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  1. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Here we go, I'm finally to the underwater pics! This stuff really blows me away, I can't believe how well some of these turned out. It was a little different as some of my corals are really close to the surface of the water and the focal depth on the lens I was using is not that great so there...
  2. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    His favorite hiding spot, right at the front of the tank! I promised I would take some better pictures of the Sargassum trigger, so here they are. He didn't eat a single piece of food for the first three days, but now he chows down on mysis every single time I feed the tank. Look at those...
  3. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Both my Occ. clowns actually host inside this head of frogspawn now! Kinda interesting except the female has black dots all over herself now. I'm still gonna try and re home these two as I think my DT looks a bit crowded. He's another wider shot of my "Zoa corner". Blue Acro in its...
  4. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Lets start out with some normal pics. FTS Side shot. Maybe this will help show some more of the depth. Angled FTS. I kinda like this format. Recently my cousin got a really nice photo printer, so I decided to showcase some of my favorite shots in the "fish cave". I also have 13"x19"...
  5. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Well, I'm wet up to my armpits, but at least I didn't break any corals off or scare any fish to try carpet surfing. Give me a little bit to edit all the pictures and we'll see how I did!
  6. Taqpol

    Wrasse swimming funny - swim bladder?

    Thanks for all the support everyone! Im starting to think it definitely was "just" an injury of some type, quite possibly exactly what Lone Wolf just described above. It has been exactly a week since the first symptoms showed up and my wrasse is now swimming around and eating again. She no...
  7. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Well, I had a pretty crappy day at work this last week and my fiancee thought that if I opened my Christmas present early I would feel better. She was right, she got me a freakin underwater enclosure for my SLR camera!!! Expect more FTS, pictures, and UNDERWATER PICTURES this afternoon!
  8. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    I assume you guys are talking about the Mimic Tang back on page 5, cause the fish pictured above is a Sargassum Triggerfish.
  9. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Unfortunately, I was not able to find a disappearing-reappearing triggerfish. I did, however, get a Sargassum Triggerfish: So far I can't believe how cool this fish is. When I stuck my head over the bag it stuck the entire top of its head out to look at me, and when my friend put his head...
  10. Taqpol

    Wrasse swimming funny - swim bladder?

    Yeah, I stuck a net in the tank this morning and she immediately ran to the other side. If she's that active and alert then hopefully she'll recover on her own. Still, any special foods or medicines I can give to the whole tank that might help her out?
  11. Taqpol

    Wrasse swimming funny - swim bladder?

    Update for Tuesday. There was absolutely no way I can catch her with a net, multiple times she would just bury herself under the sand if I tried too hard. Today she was out and about again, but still swimming funny. She also no longer has the vertical "indent" on the left side of her body. It...
  12. Taqpol

    Wrasse swimming funny - swim bladder?

    Just tried to catch her and put her in a hospital tank (regardless, it sounds like a good idea right now), chased her around the tank twice before she buried in the sand under a rock....
  13. Taqpol

    Wrasse swimming funny - swim bladder?

    That was my first thought, but it seems so unlikely due to the fact that the fish was so helathy and I haven't turned my vortechs down or off (even for feeding) in a long time. Literally the fish went from happy/normal to barely swimming in a two hour time window.
  14. Taqpol

    Wrasse swimming funny - swim bladder?

    I'm sorry I wasn't able to get any good pictures of her, even moving all special she was still too fast to get a good picture of in low light. There is one visible mark on her body, and its only on one side. It is a darkened (bruise colored) indentation that goes straight up from her anus to...
  15. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Right before I add an expensive fish, one of my others gets sick... of course. My christmas wrasse went from being completely normal to swimming vertically and spinning in under two hours last night. I think she has some type of bacterial swim bladder infection, but I am asking for help on what...
  16. Taqpol

    Wrasse swimming funny - swim bladder?

    I'm definitely having a problem with my female christmas wrasse. Last night at around 6:00 the wrasse was swimming around, hunting, doing its normal thing. I looked at the tank after dinner (8:00) and the fish was swimming vertically (head at the surface, tail to the sand) and kind of spinning...
  17. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    I plan on taking pics of the acan when I take pics of the new fish on Tuesday. The fish is something I consider pretty rare, so i want to keep people guessing until tuesday.... but heres an edited pic: That should at least give you the body shape.
  18. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Lighting should be the same, I might have done the temperature different in PS that time or it just looks brighter because its cleaner. Anyways, the big difference is that I removed and fragged my large Sarcophyton elegans.
  19. Taqpol

    Taqpol's 120 gallon All in Stand Reef Build

    Well, once you've "broken the seal" you really can't go back. I ordered that acan from Aquatic Auctions awhile ago, and now I just ordered a fish from LiveAquarias Diver's Den. This fish is really rare and i am quite excited about getting it on Tuesday!
  20. Taqpol

    Vodka dosing

    I run one of these "bacteria driven systems" and couldn't be happier with it. I started dosing MB7 for four weeks to increase my "good" bacterial population and then just started in with 0.5 ml/140 gallons two weeks ago. Crystal clear water, bright white sand, and being able to feed more all...
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