Spencer's Sexy Small Polyped Sixty: From Frags to Riches (Retired)

[mpsti05]

Thanks man! I look forward to checking out your new setup!

 

I do have a cali-tort frag if you would ever want a piece. Don't know if $30 + shipping would be worth it though. (I'll take a pic just in case )

Lol I'm sure my lfs will get some more in eventually. I'm excited about the new tank, more room for the fish and more coral plus I'll finally be able to have some awesome equipment. Real skimmer etc...

[frags]

You have a great collection of sticks! Its looking great.

[Spencer7]

You have a great collection of sticks! Its looking great.

Thanks man, you too!

 

GL with the MD gig!

[GtTap]

Amazing!!! loving the simple clean look and those acans on the right really took off.

[Spencer7]

You guys are too kind. I was going to upload this later but...

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[Spencer7]

I just changed out my bulbs, the layout has been updated on Post #1.

 

 

Some of you may be excited for me to completely update my corals list and post a few pics tomorrow!

 

 

Tank looks clean and the SPS looks happy. I'm so happy with my Reverse Prism Favia that I'm considering getting another, if I can't I may just have to go back to acans .

 

If anyone can get me a piece of golden RPF or any nicely colored piece outside of the kind I have, I will pay.

[Spencer7]

Hey Guys!

 

Guessed what I spent my last hour doing?!?!

 

It's needed to be updated for a while. Enjoy. (It's on the first post as well)

 

Corals (Left Island)

 

Rainbow Stylo (Great PE, Great Color, Med. Growth)

Setosa (Great Color, Med. Growth)

PC Rainbow (Rarity, Med. Color, Slow Growth)

NL Granulosa (Awesome Growth Pattern, Good Color, Med. Growth)

Periwinkle Stag (Good Potential but hasn't done anything yet, should become white with blue tips)

Bonsai (Great Color and Contrast,Good PE, Fast Encrusting)

Brown/Purple Table (Maricultured, Fast Grower, Starting to develop bright blue growth tips!)

Brown Table Frag (Encrusts like crazy, Poor Color, Made as insurance for mother colony)

BC "The Shag" (No growth, Med. Color, Great PE)

Green Tenius (Used to grow very fast, has since stopped, Lost some of its blue, Fluorescent, Good PE)

BC Nukeberry (Slow Growth, Colors up better everyday, Great Potential)

Brown Mille (Maricultured, Fast Grower, Great PE, Bad Color so far, I think I can make a nice piece)

R Prism Favia (Awesome coral, Just moved up from the sand bed, Amazing Flourescence, Decent Grower)

Green Sarmentosa (2nd Gen. Maricultured, Good Growth, Med. Color)

 

Corals (Right Island)

 

Pearlberry (Awesome Coral, Used to grow very fast, Recovering from Red Bugs)

Green Acan (I've owned this for over three years, MASSIVE, Has eaten fish)

Purple Table (Fastest Grower in the tank by far, Great Growth Pattern, Tricolor-Esque, High Light)

Blue Sympodiums (Remain Hidden in the Shade, Haven't Grown at all, Nice Color)

Cali-Tort (Great Color, Great PE, Great Growth, He's a Winner)

Pink Loripes (Frag Swap, No Growth, Very unique color, Low-light)

Blue Unknown (Frag Swap, Blue, No Growth, Shadowed by Purple Table, Mille-Esque)

Purple Unknown (Called a Purple Granny, Med. Growth, Tricolor-Esque, Red-Bug Magnet)

Crayola Plana (Unknown, Color has changed like crazy, Very Unique, Just started growing after months)

BC Unknown (Added as a Freebie, Just moved up from sand bed to get lighter colors)

 

Corals (Sand Bed)

 

Purple Maxima Clam (I've owned for three plus years, Med. Growth, Sentimental Value, Meh Color)

Blue Maxima Clam (Frag Swap, Better Color, No Sentimental Value)

4x Bonsai Frags (Fast Growers, Great Color)

2x Sarmentosa Frags (Same as Mother, One Big, One Small)

Purple Table Frag (Encrusts like crazy, Med. Color, Will get better with more light)

Unknown (No Clue Acro, Maricultured, Fast Grower, Blue Tips, Could be anything, Very Exciting,

Calit-Tort Frag (Just like his father)

Crazy Chalice (Green with Golden Eyes, Have no clue, Could be $$$, Not a Chalice Guy)

Green Efflo (Moved down, Maricultured, Lost almost all zooxanthellae, Hair Algae has harassed it)

Pink Lemonade (Questionable ID, Has been in tank since beginning, Oddity in Growth and Color, Finicky)

[mpsti05]

Jesus! I'm jelly! And also more excited about my new tank... Finally will have equipment that is bigger and better and can actually handle the bio load I have. Im gonna have to ninja in to your place to jack some of those sps

[Spencer7]

Test Results (1.26.14)

 

PO4 - 0.1

Ca - 500

KH - 8.5

Mg - 1350

[Spencer7]

Tank looks good, spent a lot time during the water change removing algae, like always.

