Minh's 320 reef - Page 21

OrionN · 03/25/2017, 05:48 AM

My Baby Regal and my Blue Gigantea are doing well. Here are some pictures of them both. The Baby Regal is getting gaining weigh, eating well, and the Gigantea is also eating well.

OrionN · 04/17/2017, 04:52 AM

Here is a picture of my blue Gigantea after about 6 weeks under my care. Using iPhone, first picture without color adjustment. Second on have white balance adjusted when I took the picture. Under Radion G3 Pro at 100%. No edited other than resized.

reefmutt · 04/17/2017, 02:24 PM

Beautiful fish AND anemone!
They both look like they are very healthy

AquaTDV · 04/17/2017, 02:45 PM

Truly magnificent specimen Mihn!! How is the Gigas clam doing?

OrionN · 04/17/2017, 02:46 PM

I don't know what happened. Did not mean to have all the same pic repeated

bagedtaco · 04/18/2017, 01:24 PM

Doc. We need to catch up. I'v been mia in reefing and just getting back in. I sent you a PM

Troy

OrionN · 05/29/2017, 01:47 PM

Pictures today
My Red Planet

My red Goniopora

My Purple tipped Magnifica

OrionN · 06/11/2017, 08:07 AM

I sometime grow my SPS on a string. Here is documentation of the growth of my Red Planet. Once it is big, it is such an eye sore, I have to take it down. Here are pictures from 10/5/2016, 10/22/2016 and 5/29/2017

10/5/2016. The largest dimension is about 3-4 inches if I remember correctly

10/22/2016

5/29/2017. The colony is about 8 inches in diameter.

The knob in the middle of the last picture was where the sting attached. The colony would have been rounder and more even flow, but it was touching other coral when it was hanging. Once I put them on the rock, it was stung by the Magnifica next to it. It is recovering very well and should be rounder in a month or so.

JonezNReef · 06/11/2017, 09:57 AM

That's really cool. I like how round the colony is especially with a tabling acro. I'm going to try this now. Thanks for sharing

OrionN · 06/11/2017, 02:18 PM

A beutiful pest.
This Borneman anemone, AKA Phymanthus buitendijki, is a very beautiful anemone. I used to love it until it take over my reef after 14 years.

One of them

A group of them are not so nice. Kill everything they come in contact with very quickly.

OrionN · 06/15/2017, 05:35 AM

My purple Gigantea with his Anemone crab pair

My Petco Green Gigantea top down shot since I can not get a good picture of this one from the front

reefmutt · 06/16/2017, 11:49 AM

The blue is amazing on that gigantia. Love the pair of crabs.

OrionN · 06/19/2017, 09:08 PM

reefmutt · 06/20/2017, 08:31 AM

Cool shot.
I love how snuggled in that female is.

reefzone123 · 06/25/2017, 08:13 PM

your clams are truly remarkable. prized beauties.

OrionN · 07/03/2017, 06:50 AM

Thanks guys (and gals)

After 5+ years together, both started as less than 1.5 inches, my Purple tang start to beat up my Yellow tang. Tail fin tattered on both fish and the L spike of the yellow tang injured. The Yellow tang was force to go into the rock work. Every time he show his face the Purple would dash over and chase him back into the rock. Both fish were very healthy and fat before all of this started last week.
After observing for 1 week and see that this is not going to stop, I set out my fish trap and got the Purple tang and put him into my Frag tank, (40 gal breeder). This is where he will be until I decide what to do next. I think I can easily trap my Yellow tang.
I really love both of these tangs, and it is hard for me to decide which of these tang to re-home. Why can't they just get along.

OrionN · 07/03/2017, 06:55 AM

With all the natural anemone hosts I have in my tank, my female A. percula, a tank bred fish, choose my M. doreensis as her host. I have multiple S. gigantea and H. magnifica in the tank as you guys know.

I really find that it is strange that she spend 90%+ of her time in my Red Doreensis instead of other anemones.

OrionN · 07/19/2017, 11:20 PM

Took a video of my anemones yesterday

ManhattanReef · 07/20/2017, 07:47 AM

never saw anyone grow SPS on a string, but the results are amazing!! Great idea!

JonezNReef · 07/20/2017, 09:04 AM

Nice Video! Your Nems look awesome and super happy!!

OrionN · 07/20/2017, 08:18 PM

My Magnifica split naturally last night. Picture first thing this morning. He did look off the last few days with somewhat open mouth.

OrionN · 07/25/2017, 06:10 PM

I trapped the Purple tang out and put him in my Frag tank (40 gal breeder). He is a little cramped in there but is eating well. Got really full from the algae in that tank. The yellow tang all healed. I have to decide which fish to keep and which to re-home.
I also trap my largest Regal angel out and put him into my sump. The sump is a lighted 100 gal rubber maid tub full of LR and Macro algae. He is doing great there together with 6 A. percula.
I released my baby Regal into the DT. She is small, even smaller than the three Flame Angels. All the angels are picking on her. She is hold up in the LR on the L corner of the tank. I have to hand feed her there twice a day. She is a little scratch up but eating well and after initial weight loss, start to regain her weight. I think after several months she will be able to move freely around the DT. I used similar strategy when I added a Powder brown tank into my tank with a resident Power Blue tang. It works well then, I think it is going to work well now. I will stop target feed him once I see that he move freely around the tank.

OrionN · 07/25/2017, 09:23 PM

Video of my Flame Angels spawned tonight:

RIGUY314 · 07/26/2017, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OrionN

Video of my Flame Angels spawned tonight:

very cool. are you going to try and raise them?

saf1 · 07/26/2017, 06:13 PM

How old is the clam and what type? Impressive.

