Gary.F Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Just before the disaster, I gave a few birds nest frags to my friend. Post Disaster, she kindly gave me one back and it seems to be growing already. Green digitata added. I also have some very small green and brown polyps growing at the base of a rock. I'm thinking leptastrea. Anyone else? Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted September 3, 2015 Author Share Posted September 3, 2015 Slightly browned pocillopora added. LFS had a phosphate spike. I'm hoping that it colours up a bit. Quote Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Nice additions 1 Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 Another hitchhiker has been slowly taking shape at the base of a euphyllia. At this point, I'm guessing some kind of Rock Flower Anemone. 2 Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 Zoanthids are crowding around my "Milka" Stylophora. I'm keeping an eye on it and hoping I won't have to take any action. The zoa polyps look like they might not be having it all their own way. Meanwhile, I have MEN. My LFS didn't, apparently, until I pointed them out all over a digitata frag. We continue with this hobby why, exactly? Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 FTS. A couple of new acro's added and some temporary house guests (the clowns). 2 Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 Triton test result gave a surprisingly high copper level which isn't nice. I think it may have done for the Millepora. On the other hand, progress is being made against the MEN. Coral RX, and some deft tweezer work have helped but I managed to get some help in the form of this little guy: He came in after I was satisfied that my target mandarin is happily eating frozen food and wouldn't be out-competed. 1 Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted October 15, 2015 Author Share Posted October 15, 2015 Lost a few tips to clumsiness during all the dipping for the MEN but here's a recent FTS. Waiting on Triton to find out if I still have a copper issue. No idea where it came from. Hope it's going down. 2 Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 Well the copper was actually up despite heavy changes and Detox use. I'm running cuprisorb now and I think that might have to be permanent. Sexy new Stylo added. Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 Took a few shots of the display tank at my LFS today. It's an amazing thing. 1 Quote Link to comment
Slowtwitch Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 That looks about the size of the one I am building Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted November 21, 2015 Author Share Posted November 21, 2015 That looks about the size of the one I am building How big are you going? Quote Link to comment
Slowtwitch Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 How big are you going?96x24x26. Going to look very empty for a little while as I stock it, but should be freaking awesome by next Christmas. Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted November 21, 2015 Author Share Posted November 21, 2015 96x24x26. Going to look very empty for a little while as I stock it, but should be freaking awesome by next Christmas. Inches? That's a swimming pool! Can't wait to see it. Are you going to have a thread here? Quote Link to comment
Slowtwitch Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Inches? That's a swimming pool! Can't wait to see it. Are you going to have a thread here?Most likely. Should be fun to see what people think. Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 A few new pics. Some more growth on the Stylos, Montis and Pavona. The houseguest clowns have been moved on and I went a bit wrasse crazy adding another Blue Star and a couple of flashers. Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Anyone know what this might be? It appeared on the base of a stylo' and has been growing pretty quickly. I thought it was an encrusting montipora at first but it seems to have developed tubular coralites with large polyps emerging from the tips like an acro'. I suppose I'll know if it starts branching. The downside is that my LFS gave me some disturbing news. Apparently, the guy in Indo' who farms the corals uses car body repair putty for the bases. This contains some heavy metals which explains the copper and nickel I have in my tank. I'm going to be removing them where I can but, in places, it isn't easy. My bonsai is encrusting like crazy and I really don't want to start chopping at it. Quote Link to comment
Sunstar Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 nice tank. Very nice. At least you have a reason for the copper and now can do something about it. Which one is your bonsai? The big thing by the zoanthids? 1 Quote Link to comment
braaap Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Wait. You tested and found copper in your tank? If that were the case virtually everything but fish would die off. I have a very hard time believing there is copper in your system. Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 nice tank. Very nice. At least you have a reason for the copper and now can do something about it. Which one is your bonsai? The big thing by the zoanthids? Thanks. It's the one right behind the lineopunctatus flasher in the last pic'. Wait. You tested and found copper in your tank? If that were the case virtually everything but fish would die off. I have a very hard time believing there is copper in your system. I think you'd be surprised at how many tanks do have copper in them. Not all concentrations are lethal to inverts. It was, at the last Triton test, 6.98 ppb, down from a peak of 12.04. I'm running cuprisorb as a matter of course. Quote Link to comment
krusing93 Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 any update on your tank super interested? Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 Thanks. I'll take some snaps today and do a more detailed post. It has been mixed but things seem on track now (yeah, I know exactly what happens when we say that). I've had an Alk spike (caused by an air blockage in the calcium doser) followed by some very high phosphates (I assume from feeding clams to try and help my poor copperband stay fed among his more robust tank mates). GFO reactor in place and things looking a little better. I'll add a better post later today. 1 Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 So the tank currently looks like this: An increase in movement has left the alveopora a bit contracted, It's in the firing ling of that gyre, unfortunately, but you can't please everyone. The Milka continues to grow through all the crap I've managed to throw at it: The spontaneously appearing green acro' has started to throw up branches: That picture also shows the results of the shadowing that is the price we pay for all the benefits of LED. Both the Stylo' and the bonsai acro' have no polyps on the lower sections. I will either augment the lighting with some T5s or replace the Razor with a hybrid (not cheap!!!). It's a shame because LED is great in so many ways. 2 Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted May 12, 2016 Author Share Posted May 12, 2016 Feeling brave/irresponsible/just-plain-smitten so I picked up this stupidly pricey (and probably delicate as arseholes) A. echinata. Let's see how that goes. Quote Link to comment
Gary.F Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 So this shot contains three corals that started growing in the tank. The bottom two on live rock, the top on the base of a now-sea Stylo' frag. The top one is obviously an acropora and I think that the bottom one is probably a Leptastrea. But the middle one? Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
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