Getting Ready For The Switch

[MrLiam]

WoooW HG I new you had xenia but not that much

 

[tr0p1cal]

wow that video is incredible, i guess thats a leopard wrasse u have there? seen a few, very impressive. i have no idea what sort of nbumbers of fish were looking at for a 4x2x2

 

[HappyGeorge]

WoooW HG I new you had xenia but not that much

It grows like wildfire I have to keep trimming it and sometimes I lift a rock out and actually peel the whole foot off from the rock, I do love it but I can see why some get very fed up with it, my aim is to have a Xenai backdrop to the rock it is currently much bigger than on the video behind the rock work, but I keep it thinned out at the front and then cut it right back when I add something else to the tank.

wow that video is incredible, i guess thats a leopard wrasse u have there? seen a few, very impressive. i have no idea what sort of nbumbers of fish were looking at for a 4x2x2

Thanks

Well it is called the verticulated leopard wrasse in some places but most fish shops call that one the Peacock Wrasse, Leopard wrasse is similar same markings but body has less colours.

 

[tr0p1cal]

yer when i went browsing some shops in eastleigh/southampton at the weekend i noticed a few called leopard wrasse, they were small and only black with white spots, i was thinking they would get more colour as they matured, but obviously its a different fish.

i will go reef but probably once i upgraded my lights, still not certain how soft corals would work with 2x t5 and 2x t8 lights.

 

[fishy55599]

leopard wrasse is stunning
thats loads of xenia

also what are them snails on the glass, as my mexicans dont touch it

yer when i went browsing some shops in eastleigh/southampton at the weekend i noticed a few called leopard wrasse, they were small and only black with white spots, i was thinking they would get more colour as they matured, but obviously its a different fish.

i will go reef but probably once i upgraded my lights, still not certain how soft corals would work with 2x t5 and 2x t8 lights.

softies should be fine under that, i got 2 T8's

 

[HappyGeorge]

yer when i went browsing some shops in eastleigh/southampton at the weekend i noticed a few called leopard wrasse, they were small and only black with white spots, i was thinking they would get more colour as they matured, but obviously its a different fish.

i will go reef but probably once i upgraded my lights, still not certain how soft corals would work with 2x t5 and 2x t8 lights.

I have mushrooms, leather coral (these were hitchikers and remains from fragging on LR I bought 2nd hand and are now growing), xenia and button polyps growing in my 5 footer and that is lit with 2 x 40w T8's one with a marine blue bulb and one with a powerglo tropical bulb. So I would give a pretty resounding yes to the corals working, many softies prefer less powerful light. In fact given the growth and colour I am seeing in my Hystrix which supposedly needs high levels of light I can't see that personally I would ever use Metal Halides.

This is my Hystrix 1/3 up the tank lit by 6x39w T5's bought as a small frag 2 months ago, only additive I add is a kH buffer once a week, no calcium reactor, no phos reactor, very simple set up.