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08-05-2006, 09:40 PM
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Sailfin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Noblesville, Indiana
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After several years... New Fish! (photos)
If you saw my posts recently in the BB / Substrate-free forum, then you know we re-did our entire 120-gal reef and now have no plenum, no sand, and 1/2" starboard instead. We love it!!
Here's the tank, taken a couple days ago, 1 week post-setup, 50% same water:
Supports in the back
Fish: After being told by a reputable manager at a reputable shop that these filefish were reef safe... I read in Vol I Reef Fishes that they are not... they aren't messing with anything, and the Longnose is eating very well. He was eating well in the shop for the past couple weeks. Hope these fish will work out OK. So far so good.
Blacksaddle Mimic Filefish
Longnose Filefish
Coral Beauty
And his "face"
Our Pacific Regal Tang -- about 7 yrs here:
We had a LARGE Damsel fish... and spent 45 minutes netting him... he was captured while chasing after the Coral Beauty. He lives in someone else's tank now. He looks similar to the Princess Damselfish.
We also added two peppermint shrimp and one blood shrimp.
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08-05-2006, 09:43 PM
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Milkshake Man
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SW Florida
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Awesome pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim
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08-05-2006, 09:50 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Great pics!
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08-05-2006, 09:58 PM
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Sailfin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Noblesville, Indiana
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Thank you! 
Has anyone else kept filefish?
Oh, and the wonderful cleanup crew came from Keys Critters! They all arrived in perfect shape and went right to work!  |
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08-05-2006, 10:03 PM
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Sailfin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Noblesville, Indiana
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Here's a shot of the two perculas at the surface. They've been laying eggs together in the yellow polyps for a couple three or four years now. This was taken under the actinics - the halides on that side had already turned off for the night.
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08-05-2006, 10:11 PM
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Birthday tracker
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Spartanburg, SC USA
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Shirley!! It's great to see you here in GRD. Love the way your tank looks 
Nice photo of the 2 percs
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08-05-2006, 10:14 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Looks great Shirley
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08-05-2006, 10:18 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Louisiana
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Shirley your tank looks great and I am glad to see You went BB. I think You will like it, I don't know about the file fish, Can't help you on that.
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08-05-2006, 10:22 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Shirley is the longnose file fish eating,I heard they are very hard to keep sorry.
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08-05-2006, 10:59 PM
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Duper Mod !
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Illinois
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Great fish and pictures !
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08-05-2006, 11:35 PM
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Noo Doot Aboot It!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Prince George
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Awesome Shirley |
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08-05-2006, 11:41 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NW Indiana
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Lookin Good Shirley!
(And my new additions to my tank, from yours, are still doing great,,and act like they could eat every hr, on the hr,,,,   .They DO get fed prob three times a day now,,,
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08-06-2006, 02:09 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Oregon
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beautiful tank..... im jealous!!!  |
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08-06-2006, 02:13 AM
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ONE VERY BIG FISHY
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Kennesaw, GA
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that one "filefish" looks more like a valentini puffer to me. and to my knowledge valentini puffers are coral safe but will eat inverts
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08-06-2006, 04:44 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: new york city
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GREAT shots! I want my tank to look like that someday! I would LOVE to have a puffer but thought they weren't reef safe. Please let me know how your puffer works out?
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plenum system
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