Opaquelace: Lalani photo dump time June 2014

[opaquelace]

Beautiful tank op...so clean

 

 

Lovely shots as always kim

tyvm. Kim took amazing photos and she even entertained my children lol. They took photos with their blocks the rest of the day.

 

Kim I took a magic eraser to those rounded corners and it worked wonders. Still need a scraper for the back glass though it's got some fuzz going on.

 

Gena: acan gardens are my favorite! I think I'm going to focus on acans and palys/zoas for a while now. I want the zoas to kind of trail down the rocks until they're under my lobo and then have the acans fill that hole in the sand. After that it will be sps for the top but right now I'm just growing my bonsai. Acros do well for me but for the life of me I can't keep a montipora cap for anything. I wish I had your chili pepper monti cap. It's beautiful!

[Lalani]

tyvm. Kim took amazing photos and she even entertained my children lol. They took photos with their blocks the rest of the day.

 

Kim I took a magic eraser to those rounded corners and it worked wonders. Still need a scraper for the back glass though it's got some fuzz going on.

Hehe, the kids are adorable

Glad the magic eraser worked!

[opaquelace]

My lobo was hungry. It ate three New Life Spectrum pellets and it's so fat right now.

[opaquelace]

Had to reef epoxy over some pesky blue cloves that came in on a frag and had started taking over. I still have one big clump in the back to epoxy over but I ran out.

Looks silly right now but it got the job done!

[RollaJase]

I use the white epoxy regularly. Don't worry, it only looks silly for a week or so before it starts to turn green and in a month or so the Coraline will take over .

[gena]

Is the right of center fluff-ball, cloves????? It looks so cool!!!!!! I love this tank so much Can't wait to see it with the acan garden and SPS filling in the top .

Gena: acan gardens are my favorite! I think I'm going to focus on acans and palys/zoas for a while now. I want the zoas to kind of trail down the rocks until they're under my lobo and then have the acans fill that hole in the sand. After that it will be sps for the top but right now I'm just growing my bonsai. Acros do well for me but for the life of me I can't keep a montipora cap for anything. I wish I had your chili pepper monti cap. It's beautiful!

I wish I would have planned for one when setting up my cube. I have a few on the sandbed, but would love a rock full. Oh well....in the future .

 

Thank you . My green monticap is a season's greetings, I believe. I think the chili pepper is an encrusting monti, IIRC.

[opaquelace]

Right if center is actually a very happy and fluffy pagoda cup. I love it being almost a center piece. It moves so pretty with the mp10. Maybe I'll get Kim to make a gif image of it next time she's over.

 

I can't wait for the bonsai acro to start branching out more. It's really happy where it is. Encrusting more every day and getting a really nice purple color to it. I think I want a rainbow Millepora next but I think milleporas are hard to keep so idk. Right now though it is just expand the acan garden and the zoanthid/paly area.

[gena]

Right if center is actually a very happy and fluffy pagoda cup. I love it being almost a center piece. It moves so pretty with the mp10. Maybe I'll get Kim to make a gif image of it next time she's over.

 

I can't wait for the bonsai acro to start branching out more. It's really happy where it is. Encrusting more every day and getting a really nice purple color to it. I think I want a rainbow Millepora next but I think milleporas are hard to keep so idk. Right now though it is just expand the acan garden and the zoanthid/paly area.

The shape and texture of that pagoda is so awesome! I would have never guessed pagoda, only because I'm not familiar with them at all. Very cool coral!!!!

[opaquelace]

The shape and texture of that pagoda is so awesome! I would have never guessed pagoda, only because I'm not familiar with them at all. Very cool coral!!!!

It's so fluffy and awesome. They look like little tiny duncan heads on a teal disc. Anywho, new pictures. Very crappy ones compared to when Kim came to take photos lol, but photos anyway!

 

Here is the bonsai. Growing like crazy (encrusting more mainly) and coloring up wonderfully.

The teal/orange lobo:

3 baby yumas!

The two rock nems that are visible. The orange one is still in hiding after being partially eaten. It looks almost fully healed up so I'm hoping it comes back out soon.

The neon green toadie Kim gave us. Probably twice the size and growing every day. I love it.

Small gold and baby blue yuma. I'm ready for this thing to grow up some more.

FTS

And the frag rack with my palys from Lawnman:

[Lalani]

Everything looks great, Cam! And yay for new fragzies

[opaquelace]

Everything looks great, Cam! And yay for new fragzies

Hey! Sorry I haven't gotten in touch with you about my acro frag or anything we've been in the hospital with Silas since 2 am Tuesday and now Lou is in the ER for the same thing. Hopefully sometime next week?

[glennr1978]

Hey! Sorry I haven't gotten in touch with you about my acro frag or anything we've been in the hospital with Silas since 2 am Tuesday and now Lou is in the ER for the same thing. Hopefully sometime next week?

