Rebirth

Alex Costa · Jul 27, 2018

Golden head goby working

My yellow coris swims side by side with the goby, hunting any food that the goby misses

Alex Costa · Jul 27, 2018

Photos of the month

Front view

Side view

Alex Costa · Jul 27, 2018

Small Island

Alex Costa · Jul 27, 2018

Big Island

SPR1968 · Jul 27, 2018

Are you sure there is actually water in there Alex, it’s so clear ! Lol

Beautiful......

Alex Costa · Jul 28, 2018

SPR1968 said:
Are you sure there is actually water in there Alex, it’s so clear ! Lol

Beautiful......

Hi Shaun!
Last time I put my arm in it, I got wet so...............I think there is......
:D:D:D

Janci · Jul 28, 2018

Another set of great pictures.
I love the sand goby. Amazing detail.

chefjpaul · Jul 28, 2018

Such an stunning tank

Alex Costa · Jul 28, 2018

Janci said:
Another set of great pictures.
I love the sand goby. Amazing detail.

That's a nice, but messy, fish.........

chefjpaul said:
Such an stunning tank

Thanks!

Alex Costa · Aug 2, 2018

Today I found another Green Chromis dead.
Now only 6 of the new small ones are alive.
Untill now my experience is prooving to be a big bummer....

Janci · Aug 2, 2018

Alex Costa said:
Today I found another Green Chromis dead.
Now only 6 of the new small ones are alive.
Untill now my experience is prooving to be a big bummer....

Those seems to be hit or miss.
Sorry for the loss

Alex Costa · Aug 9, 2018

Janci said:
Those seems to be hit or miss.
Sorry for the loss

Yes...that's right.
In my case, they were a biiiiiiig miss...........:(:(:(

Alex Costa · Aug 9, 2018

Some Updates:

- Only 2 Chromis remain from the group of 15. Counting the old ones there are now 5 in the tank.

- To balance, I ended up getting some fish (8 in total) that I wanted with the Eco-Reef Ornamentals.
I took another pseudochromis sankeyi, to pair with my old one and probably to form a couple.
Also I got 2 fridmaniis, 1 Springerii and 4 gobys: 2 neons and 2 tigers.
None of them are fishes of open spaces.
The pseudochromis were allocated on the big island. All 5 are there and they're doing quite well together.
The neons are still a little lost ..... near the front glass, in the corner. I hope they meet a spot soon and move from there to some point on the rocks. I had a couple once and the behavior was pretty cool.
The tigers disappeared when they arrived and I still can not locate any of the 2 ...... Inconvenient of a tank too big ....
They are very small and almost transparent fish. I knew the chance of this happening was enormous but I wanted to risk it anyway because I think they are very interesting. I hope they'll get out of hiding and start moving around the tank. I know they have a behavior similar to neon gobies.
Despite this general demeanor, I got what I wanted that was to take a bustling in the tank, and create other points of attention.

- I sold almost in sequence my colonies of milepora eletric green, tortuosa turquoise and yongei green.
They were too big and too difficult to fit into the layout. As one of my goals is to deviate from the original layout as little as possible, I preferred to sell them. But I kept frags of the yongei and the millepora and they're still in tank.
In contrast, I add new frags of chalice, lepastastrea and one of the last sps that must come: a purple solitariensis with very beautiful green tips.

No other significant loss or any other big change.
Now it's time to leave the tank quiet about 2 or 3 months ...