xM3THODx Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 5 hours ago, mcarroll said: holy! $500? ...or do you mean the frag was small? It was a 1" frag. What I understand about the history of it's name "$500 efflo" is a frag of it once sold for that amount. 1 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 The name. 😆 Can you imagine: "I have a car for sale. It's the $24,000 pickup." "That's a lot for a used pickup." "No the price isn't $24,000. That's the name." 🙄 6 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 Well since my acropora have grown out to a point where they're almost touching, it's time to do some fragging. So what I've decided to do with the frags is give them away for free to local reefers with an understanding that if my tank ever crashes, I get frags of them back. So majority of the frags will make their way into seasoned hobbyists, but I also decided to give easier sps like the red and green digitatas to reefers new to sps. Changes to the reef are in the works... 5 Quote Link to comment
Sancho Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, xM3THODx said: Well since my acropora have grown out to a point where they're almost touching, it's time to do some fragging. So what I've decided to do with the frags is give them away for free to local reefers with an understanding that if my tank ever crashes, I get frags of them back. So majority of the frags will make their way into seasoned hobbyists, but I also decided to give easier sps like the red and green digitatas to reefers new to sps. Changes to the reef are in the works... I might have some room in my tank for a frag or two 4 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted September 20, 2019 Author Share Posted September 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, Sancho said: I might have some room in my tank for a frag or two You got it my man! I'll let you know when they'll be ready. 4 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted September 26, 2019 Author Share Posted September 26, 2019 I'm happy to see the Walt Disney Acro coming down in price locally. Now I've got to find a spot on the rock work, not likely though until I remove or chop branches from resident colonies. 6 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted September 28, 2019 Author Share Posted September 28, 2019 These two favor colonies grown from small frags have been sold and picked up in a few days. I do hate that they'll be gone but it's necessary because of their sweepers reaching out and getting close to the bases of the acros above. 4 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 End of the month update pic. Last pic before some changes happen. The two favia colonies mentioned in the previous post have already been sold. Next, some acro hedge trimming. Updates will be done as they happen. A couple of topdown shots.... Left: ORA Joe The Coral Right: ASD Birthday Cake 5 1 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Your tank and those corals are just beautiful. You have done a great job. 3 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 17 hours ago, debbeach13 said: Your tank and those corals are just beautiful. You have done a great job. Thank you for the kind words. One thing I've learned with this tank is that I overstocked it with frags in the first 9 months. I've had a visual goal of where I wanted the tank to look like with corals grown out but with sps, they grow however they want. So some frags got lost to others encrusting over them. 3 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 I'm feeling a bit under the weather today and wasn't up for work so much but there's nothing like reefing to lift the spirit, so I got to some things that had to be done. First, so the clam has been somewhat flopping around since he bailed off the rock with the Favia colony I eventually sold, so I made it a clam rock out of glue and sand. It looks pretty happy at the moment, but I see a small gap between the underside and rock so I may have taken it out to remove some material so Mr. Clam can sit flat. Second, I was slowly losing this Cali Tort Sps over the last few months. Stn over a few polyps here and there every few days. With everything else in the tank doing well and growing, I chalked it up as some kind of infection. I took it out and fragged it up and dipped it in Revive. I'll be passing out frags to local reefers to see they can save it and grow it out and hopefully make it's way back to me. Here is a before and during the stn. Pretty weird how it was still growing though. Third, shaping of the sps colonies has begun. Some have overshadowed others and starting to grow into each other. I'm fragging to shape up the reef, kinda like hedge trimming I guess, to allow new growth. Frags from the colonies will be given to local reefers as a bank frag just in case my system crashes. Heres a few fresh-cut frags...I love the gyres because It gives me a platform lay them on as I get the plug ready with glue. 6 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 kinda excited...I'll be picking up some new sps frags from a local reefer within an hour. So stoked I had to post before I pick them up, lol. So new pics and update coming up! The only thing is I really don't know where I'm gonna put them in the reef, absolutely no room! Oh the dilemma when dealing with the reef addiction, it's real! 2 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 24 minutes ago, xM3THODx said: kinda excited...I'll be picking up some new sps frags from a local reefer within an hour. So stoked I had to post before I pick them up, lol. So new pics and update coming up! The only thing is I really don't know where I'm gonna put them in the reef, absolutely no room! Oh the dilemma when dealing with the reef addiction, it's real! Yay! 😃 1 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 On 10/1/2019 at 11:37 AM, xM3THODx said: End of the month update pic. Last pic before some changes happen. The two favia colonies mentioned in the previous post have already been sold. Next, some acro hedge trimming. Updates will be done as they happen. A couple of topdown shots.... Left: ORA Joe The Coral Right: ASD Birthday Cake Looks fab! 1 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 On 10/19/2019 at 1:25 PM, Tamberav said: Looks fab! On 10/19/2019 at 1:24 PM, WV Reefer said: Yay! 😃 Thank you fellow reefers! So I picked up these three sps frags Saturday from left to right...JF Fox Flame, RRU Bananarama, and TGC Cherry Bomb. Pic obviously taken under heavy blue spectrum and the colors aren't great yet, so I included pics that hopefully they'll end up at. Here's how they should end up looking(crossing my fingers). Fox flame on the left and Cherry bomb on the right. I couldn't find a colony of the bananrama though. 5 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 Equipment update: I bought these acrylic wings that the manufacturer of my lighting fixture, Illumagic, made for their new supplement lights but I'm using it to hold my reefbrite fixture. It's really suppose to be a pair of these wings for each side but being frugal I'm using one per side and added wired supports on the ends. I have a pvc placeholder with weights on the back side of the fixture to balance the weight for now because I'm deciding whether to add another reefbrite or wait 7 weeks for illumagics supplemental lighting called vitamini to be available. I can wait because I'll most likely take advantage of the Black Friday sale coming soon. The wings are a great idea to extend the lights 4-5" inches away and at an angle to illuminate the shadowed areas around the coral the main fixture creates. 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Congratulations on your feature @xM3THODx! Thank you for all your contributions to the community all these (nearly 17) years! ❤️ 7 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Congrats!! Well-deserved. 4 Quote Link to comment
xM3THODx Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 Thank you @Tigahboy @Christopher Marks A goal reached and a dream come true! 4 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Congrats! 🎉🍾 awesome tank! 3 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Congrats and Welcome to the club. 3 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Haven't stopped by here in awhile but congrats,well deserved !!! 2 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Congratulations! You have done the work now reap the reward. 2 Quote Link to comment
This guy is extra salty Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Congrats! 2 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 I had a feeling it would be this tank! Grats! 3 Quote Link to comment
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