Oh, nevermind.....in that case just send some of the pain killers then.




Coral network was it? You said you were an admin yes?

Tried google but got the run around

Sorry, old dude wit poor 'puter skilz

Unfortunately the plug got pulled on the site a few months ago...our head admin (and originator) on the site ran into personal problems and issues and shut it down because she didn't have the effort / desire to keep it going....I had an incredible tank and growth thread on there...I was thoroughly bummed out....

and...BTW...I've been doing 2 tabs every 4 hours of 7.5 mg Percocet....

Hah, I got one of those guys! He's cool, though I NEVER see him out. He hitch hiked on some LR from my buddy's tank

Mitch, I am SOOO sorry you're feeling so bad!!
Here's some "Get Well Soon" flowers and a hug:

Thanks so much Weets...this has been tough....

CorvetteJoe, which one hitchhiked? The Porcelain crab or the Goby?

Hope you feel better mitch!

I'm on the mend....went back for my post-op doctor visit today and convinced him to pull the stents out....painful at the time, he warns that the next 24 hours will be really miserable, but from there on it should be nothing but a memory....

Let's all have a BIG TALL GLASS OF WATER to celebrate!!!!!

I got pictures of the two frags I'm trading for...I'm sooooo stoked over these two....

The first is a nicely encrusted, but a little browned out Hiller's AquaDelight frag.....

That will color up beautifully in my tank, I'm sure....

The second is a nice, fresh cut frag of ORA Hawkins Blue Echinata....


I cannot wait to get these two...they should both be beautiful additions...

ooo you lucky so n so, those will be awesome in your tank!!
Glad you were able to get those taken out, gotta be a miserable experience, so maybe not so lucky so n so

I will frag when they grow enough....you too shall have these and many more once your SPS tank is set up....

dibs on first frag of the hiller aquadelight. That's one of the pieces I've wanted for awhile, the spankey decided to get out so my chances of getting one cheap diminished.

You are the first to ask abot that one, so your spot is assured....you just have to keep an eye on this thread and nudge me when it gets growing well.....

I have a mind like a sieve....

I'm feeling much better today, and hopefully by the end of next week I will be back to my old 100%....I'm tired of being puny.....

Anyway, on the up side...I should be getting my new frags this weekend.....

A sudden unfortunate death of one of my MH ballasts at up a chunk of my recent frag money that was going to go to my frag tank setup, so I'm back to the drawing board on that.....Doesn't it always seem to happen????

I am so pumped about the Blue echinata...I have been after that one for quite a while.....

I just scored big time on a frag swap today....

A member of our club wanted some of my SPS, so she brought me some right nice pieces...two of which I posted pics of, from her tank...the new items are colored down / browned out a bit, but as y'all know, I'm not scared of that....they are resting in the QT for a week, then it will be micro inspect time and into the big tank!!!!

The first frag is one that I have wanted for a long time now, but haven't been able to find affordable, that being the ORA Hawkins Blue echinata....a nice frag if I say so....




Number two is the Greg Hiller's Aqua Delight...a really nice frag, well encrusted and growing nicely....




Third is a little frag of ORA California Blue tort....let's hope I can get it to go crazy like my last one....




The final item is a huge frag / smal colony of Silver Bullet Bonzai....I've never heard of this one, but what I found when I searched it has me all excited about its possibilities...




This next picture IS NOT MY PICTURE....it is a pic of the Mother Colony from which the Silver Bullet Bonzai came...it belongs to a fellow named AcroEd in Ocala, FL....

I can only hope mine turns out this nice.....

Thanks for looking,
Mitch

Wow Mitch!

You did make out well there!

Looking forward to watching these color up and go crazy in your tank.

Good luck with the new additions and I'll ask about some frags in the late fall

Very nice!

Wow Mitch! beautiful frags
That silver bullet has some nice colors!
why have I never posted in this thread...

Damn! Nice scores!

Thanks a lot everybody...and welcome to my tank thread got2envy....

