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great tank, thanks for sharing all the pics!
December 2010 Update
All right, time for an update.
I had a terrible summer - which started w/ a dino bloom that killed my ritteri anemone and most of my snails, and caused a lot of bleaching (but not death).
Things just started to improve recently and I have good calcification again. It basically STOPPED for the summer - which I'm now attributing to the AC running all the time in the fish room. I think I must have "bad air" in there aka low O2 and low pH.
Here are recent pix, shot today:
Left Side:
Middle:
Right Side:
Selective Eye Candy:
Last but not least, big daddy gigas:
I still have some work ahead of me. The lettuce slugs have been mowing down the bryopsis I got from a frag, and the new snails I got to repopulate, are just starting to get the job done. But we're back in business!
And yes, that is a Red Planet that is approaching table-top status.
Cheers and merry Christmas everyone.
James
All right, time for an update.
I had a terrible summer - which started w/ a dino bloom that killed my ritteri anemone and most of my snails, and caused a lot of bleaching (but not death).
Things just started to improve recently and I have good calcification again. It basically STOPPED for the summer - which I'm now attributing to the AC running all the time in the fish room. I think I must have "bad air" in there aka low O2 and low pH.
Here are recent pix, shot today:
Left Side:
Middle:
Right Side:
Selective Eye Candy:
Last but not least, big daddy gigas:
I still have some work ahead of me. The lettuce slugs have been mowing down the bryopsis I got from a frag, and the new snails I got to repopulate, are just starting to get the job done. But we're back in business!
And yes, that is a Red Planet that is approaching table-top status.
Cheers and merry Christmas everyone.
James
First I need to know where you got your rock because those nudis are awesome! If you ever need to get rid of this one lemme know, lol:
Second, when that Oregon blue tort gets fragged in a move or a cleaning I wanna be first in line! Who did you get if from? A beautiful specimen:
These are real beauties too:
Aww heck, just call me if anything in there gets fragged and I will come running with baggies and cash!
Beautiful tank James!
Second, when that Oregon blue tort gets fragged in a move or a cleaning I wanna be first in line! Who did you get if from? A beautiful specimen:
These are real beauties too:
Aww heck, just call me if anything in there gets fragged and I will come running with baggies and cash!
Beautiful tank James!
That's some good growth, Though it does look like it lost some color...
Everything has lost color - it was even more bleached before. So there IS a big difference there. I think as the year rolls on things will change color again.
Scott: I got those frags from Leslie Douglas.
The nudis came on the LR from Indonesia (Alor).
Cheers
James
Scott: I got those frags from Leslie Douglas.
The nudis came on the LR from Indonesia (Alor).
Cheers
James
jamesw said:
Thank you.
jamesw said:Holy cow! I just noticed this:
Red planet from May:
And from today (December):
Cheers
James
Its amazing, but if you look closely at the photos and ignore the discoloration you can see the original coral almost completely unchanged behind a section of new growth. Its almost as if a new coral were taken and placed in front of the old one. What is it that causes the old to not grow as much but for a new head to sprout and grown to almost the size of the original colony?
Andrew: which coral? Can you link the pic? Everything that is that high up in the tank gets a LOT of flow. I have an Iwaki 55 on closed loop + 2 MP40's for circulation.
Scott: The coral is adapting to the new environment - both light and flow. It left the old branches and added a bunch of new ones both toward the front of the tank and toward the back. Trippy huh?
Cheers
James
Scott: The coral is adapting to the new environment - both light and flow. It left the old branches and added a bunch of new ones both toward the front of the tank and toward the back. Trippy huh?
Cheers
James
Yeah, I was wondering if maybe that was due to some sort of survival instinct. Perhaps it was a response to the change in environment (i.e. lights and or new tank) so the coral stopped its original growth and started new points of growth in new places hoping to overcome whatever change it was in order to try to survive the extreme difference in environment. Just a theory (a barely educated guess, lol), no real science behind my rambling.
Yep, that's what the frag looked like when I got it. Now it looks like this (lower right):
It gets moderate flow - the tentacles stay out and they get moved around quite a bit - but not blasted.
Cheers
James
It gets moderate flow - the tentacles stay out and they get moved around quite a bit - but not blasted.
Cheers
James
