lilmatty5dimes
Reef enthusiast
I'm buying my tickets for next year here soon. It's in south Florida.
Glass Box O' Water
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I'm buying my tickets for next year here soon. It's in south Florida.
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
OK MACNA is done and things have changed a bit in my tank. After some deep thought, and a trip to the LFS I have decided to go a different route with my tank. Many things have been removed and many things added. I have cut my fish load to only 3 and eventually it will be a total of 4. Right now I have my YWG , and I just added a pair of Black Leopard Wrasse.
Yes you read that right 2 Leopard wrasse in a 33g tank.
BEFORE YOU ALL DOG PILE ON ME
both fish are barely an inch long , they have been together for over 2 months and show no signs of aggression towards each other so far. My LFS has had them in a QT tank for a period of about 2.5 months with a large pod population and both fish ARE eating frozen food. They will completely leave the rocks and accept PE mysis and Rods Food without an issue. I still have my 90 and my 105 so as they grow I do have other tank options . Eventually my YWG will be going into my friends tank and I will be adding a pair of pearly jawfish but that will be sometime in the spring. The Leopards are extremely hard to get pics of but here is a quick iPhone pic for now.
Yes you read that right 2 Leopard wrasse in a 33g tank.
BEFORE YOU ALL DOG PILE ON ME
both fish are barely an inch long , they have been together for over 2 months and show no signs of aggression towards each other so far. My LFS has had them in a QT tank for a period of about 2.5 months with a large pod population and both fish ARE eating frozen food. They will completely leave the rocks and accept PE mysis and Rods Food without an issue. I still have my 90 and my 105 so as they grow I do have other tank options . Eventually my YWG will be going into my friends tank and I will be adding a pair of pearly jawfish but that will be sometime in the spring. The Leopards are extremely hard to get pics of but here is a quick iPhone pic for now.
little_fish
Moderator
As long as you have a bigger tank for them (which you do) I think they will be fine in there for now.
ErinCahir
Sausage Wrangler
Pics from MACNA now.
KTHNX
KTHNX
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
I didnt take any. LOL
ErinCahir
Sausage Wrangler
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
ErinCahir
Sausage Wrangler
You suck.
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
I can take pichers of my free swag if that helps your neediness. :mrgreen:
To be quite honest there wasnt much to take pics of . Many of the coral for sale looked like crap , much of it was bleached out or placed under soooooo much blue LED's that you couldnt get a true idea of what it really looked like . There were only about 4-5 vendors that I would have bought from and 2 of them were local stores.
Paul Whitby @ highdefcorals always has good stuff
Jason Fox had some nice stuff
Reef Koi had good stuff as well but didnt have his Red Planet that I really wanted
Route66 had a really nice rainbow acan that i looked at on friday, but when I went back Sat. & Sun. it was receeded really bad and kind of scared me away.
Tropic Marin has a really cool expanding water jugs for the nano peeps, it holds 2.64g and comes pre-loaded with the proper amount of salt for your first mixture. They will be releasing pre-measured packets made just for this, but I use the Aquavitro salinity so I will just measure my own.
Also I got to meet Tony Vargas and Julian Sprung (awsome guys) Tony signed my book for me.
Also met Jean-Michel Cousteau, he was the keynote speaker, probably the nicest person I have ever met. He was impressed to see how the hobby is improving the ability to captive breed the animals we all like to collect.
It was a lot of fun, and recommend going if you ever have the chance.
To be quite honest there wasnt much to take pics of . Many of the coral for sale looked like crap , much of it was bleached out or placed under soooooo much blue LED's that you couldnt get a true idea of what it really looked like . There were only about 4-5 vendors that I would have bought from and 2 of them were local stores.
Paul Whitby @ highdefcorals always has good stuff
Jason Fox had some nice stuff
Reef Koi had good stuff as well but didnt have his Red Planet that I really wanted
Route66 had a really nice rainbow acan that i looked at on friday, but when I went back Sat. & Sun. it was receeded really bad and kind of scared me away.
Tropic Marin has a really cool expanding water jugs for the nano peeps, it holds 2.64g and comes pre-loaded with the proper amount of salt for your first mixture. They will be releasing pre-measured packets made just for this, but I use the Aquavitro salinity so I will just measure my own.
Also I got to meet Tony Vargas and Julian Sprung (awsome guys) Tony signed my book for me.
Also met Jean-Michel Cousteau, he was the keynote speaker, probably the nicest person I have ever met. He was impressed to see how the hobby is improving the ability to captive breed the animals we all like to collect.
It was a lot of fun, and recommend going if you ever have the chance.
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ErinCahir
Sausage Wrangler
Do it.
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
Tropic Marin Expanding/Collapsing jug
Book
Will get MOAR in a sec
Book
Will get MOAR in a sec
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
Here is a pic of some of it. I have probably 5-6 more shirts, and a ton of food that I didnt get out.
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
Not a huge haul , but more than I had when I went
ErinCahir
Sausage Wrangler
Bah. Free tee shirts are my favorite thing ever.
Amba
Ol' Salty
Some cool goodies you got there!
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
Ok , after long term algae battles, a few losses, and TONS of water changes I think I may be getting back on track.
Here is my latest addition :
And a few other quick pics that i snagged with my phone
makin babies :^:
Here is my latest addition :
And a few other quick pics that i snagged with my phone
makin babies :^:
texreefer
Battle Dwarf
Its still a work in progress, and nothing is in the final position, but i will get there eventually .......
i hope
i hope
LoveJC03
Reef Enthusiast
Looking good!
ErinCahir
Sausage Wrangler
Looks great, Bryan!
Amba
Ol' Salty
Everything is looking great!