The friend from my club saw all my ecstatic talk about the frags and realized that she thought we were making the swap for her "regular" blue and green echinata, while I thought we were dealing for her Hawkins....so....the communication breakdown was realized and she's going to get me a little frag of the Hawkins too!!!!

I love these pieces and can't wait to see how the Bonzai turns out....totally pumped over these corals....6 more days in the crappy little QT.....I gotta mount some corals in my tank...I have stuff falling all over each other....

We have our quarterly club Frag Event this next weekend...I don't have any money to throw at it unfortunately, but one never knows.....I might come up with a little cash.... So far from what's been posted up, I don't see much that really excites me though.....I may have already had my "Frag Event" for the quarter....

Well, last night I realized that one of the members of my little school of Green chromis' is missing....I have noticed that one of them has been kinda pale and never really came out to feed much....and now I guess he became Serpent Star and fish food.....

I did notice a pretty bad cyano bloom in my fuge this weekend!!!! I guess that must have been my little blue-green fishie!!!! No big deal...the fuge plants will finish him off in no time at all.....

Anyway, the new frags are looking good and I can get another chromis to get the school back up to three....I guess that's supposed to be like a "magic number" for schooling fish....

Very nice score Mitch, and beautiful tank

Thanks so much Mirage...I do the best that I can....Right now I have to dedicate some hard to find money to some new 2 part....that's just sad....

Soooo......the new frags spent 6 days in the QT, under poor lighting.....18W PC over 2 gallons, so they aren't exactly colored up, but....tonight I got out the Jeweler's Loupe and gave them the big inspection....and now they are resting on the frag shelf in the big tank....I am starting to get that old Happy Corals feeling again....

ORA Cali Blut Tort....


Hiller's Aqua Delight.....


Blue Green Acro echinata....


Silver Bullet Bonzai....


After moving a BUNCH of frags out last weekend, the Frag Rack is Jammed Up again!!!!

and that makes me Happy!!!!

Now here are a few pics of some of the other Happy Corals on the rack....
ORA Borealis....


Dinosaur Egg Montipora....


Blueberry Lemonade Acro nasuta....


ORA Marshall Island Blue Bottlebrush....


Things are coloring up nicely...and rapidly becoming Happy Corals....

Enjoy,
Mitch

@ that frag rack!

Yeah, I gotta get some stuff mounted in the tank and off the rack...I just have trouble finding places for everything........The last time I did a count I had over 75 varieties of coral in a 75 gallon display...I gotta try and count them up again goon....

Such diversity!! Love the new additions!

I can't wait for them to color up....I'm also stoked about adding a certain Acan to my collection....do you still have that piece???

I'm going to try and get by this weekend....prolly not today...I gotta see if I can fix my van today, the driver's door latch is stuck and the door will not open, and I have to leave for the ORCA Board Meeting (before the frag event) by like 3:00.....I will try to get by tomorrow....

Gotta tank full of awesome there Mitch

I do the best that I can with my economic constraints....I need to get new two-part soon, and even that takes putting away a little bit at a time....I scrimp and save for the basic consumables and that, along with some good swaps and the occasional frag sales keep me in some pretty neat stuff....

BTW, thanks again, the appreciation of you guys on here really help when the spirits are running low....

You has my appreciation, Sir.

Thanks a Bo-jillion....the appreciation that y'all give to my efforts really brightens my spirits.....

I am really glad I found my way to NR....We have The Mayor to thank for that....I bought some stuff from MVITE, off EBay way back when, and he referred me here....I actually had a Nono then.....

I will have one again as soon as I can put all the parts together.....I think....Does a Frag Tank count as a Nano, as long as it is a separately plumbed and stand-alone setup?

The fact that you are able to do so much on a tight budget is even more impressive and inspiring Mitch.

I miss Mark too. He's off playing with his snakes.
Then again, who knows. Maybe something else by now

Sure, a frag tank counts IMO. Anything < 50g methinks
Old school, you know, "...nothing under 50 gallons should ever be attempted for a successful reef tank yadda yadda blahblahblah "

Funny thing is that my first reef was a 20Long, back in 1986......I got major crap for undertaking that project....folks called me everything but murderer over that....I had it stocked and running for 19 months before a relocation forced sale and breakdown....And EVERY coral in the system was thriving, and growing....

