"The Reef"

[GOODgREEF]

I bought the zooanthids at Petco for $10.00! Probably has around 70 polyps on it. Would go for at least 70.00 at my LFS. The guy at Petco rang it up as a small pieice of live rock which cost me a $9.99! The zooanthids arent in great shape but hopefully i can bring it back. Any advice on what i should be dosing other than calcium and iodine? I have seen some reef keepers have choosen to stay away from dosing iodine. Any thoughts??

 

Here is a side view of the zooanthids along with one of my clowns.

 

That's a really dumb person at petco. But yeah Good find!

[bhskicker18]

I like your rock work in your first picture! Sorta unique

[jeirdo]

Looks great man! Do you have a stock hood? If so, how is that monti cap doing? I hae a stock biocube and have heard about montis doing fine under the pc lighting.

[abollenb]

Looks great man! Do you have a stock hood? If so, how is that monti cap doing? I hae a stock biocube and have heard about montis doing fine under the pc lighting.

 

the monti is doing great...has awesome color and has shown some nice growth

[abollenb]

Update...Tank is just over 6 months old and really doing great. Parameters are near perfect and my corals are all thriving and growing. Moving soon....any suggestions on moving a reef tank over 6 hrs.

 

 

 

pics

[abollenb]

Corals

1. Zooanthids
   
2. Button Polyp
   
3. Frogspawn
   
4. Kenya Tree
   
5. Trumpet Coral
   
6. Xenia
   
7. Pom Pom Xenia
   
8. Green Striped Mushrooms
   
9. Red Mushroom
   
10. Green Flourecent Mushroom
    
11. Orange Monti
    
12. Green Apple Monti
    
13. Birdsnest
    
14. Green Star Polyps
    
15. Brown Star Polyps
    
16. Mystery Coral (can't ID)
    
17. Deep Water Acro
    

 

Can anyone ID the coral in the picture all the way to the right of the birdnest.

[hb2envy]

Corals

1. Zooanthids
   
2. Button Polyp
   
3. Frogspawn
   
4. Kenya Tree
   
5. Trumpet Coral
   
6. Xenia
   
7. Pom Pom Xenia
   
8. Green Striped Mushrooms
   
9. Red Mushroom
   
10. Green Flourecent Mushroom
    
11. Orange Monti
    
12. Green Apple Monti
    
13. Birdsnest
    
14. Green Star Polyps
    
15. Brown Star Polyps
    
16. Mystery Coral (can't ID)
    
17. Deep Water Acro
    

 

Can anyone ID the coral in the picture all the way to the right of the birdnest.

 

Those are Blastomussa Merletti,

Blastomussa Merletti have smaller polyps and Blastomussa Wellsi have bigger polyps.

[abollenb]

I haven't updated this post in a long while. Since my last post I have had to move the "The Reef" 3 times in a three month time. I didn't lose any corals in all 3 moves except a small frag of green cap. I just rearranged the rock landscape creating a cave and removing about 5 pounds of live rock.

[Addinali]

very nice tank i will be following this one.