Tanks looking pretty average but here are some corals:

H. giga (I think) anemone and clowns

Purple Monti Cap

Brown Blue Green A. samoensis

Blue A. tenuis

Yellow Green A. austera (with a few purple polyps)

Wow

That anemone is wicked

I was going to give that anemone away at one point. I came virtually brown, and pretty bland. I'm glad I kept it. Bad luck Robert ;-)

Here are a couple of fish:

Male Crosshatch Trigger

Shoal tang

Sohal and Racoon Butterfly

layton, how is the trigger and angel re your corals and inverts? is there a list of species on your site?. love the different fish.

Xanthicthys triggers (crosshatch and blue throat triggers) are considered reef safe, but will more than likely eat shrimp (I don't have any though) they don't touch corals or anything.

The raccoon butterflies (and most butterflies in general) are polyp munchers, but it causes minimal damage in the tank. It gets well fed, so only picks a little at the corals. They grow fast enough (even when the tanks not at it's best) not to worry about them killing anything.

I've got some other interesting butterflies in mind which I want to try too. Hopefully I can get them within the next month or so.

Layton

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Love those racoons.

Does anyone import them anymore ?

Redwoods might still have a few left from the recent shipment.

These are the butterflies i want to try, Chaetodon baronessa:

From http://www.edge-of-reef.com/Chetodontid ... essaen.htm

Great photos nice Anemone and corals (more pics) :bounce:

nice layton, you gotta good mix of colour there!

As Fay said ----------More pics :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Found an old pic from back in 2001/2002 ish

Still got the gold polyped sacrophyton on the far right. The white polyped sacrophyton on the bottom left. The green sinularia middle left. Candy cane behind the blue tang, the two clowns are the same two as in the anemone at the top. Still had the blue tang up until a few weeks ago (the sohal harassed him to death)

got a updated pic to compare

What's the blue thing slightly above right of the red mushrooms?

Xanthicthys triggers (crosshatch and blue throat triggers) are considered reef safe, but will more than likely eat shrimp (I don't have any though) they don't touch corals or anything.

sargassum and pink tail triggers to

got a updated pic to compare

Didn't get a full tank pic today, the batteries crapped out.

What's the blue thing slightly above right of the red mushrooms?

red mushrooms? Dunno.

red mushrooms? Dunno.

Maybe it's my eyesight. Come in about 1/3rd way along the tank from the left, at the bottom of the rocks, there is something red. The blue thing is a little right and above of this.

looks like a leather coral

Maybe it's my eyesight. Come in about 1/3rd way along the tank from the left, at the bottom of the rocks, there is something red. The blue thing is a little right and above of this.

If it's half way up the rockwork, it's a green Sinularia flexibilis. If it's on top of the rockwork, it's an algae blenny.

The red mushroom is a sun coral.

OK I can see it now it is a sinularia, does look kind of blue though.

I'll bet with another 5 years growth on those sarcophyton you would have had to prune hard!

I chopped them in half a few years ago, and they are still 3 or 4 times that size.

The red mushroom is a sun coral.

Well that's pretty Layton I've not seen one that colour. Still got it? I once had yellow sun coral but got tired of feeding it in the end I sold it.

Sounds like the colour on you monitor is weird, it's just the normal common old orange sun coral. Fed it for a few months, it grew an extra couple of polyps, but I got sick of feeding it and it died slowly.

Nope, never seen one that colour.

Perhaps I should get out more! :lol: