hey thank i really don't think it will stay that color since it came for a system with very little actinic light so we will see how it will color up

Get on that FTS haha.

(I need to see what corals I want to buy from you )

nice pick up on the orange fungia

So guys have been asking and asking so here you are a FTS. Now don't be to harsh the bowl of sand is not staying i am not sure yet if i can keep the plate coral with a bare bottom tank. also it was really bright out and i couldn't keep all the light from reflecting off the face of the tank

front


left


Right

well i took the plate coral out of the tuperware i was tired of the heckeling LOL ......J/K anyway we will see how well it will do with out its little beachfront property. Has anyone else keep there plate coral on a bare bootom i think i have asked this question about five time now woth no comment

Fungia's don't need a sand bed, since they can be placed on anything. I only seen people place clams in sand dishes.

Thank you for the answer really no one i have asked gave me a straight answer. Yeah i was just playing it safe its out of the dish so i am hoping for the best

Well i had a pretty busy day yesterday i bought quite a few coral and i even got a really nice hitchhiker.

ORA corals

I haven't been buying ORA corals lately beccause i hate there frag plugs but anyway i got three and i am not sure about the last one so anyone who knows for sure please leave a comment.

Purple Plasma

Pearlberry

I think this is Joe the Coral or Roscoe's Blue (the one on the left)



these others are cut from wild colonies for my friend samson

a great yellow base purple polyp monti. i already have a pieace of this from someone else but i couldn't pass it up ( sorry it was a little pissed because of reasons below)


Finally
one the monti frag i got i found a pretty nice hitchhiker.

Also over the last couple weeks my picasso clown is finally hosting in my RBTA. But now he's ####### it off and i am thinking of getting rid of both the clown and the RBTA.

+1 to not needing a sand bed for the fungia. Shouldn't be a big deal. He'll move to where he's happy anyway and you never know if that might be right up on the rock, LOL. I've had Joe the Coral before and that piece looks just like mine did so I'd say that's what it is. Everything looks awesome. That monti is sick and the hitchhikers are a pretty sweet bonus. Really nice collection you have going, keep up the good work.

Bill

can i haz a frag of ur hitcher zoa's scott?




PRETTY PREEZ

name yer price...

thanks bill on you comments yeah the plate is doing great its a little less puffed up than compared to the mini sandbed but we will see how well it does. the monti has a good amoun tof potional but its seems to be a low light speices. so i need to find a shaddy spot but all in i got it for a steal i should say how much but it was little more than a taco bell order for two LOL. t

he hitchhikers is actully causeing me greef i have had three pm's and people saying that i have a whole bunch of actinic light to make them look good and other people say that they are something special. In my book there just another coral odds are i am going to use them to trade for more sps or just give them away.



you can have a frag for free when i get them off the rock I am not a zoa collector and it not like i paid extra for them

does anyone on here have Dwarf Planaxis from reefcleaners i am getting a order in this week from them and i am getting some in replacement for some limpets that died in shipping. I am also getting some Gracilaria and a few other snails Zig Zag Periwinkles, Juvenile Florida Ceriths and what not.

well after a few months of getting so "Ice Fire Echinata's" and coming up with rasberries i got a hold of a fellow reefer and get a frag of a real Ice Fire Echinata that was bought from Karl Unarce. I also got a piece of a nice tri color acropora granulosa.


sorry about the bad pic i just put it in the tank and its still a little stressed. I think under my lighting the blue tips are going to come out a lot better

Ice Fire Echinata



granulosa


i also got two more frags but they are really pissed so i thought i would wait until they calm down


scott

you are hardcore collector scotty

^ this is an understatement.





hardcore funder of LFS's is moar like it....

hey thanks i am really trying to be hardcore LOL. Now i just need all the stuff i bought to grow out so i can recoupe all the money i spent



yeah your right. hey mike i fragged up that zoa hitcher i got for you

well i have some updated frag pics of what i got

this pic does this coral no justice its a great steely grey and on the mother colony had a great growth pattern



Tyree Pink Lemonade
this is a frag that a fellow reefer got from steve tyree which he won in a raffle he had a large colony of it so he just gave it too me



Blue unkown ( its not the name i have no idea what it is)



a little better pic of the Ice Fire that i got yesterday



Thanks for looking everyone

PM'd.





GORGEOUS PIECE!

thanks mike i replied to your pm i will down at exotice aquarium on sunday if anyone else in the sacramento area whats to meet up there too. we can have a little informal reefer meet up.

anyone? anyone?


i got frags, lol.

