water box

[straydog]

alt="" /></a>Brought the big scarlet crab up from the sump for a picture. It resides in the sump to help clean up what the stars miss at feeding time and also because it is big enough to eat my fish.

 

[straydog]

alt="" /></a> Moved a few things around and added some new zoes and palies

 

[straydog]

Picked up 2 more blue porcelain crabs today , 1 more rock flower anemone , and a frag of a zoanthid morph on my way through Vero Beach Florida today.

 

[straydog]

alt="" /></a> Placed the new rock flower nem under the sand next to the one I alredy had , usually when they imerge from the sand that is where they stay. This one decided to move a little and imerged from the barnicle. This caused my goby pistol pair to have to find a new batnicle which happens to be the one to the right of the old one and has a feather duster in it.

 

[straydog]

alt="" /></a>added a pro clear aquatics skimmer powered by a maxi jet 900 to the system and have to say this thing is doing an amazing job.

 

[camellia]

Looking good!
Your going to need a bigger tank real soon Straydog!

 

[straydog]

Thanks Camellia, I've tried bigger tanks but lost intrest in them. This one's perfect for me for a couple more years I hope. The bigger tanks gave my inverts and gobies too many places to hide, so I didn't see them as much as I can in a smaller tank.

 

[straydog]

Ok I've had my harlequin shrimp for a little while now and I would like to offer a little advice . Don't buy a large female if you want to do like most people say and feed it a starfish one leg per week. Mine will eat a starfish leg in a couple days. The smaller male harlequin probably would be fine one leg at a time but the big lady in my tank needs a whole star of decent size .one star will keep her busy for about 3 weeks. And a side note if you are feeding stars any way add a couple of bumblebee shrimp to the tank. My two bees benefit from the feet of the stars which they love to eat.

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[straydog]

alt="" /></a> picture of the harlequin and one of the bumblebee shrimp

 

[straydog]

alt="" /></a>decnt picture of the anemone porcelain crab on his flower anemone. There are 4 blue porcelain crabs also in the tank which are usually lurking in the shadows till I feed the the tank. But this little guy is always with his nems.

 

[straydog]

alt="" /></a> Added a damsel to the sump so the kids have something to look at when they check the water level in the sump.

 

[straydog]

Few pictures , of electric flame scallop, tank underpar 38 and left side of tank of new gorgonia

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[straydog]

alt="" /></a>picture of the waterbox from the top down. I also added a tiny pom pom crab without nems, it has been trying to pull atthe rock flower nems. So far the porcelain nem crab has only pulled off one of the pom pom crabs legs.

 

[camellia]

Haha I think you need to give me the Pom Pom crab, my flower nem would be a nice home for it!
Looks cute as always! Aren't you moving out of your green color scheme with that red flame and red whip gorg! I think you need to pass those to me too!
I can't believe your still adding to this box, when's your bigger build? You like buying too much, your going to out grow this soon

 

[straydog]

The red gorg and flame do throw the color scheme off a little , but the tank needed a little change and since I'm feeding one might as well add the other . I keep telling my self I've got enough in the tank but when I stop to visit with the great folks in Vero Beach I buy from they always seem to have something I cant live with out.

 

[camellia]

Haha yea you've got an awful good problem to have, stopping in Vero Beach all the time! You may need to change your route and drive to Michigan, lol

What's on the right above the Rock Flower?

 

[straydog]

Not sure I could find Michigan, never been above the Mason Dixon line, not sure If I could get there without a Yankee pasport. Lol
There are two rock flowers, and to the right of them is a purple gorgonia with a green finger leather, I was told they were both from ora (oceans reefs and aquariums)

 

[straydog]

alt="" /></a>finally slowed down on adding to tank only thing I've added was the clove polyps on the nano mag a few weeks ago.

 

[straydog]

Changed the scape in my tank tired of looking at rocks

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[straydog]

alt="" /></a> one week in on the fule so far everything is going well. I'm noticing a little algie on the glass but the snails are doing there job. Also changed my power head out to a korila 425, the sirts on the zoes seem a little longer now.