Let's see ur full tank shots !!!!

[Troy Valentine]

Nice tank Alton! You have an amazing selection of beautiful fish! Do you have any issues with them picking at the corals? I would imagine it would be incredibly difficult to catch one if it becomes a problem.

[alton]

The ones shown no, my female (med. sized shown) Flame picks on the birdsnest, but does not kill it. I did have to remove one juvenile Blueface Angel because he killed SPS. The adult Blueface was fine, but since I was trying to create pairs I removed him also. I have a plexiglass divider that I place in the tank and then remove all the corals and rock in that section. Since 2010 I have done that I think five times.

[alton]

Very nice Alton. Do you have any fish in this one?

There is a Pair of Golden Angels that I got from LA Divers Den that come out for feeding, but stay in the rocks otherwise.

[alton]

Ha! That is pretty slick. The flow doesn't irritate the monti?


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It is a great place because they grow so fast and shadow most other corals. At one time the purple was almost 24" across before I broke it off and took it to Terry's Store.

[alton]

Love the 300! Looks so full that it doesn't even look like a 300, great job on filling that huge tank.


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Except for the Bird of Paradise (GC Reef), and GSP (Alamo Aquatics) every other coral in this tank came from a MAAST Member, and the most I spent maybe $20? Most where $10 frags.

[alton]

Alton what is the flow rate in ur tank

During the day I have two return pumps Pan World 50PXX 1100 gph, and a 40PX 480gph. Plus a Tunze nano and a Tunze 6100? (I got it from Beverly). At night everything shuts down but the 50PXX which makes for a very quiet tank. I had a Tunze wave box once but it created too much flow and my Frogspawn did not like it.

[alton]

A real quick video of the Golden Angels in my 65 (Click on Picture for viewing)

[Dean]

There is a Pair of Golden Angels that I got from LA Divers Den that come out for feeding, but stay in the rocks otherwise.

Those are beautiful fish! i saw one at Aquatek about 8 or 9 months ago and really had to talk myself out of getting it. I was worried about it nipping coral and back then my 65 was loaded with sps. They were selling it for just $75 too.... Anyway, really nice tanks Alton.

[alton]

My first one I had in my 300 nipped at Sps, I could always figure where he was at by the chewed on Sps. The Sps wouldn't die, you could just see was being grazed on. After my Male Flame wouldn't leave him alone I sold him. These two have not destroyed the test Sps plug yet. I will try bringing in a Birdsnest next and see how they do. I read a story once on how they catch them, the diver looks for a pile of dead Sps, and then looks for a Golden hidden in between the dead coral.

[LuckySingh]

Full tank shot .. Tank needs a cleaning since I was out for 3 weeks ... Few stn here there on Sps s and lost few heads of my historic old hammer colony. Other than that not so bad growing and thriving.
hate to see this side of my tank


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