yeah, I am back, sorry I haven't been around much... as the mods can attest, I am working some insane hours... I have tome to read up on a lot of what goes on here, just not post in it.
A little about the tank, there are two pj cardinals in it right now, but they are soon to go, I am finding I care more about the invertebrate population than the fish, and they were temporary place holders, as I wanted either a pair of maroon clowns, or a black pair of perculas (maroons are mean and very territorial, perculas are nicer, the bonus of hte maroon is that it naturally hosts in the anemone I have on back order (A purple tip rose buble anemone, captive bread). THe PJ's have decimated my population of copepods and amphipods... one bonus, in their place i have tons of mini-stars, bristle worms, and other little goodies.
The tank is currently a 30 gallon hexagon with about 40 lbs of lalo and tonga live rock. FIltration consists of one Magnum 350 running carbon, cleaned 2 times a week (I don't want it for mechanical filtration, I only want the carbon, but you take what you get!
) and a remora pro w/mag 3 for a protien skimmer. THey keep the water crystal clear.
lighting is described in an earlier post. for flow, I am now using a sqwd on a small pump (SQWD's flip outlet of water to make 'wave action'.)
The new tank will be a 115 gallon cube tank, w/ a 4 port Oceans motions on a closed loop for wave action, a custom built sump, refugium, skimmer and calcium reactor from a talented fella in my local aquarium society.
Aaron, thanks for the ID, i had that written down but lost it on the way home from the hobbyist I got the frags from, I just got in contact with him yesterday and got the ids, though I had no idea the hydnopora had sweepers! Glad I posted, I will be sure to keep everything away. I have allready put my anemone on hold, as I think he would have a hard time navigating the small tank full of corals allready... gonna wait to have him shipped when the 115 comes on line.
Oh, and other inverts in the tank would be:
Amphipods and Copepods (not observed in months, but pretty hard to get rid of!
)
Mini-brittle and mini-sea stars
3 different kinds of bristleworms
I have a ton of little sessile mollusks that spit out mucous, catch stuff, and haul it back in... I forget their names...
about 5 Dwarf Zebra hermits, and one emerald mithrax (also soon to go, I have decided to do only indo-pacific species)
And various Trochus, Tongan Super Nassarius snails, and one turbo that I for the life of me can't figure out how he got in my tank (probably came on a coral, live rock is all indo pacific, as is the sand)
I also have some keyhole limpets I am watching with a wary eye, but so far, they are behaving.