Mike and Terry's 300g Reef

Aquaph8 · Jul 22, 2014

I see some new guys. I spotted a semifasciatus pair and a Choati, :), how are the other leopards with her, especially the Kuiteri?

Was there some egg crate separating someone?

Aquaph8 · Jul 22, 2014

One more, I've been saving them up, ha ha! How are the tinkers and lemon peel behaving with corals?

TUSI · Jul 22, 2014

Love your tank. Just amazing. Watched the video and it looks like there is a egg crate separating two sides. Is that correct ?

Mike&Terry · Jul 22, 2014

Aquaph8 said:
I see some new guys. I spotted a semifasciatus pair and a Choati, :), how are the other leopards with her, especially the Kuiteri?

Was there some egg crate separating someone?

Good eyes, Brett! There is a trio of semifasciatus (large male and 2 females) and of course the tiny Choati female. We lost our M. kuiteri a few months back (old age) - he had been in captivity for 5.5 years. The two female M. bipartitus leopard wrasses were calm while she was in the acclimation box for a week, but went crazy with chasing and stalking once she was released. We were ready to pull the 2 females out when the male M. bipartitus decided he had had enough. He started guarding the choat's and went after the two females with a vengeance and put them in their place. All are getting along swimmingly now.

Aquaph8 said:
One more, I've been saving them up, ha ha! How are the tinkers and lemon peel behaving with corals?

And to answer your question about the partition, We put it in last night to help us remove the C. flavissima (AKA Coral-Muncher) - and not just any coral, no siree, just high-end acropora, LOL! Anyway, she was on the right side of the tank when the lights went out last night. Imagine my surprise when I woke up to her greeting me on the left side of the tank this morning, grrrrhhhhh...

Anyway, she has become increasingly worrisome since we lost our extra large and "in charge" male Bellus as she is now able to "park" and take her time perusing the all-day-coral buffet.

-Terry

Mike&Terry · Jul 22, 2014

TUSI said:
Love your tank. Just amazing. Watched the video and it looks like there is a egg crate separating two sides. Is that correct ?

Thank You! And yes, there is a temporary egg crate partition in there. :bigsmile:

Aquaph8 · Jul 22, 2014

Sorry to hear about the kuiteri, the tank is looking amazing as always. Good luck catching the little monster!

Mike&Terry · Jul 22, 2014

Aquaph8 said:
Sorry to hear about the kuiteri, the tank is looking amazing as always. Good luck catching the little monster!

I was thankful that I was able to pull the kuiteri out of the display before his demise so that the cleanup crew couldn't get to him. I knew he was on borrowed time, but it was still hard to lose him.

As for our little "monster", we need all the luck we can get, LOL! We had to move quite a few acros to the frag tank to keep them safe, LOL.

Mike&Terry · Jul 25, 2014

WOOT, WOOT! The C. flavissima is finally out of the tank! :dance:

The partition helped, but we still had to pull out most of the rock work on the left side. Rock is back in place, gonna take a while to get the corals back in and arranged, but life is good! :bigsmile:

zibba · Jul 25, 2014

Phew! Sounds like quite the project to get that guy out of there! All is good now...

Mike&Terry · Jul 25, 2014

Yes, it was quite the ordeal. I suppose on a positive note, it has provided us with an opportunity to make some changes to the rock work on the left side.

Excuse the poor quality iPhone pic, but here's where we are:

Now to just get the corals moved back over. :bigsmile:

prsnlty · Jul 25, 2014

The tank looks simply amazing!

underwaterfirefighter · Jul 25, 2014

Amazing as usual! I never get tired of your reef!

Mike&Terry · Jul 26, 2014

prsnlty said:
The tank looks simply amazing!

underwaterfirefighter said:
Amazing as usual! I never get tired of your reef!

Thank You Jackie and Dave! We appreciate the kind words!

Once we finish up with the rock work and get the corals moved back in, we'll take some pics and shoot another video update of the entire tank. :bigsmile:

jkirk · Jul 26, 2014

Just read through your whole thread from start to finish, quite the amazing journey so far!

Laser · Jul 26, 2014

Amazing tank and coral growth you have achieved in 3 years! Great job..:israel:

Vw reef · Jul 26, 2014

It has been awhile since I checked in on this thread and I have to saw wow this tank has come a long way. Great work guys. Truly inspirational. Can't wait for my new tank to come in.

Defect · Jul 26, 2014

Just looked through the thread. Great looking tank. One of these days I will get a nice size tank.......as soon as I am out of SF! Thanks fr sharing.

Mike&Terry · Jul 28, 2014

jkirk said:
Just read through your whole thread from start to finish, quite the amazing journey so far!

We've definitely had some ups and downs, but we just try to take it one day at a time... Thanks so much for taking the time to read and post in our thread - very much appreciated!

Laser said:
Amazing tank and coral growth you have achieved in 3 years! Great job..:israel:

Thank You!

Defect said:
Just looked through the thread. Great looking tank. One of these days I will get a nice size tank.......as soon as I am out of SF! Thanks fr sharing.

Thanks so much for the compliment and for taking the time to post in our thread!

Mike&Terry · Jul 28, 2014

Vw reef said:
It has been awhile since I checked in on this thread and I have to saw wow this tank has come a long way. Great work guys. Truly inspirational. Can't wait for my new tank to come in.

Thanks so much for the kind words! Have you started a build thread for your new tank?

Winschuc · Aug 4, 2014

Tank looks amazing! How are the 52's working out, any issues so far with spread/intensity? I'm looking at putting a 300dd together soon and was hoping the 52's would cover it.