Yea he has fire and ice as well, but he claims these came form another colony he has in his tank which i saw and they are somewhat similar. We will see once its completely colored up and settled.
Yea he has fire and ice as well, but he claims these came form another colony he has in his tank which i saw and they are somewhat similar. We will see once its completely colored up and settled.
Well I got the frag from paradise corals at GRMAS last february or something. Bought 3 polyps. By October/november it was 8 polyps. SUPER SUPER slow grower. Slowest growing coral I have owned. It got a little stagnant so I fragged it up for the lansing swap, well when word around here got out that I fragged it, everyone wanted some so I sold/traded all but 1 polyp. Within about 2 weeks of fragging this one polyp I had 4 babies pop off all at once. So maybe it needed a little fragging and that will be a good sign of things to come. I hope I can frag it again for the lansing swap.
Lol yea I hear ya. I only originally planned to frag a couple off, but so many people wanted some I couldn't quit lol.
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Any updates on this tank?
Man didnt think anybody even followed my tank.
As far as updates, wow where do I start. Completely redid lighting. Sold everything and got 3 lumenarc mini reflectors and 2 250 watt dual galaxy ballasts running 20k radiums. Also added an ice cap running 4 actinic bulbs. Very nice lights.
Then I sold all my zoanthinds and palys. Got really bored with them. Plus in a reef this size, you need something to build the reef in all directions, not just encrust. So I bought about $250 worth of SPS from a local guy. Ended up with 25 frags I believe. They have been in there since mid april. Didnt lose a single frag, and everything is growing at an alarming rate. Im definitely an SPS junkie now. It seems from my experience anyway, every serious reefer ends up an SPS junkie after trying everything else. Im happy with it. SPS is very dynamic with lots of motion and strange growth patterns. Plus it actually looks like there is something in those 220 gallons now.
No new pictures right now. Waiting for everything to grow in better before I do that.
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Oh come on.......post some pics. You need benchmark pics of all the sticks so you can compare growth down the road. Plus, we like to look at pictures...
I simply can't trust people that don't like bacon,
Can't wait to see them update pics. Did you get rid of you Naso?
Fine, you win. Here are some pictures I took the day after I put the SPS in 4/18/11. Just was too lazy to load them to photobucket. As regards the naso, a guy is supposed to pick him up this weekend, but by past experience, he is not sold till hes going down the driveway. I dont want to get rid of him, but Sohal out ranks and theres a decent amount of animosity between them especially around feeding time. There are no wounds, not bite marks or anything. But they have broken some sps in their darting. And I just imagine its like living with a roommate you just dont like, I wouldnt want to do it. So thats why I made the cut.
Anyway, with no further delays, here are the not so exciting pictures. I still have not taken the time to learn how to use my DSLR, so excuse the horrid coloring. Im sure as you know the colors are way better in person.
FTS
New Lighting
Blue Mili?
Palmer Blue
Tri Color
Spongodes
Strawberry fields
Blue Stag
Green Monti
Purple Bonsai
Orange Digi
Green Mili?
Green Slimer
I dont really know the names of SPS yet so if you know the names of any of them that I dont or that I have wrong, please let me know, particularly the ones in the background of the blue stag shot and the two larger milis. Thanks and I hope it was worth the wait.
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Looks good....very nice.
I simply can't trust people that don't like bacon,
Great job! Sorry to hear about your fish! I picked my powder blue over a hippo. Surprisingly the hippo was the aggressive one.
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