The Garden -- Rakies shallow SPS cube

[Rakie]

Quick and dirty cell phone pic this morning

 

[Wrangy]

I will buy one of everything if you promise us to buy a nice DSLR and a good quality macro lens!!

dang there's some might fine pieces in there and the new pickups are amazing!!!

 

[Rakie]

I will buy one of everything if you promise us to buy a nice DSLR and a good quality macro lens!!

dang there's some might fine pieces in there and the new pickups are amazing!!!

My internet just came back so now I'm gonna photodump like 30 pictures in a minute lol. I couldn't get a good pic of everything... That's just too tricky with an okay camera. Need a good one, this one can't handle blue only pics very well.

 

[Rakie]

Some of these pictures don't want to work... I don't know why

And here's a few pics of old, and new pickups.


1 UC Lavender Sugouro

2 Battlecorals Hyperberry

3 RRA Diablo (A little rough, a few dead spots, it's glad to be home)

4 $500 Efflo

6 Inland Corals Kaleidoscope

6 WWC Black Widow

7 CB Malefiscent

8 Hugo Snipers Rainbow Stag

9 Unknown Coral I'm working on -- Gemmy.

10 Unknown

11 CaliKid Pre-Release Orange/yellow milli

12 RRU Wicked Milli

13 CK Unnamed

14 RRU Unknown/Red Bull?

15 RRU Prometheus

16 RRU Unknown

17 RRU Angry Birds

18 Golden Jawdropper

 

[Rakie]

19 RRU Red Bull

20 RRU Unknown

21 RRU Rainbow Blossom

22 RRU Rainbow Blossom #2

23 CaliKid Orange Hammer (babiest of babies)

24 Unknown i'm working on -- Gemmy !

25 Unknown I'm working on -- VERY gemmy (bright orange with blue polyps when happy!)

26 Unknown Milli i'm cooking

27 Gold/Orange Milli i'm cooking

28 Gold/Orange milli I'm cooking #2

29 Red/Blue/Green unknown milli I'm cooking

30 Homewrecker

31 Yellow/Gold milli I'm cooking

32 Army of Walt Disni

33 Sermentosa doing it's thing

 

[Wrangy]

I'll definitely take one of everything thanks! ;Pompus

 

[Janci]

@Rakie, beautiful collection. How do you cut the frags so tiny and manage to get them on a plug?

Well @Wrangy, we need to take a trip to Southern California in a couple of months when these frags have fully encrusted and Rakie his CE dosing has paid off.

 

[najer]

Very nice.

 

[Rakie]

@Rakie, beautiful collection. How do you cut the frags so tiny and manage to get them on a plug?

Well @Wrangy, we need to take a trip to Southern California in a couple of months when these frags have fully encrusted and Rakie his CE dosing has paid off.

When you get high end frags they come at 1/2" size usually. Or less.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Does this mean your tank is running well again?

 

[Rakie]

Does this mean your tank is running well again?

Yep. So long as we admit BUBBLES ARE LIFE!

A lot of them are a tad rough around the edges, some dead spots, and a bit pale, but they will all come around quickly.

 

[Rakie]

Double post

 

[ReeferBean]

Did you remove all your live rock?

What new fishies did you end up with?

 

[Rakie]

Did you remove all your live rock?

What new fishies did you end up with?

No way, I've already done that it doesn't help haha. What I needed was a few emeralds and to scrape it off weekly. The emeralds + scraping will do the job. Although I didn't move my coral because of the bubble algae -- I moved them because I got ravenous dinoflagellates from dosing vibrant, and dinos destroy SPS within 24/48 hours. Ask john. They needed to move that day or I'd have a complete tank nuke from dinos.

I added a tiny Tomini tang to help with bubble and he's nipping at it. They stay pretty small, I've never seen one hit 4" so I figure at 1.75" guy will last awhile. All the gobies were gone by the time of the order so none of the gobies.

 

[AngryMike2016]

I just recently put a juvenile Tomini in my 90 tank. What a wonderful, fun little fish. Spends all day picking on the rocks and glass while hanging out with my bullet goby.

 

[Rakie]

I just recently put a juvenile Tomini in my 90 tank. What a wonderful, fun little fish. Spends all day picking on the rocks and glass while hanging out with my bullet goby.

Yeah mine is pretty social too. He likes hanging out with all the other fish in the tank so far. And he's actually nibbling at some bubble algae too.

 

[AngryMike2016]

Nice. In my smaller tank (32 gallon), I noticed a few of the blue leg hermits nibbling on some bubble algae.

After my fluconazole disaster I'm willing to live with bubble & bryopsis as long as it doesn't go beyond minor eye sore stage.

 

[Wrangy]

Well @Wrangy, we need to take a trip to Southern California in a couple of months when these frags have fully encrusted and Rakie his CE dosing has paid off.

I'm down for a Rakie Raid!! I say we don't give him a choice so he can't refuse us and we also FORCE him to upgrade cameras as well hahaha

 

[Rakie]

Nice. In my smaller tank (32 gallon), I noticed a few of the blue leg hermits nibbling on some bubble algae.

After my fluconazole disaster I'm willing to live with bubble & bryopsis as long as it doesn't go beyond minor eye sore stage.

I had a bit of a Fluconazole disaster myself -- Whenever I dose anything that kills algae the end result is dinoflagellates.

I'm down for a Rakie Raid!! I say we don't give him a choice so he can't refuse us and we also FORCE him to upgrade cameras as well hahaha

I'll see about selling a few frag packs to fun'd a real camera, and a quality porthole.

 

[AngryMike2016]

I had a bit of a Fluconazole disaster myself -- Whenever I dose anything that kills algae the end result is dinoflagellates.





I'll see about selling a few frag packs to fun'd a real camera, and a quality porthole.

No dinos for me; but I lost half of my acropora frags and nearly all of my montis. Despite VERY closely monitoring phosphate/nitrate/alk.