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Yes in groups. Of course they scattered when I tried to take a picture. We have yet to have a true "schooling" behavior but I have read a lot of that has to do with food availability.
The gobies are magnificent gobies, they have been spawning for us which is awesome.
The clowns: female is an Ora grade b Picasso and the male is a snowflake. They have yet to spawn for us but we are hoping soon. The female has been with us for years the male is a little newer.
I have an old pic of the sanded of like our 45g cube saved as my auto white balance. I really need to learn a little photoshop. These are all unedited directly from the camera to the computer. After seeing that guys shots, I may have to get some extension tubes myself.
Never could get a good picture of our clowns, they decided to play nice the other night so here we go:
Our magnificent pair doing what they do:
The right side of our tank with the hustle and bustle of a bunch of small fish, just the way we like it and more "reef" like, I can count 17
Couple of new pics of some of the new additions. Thank you all for the suggestions, we are at this point going to stick with the small fish stocking plan as we are comfortable with it. I have some calls out right now for some really cool fish that we will update on in the next few weeks.
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Same advice I gave in the other thread, start breaking down the 57g now. Get everything into temporary holding containers with heaters and powerheads. They can live like this for the next few days no problem, just monitor water conditions and whatnot. Do you have a lot of coral, no coral...
If you can, your best bet would be to go out a day early, pack up the live stock and what not and move that to your house and set it up in a holding system of some sort. Then the movers can move all the dry goods in and then you can setup the tank again. Moving tanks is never fun and is quite...
I know this is last minute, but I will throw a hail mary for a good guy and great priced fixtures:
http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/nicewrasse/136155-maxspect-mazzarra-p-light-emitting-diodes-units.html
Our corals were doing amazing for while when we started to notice some recision at the base of some of our SPS. We started testing and alk was coming back 9.3 (or something similiar) so we just kept an eye on things. Corals started to get worse, we kept testing and everything was coming back...
We ran into issues because we were doing everything right and had equipment failure. That was disheartening when you are doing everything you can and a piece of equipment (or several) fail and leave you shaking your head.