Maybe we can just keep passing him around NR.
When he cleans up one person's tank, he can move onto someone else with an Aipatasia plague!
It would be interesting to see how many tanks we could eventually move him through.

Thanks Monk.

Well, I'm glad this is getting better too.

I thought that since you mentioned "stringy", it could be a variety of dinoflagellates and I've been having a serious issue with them for a while. Mine are burgundy, though there are several varieties. It looks like water changes help, of course, and a reduced photo-period kills them too. I also read that some species of dinos produce toxins, so maybe your corals didn't like too many of those, but that's pure speculation. I'm sure you know best.

BTW, very pretty pix of macro algae (I'm serious).

I was thinking dinoflagellates too and had already started mixing water for the WC and no lights strategy to deal with them when they started to go away and the tank started looking better. Right now I'm gonna hold off on doing anything to see if things continue to improve on their own.
Thanks for the compliments on the macro's. I'm hoping to do some cool stuff with macroalgae's soon.

Whoooo Hoooooooooo

Nudi Reefchicks!!

O boy.

Love the clown fish whats his/her name? Also is it hosting anything or?

'Bout time that tank shaped up! Yay for you indeed! So glad to hear it.

--Diane

YAY for progress!

me like macros. you want some Caulerpa?

Caulerpa makes me nervous, I worry about it going sexual, but thanks for the offer.



The clownfish isn't hosting anything, he just hangs around with the Yellow Coris Wrasse a lot.
My kids want to name him Nemo (predictably), but I've resisted officially naming him anything just yet.

From this day foward you will be Nudi Reeferchick, no more greeneyed she devil reefer chick.

Are you saying you're disbanding our little club???

Hey guys, I need some input.
I was thinking of entering a pic in the photo contest.
Of these three, which do you like better?

I like the first one

three.

I like the composition of the third one.

I like the 2nd one

hard decision...I like all three.

I say no on number two because there's a lot of brain corals in the contest already.

And my bias is for macro shots, so number one would win, but not without much debate.

#1

3

I actually like #3 the best but I think #1 would be your best shot for winning - does that even make sense?

2.

But they're all beautiful!

--Diane

#2.

The 3rd gets lost to the star polyps. Even though their may be many brains I think your pic is awesome! you lose yourself in a weird dimension. I really like 2.

the others give you a sense on size and dimension but 2 is unique. kudos on that shot.

Thanks for all the input guys.
Only thing is, everyone has such a different opinion I'm not sure which one to go with!
I think I might try to take a few more pics of the blasto merletti in the first pic and see if I can come up with something better.
I like the Brain pic better too (thanks dopamine!), but dshnarw is right that there are a lot of brain pics. A blasto pic would stand out from the crowd better.

Things are still improving slowly in this tank.
I don't see any of the brown, stringy algae now.
I think what it really needs is for me to just leave it alone and allow it to stabilize on it's own. That's what my gut tells me anyway.
I was fishless for 12 yrs., and I think the biological filter (i.e. LR) is just trying to adjust to the addition of 2 fish in a fairly short timeframe.

I think i like #1 a blasto would definitely stand out

personally i like number 2 but i would try for some other blasto shots. There might be alot of brains but how many clownfish do we see in contests and they always seem to win!

#3

Here's some pics I took today.


Yet another shot of my Blasto Merletti. I keep putting shots of this one up cause it photographs so well. I think it actually looks better in the pic than in real life!

The next shots are of a couple of corals that are only in here temporarily. I've had to shuffle a lot of stuff around after my prop tank crashed.


Purple Polyp Yellow Monti from Nano-Paul. This is my favorite piece that I got from him for Christmas, and it's weathered all of the prop tank problems quite well as you can see.


This is my Blue Polyp Purple Monti Cap. It faded some due to the recent stress but I think I'll be able to bring it back without too much trouble.

Looking good L. Very nice Monti's.

I just want to say I want your Blasto Merletti. That is one of the most stunning pics that I have seen on this site in long time. My vote is for your pic of it in post #179

Wow, thanks!!!
I think I'm gonna go ahead and enter that one in the photo contest.
There's some pretty good ones in the contest though, so I'm not sure I expect to win.
I'm gonna do it for the fun of it though.

I think this one is fascinating Weetie.

That's the one I just entered in the contest, thanks!

Lovely!

Yeah, what they said!

Beautiful pic L!!

Beautiful pics, of course. Love the new Avatar! It's a winner. Keep it.

This one (#3) from first post, is my favorite. Good composition and diversity. Nice shot.

You really like the new av better?
I was actually just doing it as a temporary thing for lgreen and was gonna go back to the previous one.
You think I should keep this one instead?
I REALLY like your new av too, btw, meant to say that on your tank thread.

Yes, I do like it better. It's cute, and according to my AV, "I like pretty things"

I did a whole bunch of work on this tank the other day, and discovered a couple of interesting things that I didn't even know were in here!
I was moving my Brain Coral and discovered what looks like a really cool macroalgae on the side of the hard skeleton. They're a pretty red color and are kind of mushroom shaped, like those fungi you see growing on the side of trees in the forest. I'm hoping to be able to get a good pic of them to post when I get my new camera.
I also learned an interesting thing about my Yellow Coris Wrasse. I'm gonna sound like a total n00b saying this, but I didn't know until a few days ago that they were supposed to have a sandbed to sleep in. My tank is barebottom, and the wrasse hasn't seemed to have a problem with this. This morning I discovered that he's been sleeping under the bottom of one of my pieces of LR, wedged between the bottom of the tank the rock. If I hadn't known better, I would've thought he was dead!
I'm supposed to be getting some Blue Cloves and Rhodactis Mushrooms in today to put in this tank. I'll try to post pics of them as soon as I'm able!

Sweet pic!

older post, but thanks for this. i got a little aiptasia and that is the coolest looking thing I've ever seen . i'm gonna call the LFS tomorrow to see if they have any.

My goodness L, I LOVE your shots!!!!

RILLY???
Well here's some more!!!
These were taken with my brand new Canon Powershot A720 IS that I got in the mail today. I'm still figuring out the cam and hope that as I better learn how to use it, I'll get even sharper pics, but here's today's offerings:

These are some mushrooms I just got in a trade with dopamine. They look even cooler and prettier in person but I'm having a hard time capturing all the colors in a pic yet.


This is the side of the skeleton of my Brain Coral. I took it to show the cool mushroom shaped red growths that I just found on the side of it. Does anyone know what these are? I've never seen them before.


This is just a close-up shot of my biggest piece of LR in this tank. I wanted to show the really cool thick plates of coralline that I have on it. There's also one or two baby aiptasia for the Berghia Nudi to munch on!

SWEET! see I get that in my pics too. makes them look white where is really more blue and grey. I feel like a lot of people do post picture editing on their computers to tone down the whites and make them pop more.

I also get some of those growths. You are talking about the purple flakes right? i get them off the edge of my GSP.


awesome nudi, btw. I love witnessing things like that. Its like getting tunnel vision and you forget about everything around you.

Looks like you've got a handle on that camera already, Weeta! Great pics, and can't wait to see more.

Lookin good weetie! Why don't you check out my thread, i got a few new things too!

Amazing shots for not even learning the camera yet! Bring it tomorrow & let's see what we can do with my tanks!

Awesome pics... And congrats on the new camera!!! I look forward to seeing TONS of photos from you!!!

Great pics and interesting to boot!

A while back, someone else & I had shroom like growths we concluded were some kind of plating coralline. Didn't look exactly like yours, though. Whatever it is, it's a cool find!

--Diane