My temporary 90 thread

[aquaknight]

Well, long story short, my parents are moving, and I'm sort of stuck with the aftermath, their fowlr and their reef (240/90, respectfully). They kept the big tank and will be setting it up after they get settled. I got the 90, and will eventually keep it and do something with it later (butterfly[fish] garden, perhaps?

), but for now it houses a lot of fish. I will doing my share of water changes, I'll tell you that. So far everyone is being very well behaved, the Lunare is boss, like it was in their fowlr, and the female anthias is 2nd in command, like she was in the reef.
Wasn't problem free though, one of the chromis died on the trip up. We brought up over 20 fish, this is my first casualty for a fish to die in transport. He was bagged for under 4 hours. Extremely weird, though apparently not uncommon reading the chromis thread in the general fish...
Equipment on the 90 is 2 T5 48" strip lights, couple PH's, 29 sump, 15 or so as a fuge, an additional remote 10gal fuge, and a Aqua C EV180 skimmer. 100# LR in display, 50# sump, 80# of sand.
Here's the full stocklist:
Yellow Tang
Lunare Wrasse
Picasso Trigger
Half Black Angel
2 - Lyretail Anthias (1M, 1F)
2- Chalk Bass
2- Southern Puffers
Flavicauda Pygmy Angel
Blue Chromis
Yellowtail Damsel
Ringneck Blenny
Pajama Cardinal
And some "throw away" corals, brown & yellow polyps, and xenia.
Additional we also brought up a Red Sea Regal Angel and Spiny Burrfish in my 55gal QT, a leopard wrasse that was added to my 125 display, and a pair of misbar clowns and a orange stripe cardinal in my newly setup 25 reef (to hold that corals that would be Blueface angel food in my 125). I will post those separately.
Here's the pics and two feeding vids.

 

[kjr_trig]

Looks like fun...Taking bets on how long the corals last with Huma, Wrasse, and Angel? I got 10 days

What are the "specs" on the Puffers?

 

[aquaknight]

Yea, the Half Black nips the yellows and browns ocanssionaly. The Lunare just does the brown polyps (though in one bite he does about 15x the damage of the angel). The xenia is actually from their fowlr, so it should be fine. I was actually considering adding the Humu to my 125 because of fear of confrontation with the Lunare (he loved to keep the Humu in check when they were in QT) as he was completely coral safe. Just sifts the sand occasionally.
The puffers are Southern puffers Sphoeroides nephelus. They were wild caught (along with the Spiny Burrfish I'm going to post later) and reared by us. We netted them in the gulf (floating in the waves near the beach) and were no bigger then a small pea. Under 1/4". The eat cyclopeeze and loved to tag team mysis. They're about 2" now, and love to eat. They rarely leave each other sides so I have no idea if they've maybe "paired up."

They grow to about 11 3/4", but thinking that may be a while. My Spiny is already over 3". When they aren't hovering in their corner, they like to bury in the sand. Here's a large adult:

 

[slackjawed]

15 fish in a 90 gallon

mabey 2 %ers now lol