 

 

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope your little one's feel better soon!

[gulfsurfer101]

Poor babies. Hope they get better real soon. Love that mandarin. I think I may add one soon, one my pod population gets out of control here soon enough. I had tons and tons of them in both my 20L's but after combining them into a bigger tank, I don't see as much as I used to.

[Lalani]

Hey! Sorry I haven't gotten in touch with you about my acro frag or anything we've been in the hospital with Silas since 2 am Tuesday and now Lou is in the ER for the same thing. Hopefully sometime next week?

Oh hell, girl, don't worry about. Its not like I'm going to give it away to somebody else, lol. Whenever the kids are better and things have calmed down

[gena]

Hey! Sorry I haven't gotten in touch with you about my acro frag or anything we've been in the hospital with Silas since 2 am Tuesday and now Lou is in the ER for the same thing. Hopefully sometime next week?

Oh my gosh . Sending healthy vibes your way!!!!!

[opaquelace]

Oh hell, girl, don't worry about. Its not like I'm going to give it away to somebody else, lol. Whenever the kids are better and things have calmed down

Thanks! I'm in bed now puking and silas is home so that's one good thing. I don't feel terrible so I'm hoping it doesn't last long. Have some zofran too since the ER doctor prescribed a few extra for me today too. Once this clears our system I want that frag!

[opaquelace]

Oh my gosh . Sending healthy vibes your way!!!!!

So, I bought the whole family a get well scolymia. It's a new thing. Anywho, here's a picture! It's pink and green. And when I say pink I mean fluorescent baby pink. Super cool.

 

[Pinner Reef]

Thats a victory over illness present for yourself... admit it.

That said, well deserved from what I read. Good to hear everyone is back up to speed.

Really cool color distribution on the Scoly tho.

[opaquelace]

Definitely. I had 24 hours to take care of myself and then it was back to taking care of 2 sick kids and a sick husband but we're all better now finally. The scoly almost looks like it has green pimples everywhere. It's pretty neat looking and it's starting to inflate. I think I found a good spot for it.

[gena]

That scoly is AWESOME! I've never seen one like it before. Nice pick up!!! Yay for everyone being healthy again .

[Acielot]

Cool! I just got an orange one the other day with some green highlights. Very slow eater though :/

[opaquelace]

That scoly is AWESOME! I've never seen one like it before. Nice pick up!!! Yay for everyone being healthy again .

I figured you would like it. It has delicate coloring I really like the fuzzy appearance and decided to get that instead of a plate coral.

[gena]

I figured you would like it. It has delicate coloring I really like the fuzzy appearance and decided to get that instead of a plate coral.

I DO! A LOT!!!!

 

I wish I could find something that pretty and cool looking locally. I'm sure if I traveled a bit I could but I want to find that down the street at my LFS .

[opaquelace]

I DO! A LOT!!!!

 

I wish I could find something that pretty and cool looking locally. I'm sure if I traveled a bit I could but I want to find that down the street at my LFS .

Best thing about it was it was $69. I kind of gave the guy at my LFS the narrow eye. Like, "are you sure?" I feel $69 is a fair price but I was expecting it to be more especially since they usually charge out the butt for plain stuff anyway. I got a better picture of it today all fluffy and stuff. It's so nice. I think with tax return money (after I pay off recent hospital bills lol) I'm going to buy a pot of gold favia and a rainbow acan frag, possibly a strawberry shortcake acro. I can't decide! Anywho, better pictures..and of course blues turned all the way down because LEDs be crazy in the camera.

 

 

Kim is bringing an acro frag she picked up for me and we're going to frag her a piece of my sinularia. Maybe I'll convince her to take some pictures of my tank again.

My lobo. The center is actually fluorescent orange it's just hard to capture. It's gotten huge too. Gets regular feedings of pellets several times per week. I find everything is happier eating pellets.

My orange flower anemone making a slow comeback. I turned the rock around because I was tired of it hiding. I didn't buy it so it could hide all the time. Sheesh.

My green and yellow flower anemone has made a home in the sand. It's attached to the bottom of the tank and seems to like its location.

My metallic orange mushroom jumped ship and left this behind. I'm hoping it turns into another mushroom (or a few). And now it's back on the frag rack waiting to attach to something. I have never in my life had so much trouble getting a mushroom to attach to some damn rock.

I'll have to find a spare one of these for Kim when she's at my house too.

 

This little yuma needs to GROW! It's pastel blue/lavender with bright yellow on it. Love it. But it's so darn tiny still

Sunny D in the front, pink and golds (another polyp already made too, sheesh) and CAA in the back.

The yuma from Kim that's dropping babies like there's no tomorrow.

[gena]

Everything looks great!!!! I need to move my yuma from Kim to the pico where it can attach to some rocks and start popping out the babies too . I think it's the healthiest yuma I've ever owned!!!!