Milch's Reef Learning Journey

[Milch_Tan]

and finally.. after much thoughts I've decided to remove the messy center structure and keep it cleaner with some minor rescape bout 1 week + back.

don't know y I can't arrange the pic accordingly.

2nd pic is the old scape.

1st and 3rd pic is the rescaped

[vt_snowman87]

wao bro milch, ur new spacing looks way awesome..

[Milch_Tan]

wao bro milch, ur new spacing looks way awesome..

lol, thanks bro, but your SPS tank is the real deal hope u don't mind me using ur dad and ur tank as motivation to work towards to. haha.

[peacemaker]

Looking good, bro!

[yikai]

very nice tank. here's my opinion on how your tank has progressed so far.

firstly, good growth on the millie! it's encrusting nicely from the bottom.

beautiful scape. once coraline algae takes over, it will look even better.

the exquisite is displaying in it's half excited state. the blue lines are evident, but when it really gets into swing, two bluish saddles will appear on the body along with all the extra blue lines.

sorry to hear of your hooded. Australian hoodeds are actually rare, and very much rarer than the Vanuatuan ones. and such large size one also very rare. if you like, i hope you can find one again next time. you'll be surprised. contrary to the hooded wrasse's gentle disposition and frilly demeanor, it's actually quite an aggressive species.

beautiful rhomboid. I love rhomboids and have always loved them, but have moved on with this species liao. maybe next time will keep again. So much to learn about this beautiful fish that was once known to only be endemic to nowhere else but the Marshall Islands, but recently they have undergone range extension and have been found in Palau. This is undocumented in literature though, but it's been proven in a documentary with Richard Pyle and Brian Green.

Lineatus also very beautiful. When flashing, notice the dorsal and anal fins turn very white and the tail will turn red. Pectoral fins also turn red. Beautiful but large and at times, belligerent species. Colour on the body may fade after awhile also but if male chauvinistic characteristic is expressed often, the colours will hold up very nicely.

[yikai]

Also i have one request for you. My Solomon Filamented flasher did not make it due to some problem with the fish. If you could get a photo of yours in high quality DSLR or Point and shoot photograph, please send me a photo of it.

Maybe can ask Law to help you.

If you could get a photo of it displaying it will be even better. Till date there's only one photograph (to my knowledge) of a filamented flasher from solomon island flashing, and it's published in Kuiter's wrasse book. The whole body turns red and the lines become blue, but the dorsal fin turn entirely yellow. very beautiful and gorgeous fish.

I've been waiting so long for it, but sad it did not make it No fate, but my love for this fish will continue so i'll wait for the next batch (if any ever again).

The reason why i asked for a photo from you, is because i'm helping out my friend from Japan, Dr. Hiroyuki Tanaka, wrasse expert, with his personal Flasher and fairy wrasse CD and book. This variant of the filamented flasher is quite rare. so if you could take a good high quality photo and send to me, i'll pass it to him and make sure you're credited to it.

Thanks.

[akinass]

my dear milch, this scape definitely alot better as compared to the previous 1. told u my tonga cmi le. btw i guess i will stop buying expensive fishes until i think my tank can handle it. keep dying ..damn sianz

[cedricang]

Nice rescape Milch, looks very natural

[Soul]

Very nice scaping! Got lots of spaces for placement of sps, hair algae on left u purposely keep for AT to makan?

[Milch_Tan]

Looking good, bro!

thanks bro,

Also i have one request for you. My Solomon Filamented flasher did not make it due to some problem with the fish. If you could get a photo of yours in high quality DSLR or Point and shoot photograph, please send me a photo of it.

Maybe can ask Law to help you.

If you could get a photo of it displaying it will be even better. Till date there's only one photograph (to my knowledge) of a filamented flasher from solomon island flashing, and it's published in Kuiter's wrasse book. The whole body turns red and the lines become blue, but the dorsal fin turn entirely yellow. very beautiful and gorgeous fish.

I've been waiting so long for it, but sad it did not make it No fate, but my love for this fish will continue so i'll wait for the next batch (if any ever again).

