steveschuergers 90 gallon Goni heavy mixed reef.

[ESABOE]

NOPE!! I prefer your avatar snow bear! LOL

 

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NOPE!! I prefer your avatar snow bear! LOL

It's a Zebra Striped Grizzly Bear holding a Compound Bow. I think...

 

[ESABOE]

It's a Zebra Striped Grizzly Bear holding a Compound Bow. I think...

He’s quite magnificent! Is it from a game?

 

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He’s quite magnificent! Is it from a game?

Nope, I Bing AIed him. I have some crazy prompts and eventual he popped up and became my avatar.

 

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I have a couple of others that were contenders:

 

[steveschuerger]

This more like me in real life

 

[steveschuerger]

New pics incoming! Dis mounting did some minor moving things, including some mounting of frags. Took out small frag rack .
FTS from last night and this after noon

 

[steveschuerger]

First pics of corals picked up at the Frag Farmers Market that @robanister and I went to.

Trumpet/Candy Cane
Hammer

Hammer

Hammer

2 Gonis

I think this is a real small Goni

 

[steveschuerger]

Ok so took my morning pics. I took the advice of my friend @robanister who came in for a quick visit while grabbing the nano I gave him and did some small but significant to the wavemakers and return. Happy happy with results. And he was the first to see it in person aside from me and my wife , and I’ll throw in , the cat. Now for updated pics of the newbies and of course the tank in general.
All the new corals shown were $20 except the 3 headed hammer which was $25 on a flash sale near the last hour of the event and the Trumpet/Candy cane which was a freebie as the seller didn’t want to take home a dozen rather large branches.
One piece of unfortunate news. My China Wrasse is missing in action this morning.
Edit. China popped out when feeding time came , right after the second squirt of food.

 

[Stang67]

I wipe them with a paper towel... I know in Joel's thread we're talking about the horrors of iron and GHA, but iron in low doses can be beneficial. A lot of corals actually need iron if I remember correctly. I know Reef Builder's says that some SPS use iron for certain colors.

Some Moonshiners dose iron

 

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Some Moonshiners dose iron

I picked a trace me neral with iron and manganese on purpose. For SPS, I want a little of both in the tank. I just don't want too much.

 

[steveschuerger]

Well I did a thing. People had been joking about the “empty spot” in the rocks behind my big red Goni. Took the two Grasshopper Gonis and moved them . Here’s the results. Also moved a smaller Goni to the same area where the grasshoppers were.

 

[kevgib67]

New pics incoming! Dis mounting did some minor moving things, including some mounting of frags. Took out small frag rack .
FTS from last night and this after noon

Wow, your photography skills match your reefing skills!

 

[steveschuerger]

New movies . Get the popcorn!

 

[steveschuerger]

Wow, your photography skills match your reefing skills!

Thanks! Getting there on both counts.

 

[kevgib67]

New movies . Get the popcorn!

Wow, photography, reefing and you can play multiple instruments at the same time, impressive! What is the long wrasse shaped fish with the top half dark and bottom half white? Seems very active.

 

[steveschuerger]

Wow, photography, reefing and you can play multiple instruments at the same time, impressive! What is the long wrasse shaped fish with the top half dark and bottom half white? Seems very active.

Surprise it’s a wrasse lol-Anampses neoguinaicus - China/Half Black wrasse

 

[kevgib67]

Surprise it’s a wrasse lol-Anampses neoguinaicus - China/Half Black wrasse

I’ve never seen or heard of it, beautiful. I guess I I have some googling to do.

 

[steveschuerger]

New coral from @SBB Corals. Except for the torch I have pics from a few hours later

 

[steveschuerger]

And now some whole tank love