I guess we could say I can do this stuff....I just try to read the livestock and find what does best....I cannot keep freshwater fish alive, I'm not great with softies or zoanthids....but I can GROW some Stoney Corals....go figger....

Hey Mitch, I have some 2 part I could send you til you're able to buy what you usually use.
I got it free at a Frag Swap.
Actually, it's 3 part, with a Ca bottle, an Alk bottle, and a Mg bottle.
It's DT's, think DT's Phytoplankton.
I've used it in my tank and it works fine.
Bottles are part used, but you're welcome to what's left as a temporary stand in.
PM me with your address if you want it.

I appreciate that, but I ought to be okay....I have Angels in my life here locally as well....if I run into a bind, but I ought to be okay...I could move some frags if it became necessary....My Chips grew so much recently that I could very handily cut off some nice frags....

Also, since my system is automated for the two-part, that I would do everything possible to keep the same kind....I use Oceans Blend for that....the owner is a sponsor for our club, and I really have good luck with everything of his that I use....

But God Bless you for offering....

How do you like the ocean's blend? i heard that it's really dilluted. I use natu-reef 2-part. it's a company local to me and the owner's wife delivers the products to the LFS's, that says a lot about his company. it's strong as hell too. it's 1/2 the price of B-ionic aswell.

P.S. i got a video of my mandarins making a false spawning rise, i posted it on the second to last page of my thread.

I use about 30 - 35 ml of each part daily....and I am growing a lot os SPS and LPS....that's in a 90 gallon full system....I will not substitute anything else....I've never heard anybody say it's dilute....

The thing I like the best about it is that it addresses most of the trace elements, already included in the two-part...

And, Oceans Blend is made by one of our club's sponsors, and a friend....I primarily like it because it is wicked consistent....

Well, I cut a couple of frags this past weekend....They are already promised to JKunz....to go along with the others I have for his long-awaited frag pack....number 4!!!!

I have a HUGE frag / not too Mini-colony of the Acropora desalwii....it can be seen on any of a number of frag-rack pics, so I didn't take a new pic of it....and then there is a smaller Mini-colony of the Neon Green Flashlight Acropora chesterfieldensis, whic is visible in a lot of other pics...an nice piece of Orange Pavona maldivensis that is nearly impossible to photograph well, and then the two new frags....They are the real reason for this update....

The first is a pretty good sized hunk of my Appleberry Montipora palawensis....it measures a good 1/2 by 3/4 inch and is just on day 3 of healing up....so it's still a tiny bit shy....

that's a 1 1/2 inch frag tile.....

The second piece is a nice little multi-branch frag of my ORA Blue Acropora millepora.....about 1 1/4 inches tall....
Polyps retracted....


Polyps extended....

the flesh on this thing is amazingly colored.....


Just for fun, I grabbed a detail shot of a part of my new Greg Hiller's AquaDelight....just to see if it's not already beginning to color up....

this is going to be a seriously pretty coral....

I almost forgot to say anything about my newest piece....I helped Akabryanhall with a bunch of fragging a few weeks ago, and he treated me to a frag of his amazing JuicyCorals Pink Panties Acanthastrea lordhowensis....It's two adult polyps and two babies....


top down....


They should lighten up to a sweel rich deep pink.....and these things get as big across as a Quarter!!!!

As always you've got some sweet corals Mitch, hopefully we can start trading once I get this new tank up and some new frags! Did you get anything at the frag swap?

Not this time...I was just there to support the club and the event.....had some unexpected medical, hospital, surgery bills I didn't anticipate this month....no frag money for me.....

There is always next time....and I just LOVE swapping frags....let's get a good swap figured out soon....

Mitch, everything looks awesome!! I can't wait to have my 135 running so u can stop teasing me! Soon my friend, soon.

Jon

Those are some nifty Acans there Mitch! Cnt wait to start putting some more sps in the new tank. BTW, that trick worked a charm. I have put about ten corals from my nano into the corner, and the tang has eaten most of the algae off of each one!