The reason why i asked for a photo from you, is because i'm helping out my friend from Japan, Dr. Hiroyuki Tanaka, wrasse expert, with his personal Flasher and fairy wrasse CD and book. This variant of the filamented flasher is quite rare. so if you could take a good high quality photo and send to me, i'll pass it to him and make sure you're credited to it.

Thanks.

Hey lemon, sorry to hear about ur flasher, and thanks for ya compliments man, with regards to the flasher, it's mostly chasing my flame wrasse and sometimes rosy scale. my point and shoot is utterly hopeless, might enlist law's help or might look for a G11 or G12 to borrow, when do you need the pix? Would be glad to help any time man.

my dear milch, this scape definitely alot better as compared to the previous 1. told u my tonga cmi le. btw i guess i will stop buying expensive fishes until i think my tank can handle it. keep dying ..damn sianz

my dear fren, sorry I couldn't really use your beautiful rock man.. anyway don't give up on those beautiful fishes!!!! Jia YOU!!! eh.. 4get bout ya T5 plans la.. save the money do a bigger tank! cost about the same. haha.

Nice rescape Milch, looks very natural

hey Cedric, still tons to learn and observe from gurus like yourself man.

Very nice scaping! Got lots of spaces for placement of sps, hair algae on left u purposely keep for AT to makan?

Thanks bro! well.. currently quite a bit of tiny small frags dotting different area.. but I reckon can still take in more. haha. eh.. Those algae are not hair algae, but have a feather like look to it.. part of New Tank Syndrome i guess.. dying out already (thanks to the UV light).. but will have to take out and give it a good scrub. AT kinda ah-tas, doesn't take algae, only pellets yet to put in the nori bro vt_snowman87 shared with me.

[yikai]

that algae you are talking about is bryopsis. nothign eats it except lettuce nudibranch. just leave it and pull out any you see and it will die off after few months.

let me know about the pictures. i need them ASAP but there's no rush. just as soon as possible if you can, and whenever you can. Will send the photo to Dr. tanaka and when he publishes it in his book/CD, the photo will be credited to you and/or whoever who helped you.

thanks much.

[Milch_Tan]

that algae you are talking about is bryopsis. nothign eats it except lettuce nudibranch. just leave it and pull out any you see and it will die off after few months.

let me know about the pictures. i need them ASAP but there's no rush. just as soon as possible if you can, and whenever you can. Will send the photo to Dr. tanaka and when he publishes it in his book/CD, the photo will be credited to you and/or whoever who helped you.

thanks much.

thanks for the id of algae.

credit or not, not tt impt to me la, but don't pin such high hopes cos this specimen I have has bit of a damage to it's tail fin, and here are some snap shot of it I took 10 mins ago, if u're ok with the specimen standard then I'll ask law over this sunday to help take a better pic (you can tell the pic quality I have is jus terrible).

very hard to capture it flash/flare with my cam, so can only capture some unexcited state.

don't want a half-past-six standard to go into a book. haha.

[yikai]

thanks for the id of algae.

credit or not, not tt impt to me la, but don't pin such high hopes cos this specimen I have has bit of a damage to it's tail fin, and here are some snap shot of it I took 10 mins ago, if u're ok with the specimen standard then I'll ask law over this sunday to help take a better pic (you can tell the pic quality I have is jus terrible).

don't want a half-past-six standard to go into a book. haha.

minor imperfections like the tail is not important.

what's most important is the dorsal finnage. the solomon island variant is famed for it's super yellow dorsal fin that NO OTHER variant possess. The specimen is good. Law could help you with it.

the most important is catching it displaying with erected fins, or flashing. if cannot then nevermind.

thanks for the help.

[Milch_Tan]

pls don't mention it man.. sound so formal..alright, will call him later. thanks for giving my fish a chance. if need be i'll probably jus add another new wrasse or sumthing to get it bossy.

cheers.

[yikai]

pls don't mention it man.. sound so formal..alright, will call him later. thanks for giving my fish a chance. if need be i'll probably jus add another new wrasse or sumthing to get it bossy.

cheers.

haha ok thanks!

miss mine so much. have been waiting for eternity for this particular variant, but too bad mine did not make it

will wait for more next time.