Here are the corals from the full tank shot.
This is before I got the baby blue Caulestrea. I am having difficulty finding a picture of it. I may not have taken one. Weird. I usually put pictures of everything in there.
---------- Post added at 11:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:53 AM ----------
Its been a year since I posted on my build. WOW! I can't believe I have been so negligent in keeping this up to date. In April I had to have shoulder surgery due to tearing the labrum and rotator cuff. The Labrum was torn completely loose from the bone and had to be reattached. It was a very painful recovery. 2-3 months out from completely my physical therapy I was diagnosed with B. Cancer. I had to stop therapy and go in for surgery July 30, 2012. I got MRSA which I had for 8 weeks and was totally laid up.
After the shoulder surgery I was very limited so my tank suffered from sporadic water changes. I had to get help lifting the water into the mixing chamber. Then when I had the cancer surgery I could not even go down the stairs. So my daughter came to help me at home right after the cancer surgery and did 1 big water change before she left. She knew nothing about it and tried to do as i directed from the upstairs as I could not go down stairs yet.
She had to return home to NC and 8 weeks later I still had not been able to check my tank out or do water changes. I was just about ready to drain it and switch to FW, as I am not supposed to be in fishwater during chemo, when several Michigan Reefers offered to help me. During this time all of my corals died. I discovered when Andy from Reef Paradise came over to help my salinity was pretty low.
We are now back up to normal in my parameters after a few water changes. The good thing is I have a pretty good sized sump downstairs so the algae didn't get too bad with a Yellow Tang in there to eat it up.
So I just got a few frags from another reefer a few days ago. The only thing that was left living is a couple of hairy mushrooms and 2 frags of Caulestrea that are very bleached out and closed up. I am not sure if they will make it or not. We will see. SO here is what I just added to the tank. The pictures are a bit blurry as I just snapped them with my phone. I know, my bad. I should get my Nikon out. Maybe I will later.
Flames of **** Lepastrea 11/2012
Frogspawn 11/ 2012
Duncans 11/2012
Red & Green Blastomussa 11/2012
Yellow Polyps 11/2012
Mini Bubbletip Anemone 11/2012 This is a terrible picture. Will try again later.
So that is my start again on my corals. I feel like I am almost completely starting over. I also lost all my clean up crew so am going to have to buy some snails and crabs.
I started slow on my fish as I wanted to get exactly what I wanted. Not just throw any ole fish in there. What did I do? I took a few Pajama Cardinals off a guy. Started with 4 and now have 2. They are HUGE and love shrimp like a tasty snack. So the shrimp I bought never even made it to the bottom of the tank. argggggg. I may get rid of them so I can get a few shrimp to go in there. Am also debating on a watchman goby and pistol shrimp.
Reply With Quote
