The Scleractinia Shallows

[Wrangy]

Originally Posted by FloformAustria

Nice shots Dom!!
Your tank is looking really good!

Love the "artistic" shot

Cheers

Thankd Flo! I'm definitely happy, the alk is steady and I brought it up a few notches to 7.5 as it's been at 6.5 the last couple of weeks

Always enjoy taking them haha

Originally Posted by Pife

Get that ca rx dialed down! Let's see the growth.

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We're getting there I'm seeing more growth than I've ever had in any of my tanks lol

[Rakie]

What pumps are you using right now? I see the Tunze 6045 in the back, those are nice

[markalot]

Hi Dom,

I was way back on page 27 so had a lot of catching up to do. Glad to see the display looking so good and growing in. Sorry about the wrasse.

Always nice to see a new tank get into the swing of things.

[Wrangy]

Originally Posted by Rakie

What pumps are you using right now? I see the Tunze 6045 in the back, those are nice

Two RW-8's and the Tunze (6025 I think). Part of me wants to try some vortechs but that's an expensive trial

Originally Posted by markalot

Hi Dom,

I was way back on page 27 so had a lot of catching up to do. Glad to see the display looking so good and growing in. Sorry about the wrasse.

Always nice to see a new tank get into the swing of things.

Thanks Mark, we're getting there Hopefully I can keep the swing of things rolling! I'm thinking about starting up some trace dosing as well

[biggles]

Originally Posted by Wrangy

Two RW-8's and the Tunze (6025 I think). Part of me wants to try some vortechs but that's an expensive trial

I dropped a big hint as to what you should get today, it's $300- and will do the entire display Domster, with no other pumps required.

Dom picked me up and we went to Deer Park aquarium today. Instead of walking straight over to the fish tanks he went right to the SPS holding tank - i was so proud of him............... until i realized that the rare fish he wanted was being kept with the acros.

Dave, Mark and Dom........... i can't even believe i saw this, but it happened........ the three stooges lifted egg crates of acros OUT OF THE $%%@ WATER and sat them on the ground so they could catch his %$@$#@ stupid fish !

AND........ he then spent the rest of the 3 hours resisting the temptation to buy a pair of $500- clownfish !

When you hang out with a fish head like Dom at the LFS, bad things can happen......... angelfish purchase bad.............

[reefmutt]

Dom, Dom, Dom....
What is WRONG with you??!??
Andrew , you need better friends.

[biggles]

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Dom, Dom, Dom....
What is WRONG with you??!??
Andrew , you need better friends.

He's a bloody idiot when it comes to buying fish Matt !

[reefmutt]

OMG , Andrew. What is wrong with YOU!??!??
Bloody crazy the two of you.!!

[biggles]

Originally Posted by reefmutt

OMG , Andrew. What is wrong with YOU!??!??
Bloody crazy the two of you.!!

There is lots wrong with me Matt, lots and lots and lots........

Originally Posted by Pife

I was taking with a friend at a local frag swap this past weekend that keeps a blue face in his sps display! It's got me thinking of trying one. What do you think?

I would keep it a secret from a certain Canadian SPS keeper if i were you Brandon.............

[Wrangy]

Originally Posted by biggles

I dropped a big hint as to what you should get today, it's $300- and will do the entire display Domster, with no other pumps required.

Dom picked me up and we went to Deer Park aquarium today. Instead of walking straight over to the fish tanks he went right to the SPS holding tank - i was so proud of him............... until i realized that the rare fish he wanted was being kept with the acros.

Dave, Mark and Dom........... i can't even believe i saw this, but it happened........ the three stooges lifted egg crates of acros OUT OF THE $%%@ WATER and sat them on the ground so they could catch his %$@$#@ stupid fish !

AND........ he then spent the rest of the 3 hours resisting the temptation to buy a pair of $500- clownfish !

When you hang out with a fish head like Dom at the LFS, bad things can happen......... angelfish purchase bad.............

Like you can talk, once you saw the majestic and all the wrasse, you completely forgot that acro's even existed

I'm still tempted by those clowns!! Maybe they could be the sump b@stards haha

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Dom, Dom, Dom....
What is WRONG with you??!??
Andrew , you need better friends.

I am the best kind of friend

Originally Posted by biggles

He's a bloody idiot when it comes to buying fish Matt !

Originally Posted by biggles

There is lots wrong with me Matt, lots and lots and lots........

It is true that there's a lot wrong with you but at least you're able to pick out one of THE MOST gorgeous majestic angels I've ever seen!!

Originally Posted by reefmutt

OMG , Andrew. What is wrong with YOU!??!??
Bloody crazy the two of you.!!

We were like kids in a candy store haha neither of us could contain our excitement over the fish in the store that we both were drooling over!

