Recent content by bigred

East to West West to East. I have the Aquacontroller set up that way but it's hard for me to take pictures in the morning so just used the same ones. I have a real bad glare on the tank from the windows parallel to the tank. I have to wait until the sun goes sun to take full tank shots. I...

He didn't cost me $200, I have a connection. I'm trading him for some other wrasses but haven't figured out which ones I want yet.

Here's me at the Long Beach Aquarium.

Nice pieces. Those acros will color up nicely in time. They look like the just got shipped over.

I thought this would be fun. This is how my lights run. 3x250 MHs and actinics.

He's gone to a bigger fish only tank now.

Thanks, if I would of hand painted them they would of been more colorful. LOL

Here's what 2 of them look like during feeding time.

He's now available. Email my for trades at bigredspet@yahoo.com

There could be a fight but with the color difference you might be OK. I have added wrasses that were completely different color and the existing wrasses started fighting but ended up being fine. It's all about territory.

Here's another one I got yesterday.

I have a cleaner shrimp in there and he doesn't bother him but he's bigger.

Well I guess they aren't shrimp friendly. I just added some Peppermint Shrimp and he found them. I watched him eat this one.

Another thing you can do is run the MHs the normal time you run your lights but have them about 3' above the tank and then every week lower it a little. This way you bring it in slow and not burn your corals. You even do this when you change out the bulbs. This is what I do and I haven't had...

I ran 400s on a 25" deep tank and they were just fine. The main thing is heat factor. These bulbs throw out a lot more heat then a 250.