Yup....it would be fun to throw him in your cube for about a week and a half....but he would be a BUTTHOLE to catch......

Oh, and BTW....Thanks a million for those Acans....they are going to be beautiful......I need to get them under moderate light and let it sooth down and get that rich pink.......

I already tried that tbh, but he did not touch a thing. It was more out of necessity, there was a huge ammonia spike and I had to get him out pending a water change. This was a few weeks ago.

Okay....a lot of people have freaked a bit over all the stuff I have stuffed onto my Frag Rack....so....I decided to frame it all well and put up new pics of what all is on it....

These are obviously Left to Right....


I will try to tell everything on the rack, first I will go Left to Right starting with the front. Purple polyp Pink Seriatoporia Birdsnest, Silver Bullet Bonzai Acropora, Dinosaur Egg encrusting Montipora. Back one row is my Blue / Green Acropora echinata, then to the far Right is a frag of Original Superman encrusting Montipora. The far back row is barely visible, it has a Neon Green NoName Favia, tiny Pink Acropora millepora, Neon Green (it really is, it just doesn't photograph) Mystery Acropora....this one came from a guy's huge tank when he was breaking down to move BACK to Hawaii, to begin his Doctoral preparation in Marine Biology at U of H....it was upside down, under the rocks and long forgotten....it had 2 tiny spots of life on it, each about 1/4 inch long. I cut them, mounted them, and let them grow....now it's getting to be a right nice piece....

Middle of the rack.....


Starts with the same pieces from the last pic, then front, L to R is JKunz's frag of ORA Blue Acropora millepora, Then my Blueberry Lemonade Acropora nasuta. Second row is the Superman frag again, then a NoName Green Acropora (this one was completely brown when I got it), behind that one is JKunz's Mini-Colony of my Mindfrying Acropora desalwii (growing out on my rack since March), and then the ORA Marshall Island Blue Bottlebrush. If you look at the lower left area of the Bottlebrush, you can find the Acro Crab

Right End of the rack......


That's my Rainbow Montipora first (this one was given to me, because it was in such poor shape, it was brick red on brick red), then the Greg Hillers AquaDelight Acropora, behind that is the Mike Paletta Blue encrusting Montipora. Back row is the ORA Borealis Acropora, then some ORA California Blue Acropora tortuosa.....

It's a bunch of stuff...and amazingly the rack is just 3 1/2 " X 9 1/2".....

Here are a few other new pics.....

JuicyCorals Pink Panties Acanthastrea lordhowensis....

These guys are still bunking in the QT....

Rainbow encrusting Montipora....

(the white area in the center is new growth not yet colored up...)

Blue Bottlebrush with Acro Crab very visible, lower left....


JK's Blue mille frag again....

I just cut this one a few days ago, it will be well encrusted by the time the pack goes to him!!!!!

It's so cool how you can get stuff thats off color and get it back to beautiful. My rainbow sunburst monti is whitening up. What can I do to treat it, I have moved it closer to the light. Will see how that does, but I'm right in thinking lougals is a nono for sps?

If it is turning white you prolly need to get it into lower light....it should be on the bottom for at least a week or two before moving it up....as long as it has PE and doesn't grow algae it should color back up eventually....

As for iodine dips, I use them on all SPS when I frag.....

I dont know you tell me..do i need to move it to shade?

I would leave it on the bottom and watch it....the polyps still have good color, so it's not technically bleached, it is prolly just pissed at being n all new conditions....Keep an eye on it and if it starts losing a lot of color consider a bit lower light, but otherwise it is prolly just acclimating....less than a week now? Give it some time....

And....be aware that some of these re-coloring tricks I have done have taken over a half a year.....MAJOR patience move.....That's why it seems like I keep some really ugly pieces in my tank....I give them a long time to see if they will turn nice again.....

If that Monti gets too ugly for you to want, just let me know, I will gladly haul it away for you....

Haha not bloody likely, actually i might let you hang onto it to get happy again if it does not do well.