Ohh yeah. He is top notch.That's going to be f in nuts!
Joe's a good guy and will definitely do it right!
Also, that guy is no good. You never eat the yellow ones. All other colors, but never yellow lol.
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Also, that guy is no good. You never eat the yellow ones. All other colors, but never yellow lol.
I'm not allowed at the adult table any more.. np Lagoons in this desert 
That Torch collection always makes me drool!OK update time, thanks for the reminder @Lost in the Sauce
The lagoon is going through its dirty phases but the Lone Duncan that started as 1 has 4 solid heads and 2 more starting.
We added 3 fish total so far to it and they are all getting along fabulously. Achilles, koi tang, and a maculiceps. We are thinking of adding 5 or 6 anthias next.
The hard part about picking fish is there will be no lid so jumpers may and will happen. So we are going to limit the jumpers if we can. Anthias have been known to jump but hopefully the school of them will limit the fright and darting.
Added 100 gallons to the mixing station so we have 200g on hand all the time.
Also built a controller board for everything and to hide the front of the sump.
I also drilled holes in the floor and ran wires under the floor to the center of the room where the controller board goes. Everything will be nice and tiddy soon...which makes Brit happy
I'm no contractor but it will work
The seahorse tank is coming right along.
The horses already mate and are trying to exchange babies, they fail and fall to the ground and the red scrooters and snails eat them. They are clumsy at it now but practice makes perfect
The pair of red scooters are also mating and doing their dance, which is cool to watch.
We keep that tank 70-72 degrees and only have some gorgonia and gsp in it, but everything looks happy.
The 220 is hummin along, never perfect but no major issue, knock on wood.
Our biggest issue right now is over crowding. I do feel like a tank reaches a certain bio load and then things get happy. I believe we are finding that sweet spot.
I'm going to add reefbrites to the 220 this week and then a calcium reactor eventually. We are going through a gallon of kalkwasser a day on heavy mix and dosing 100ish mag and 20ish alk daily or so. It does vary but I'm thinking a calcium reactor may help.
Ed that built us the sump had a GEO reactor setup laying around so he let us have it.
I'm nervous to set it up, I've heard people crash their tanks with them so I may start it on the lagoon where there is only 1 coral.
OK enough rambling......here are the pics!!!
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The tank of envy. Love the coral setup.
Be careful merkey.
The anti aquilonastra group would cry in pure panic if they saw these guys.
I love those little starfish. Poor fellows get such a bad rep.
Be careful merkey.
The anti aquilonastra group would cry in pure panic if they saw these guys.
I love those little starfish. Poor fellows get such a bad rep.
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They are unlucky as they get eaten by the pair of harlequinsThe tank of envy. Love the coral setup.
Be careful merkey.
The anti aquilonastra group would cry in pure panic if they saw these guys.
I love those little starfish. Poor fellows get such a bad rep.
however we have spoiled the Harleys with chocolate stars so some of the aquilons get pretty big. Here's one I found in our sump...Which are then taken out and moved over to the seahorse tank where we have 1 harley that keeps them out of that tank.
The start will actually crawl onto the seahorses and start eating them
Goaway
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At least they are useful as food. I don't have a good population of them. My wrasse probably ate all he could find. I'll see how much the pop grows with him gone.They are unlucky as they get eaten by the pair of harlequins
Which are then taken out and moved over to the seahorse tank where we have 1 harley that keeps them out of that tank.
The start will actually crawl onto the seahorses and start eating them
I do love the torch garden.
They also had a good reputation at my house for being carpet foodThe tank of envy. Love the coral setup.
Be careful merkey.
The anti aquilonastra group would cry in pure panic if they saw these guys.
I love those little starfish. Poor fellows get such a bad rep
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This means they are well trained
Earl is well trained also....
Does a single piranha devourer and entire capybara?
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That's insane!Yes! Give it time.
Have you not seen the black piranha size?
Imagine a swarm of them....
A buddy who has a 240, Amazon basin tank brought in some cool albeit dark looking silver dollars.That's insane!
Imagine a swarm of them....
Turns out they were not silver dollars. Not pacu, But some really gnarly aggressive piranhas. 4 of them cleared out north of 60 cichlids in a week..
It was a very expensive learning experience
sfin52
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Black piranhas. Those are the largest species of piranhas and won't play nice. Oof that's a costly learning experience
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