The Garden -- Rakies shallow SPS cube

[GoVols]

lol, thanks. I'm too critical of the pictures, wish I could get them more accurate.

lol!!!
Their great!!!
You just got a little OCD going on, but (lol)... I'm the last one to talk to about that problem ;Wacky

Rakie,
Hitting the hay and hope you have a great night.

 

[Rakie]

lol!!!
Their great!!!
You just got a little OCD going on, but (lol)... I'm the last one to talk to about that problem ;Wacky

Rakie,
Hitting the hay and hope you have a great night.

lol, thanks buddy. I definitely fall prey to OCD on occasion.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Everything is just a gray/blue tinged color.

Really? I thought that was pretty accurate... ;Muted

 

[Rakie]

Really? I thought that was pretty accurate... ;Muted

Individual pictures are accurate, but the FTS never looks right.

 

[Rakie]

Well, I'm proud of my little leopard wrasse. He's finally figured out I'm the food monster, and he has learned that mysis are indeed delicious. It took him 4 days of solid hiding, 2 days of playing peek a boo, and 3 more days of nibbling at and spitting out mysis and brine... But after all this time, he's now out most of the day, and today finally produced a poop.

I've never been more proud of a fish for pooping. Now I know he's eating enough to poop, I think he's gonna be good.

And that anthias is nowhere near cryptic, he's out constantly. So is the yellow assessor now that I think about it... Cryptic stuff doesn't stay cryptic for long in my tank.

 

[Rakie]

The unthinkable has been done. At least 2/3 of it.

Lunate getting Maley

Anthias alive and poopin

Something I got from Daniel

Aussie tabling acro

Acany thing

 

[Rakie]

A non stick for once

 

[Rakie]

So got a few goodies this weekend at RAP.

The non wild goods I got from Daniel (no pix, too small)
- WWC Black Widow
- Tyree Pinky the Bear
- Tierra Del Fuego
- Home Invasion
- IDK Text Me
- And one dead Gender Predictor :'(

As for the Wild Goods, I ended up with these guys.
- Wild SPS Colony

- Big Favia

- Big Acan colony

These last guys need some time to color up. Maybe they'll turn into gems given time.. We shall see !

 

[Rakie]

So lame word-based update.

- ATI Essentials --> Awesome, I love it.

ATI Essentials has made a fairly good impact already. The few pouty corals I have got with the program, one or two went from no PE ever to great PE. Had a non growing frag start taking off, and a few frags that were suffering from color issues due to my previous dinos start coloring up. New growth is going well, and surprisingly I'm seeing a shift in growth patterns. A few of my corals just grew and singular sticks, which I found really odd. Coincidentally, they began growing a ton of new arms once I switched to two part.

Growth is ramping up, colors are coming in better, PE is better. I rescued an Ultimate Orange Passion from an abusive reefer (@CoralNerd)

All in all, things are going quite well.

 

[Rakie]

So here's a non-lame photo update. Because corals.

PC Superman Growing quite a bit each week.

Front right section of the tank

Right Frag Rack frontal view

Right Frag Rack right view

Left Frag Rack frontal view

The whole tank

This was my first time trying to take pictures with my iPad. I actually had to turn down the saturation on some pics, the ipad seems to really show off the pop in everything, but makes reds a lil suspect.

 

[bubbaque]

Looks like things are starting to take off!

 

[Rakie]

Looks like things are starting to take off!

Yep, after a long lazy break they're finally back to growing. Everything is growing, some faster than others but nothing is stalling. Color is developing well too. It'll take a lil more time on the color to get where it was, but everything looks positive

 

[Rakie]

30 days growth

 

[bubbaque]

Looks like one of the tips is growing in a spiral, looks cool.

 

[ReefJCB]

Beautiful frags, excited to watch the growth.

 

[Steven Garland]

Thats some awesome growth for such a short period of time !!

 

[Rakie]

Just a couple pics. At least once a week I try and sharpen my photography skills, and I use my tank... May as well put it up here.

Pink lemonade

Fox Flame

Front Right Side

Wild "Gold" Milli (Like the heel on a loaf of bread, lol)

Wild pink encruster

BeachBum

Something that just started growing...

MDR Rainbow Fail

Vivid Rainbow

Tierra Del Fuego

Tyree Pinky the Bear

A Non-Coral LPS thing

My typical view

 

[Rakie]

And a couple top-down shots I forgot

 

[GoVols]

- ATI Essentials --> Awesome, I love it.

Tagging

 

[Daniel@R2R]

And a couple top-down shots I forgot

Great-looking photos, bro!