but me but I am still hoping/crossing my fingers these two will pair. I have had the smaller Blueface over a year, bought as a small juvenile. The adult was added with her in a 100 gallon Rubbermaid tub in February. When they where introduced the smaller one went from blue to ugly brown sub-adult colors in a matter of weeks. Now she is getting her beautiful colors with no aggression from the larger male in a 180 that I picked up from Fishstix. This tank is a hodge podge of used items including the lighting which will be fixed on Friday with two more Mars Aqua lights and me adding a ton of GSP to help filter the tank.

[OrionN]

Very nice fishes Alton. Hope your Blue Face will pair.

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[alton]

First of all I need to remember to clean the glass better but here is a picture of the 180, blue face, lit by 3 Mars Aqua light fixtures (because my wife has me on a budget) mounted 13" above the tank. Something else is the liverock shown was covered in tons of hair algae before Minh gave me some algae eating bugs along with an long spine urchin that I aquired from Sierra Bravo

[OrionN]

I am glad that those Isopods works out for you. Clean them all up without a tang. :)

[OrionN]

My Exquisite Fairy Wrasse. This guy is not the flashiest of my wrasses but I really start to like him a lot. He is very graceful and beautiful in a subtle sort.
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[alton]

Very nice Minh! And because of you getting me interested in to wrasses my new Pintail Wrasse from Elegant Reef (Thank You Louis and Mark)

[OrionN]

He is a beautiful wrasse. This wrass was 1000.00 plus a few years ago until the collectors start to collect them in the Philippine.

[OrionN]

He is a beautiful wrasse. This wrass was 1000.00 plus a few years ago until the collectors start to collect them in the Philippine.

[alton]

Minh my wife freaked out when I sent her a picture of one from DD at $199! FYI POTO has a 2" black tang for $525

[OrionN]

Just tell her you got a bargain. I got a mislabeled Labouti for 65. My wife was complaining that he was expensive until I show her one on DD for 350.00

[OrionN]

One of the two Regal Angels in my tank. I got them from Alton. I am happy that they got a long very nice and likely end up as a pair. Both still very small, about the same size as my Flame Angel pair.

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[OrionN]

My Pintail Fairy Wrasse. He is really doing well, eating well and gaining weight. He is in my QT system with my small McCoskeri as the dither fish.
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My Blue Squamosa. I have waited forever to get one without breaking my bank.

[OrionN]

My baby Autralian Harlequin Tusk. He is only about 3.5 inches. Still have his baby spots but already exceptionally colored. Hope he will even get better as he grow.
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[alton]

Beautiful unique fish. Ever since I had an aquarium I had a mandarin in it up till several years ago I stopped because I like having copods.

[brewercm]

Nice looking fish. Does anyone ever use this site any longer? I came back to look around and everything looks fairly old now as far as posts.

[OrionN]

Some of us still do.

[alton]

Hey at least three

[OrionN]

You need to post a picture Alton.

[Reefnub]

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[Reefnub]

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[OrionN]

Very nice

[OrionN]

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28766&d=1547513036
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Alton's picture. I got an email that Alton post a picture. I got from the email a link to the picture but some how it doesn't show. So here is Alton's picture

[kkiel02]

Nice pic reefnub!

[OrionN]

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My Leopards. I have a Male Potter, Two Juvenile Negrosensis and one Juvinile Meleagris in my 320 gal tank.

[Reefnub]

Nice pic reefnub!

Thank you

[Reefnub]

Very nice

Thank you

[Reefnub]

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28766&d=1547513036
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Alton's picture. I got an email that Alton post a picture. I got from the email a link to the picture but some how it doesn't show. So here is Alton's picture

I love angels but I love clams too so hard not to have both

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My Leopards. I have a Male Potter, Two Juvenile Negrosensis and one Juvinile Meleagris in my 320 gal tank.

Those are some stunning fish!

[alton]

Office tank

[OrionN]

Thanks Reefnub
nice wrasses Alton

[Troy Valentine]

Looking good Alton! Really Love the wrasses.

[alton]

Thanks guys, yea somebody with the initials O N got me hooked on Wrasses

[OrionN]

My new magnificent Magnifica

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How do y'all like my fish? He is a beauty and flashes all day.

[alton]

It is amazing the price difference of wrasses from $25 to $500. This one is beautiful and you didn't have to spend $500

[OrionN]

This one was 25 as an assorted wrasse from Petco. There are wrasses that are even quite a bit higher than 500.00. The bad thing about wrasse is that they are not long live fish from what I read. 5-7 years in our tank only. The Max size for this species per Fishbase is 6 cm, mine is considerable larger than that at 3.5 inches or almost 9 cm. This is a new species, jut got it's name last year. The newest named Fairy wrase: Cirrhilabrus cyanogularis.

[OrionN]

My Eightline Flasher Wrasse. Here she was 1 year ago, less than 2 inches, when I first got her, in QT. The second picture is the same wrasse. He is now a full Terminal male at about 4 inches

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[OrionN]

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[OrionN]

I cannot upload a picture either.