[Wrangy]

And the pièce de résistance of course is a fish I have been waiting a very long time to get my hands on! Something I have dreamed of and drooled over. I absolutely adore the Roaps family of butterflies and while Tinkers and Mitratus are a little out of my budget range, this gorgeous guy was not!

May I introduce to you, Burger, the chaetodon burgessi or Burgess Butterflyfish

[reefmutt]

Ok. That butterfly is nice!
Ok.. and so is andrew’s angel.
Well, so are the clowns but maroon clowns are meeeeeeeean fish when they start breeding. I wouldn’t risk the carnage in a tank your size, Dom.
Not that my opinion means squat!!!

[FloformAustria]

Haha... cheesus Christ Dom... that's just crazy

Andrew nice angel but aren't you guys afraid of those nipping at your corals?

Cheers

[biggles]

Originally Posted by FloformAustria

Andrew nice angel but aren't you guys afraid of those nipping at your corals?

Cheers

Not really Flo, Dave said it wasn't much worse than a regal in regards to damaging acros. Time will tell but i added some more angel food that should catch his eye before he starts eyeing off my SPS.

[FloformAustria]

Originally Posted by biggles

Not really Flo, Dave said it wasn't much worse than a regal in regards to damaging acros. Time will tell but i added some more angel food that should catch his eye before he starts eyeing off my SPS.

Okay Hope it works out
Are so beautiful fish

Is that a flubber picture "Mr. SPS are the only true coral"?

[sahin]

I leave the forums for a while and all hell breaks loose. Andrew added a big pooper to his tank which is also going to bite all the acropora presciouses

I'm wondering how that fish affects the BFC? It's the wrong shape!

Originally Posted by biggles

Not really Flo, Dave said it wasn't much worse than a regal in regards to damaging acros. Time will tell but i added some more angel food that should catch his eye before he starts eyeing off my SPS.

Only in the sps forum can you get away with posting sacraficial flubber.

[biggles]

I don't want to take up any more of Dom's journal than i already have boys. The angel can chew up and spit out fireworks tips all day long for all i care.

[Wrangy]

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Ok. That butterfly is nice!
Ok.. and so is andrew’s angel.
Well, so are the clowns but maroon clowns are meeeeeeeean fish when they start breeding. I wouldn’t risk the carnage in a tank your size, Dom.
Not that my opinion means squat!!!

We both did very well on our "reef safe with caution" fish mine has taken a liking to one of my acans already haha and has reduced the pe through the tank but he can do that all he likes! I will give him a very large leeway!!

Haha I wouldn't say your opinion means squat Matt! Not to me at least! I'm not going to be getting them for the display, just way too aggressive for the pretty wrasse I have! I might think about them for the sump tank though and then their own tank in the future at some point in time but noooo to the DT lol

Originally Posted by sahin

I'm wondering how that fish affects the BFC? It's the wrong shape!

Only in the sps forum can you get away with posting sacraficial flubber.

You should ask him about how the silver monster effects his BFC a true open ocean species that one

Originally Posted by biggles

I don't want to take up any more of Dom's journal than i already have boys. The angel can chew up and spit out fireworks tips all day long for all i care.

I can't take you anywhere nice!! haha
I'm with you though, the butterfly gets free reign in the tank! You don't wait 5 years for a fish to cry over some spilt polyps lol

[reefmutt]

Sacrificial flubber.. nice!
When Dom and Andrew get together with the boys at Deer Park to create an Aussie reefing rock band, it’ll be called Sacrificial Flubber.

[biggles]

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Sacrificial flubber.. nice!
When Dom and Andrew get together with the boys at Deer Park to create an Aussie reefing rock band, it’ll be called Sacrificial Flubber.

I'm glad you pointed out that this whole thing happened because i was with Dom. If it wasn't for Dom, that coral whatever it is, would not be in my display Matt.

' Hey Dom, which one of these things would you go for if you were a majestic angel. '

' Definitely that one ' whilst pointing at the coral i subsequently purchased.

Dom selected the coral, it would still be at Dave's if he hadn't singled it out. Mark bagged it up, Dave took money for it, and i placed it in the display.

I am prepared to accept 25% of the blame and that's it Matt. Being at the end of the chain so to speak, it's more like 10% but i'm not going to split hairs.

[martinphillip03]

Well said Matt. But Matt, can you explain to me what the hell is going on here?

Marty.

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Dom, Dom, Dom....
What is WRONG with you??!??
Andrew , you need better friends.

[reefmutt]

Marty, in a word, no...
It’s some sort of flubber killing fish luv fest in the sps forum..
It’s all very odd..

I would expect nothing less from these two, however...

Maybe it’s not friends they need but an intervention..

[biggles]

[Pife]

Originally Posted by biggles

There are no moose in that picture so I know it's not a Canadian reef club.

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[martinphillip03]

Matt, Well said.
"It’s some sort of flubber killing fish luv fest in the sps forum..
It’s all very odd."

Marty