I'm about 98% sure that your unknown a few pictures up is a tabling acro. Nothing else common has the raised corallites quite like that. Very nice piece! The purple rim around that Tyree pink lemonade is just amazing.

Yeah come guys we need to make this a party




yeah thats what i thought but who know whats it going to look like when it grows out. the lemonade is a pretty nice pieace i already have one growing in the tank but like with most pink lemonades it encrust a whole lot but lacks vertical growth.

I would go, buut

Dang, I want your SPS Scotty lol.

hey i am actually coming to yakima in febuary to see my brother graduate from perry tech so if you ask me nice i might bring some stuff

Really? Does he plan on working here in Yakima?

please? Master of SPS

what time ya'll heading out there? i might need to get some fish food

not sure yet..... waitin' on scott's werd.



edit: oh snap... i gets paid tomoro.

Ok ok how about 1 O'clock is that a decent enough time?

Werks fer me....


we're some nerds alright...


this is random... but watcha gonna get scott?

I never plan on getting anything when i go the the LFS since i like the search for new and bad a$$ stuff. But to be honest i probably won't get anything me and nelson don't see eye to eye on prices. I am a serious haggler when it comes to corals LOL

took the werds right outta mah mouf.....



i likes to haggle as well.....

haggle = If the LFS has a ridiculous price on something, i try to talk them down....


lol... maybe we should meet @ YourReef.

j/k

I say you all should meet in WA haha.

hey we can meet at yourreef its 4 mins from my house. I get a lot of free stuff from john but he does have some pricey stuff but it hard to find pricey stuff





where when i lived there i didn't know they had a LFS in yakima other than petsmart and petco. But that was a while back though

crap, i might not be able to make it. my wife wants to hold the boy's bday party tomorrow.

i hear ya about nelson and his prices. you can ask every employee and get a different price!! most of the time, nelson will say its not for sale and then i hear from one of his guys who works for him that he sold it the next day.

You got a cousin in Iowa?
Awesome tank scotty. When I was starting off I learned a lot from your previous iteration of this tank and am really glad to see it return to its former glory!

I don't think so i actully never been to Iowa maybe I'll make the trip

yeah my tank is getting there here it is before i broke it down the first time

10/25/2008

It certainly has more stuff

10/23/2009
what it looks like now minus the bowl of sand and a few more pieces that are in the picture

There isn't anywhere. I have to buy every single thing for my tank online

well thats yakima for you oooh memories the only thing i really liked in yakima was Bert Grants Pub which is now closed what a shame.

hey buddy move down here i have 11 LFS no joke all with in 30mins
JoJo's aquarium
yourreef
extoic aquarium
h20 exclusives
exotic aquarium
aqualife aquarium
Aqua Zoo
Aquarium Depot‎
O Street Aquarium‎
Capitol Aquarium‎
Paradise Aquarium‎

and about 4 or five have closed in the last three years down here

sorry to bum you out LOL

Lol. I guess we have two now that have saltwater. One the owner doesn't like me and the other keeps 15 fish in a ten gallon. They loose almost everything they get in. I just don't want to support them.

That isn't fair at all lol. Yakima is a cool place, good for nature and that kind of stuff but nothing in terms of saltwater.

yeah nature wise its a great place to be my favortie thing to do was to take drives over the passes before they close especially highway 410 and 123 over Mt Rainier

Yup. I am a big outdoor person so I go on hikes and stuff all the time. I don't head over to the west side that often, only when I am on my way to Puget Sound or for family stuff. And we alway stop at at least one fish store on the way back haha.

you know... scott isnt even kidding about the LFS's.
we have ALOT.

i <3 our saturated coral market.


for real tho scott....we should meet at YourReef (if we're both not gonna get anything from Exotic.)

cuz I know i'll pick some stuff up @ YR.



lemme know.

yeah thats fine we should meet at yourreef what times good for you it only takes me 5 mins to get there so since you have to drive the farthest you can pick the time to meet

1pm still good w/ me....


EDIT: now im buyin' stuff.....

Yup thats fine with me too. I'll see you there

shweet.






now i promise i'll stop muckin' up yer thredd.

hey muck it up all you want i never up date it so i dont care LOL

im gonna go see what some a these other threads are doin....



see ya 2moro scott.

Well I have a bit MIA as of late but i have been active i got a few new corals and sold a few corals too i got rid of my RBTA because i don't feed my tank enough to make it viable and healthy.

Atlantis Mirabilis Acropora


A large Cali Tort (sorry about the bad pic)



A free chalice ( it got stung a bit but its healing)



I am get a few corals in for Greg Hiller tommarrow that are going to be for my new up and comming frag system