New Reef on the Block

**TonyO** · 02-20-2012 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Darbex

Oh and by the way this has to be the fastest I have ever heard of a clown hosting a new anemone. This pair has been hosting a leather for about a year and a half. Got the Rose nem on Sunday and last night they tried to cox it into letting them in. It was still eating a silver side I gave it that morning. But this morning I snapped a couple of pics of them hosting it. Sorry for the pic quality and ignore the hair algae got a bad case of it right now. But I got some new urchins on it and though slow they are mowing it down.

I had that happen once, too, where the clown hosted the anemone really quickly. . . I was pretty surprised.

I tend to forget that those Centropyge angels are not always reef-safe, and whenever I think about doing a reef tank, I want to put one in there. This is a good reminded to me that it might not be a good idea. Glad you were able to catch it.

**Darbex** · 02-21-2012 09:19 AM

Yeah no more with caution fish in this tank. I will only attempt it on a small tank. But this tank is to large to be messing with trying to get out a nuisance fish.

**Darbex** · 02-21-2012 02:07 PM

I started dosing with algaefix on Sat to get the hair and red algae under control. I read a lot about people using it with great success so I decided to give it a try. After my Sat dose I have noticed that the hair algae growth has slowed considerably, enough that my urchins are able to start making a dent in it. However, the red algae is still about the same. I have a second dose today, I am waiting till I get home so that I will be there if anything goes wrong.

**cichlid1409** · 02-21-2012 02:42 PM

like the scape on the tank those two rock piles are clean. let us know how that algaefix works, if it does i know someone who could use it.

**Darbex** · 02-22-2012 09:23 PM

Day after second dose. I am probably at half the amount of hair algae and the red algae took a beating and is probably at about 2/3 what it once was. No noticeable signs of damage to anything in the tank.

**armthehomeless** · 02-22-2012 09:29 PM

Nice video . . . makes me want to speed things up.

**Darbex** · 02-26-2012 06:12 PM

Apparently clowns have a natural hatred for grammas. My clowns chase my new grammas around.

**Darbex** · 03-04-2012 07:11 PM

Updated FTS. Algae fix really worked well on hair algae. Not so much red slime but I can live with that better than hair. Also got some new rocks that I added to fill it out some more and give me more places to put new corals. What do you all think?

New brain coral too.