Playa's Reef

[dgasmd]

Dude, you got 40 green chromis??? That must be the largest school I have ever seen regardless of tank size. With all your other fish combined, you ahve a huge bioload now. They do look great though.

I was going to have a large school of anthias the next time around, but given their cost and their constant need for attention and frequent feeding, I may end up going with the chromis. I'll out do you and get 50

[dgasmd]

By the way, you guys need to start a new thread for this. This one has like over 300 replies and way too many pages to go through already

[VINA DEL MAR]

Luis!! That last picture looks like the real reef!I'm taking my scuba gear to your house and jump right in!!
Have the towels ready please!!

VINA

PS.Please move the Zoos I'm planning to do a deep dive!!

[Craig Manoukian]

BGCs are some of the best schooling fish you will find! very active and reef safe. Mine aren't the least bit aggressive and they are a scream to watch play "chase".

[Playa]

Hi Alberto, funny thing is that they had exactly 50 of them in the store today and I almost got them all:-)

I have in my reef as of today:

INVERTS

2 Blood Red Fire Shrimp
2 Mated Gold Banded Coral Shrimp(Female with eggs)
2 Scarlett Skunk Cleaner Shrimp(female with eggs)
1 White Spot Anemone Shrimp.
2 Pepermint Shrimp
1 Fancy banded Brittle Starfish
1 Blue Linckia Starfish
1 Purple Linckia Starfish
3 Orange Linckia Starfish
5 Assorted Marble starfish
1 Red and Black Sea Starfish
1 Burgundy Sea Starfish
2 Coco Warms
3 Sea Hare Slugs
1- 12" Derasa Clam
1- 8" Squamosa Clam
1- 5" Crocea Clam
Dozens of blue legged crabs and Lefties
Dozens of Turbo Snails


FISH

40 Very small Blue Green Reef Chromis
1 Hawaian Flame Wrasse
1 Orange Back Wrasse
1 Purple Square Anthias(best looking fish in the reef)
1 Flame Angel
1 Redsea Sailfin Tang
1 Mimic Tang
1 Small Green Clown Goby
2 Neon blue Goby
2 Neon Gold Goby
1 Rainford's Goby
2 Scooter Blennies(the most fun to watch fish in the reef)

I got a fish trap today and I will try to evacuate these fish for various reasons(mostly for being naughty with corals)

1 Mimic Tang
1 Red Sailfin Tang
1 Flame Angel(watching this guy is like watching a Rose Anemone)

Joe:-) Hey my wife told me tonight she would give me some money to take some Diving lessons if I lose certain weight by the end of April.( I might need some help finding a place if I lose the weight)

And here is my ASM G4 rated for 450 gallons hard at work after it was cleaned 3 days ago. I took this picture 30 minutes ago.

[dgasmd]

Luis:

That is a lot of fish! Glad to see you are removing some of the larger ones becasue I can guarantee you 3 months down the road you would have been unhappy.

2 Blood Red Fire Shrimp
2 Mated Gold Banded Coral Shrimp(Female with eggs)
2 Scarlett Skunk Cleaner Shrimp(female with eggs)
1 White Spot Anemone Shrimp.
2 Pepermint Shrimp

As far as you shrimps. Do you realize that from the list above you are likely to only have 2 by 6 months? Those are the coral banded ones. They are not only opportunistic feeders, but they are extremely aggressive to other shrimps. You might get lucky and they won't bother the others, but for a lot of people theytunr very aggressive to the other shrimps and kill them once they get very stablished and start maturing as a mated pair. I hope that is not the case for you.

Corals look gorgeous!!!!!!!
You certainly have lots of starfish. You ahve twice as many as I know people that have even one

[Playa]

Alberto thanx for the heads up with the Shrimp. I hope that will not be the case, but if it happens(not much I can do now)I hope 180 gallons is enough for all of them to get along.

I have had the 2 pepermints for a long long time.

The fire Shrimp and the Cleaners are pretty large. Lets hope they at least put up a good fight:-)

[Craig Manoukian]

Fabulous as always Luis!

[tankgirl]

Luis, that's awesome about the diving lessons! I always heard that chromis lose the blue color as they get older - have you heard that?
The G4 pic was super!

What are your tangs and angel picking on? Hopefully not clams!!!
My tangs were pecking at a pagoda (turbinaria), that I finally moved out of the big tank, but otherwise they've been good.

[Craig Manoukian]

My BGCs have not lost their color. I've had them almost two years and they have grown quite a bit. I've seen 5" specimens at the LFS that have good coloration but are more on the green side. The blue is latent and intensifies in the light intermittantly as the fish move in the water column.

[Playa]

tg I guess I never owned or seen an old Green Blue Chromis. I never seen them fading in color. The tangs are picking on various corals and the Sailfin is the terror of the reef. I dont see much Algea, so maybe this is why. I feed them plenty, if you dont believe me just look at the Skimmer:-)

Craig thanx for interacting.:-)Appreciate your comments.

[Craig Manoukian]

[dgasmd]

I had never heard of the fading color either. I have some that are 1.5 years and they have the same color. A buddy of mine has 6 large ones in his tank and he has had them for over 6 years. They look the same color as mine do.

[Craig Manoukian]

Coloration is dependent on diet and health, good colors mean good animal husbandry! Congrats Alberto!

[mnreefman]

omg that school is just awsome..... playa excelent addition!!!!!!