Fishfreak2009's 240 Gallon Build

[Fishfreak2009]

Tank is continuing to do well. Added a few more cuc critters, a purple tipped urchin and some orange cat eye snails. Also got 3 new fish into quarantine. A Pakistani Butterfly, a beau gregory damsel, and a baby French Angel.

 

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A few pics from today. Threw in a dart frog pic as well since one of the Ameerega trivittata 'Huallaga Canyon' was not only out in the open today, but was shedding. These are some of my shyest poison dart frogs, so a special treat to see one, let alone catch it mid-shed.

 

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Tried and failed to get a good pic of the moorish idol, and the big urchin decided to make himself a suit of armor from the clam shells.

 

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Added a few new fish to quarantine this evening!

Juvenile Indo Regal Angel
2x Purple Tilefish
Flame Angel
2x Clarkii Clownfish
XL Mandarin Dragonet

I'll try to get pics shortly

 

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Some quarantine pics

 

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Flame angel and regal angel never made it out of quarantine. Unfortunately they broke out with ich pretty badly. I treated with cupramine, which killed the ich, but both stopped feeding and passed. Tiles and clowns moved to the display and did well initially, but one tile steadily lost weight and passed. Thankfully the remaining tilefish is doing well. Also added a few new fish since then, as well as some new corals, a couple different sea stars, and a purple beaded anemone. And have a few butterflies currently in quarantine to go in here.

Current fish stocklist:
1 Centropyge bispinosa
1 Pomacanthus maculosus
1 Pomacanthus paru
1 Pseudanthias bimaculatus
2 Chromis atripectoralis
3 Amblyglyphidodon ternatensis
1 Chrysiptera hemicyanea
2 Pomacentrus smithi
1 Stegastes leucostictus
2 Amphiprion allardi
2 Amphiprion clarkii
2 Amphiprion frenatus
1 Premnas biaculeatus
1 Acanthurus nigricans
1 Acanthurus nigrofuscus
1 Zebrasoma xanthurum
1 Hoplolatilus purpureus
2 Gramma loreto
1 Opistognathus aurifrons
1 Opistognathus robinsi

Here are a few random pics.

 

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[JumboShrimp]

Love all the photos. Is it fair to say yo have an addiction to fish? Did I see a juvenile French Angel in there? If so, that will probably become the biggest fish in your tank; I grew one to the size of a dinner plate!

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Love all the photos. Is it fair to say yo have an addiction to fish? Did I see a juvenile French Angel in there? If so, that will probably become the biggest fish in your tank; I grew one to the size of a dinner plate!

Yup! Frenchy had to start small because of the maculosus. Any angels larger than 2-3" become targets of the maculosus and it will not let them live in the tank. If they grow up with him, he completely ignores them, but any larger ones added are killed.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Corals are doing well, snapped a few pics with my phone and the clip on orphek lenses tonight.

Also figured I'd share a few frog pictures, since keeping poison dart frogs and tree frogs is one of my other major hobbies. All my spare cash gets split between the frogs and the saltwater tanks. I've been trying to improve my cell phone photography skills, and the frogs tend to pose better than the fish.

 

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Snapped a few more pics today. Big Mac is a camera hog