03/25/2017, 05:48 AM	#501
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	My Baby Regal and my Blue Gigantea are doing well. Here are some pictures of them both. The Baby Regal is getting gaining weigh, eating well, and the Gigantea is also eating well. __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

04/17/2017, 04:52 AM	#502
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	Here is a picture of my blue Gigantea after about 6 weeks under my care. Using iPhone, first picture without color adjustment. Second on have white balance adjusted when I took the picture. Under Radion G3 Pro at 100%. No edited other than resized. __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

04/17/2017, 02:24 PM	#503
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Beautiful fish AND anemone! They both look like they are very healthy __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

04/17/2017, 02:45 PM	#504
AquaTDV Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: San Antonio TX Posts: 286	Truly magnificent specimen Mihn!! How is the Gigas clam doing? __________________ Troy V Current Tank Info: 240 MIXED REEF/60 PLASMA/LED SOFTY

04/17/2017, 02:46 PM	#505
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	I don't know what happened. Did not mean to have all the same pic repeated __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

04/18/2017, 01:24 PM	#506
bagedtaco Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: CC to Houston, Tx Posts: 277	Doc. We need to catch up. I'v been mia in reefing and just getting back in. I sent you a PM Troy

06/11/2017, 08:07 AM	#508
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	I sometime grow my SPS on a string. Here is documentation of the growth of my Red Planet. Once it is big, it is such an eye sore, I have to take it down. Here are pictures from 10/5/2016, 10/22/2016 and 5/29/2017 10/5/2016. The largest dimension is about 3-4 inches if I remember correctly 10/22/2016 5/29/2017. The colony is about 8 inches in diameter. The knob in the middle of the last picture was where the sting attached. The colony would have been rounder and more even flow, but it was touching other coral when it was hanging. Once I put them on the rock, it was stung by the Magnifica next to it. It is recovering very well and should be rounder in a month or so. __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

06/11/2017, 09:57 AM	#509
JonezNReef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Florida Posts: 782	That's really cool. I like how round the colony is especially with a tabling acro. I'm going to try this now. Thanks for sharing __________________ "I chop up animals and glue them to rocks" Current Tank Info: System 1 Mixed Reef: 180g DT,180g Fuge, 120g Sump http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2611735

06/16/2017, 11:49 AM	#512
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	The blue is amazing on that gigantia. Love the pair of crabs. __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

06/20/2017, 08:31 AM	#514
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Cool shot. I love how snuggled in that female is. __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

06/25/2017, 08:13 PM	#515
reefzone123 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 194	your clams are truly remarkable. prized beauties.

07/03/2017, 06:50 AM	#516
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	Thanks guys (and gals) After 5+ years together, both started as less than 1.5 inches, my Purple tang start to beat up my Yellow tang. Tail fin tattered on both fish and the L spike of the yellow tang injured. The Yellow tang was force to go into the rock work. Every time he show his face the Purple would dash over and chase him back into the rock. Both fish were very healthy and fat before all of this started last week. After observing for 1 week and see that this is not going to stop, I set out my fish trap and got the Purple tang and put him into my Frag tank, (40 gal breeder). This is where he will be until I decide what to do next. I think I can easily trap my Yellow tang. I really love both of these tangs, and it is hard for me to decide which of these tang to re-home. Why can't they just get along. __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

07/03/2017, 06:55 AM	#517
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	With all the natural anemone hosts I have in my tank, my female A. percula, a tank bred fish, choose my M. doreensis as her host. I have multiple S. gigantea and H. magnifica in the tank as you guys know. I really find that it is strange that she spend 90%+ of her time in my Red Doreensis instead of other anemones. __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

07/19/2017, 11:20 PM	#518
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	Took a video of my anemones yesterday __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

07/20/2017, 07:47 AM	#519
ManhattanReef Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 9	never saw anyone grow SPS on a string, but the results are amazing!! Great idea!

07/20/2017, 09:04 AM	#520
JonezNReef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Florida Posts: 782	Nice Video! Your Nems look awesome and super happy!! __________________ "I chop up animals and glue them to rocks" Current Tank Info: System 1 Mixed Reef: 180g DT,180g Fuge, 120g Sump http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2611735

07/25/2017, 06:10 PM	#522
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	I trapped the Purple tang out and put him in my Frag tank (40 gal breeder). He is a little cramped in there but is eating well. Got really full from the algae in that tank. The yellow tang all healed. I have to decide which fish to keep and which to re-home. I also trap my largest Regal angel out and put him into my sump. The sump is a lighted 100 gal rubber maid tub full of LR and Macro algae. He is doing great there together with 6 A. percula. I released my baby Regal into the DT. She is small, even smaller than the three Flame Angels. All the angels are picking on her. She is hold up in the LR on the L corner of the tank. I have to hand feed her there twice a day. She is a little scratch up but eating well and after initial weight loss, start to regain her weight. I think after several months she will be able to move freely around the DT. I used similar strategy when I added a Powder brown tank into my tank with a resident Power Blue tang. It works well then, I think it is going to work well now. I will stop target feed him once I see that he move freely around the tank. __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

07/25/2017, 09:23 PM	#523
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	Video of my Flame Angels spawned tonight: __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

07/26/2017, 06:13 PM	#525
saf1 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: California Posts: 2,259	How old is the clam and what type? Impressive. __________________ -saf1 Current Tank Info: 210 gallon mixed reef