180 gallons up in this!!!! NWKRC!

[Bifferwine]

Great job! I really like the urchin pic.

 

[Alexander]

Dennis what are you suggesting? star, sleeper goby, something else?

 

[d2mini]

Probably not a sand sifting star, they tend to deplete your sand of the good stuff. Diamond Goby would be good.
Saltwater Aquarium Fish for Marine Aquariums: Diamond Watchman Sand Sifter Goby

And then there is always the option of adding one or two Vortechs. lol :mrgreen:

 

[Alexander]

Probably not a sand sifting star, they tend to deplete your sand of the good stuff.

And then there is always the option of adding one or two Vortechs. lol :mrgreen:

yeah thats exactly what i was thinking.


As far as the vortechs go i have no need except for the cool toy aspect. I currently have roughly 6000 gph going through that tank! its a delicate balance to keep the sand from being a non stop storm in there. except for a few months down i was down closer to 3k because a couple powerheads got a little jacked up and i just was too lazy to fix them until yesterday when i devoted a couple hours to maintenance

 

[OhNoNemo]

Nice pics and vid.....how long have you had your Koran?,and that trigger doesn't bother that urchin??!

 

[Bifferwine]

and that trigger doesn't bother that urchin??!

Pink tails are one of the triggers that are considered reef safe. I had one in my full reef for years.

 

[motorcyclereefer]

Cool pics!!!

 

[cageburn]

sweet pics!

 

[BryanS]

nice pics i like the urchin

 

[Alexander]

yesterday was a great day! A couple of firsts for me i got my first acro and my first euphyllia too! also got a new montipora.

here is my( M. Capricornis) piece.

this is what i believe is a branching hammer coral (euphyllia parancora)

and a small branching forgspawn (euphyllia paradivisa

and a green slimer acro

wish me luck! so far my only initial fear was that my koran angel may nip at the euphyllia but so far so good. (not pictured is another small piece of hammer that fell on the sand. ill have to get in there today with the super glue and get it re stuck again

 

[d.french]

good luck, sps always turn white after 3 months for me. i work to much to keep up on water quality, but i keep tons of softies. Do koran angelfish eat soft corals, really would like a large angelfish for my 125 gallon.

 

[Alexander]

the only coral i have had him eat so far were zoanthids. it was rediculous! but i have all kinds of mushrooms, cabbage, finger leathers in my 180 with no problems. also have palys, not sure why those dont get eaten but who knows! yeah i kept a idaho grape monti for almost 2 years and got tons of growth out of it. so hopefully i will have luck with these 2 sps corals. time will tell.

 

[RyanG]

Very nice adds! Thats a nice chunk of slimer!

 

[Alexander]

figured id throw in a recent photo of my Koran. hes still refusing to get rid of the Juv coloration. you can see a bit of change... but not much. I cant wait till its a beautiful transformed adult.... not that it looks bad now. Its def my fav fish in my post vlamingi population.

 

[ErinCahir]

Very pretty fish!

 

[BL1]

Awesome, I love their Juvi colors

 

[d2mini]

Cool looking fishy.

 

[dustin_P74]

Shits looking great Alex, love the new SPS corals. Your sixline and Koran are looking good still.

 

[mng777777]

The Juv. colors are my favorite. It looks great!

 

[Alexander]

well i took some shots of some new corals today!!!! actenic shots so they are kinda .... well not full color but i am excited to show them off anyways!


I got this montipora digitata:

I got this little piece of encrusting montipora. I want to say that its m. pokerstar but i am not 100% sure.

heres a shot of the left hand side of my tank. Its looking pretty nice! with some good grow out it should be rockin in a year or 2. got 3 different types and forms of monti. 3 eyphyllia, one acro, and plenty of leather and muchrooms to go around!