Hey everybody! its been a while. I've finally saved up enough to convert to a reef, so i'll be picking everything up next weekend and hopefully some frags the next! Plus I got a bangaii cardinal today, hes a cutie too, pics later 
55 gallon setting up!!!!!!!
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hey everybody, long time no see. A lot of stuff came up but my tank is finally set up for corals. I went shopping yesterday so i know you all love pics so heres some of my recent additions..
my zoas
my mushrooms which are way greener than in the pic
orange ricordea which i think might be splitting
my 2 new percs which are in quarantine
and finally a full tank shot
so i know you all love pics so heres some of my recent additions..my zoas
my mushrooms which are way greener than in the pic
orange ricordea which i think might be splitting
my 2 new percs which are in quarantine
and finally a full tank shot
Nice!! Congrats on using a QT tank. So seldom you actually see people do that. Very nice and colorful looking percs. Seem to already be paired up as well, one being noticably larger than the other.
I have been learning recently, luckly through others misfortunes, about the need to always dip new corals before putting them in your tank as well. So many coral eating pests to worry about now, zoa and montipora eating nudibranchs, red bugs, normal flatworms, and acro eating flat worms (AEFW), that I am now very strict on doing a double dose of revive and Medicoral dips of all corals first, then a interceptor dip for all acropora corals I get. All fish from now on will get fluke dips along with a 6 week copper QT if it is compatable with that fish. I feel there are a handful of fish that at most you can do a quick dip then they must be put in a display type environment because a QT is either to small/incompatable and will stress out and do more harm to the fish, or copper is not compatable with that particular fish, but there are only a few "advanced" fish that fall into that category.
I have been learning recently, luckly through others misfortunes, about the need to always dip new corals before putting them in your tank as well. So many coral eating pests to worry about now, zoa and montipora eating nudibranchs, red bugs, normal flatworms, and acro eating flat worms (AEFW), that I am now very strict on doing a double dose of revive and Medicoral dips of all corals first, then a interceptor dip for all acropora corals I get. All fish from now on will get fluke dips along with a 6 week copper QT if it is compatable with that fish. I feel there are a handful of fish that at most you can do a quick dip then they must be put in a display type environment because a QT is either to small/incompatable and will stress out and do more harm to the fish, or copper is not compatable with that particular fish, but there are only a few "advanced" fish that fall into that category.
