Sloooowing down

I've made a LOT of changes over the past 2 weeks and after my Xenia comes in today I'm going to stop, sit back and let everything just happen. I'm happy with my frags and fish so now everything just needs to grow. I'm also having Alk and Calcium issues so I'm working on that too.


Let's start off with the bad news... here were my WAY cute pink zoos when I first got them.


A week later.

Last night *sobs*

Green Star Rock

My Monti

Ye'ole Orange zoos, they have never thrived but stick around.

Purple mushrooms and my growing Kenya Tree

My tongue.. I love that coral. He was in pretty bad shape when I got him but he's perking up. Also a shot of my dragon goby (no name yet).

"WHAT??" hehe, my Royal Gramma

Some sick candy canes last week.

All better last night!

Orange Digita

Baby Frog Spawn


Fish shot!

Soo... fish wise

2 Clowns : Hercules and Little Mermaid

2 Green Chromis : Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Foxface : Belle

Dragon Goby : No Name Yet

Hippo Tang : No Name Yet but it will NOT be Dori

Lawnmower Blenny : Rocky

Coral

Frogspawn frag

Mushroom Rock

Kenya Tree Frag

Candy Cane Frag

Tongue Coral

Orange Digita

Sun Coral Frag

Monti (too small to tell if it's a cap or encrusting)

Ricordea (rainbow, blue and green)

Green Star Polyp Rock

Orange Zoos

More Coral

I found a killer deal on coral last night! Just tinsy frags but someday.. maybe... they'll be big. That takes me to 10 coral frags and one full-sized coral (my tongue).

First up is my sun coral, it hasn't opened up yet but neither has my tongue...




Then my new favorite, a pink zoo! These are some hard-to find zoos but I happened to be in the fish store when a piece broke off of their colony so they sold it to me for $12! This picture doesn't show the pink well but they really are a very pretty pink.



Still hiding... she's eating though so that's a plus..

Holy Diatoms!

The new tank is going on 9 days old.. so far doing well except for one HUGE diatom bloom. I'm thinking it's because of the new sand I mixed in with the live sand because the move to my 90 didn't cause a diatom issue.

Up first is my emerald crab! Yes I have a red emerald crab.. don't ask.. anyway she's doing great!



This is my new foxface... I tried to assure him that NO ONE could see him there, he was safe! He's the worlds whimpies fish... the second I walk by the tank he loses his color, splotches up and falls "dead" to the sand. Here he's left the sand but is still splotchy.

I got my tongue coral! Yay! I've wanted one for a LONG time. The angle is weird because of an algae issue on the glass... I'll clean it as soon as the foxface quits playing dead. The coral hasn't opened up yet, it's still pretty closed up.

Here he is with color! He's gorgeous isn't he? He will be a sweet fish too, they are very docile except for when they put up their back fins and poke you... that'd be a poison similar to a bee sting but 5 times strong... but other than that he's sweet!

It's up!

Here's mid-setup, I'm not going step-by-step on this one... I just did that 2 weeks ago.


I did have this tank drilled twice.


My gorgeous Rocky in his new home... took him a while but he's finally off to find a new home.


A rare glimpse at my starfish, she's always hidden deep under a rock.

Poor guys, relocated three times in 2 weeks, they have spent the last 2 days crammed into the 10 gallon QT.


He's looking desperately for algae... give me time, I'll have a ton I'm sure.


Didn't take the "Mouth" long to open up.


I isolated out my GSP rock so it can grow all it wants and can't spread.. the other GSP is going to get pulled off it's rock and put on this one. It hasn't opened up yet.



My Candy Canes are TICKED! I did notice that they are growing a new head, not sure if it made it through the move though... this was a rough move.



Frogspawn are looking good, not opened all the way but still good color.


In the middle of the night my Zoo frag got dumped over onto it's polyps.. it's had the hardest life!


Digita looking great, that is one HARDY coral.


Kenya Tree is pouting today, he's hard to see.. purple rock.. purple coral.


My newest addition, a rainbow ricordea.. it looks green but "should" grow more colors as it gets bigger.


The other new addition, a blue ricordea.


Full tank shot.



Right side.


Center


Left Side.

Someone stop me!!!

*sigh* Yes I know that I got a new fish tank 2 weeks ago... yes I know everything just got settled and happy again... yes I know how I just promised good friends that I'd leave my tank alone... BUT I'm upgrading to a 125 gallon tank now.

Here are pictures of the tank in the home of the owner, we're swapping them today. All the new tank needs is some laminate on the front of the hood. It's also going to be drilled so no overflow box, yay.

The new setup comes with the tank, stand, hood and 250W Metal Halides so I'll be all set! My old 55 gallon tank is going to be the new sump for the 125 gallon.. that's a LOT of water.

Just noticed... good thing I still have paint, I'll need to paint the back of this one too. My old 90 gallon is going to be a new Seahorse tank for the original owner of the 125.