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What’s your all-time favorite fish? :)
Personal or worked with?

I could never pick my favorite child... But it would be between my Miracle my wild caught Yellow Tang (Was the first fish I ever saved from Uronema and the last wild caught YT. She was tiny!) , Grumpy my YWG and his buddies the shrimps because I love him, the Stripey the Swissguard as this is I think my favorite fish class (Liopropoma) or maybe Henry our Valentinii Puffer as he is just a puppy dog. So I pretty much named them all...

As far as working with fish, lately I have been on a Butterfly Kick and have been loving working with pretty much any butterflyfish I can get my hands on. I like the challenge of them. The issue is not many people have them in their tanks so I tend to sit on them for a while online. Everyone loves their coral :)
 

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Personal or worked with?

I could never pick my favorite child... But it would be between my Miracle my wild caught Yellow Tang (Was the first fish I ever saved from Uronema and the last wild caught YT. She was tiny!) , Grumpy my YWG and his buddies the shrimps because I love him, the Stripey the Swissguard as this is I think my favorite fish class (Liopropoma) or maybe Henry our Valentinii Puffer as he is just a puppy dog. So I pretty much named them all...

As far as working with fish, lately I have been on a Butterfly Kick and have been loving working with pretty much any butterflyfish I can get my hands on. I like the challenge of them. The issue is not many people have them in their tanks so I tend to sit on them for a while online. Everyone loves their coral :)
I have 3 pyramid butterflies. I’ve really been liking how they have a spiky Mohawk at times.

I’ve been thinking of adding a Copperband butterfly. I have the worms for it. ;)
 

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Here’s the spiky Mohawk I am referring to:

Here is what they look like most of the time:
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And here’s what they look like all flared out:
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Well, been a while so I figure I would just leave a quick Happy Halloween from our family to yours!

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The tank is really starting to take up a ton of ALK! Things are growing and finding their places on the rocks. Also lot of encrusting so all the good things are happening. I will snap a couple of pictures when I get a chance, FisHotel has been keeping me very busy!
 
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Quick Check-in -- Been a minute so I figured I would simply say hello and see if anyone I used to chat with is still around. :) The tank is still running strong but was thinking about doing a new tank in the Theater Room. We will see if that comes to fruition. Anyway hope all has been well and most of you guys still have your reefs!
 

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How’s Christina?
 

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Good morning! Glad to hear your tank is still running! The idea of a theatre room sounds fantastic! All the best to you, sir!
 
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How’s Christina?
She is doing well, she went back to school to get the last class she needed to complete college (She was 3 credits short!). So she is just finishing up with that, and of course with the little kiddo that keeps us also very busy.
 
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Happy to have found you here Dierks! Really nice build.
Clearly, its been a very long time since I have updated and many things have happened in the last 4 years. Of course, I have everything logged... I figured I should really pop my head in here once in a while and simply get my feet wet again. Its been a long while that is for sure.
 

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She is doing well, she went back to school to get here last class she needed to complete college (She was 3 credits short!). So she is just finishing up with that, and of course with the little kiddo that keeps us also very busy.
God I’m such a dunce. I got the names mixed up.

I meant to ask how Lilah was doing. She’s a toddler now, eh? What’s that like? Must be exciting and interesting. :)
 
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God I’m such a dunce. I got the names mixed up.

I meant to ask how Lilah was doing. She’s a toddler now, eh? What’s that like? Must be exciting and interesting. :)
No man you are all good, I too sometimes get them mixed up :) haha Yup, Christina is my Wife and Lilah is my daughter.

The Baby Bear is doing amazing, she is always sick though as every 1.5-year-old is. She is starting to put her words together and having some emotional meltdowns. All the things we think of with a toddler. But I love that little monkey so much, sh is learning and growing every single day. I get to bring her to the FisHotel twice a week and it's a blast having her around and looking at all the fish.

She says FFEEsch... Haha! i love it....
 
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Started Lanthanum Yesterday -- Trying to get the Phosphates down to 1ish...

I am hoping in 3 weeks we will be there. Coming down from 2.8
 
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In the past I’ve had excellent results using brightwell’s phosphate e.
This reminds me I need to test tonight. I just got the little monkey down for bed...

EDIT: Looks like we are now down to 1.9. That is pretty low for my tank! We are on our way down.

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Tank is getting really happy again... All the Cyano is gone, (I am looking at you 132 TDS) I really should take advantage and place something in the spot to try and fight back the Zoas on some of the rocks that the Cyano was able to kill back... I also have to get my light rack back up and the three AI 52s back up and running. I have everything in Temp status to make sure the new Powerbricks that I picked up from Amazon would hold up.

Picked these up from @Jposch (Premier Reefs) to see if the tank really is ready to go this time. Last time we were doing well and had a catastrophic failure when i was out of town. That will tear you down some notches that is for sure.

We have had this guy in the tank now 5 months so I think we are getting there.

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The newest Test Subjects seem to be getting happy:

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A couple of my fish -- My Swissguard is one of the best fish in the tank. I love that fish --

Out and about cruisin' the Tank
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Hangin' out in one of his Caves
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And of course, this little peach - This sweet Mimic Filefish is such a treat, she was such a great addition a year or so.

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Time for a new cover -- Always fun making stuff :) This is the rough outline of the middle piece of the Poly-sandwitch that we will make. There will be three layers and then of course the netting glued into the sandwich as well.

Need to round out the corners a bit more but I think this will be the rough idea.

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So I have a problem... I need my cover to be 17" wide and my machine can only go 15.75"... Crap... So either i have to cut it into smaller chunks and glue it all together. It was going to be glued anyway... Or I have to scrap the idea of me doing it and splurging on a new cover. The issue is that I am about to build a new tank I think in the near future so its hard to splurge right now.
 
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