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Ok, so I got y'all some early morning lights pics before I left yesterday.
These Stargazer zoas are taking off, and I love it. Four, yes f-o-u-r, new babies in the last few days.
These Stargazer zoas are taking off, and I love it. Four, yes f-o-u-r, new babies in the last few days.
najer
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Ok, so I got y'all some early morning lights pics before I left yesterday.
These Stargazer zoas are taking off, and I love it. Four, yes f-o-u-r, new babies in the last few days.
Base flesh looks great, they look very healthy.
C-Reefer
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JKS is my favorite for corals, best prices and corals in town. Aquarium IMO is only good for freshwater fsish and equipment, and saltwater only for equipment. Corals are overpriced, but fish are a good price.
Didn't know you were so close! Were you at the Smokey mountain coral expo? Wish I'd known, we could've met up or said hey.
Those stargazers look great Robin.
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I took a pic of these too, they are the Jungle Juice zoas. They don't grow in a way that is good for pictures, yet. Much better view from an angle down, but the camera distorts too much at that angle. They have sprouted several new babies recently though and look very healthy also.
Another coral that is coloring up, but can't really capture with the camera are my Snake Eyes acans. I'll have to pick them up so you can see them from the top, the yellow is really starting to come out on the top. I suspect they like a bit more light as the sides are a more dull tan than yellow.
Long day of walking and fighting the crowd. I'm peopled out(not a people person). Back in the hotel room away from people to relax. Headed back home tomorrow morning.
Another coral that is coloring up, but can't really capture with the camera are my Snake Eyes acans. I'll have to pick them up so you can see them from the top, the yellow is really starting to come out on the top. I suspect they like a bit more light as the sides are a more dull tan than yellow.
Long day of walking and fighting the crowd. I'm peopled out(not a people person). Back in the hotel room away from people to relax. Headed back home tomorrow morning.
C-Reefer
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By any chance did you come talk to Parrott Aquatic? did your son buy one of their Holy Grail torches mabye? I was helping them for the day, had a blue parrott aquatics shirt on.
I don't think he did, I only got zoas from Cheezys and the guy with the cool acrylic tank lol.
Geez Turtle, I don't know any of these zoas you keep posting so I keep googling them and loving them lol. I hate it when i get a coral I like and its hard to take pics of it. How about some top downs to show them off??
C-Reefer
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Hey I met you then! Nice to... uh.. meet you I guess lol. How's the torch treating you? Your tank was gorgeous in the pictures you showed us. Do you have an update thread?
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I'm home! Tank looks fine other than being covered in film algae... tons amd tons of film algae. Really wish this stuff would go away.
Going to start making RODI for another 15% or so water change.
Going to start making RODI for another 15% or so water change.
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Oh trust me, the film algae going away would be your worst nightmare. It was the first sign I knew I had bottomed out my nutrients.
Also did you happen to pick me up any bottles of goodness?
Also did you happen to pick me up any bottles of goodness?
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Very much so.
Oh trust me, the film algae going away would be your worst nightmare. It was the first sign I knew I had bottomed out my nutrients.
Also did you happen to pick me up any bottles of goodness?
Ok maybe not completely gone, but that's a little excessive for 48ish hours.
Oh, yea I got a few bottles of goodness...
Yea, theres a running tank in that picture so its reef related. Seriously considering adding that coral beauty to the 90 gallon... since I have @Amoo's "talent" for growing SPS, it shouldn't be an issue. She left all my other corals alone previously... and I'm not 100% sure it was her causing the damage to start with. I dont think my metal problem was 100% corrected by just removing the sand in the 35. I'm pretty sure those rocks had been saturated with heavy metals.
Yes, THOSE rocks. The ones I put in the new sump.
They got removed last week.
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Few quick pictures of the acans (Micromussa lordhowensis) doing some tank maintenance.
JKR Snake Eyes acan. This is the one with the yellow. I got it in the JKR live sale in August amd its growing a few babies. Few top down pics at the surface, the water was moving but you can see the yellow color.
Random orange and teal. I dropped it face first in the dirt so its ticked off. Got this one from Joey at JKR back in late June I think. No babies yet but the two polyps look healthy.
Different orange and teal... got this one a year ago at the CMAC show. Going back Saturday. This one started as one polyp, grew a bunch of babies, lost the large original polyp and now it's starting to grow back over where the original polyp was. It's also been shaded a bit and half burried by either a wrasse or a conch, or both. That's why the flesh looks a little see thru. It should come back with more light.
The last one. The green and purple. This was on another frag disk. When I removed it I fragged a little section of about 3 polyps. The frag, and the area fragged from the mother colony are growing like wildfire. I may frag another piece off the mother soon. First pic is mother, second is the tiny 3 polyp frag that is now at least 6 large polyps with babies, last pic is new growth on mother from fragging.
JKR Snake Eyes acan. This is the one with the yellow. I got it in the JKR live sale in August amd its growing a few babies. Few top down pics at the surface, the water was moving but you can see the yellow color.
Random orange and teal. I dropped it face first in the dirt so its ticked off. Got this one from Joey at JKR back in late June I think. No babies yet but the two polyps look healthy.
Different orange and teal... got this one a year ago at the CMAC show. Going back Saturday. This one started as one polyp, grew a bunch of babies, lost the large original polyp and now it's starting to grow back over where the original polyp was. It's also been shaded a bit and half burried by either a wrasse or a conch, or both. That's why the flesh looks a little see thru. It should come back with more light.
The last one. The green and purple. This was on another frag disk. When I removed it I fragged a little section of about 3 polyps. The frag, and the area fragged from the mother colony are growing like wildfire. I may frag another piece off the mother soon. First pic is mother, second is the tiny 3 polyp frag that is now at least 6 large polyps with babies, last pic is new growth on mother from fragging.
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Better pic of snake eyes. I set it in one of the branch rocks up top and let it get happy again. Here you can really see the three colors. Yellow, purple and blue.
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