Lemon's tank!

[beaver]

Hi Lemon,

Love ur Avatar..I'm having a bad case of 'Bad Romance' that keeps ringing in my head...

[yikai]

Hi Lemon,

Love ur Avatar..I'm having a bad case of 'Bad Romance' that keeps ringing in my head...

haha. i love my avatar too. the blue hat was designed by fred butler, and is one of my favourite pieces of gaga's.

[yikai]

pipe organs

[yikai]

lobo

[yikai]

are the tentacles suppose to be this stubby? -.-

[yikai]

bored so took some crappy photos

[desideria]

lemon, crappy to you doesn't mean crappy to the rest of us... wait till you see my tank then you will understand the true meaning of crappy.. LOL

[hijackng]

Feel like set up a soft coral tank after seeing yours.

what lighting you using when taking the photo? Very nice, got some spot light effect.

[Underwater]

The leather corner is nice. Makes the tank looks very natural. Hmm, didn't see the copperband, will be nice with it.

[cedricang]

Feel like set up a soft coral tank after seeing yours.

what lighting you using when taking the photo? Very nice, got some spot light effect.

Jack, you just said what i was thinking, haa ! Very nice collection and scaping is so natural and yet artistic imo.

[vt_snowman87]

flame angel and butterflies in a softies tank, with LPS, with anemones! what's next, angels?

[yikai]

hi thanks everyone for the compliments. lighting wise im using 2x blue plus and 2x white. forgot which one already... im not very concerned about lighting... i just know that the bulbs are ATI.

to vt snowman, yes. Since im keeping softies, i dont really care much about "reef safeness" so to speak. although wrasses are my staple livestock, im beginning to deviate towards angels and butterflies now.

im thinking of adding one "small" big angel, but still thinking. They do grow big and i'm not sure if a 3ft tank is suitable for one.

thinking of either a majestic (adult colouration at 2-2.5 inches), asfur (3 inch with adult colours) or a juvenile emperor angel (i like the swirly hypnotic patterns).

[vt_snowman87]

hi thanks everyone for the compliments. lighting wise im using 2x blue plus and 2x white. forgot which one already... im not very concerned about lighting... i just know that the bulbs are ATI.

to vt snowman, yes. Since im keeping softies, i dont really care much about "reef safeness" so to speak. although wrasses are my staple livestock, im beginning to deviate towards angels and butterflies now.

im thinking of adding one "small" big angel, but still thinking. They do grow big and i'm not sure if a 3ft tank is suitable for one.

thinking of either a majestic (adult colouration at 2-2.5 inches), asfur (3 inch with adult colours) or a juvenile emperor angel (i like the swirly hypnotic patterns).

ahh.. i was thinking abt the exact same thing, adding a 2.5inch adult coloured angel to my new tank.. but read from RC they nip at SPS.. so i am still contemplating.. i think emperors look nicer.. just my opinion.. why not blue-face?

[Underwater]

It'll be risky to add any 'small' big angel as they may nip on your meaty corals, leathers and zoas. I have experienced that for emperor, french and queen.

[yikai]

ahh.. i was thinking abt the exact same thing, adding a 2.5inch adult coloured angel to my new tank.. but read from RC they nip at SPS.. so i am still contemplating.. i think emperors look nicer.. just my opinion.. why not blue-face?

oh. funny you should say nipping on sps. i read an interesting article yesterday about that. Only certain coralivorous fishes like the ornate butterflyfish (chaetodon ornatissumus) and larvatus butterfly, actually have special mouth structure to completely suck out the entire polyp from SPS. other fishes like angels and other butterflies cannot, and will be lucky to even get a tentacle of the polyp. so even though you see fishes pecking on SPS, little or no damage is done to the actual SPS. the parts where fishes cannot get to it will have polyp extension, but those accessible to the fishes will have no polyp extension. Polyp extension still happens at night when the fishes are asleep. Plus, some SPS are hidden by the tentacles when their polyp extends, making it look brownish. such fishes can help keep the polyp closed to showcase the nice coloured flesh of the SPS.

