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Looks awesome bro!
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NO! Not the Orange Spotted Blenny! What a cool fish. I'm sorry he's gone.Ouch


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Do you have a photo of the Blue Sympodium? I'm trying to decide whether to get some or not.


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Thanks guys!   I am sad about the Blenny also.  I can't see him in the overflows or in the sump.  He may have traveled to the sump, as he did like to hang out high in the tank by the overflows.  He was doing well, as were the Mandarin and Clown.  The eel may have got them, but there are many smaller easier targets that are fine. I highly doubt it was the shark. 

I don't have a close-up of my blue sympodium. I like it a lot.  Jackie has some also.  Mine looks just like the images you see on the web in a search though. 
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Look through my thread I think I have a pic or two of it and can post another for you Mike, I love it as well.
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Thanks Jackie yours does look cool.


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Updated stock list.

The current stock list is as follows:
Fish

In Display
1 Picasso Clown (male)
2 Phantom Clowns (pair)
2 Pink Skunk Clowns (pair) One sunkist color variation, one standard pink.
1 One Spot Foxface
1 Blue Hippo Tang
1 Blue Caribbean Tang
1 sailfin tang
5 blue green Chromis
1 Bangaii Cardinal
1 Pajama Cardinal
1 Striped Fang Blennies
1 Snowflake Eel
1 Sargassum Trigger (male)
1 Blue Jaw Trigger (female)
1 Matted Filefish (male)
1 Black Banded Cat Shark
1 Rock Beauty Angelfish (female)
1 Flame Angel
2 yellow head wrasse
1 slip**** wrasse
1 red head solon fairy wrasse (female)
1 Melanurus wrasse (female)
1 Christmas wrasse (male) 
1 Dispar Anthias
6 yellow tail Damsels

Inverts

2 skunk cleaner shrimp
1 fire shrimp
1 red brittle star
1 serpent brittle star
1 green brittle star in sump
1 pencil urchin in sump
5 conch
1 decorator crab
1 unknown clam hitchhiker
various crabs and snails.

Inverts/Other

7 RBTA
1 Rainbow BTA
2 GBTA
1 green rock flower anemone
purple gorgonians (5 varieties)
corky finger gorgonian
green lace gorgonian
sea whip gorgonian (3 varieties)
orange sea rod
orange sponge
red finger sponge
Mermaids Shaving brush macro algae
Pine cone algae
Mermaids fan
Blue Maxima Clam

SPS
None. 

LPS
Frogspawn purple tip
Frogspawn green tip
Green Tip Hammer
green/yellow branching goniopora
green goniopora (two varieties)


Softies
blue and green sympodium
green star polyps
sinularia finger leather
purple sinularia
green devils hand
devils hand
sinularia cabbage leather
various zoas/palys (too many to list)
yellow Fiji leather
various orange, red, green, teal, purple and blue mushrooms
pom-pom Xenia
Red Sea Xenia





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New rockwork/tank layout.
 
 
Shark hanging out in the QT pool
 
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Current livestock after all the death and disaster.

The current stock list is as follows:
Fish

In QT

1 Pink Skunk Clown
1 One Spot Foxface
1 Blue Hippo Tang
1 sailfin tang
4 blue green Chromis
1 Snowflake Eel
1 Matted Filefish (male)
1 Black Banded Cat Shark
1 slip**** wrasse
1 Christmas wrasse (male)
4 yellow tail Damsels

Inverts

1 skunk cleaner shrimp
1 fire shrimp
1 red brittle star
1 serpent brittle star
1 green brittle star in sump
1 pencil urchin in sump
3 conch
1 decorator crab
1 unknown clam hitchhiker
various crabs and snails.

Inverts/Other

9 RBTA 
2 Rainbow BTA
2 GBTA
1 green rock flower anemone
purple gorgonians (5 varieties)
corky finger gorgonian
green lace gorgonian
sea whip gorgonian (3 varieties)
orange sea rod
orange sponge
red finger sponge
Mermaids Shaving brush macro algae
Pine cone algae
Mermaids fan
2 Blue Maxima Clams


SPS
None.

LPS
Frogspawn purple tip
Frogspawn green tip
Green Tip Hammer
green/yellow branching goniopora
green goniopora


Softies
blue and green sympodium
green star polyps
sinularia finger leather
purple sinularia
green devils hand
devils hand
sinularia cabbage leather
various zoas/palys (too many to list)
yellow Fiji leather
various orange, red, green, teal, purple and blue mushrooms
pom-pom Xenia
Red Sea Xenia

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Man that's a beautiful shark.
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Originally posted by DMower DMower wrote:

For you photo guys these were all shot with a Sony A850 with 50mm macro lens at f8, 1/200, iso 200.  Three off camera strobes used for lighting making these "daylight" photos. Two lights from above tank with beauty dish modifiers and one to camera right with a 60 inch octobox.  The tank lighting was running at 1% royal blue on the AI sols so this lighting had no effect on the image lighting.  Many of the inhabitants were no shows for the shoot as they fell asleep and did not make an appearance.  I will shoot them another time.
Thank you! being a photographer I was stumped by how you got such up close fine detailed vivid shots. Time to get myself a macro lens and experiment. By the way, beautiful pictures.
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I think the death and destruction is finally over.  This was the most depressing event that I have ever had with fish keeping.  All previous fish died except the snowflake eel and matted filefish.  The banded cat shark jumped out of the pool last Saturday and was out of water for an unknown number of hours.  I put him back in and he held on for two days before dying.

 Take Two begins...  I will be adding to the display again on June 14th. 

The current stock list is as follows:
Fish

In QT
1 Coral Cat Shark, 14 inches
1 Snowflake Eel, 10 inches
1 Matted Filefish (male), 2.5 inches
5 Convict Tangs, 1 inch
1 Blackburn's Butterflyfish
1 Zoster Butterflyfish
1 Pakistan Butterflyfish, 5 inches
1 Foxface Lo
2 Bangaii Cardinalfish (bonded pair)

Inverts
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
1 fire shrimp
1 red brittle star
1 serpent brittle star
1 green brittle star in sump
1 pencil urchin in sump
3 conch
1 decorator crab
1 unknown clam hitchhiker
various crabs and snails.

Inverts/Other

9 RBTA 
2 Rainbow BTA
2 GBTA
1 green rock flower anemone
purple gorgonians (5 varieties)
corky finger gorgonian
green lace gorgonian
sea whip gorgonian (3 varieties)
orange sea rod
orange sponge
red finger sponge
Mermaids Shaving brush macro algae
Pine cone algae
Mermaids fan
2 Blue Maxima Clams


SPS
None.

LPS
Frogspawn purple tip
Frogspawn green tip
Green Tip Hammer
green/yellow branching goniopora
green goniopora


Softies
blue and green sympodium
green star polyps
sinularia finger leather
green sinularia
purple sinularia
green devils hand
devils hand
sinularia cabbage leather
various zoas/palys (too many to list)
yellow Fiji leather
various orange, red, green, teal, purple and blue mushrooms
pom-pom Xenia
Red Sea Xenia



Edited by DMower - June 04 2014 at 8:40pm
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I'm glad you are hanging in there Darren. I can't imagine how tough it would be to keep going.


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