 

This time I used some scissors on the hair algae and had a small going next to the blades.

 

Moved a few corals up from the sand bed. The left island is completely packed with acros, I need more on the right island.

 

No coral looks "bad"

 

Maybe i'll do some pics this weekend.

[Spencer7]

I think I'm going to get 3 frags from Cultivated, one no name, one double frag of Yellow Cake, and one frag of Oh So Blue.

 

Exciting stuff.

[Spencer7]

Pic Dump (2.4.14) I Apologize for the Algae!

TriColor Table by spencermatonis, on Flickr

TCT by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Loripes by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Blue Poo by spencermatonis, on Flickr

NLG by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Brain Teaser by spencermatonis, on Flickr

This is under normal lighting and normal camera settings, no editing. Product of Zeovit.

Traffic Cone Tenius by spencermatonis, on Flickr

SSC Top-Down by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Sorry for the blur

PC Rainbow Top-Down by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Nukeberry is starting to look like it's supposed to...

BC Nukeberry by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Rainbow Stylo by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Spencer's Turd is growing!

Brown Table by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Bonsai Top-Down by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Where's the coral?

Fuzz by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Spencer's Blue Poo!

Blue Unknown Top-Down by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Cali Top-Down by spencermatonis, on Flickr

TriColor Table by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Setosa by spencermatonis, on Flickr

RPF by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Bonsai and Co. by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Cali by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Cali Baby by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Card. by spencermatonis, on Flickr

PC Rainbow by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Top Dog by spencermatonis, on Flickr

Black Fin by spencermatonis, on Flickr

[mpsti05]

As usual everything looks great! Phew I thought I was the only one with these patches of algae

[Spencer7]

As usual everything looks great! Phew I thought I was the only one with these patches of algae

I don't wanna talk about it. I feel ashamed.

 

Saltwater is going on the back burner for a bit. School seems to be kicking up among other things (vacation, money, baseball, freshwater ), the last two things going on with this tank for a while will be the new frags I'm adding and some algae trouble shooting.

 

Thanks

[Spencer7]

Costa Rica is da bomb.

 

Tank is being taken of nicely.

 

As long as the house doesn't lose power while I'm gone, we're all good. (Knock on wood)

 

An official FTS will be posted when I get back.

[Spencer7]

Official FTS posted!

 

DSC_0005 by spencermatonis, on Flickr

[RollaJase]

Love teh FTS, tank looks great.

[Spencer7]

Love teh FTS, tank looks great.

Thanks daawwwg.

[4x5]

Looking really good.

[Bella's Reef]

Awesome looking tank, nice selection of sticks.

[Spencer7]

Awesome looking tank, nice selection of sticks.

 

Looking really good.

 

Thanks guys.

[Spencer7]

Check back later in the day as I will be posting PAR numbers on the FTS using an Apogee meter.

 

I will take the PAR of the roughly 8 month old bulbs I used, and the relatively new, one month old set I have on now.

 

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[Spencer7]

I am happy with the numbers!

300 seems like the average.

The middle column of the tank is packing with light.

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[Spencer7]

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[Spencer7]

^ Setting up a nice ADA tank if anyone was curious.

 

I'm not dead and neither is the tank. Everything is doing well, growing and PE.

 

I'm starting to rid of the tank of algae, the to-do list below is mainly concerning my algae attack plan (AAP).

 

 

Start dosing Bi-Ionic (Instead of FM)

Buy an automatic doser

Restock on some Zeovit products

Get a sea hare temp. (if I have to)

Take some pics

 

Add a few small hermits

Start dosing TechM (Instead of FM)

Add some emerald crabs

Add a tuxedo urchin

Add a turbo (we only had one)

 

 

So far the normal bryopsis is thinning out rapidly, meanwhile my bubble algae and Bryopsis Pennata (< the worst ) are seemingly unfazed.