emperor was my first choice, but it's difficult finding small ones with adult colours. the juvenile is very nice too, but comparing to other angels, it loses out. i like majestic because they attain adult colouration at relatively small sizes of 2.5 inch. next up will be the asfur angel because 3 inch specimens with adult colours are not uncommon, and the colour combi is really nice. my final choice will be a red sea yellow belly regal. regals have no transition colour changes from juv. to adult, except for the eye spot at the dorsal. Thus will make an excellent choice, if not for the difficulty.

i don't like blue face. haha

It'll be risky to add any 'small' big angel as they may nip on your meaty corals, leathers and zoas. I have experienced that for emperor, french and queen.

i don't have much meaty corals for them to nip. if they want to nip at my one and only prata then i don't mind too... i don't like prata and it's a fair trade off IMO. they can nip at my zoas too, because i lost interest in zoas and most of my nice ones are not with me anymore.

leather corals are very unlikely to be nipped due to their noxious and unpalatable nature.

[vt_snowman87]

interesting on how the reduction of polyp tentacles will showcase the full colours of the sps.. very interesting theory that i never thought of.. hmm.. thanks bro for the input.. but my new tank will be mainly small frags.. so i am afraid this occasional nipping will harm the small frag size and inhibit growth.. but den again i read somewhere, the presence of angels and the frags being small, will increase the growth of the frag as it is a natural defence, to grow big so the angel nipping will cause minimal harm..

very very insightful.. thanks!

[yikai]

interesting on how the reduction of polyp tentacles will showcase the full colours of the sps.. very interesting theory that i never thought of.. hmm.. thanks bro for the input.. but my new tank will be mainly small frags.. so i am afraid this occasional nipping will harm the small frag size and inhibit growth.. but den again i read somewhere, the presence of angels and the frags being small, will increase the growth of the frag as it is a natural defence, to grow big so the angel nipping will cause minimal harm..

very very insightful.. thanks!

yes especially hairy sps like millie, where the tentacles of the polyps may shroud the entire SPS in brown. angels will help reduce polyp extension, thereby showcasing the colours much better. but this doesnt harm the sps and polyp extension still happens at night.

[onizukaa]

the regal i got nipped at the only zoas frag (the rock i put in) within minutes..

careful bro

[yikai]

my new blue tile fishes.

[yikai]

my new blue tile fishes.

No wait.... i think it's pink?!

[yikai]

It's neither blue nor pink. IT'S multicoloured! The flashing tilefish! have always secretly hoped to find this guy in cheap indo shipments and today was my lucky day. Being a tilefish, these guys are extremely timid and difficult to keep, but i'm willing to try. These are special flashing tilefishes, Hoplolatilus Chlupatyi. Famous for their quick colour changes like chameleons.

Here's a video.

[jackywongto]

It's neither blue nor pink. IT'S multicoloured! The flashing tilefish! have always secretly hoped to find this guy in cheap indo shipments and today was my lucky day. Being a tilefish, these guys are extremely timid and difficult to keep, but i'm willing to try. These are special flashing tilefishes, Hoplolatilus Chlupatyi. Famous for their quick colour changes like chameleons.

wait.... it changes colour like that???

wow!!!!!

[yikai]

wait.... it changes colour like that???

wow!!!!!

yep. that's the magic of the flashing tilefish. it changes colours depending on it's mood. yellow, pink, green, blue, purple, red etc etc.

but the catch is that tilefishes in general are difficult to keep because of their super timid nature.

[jackywongto]

yep. that's the magic of the flashing tilefish. it changes colours depending on it's mood. yellow, pink, green, blue, purple, red etc etc.

but the catch is that tilefishes in general are difficult to keep because of their super timid nature.

wow... nice catch.

yeah found the link. There's another video below.

http://glassbox-design.com/2009/flashing-tilefish-puts-on-a-technicolor-show/

Had a normal tilefish once.... only feed on Mysis.

great jumper and timid.

I really hope you can keep it successfully Lemon.

Coz I wanna see it in person one day. very interesteing.

[yikai]

wow... nice catch.

yeah found the link. There's another video below.

http://glassbox-design.com/2009/flashing-tilefish-puts-on-a-technicolor-show/

Had a normal tilefish once.... only feed on Mysis.

great jumper and timid.

I really hope you can keep it successfully Lemon.

Coz I wanna see it in person one day. very interesteing.

i hope i can keep it successfully too.