My once a month many pic thread, beware!

[rwhite]

Well, I usually take a full set of pics of our tank once a month mostly for comparison/growth of our little system and try to share with everyone. Hope I dont bore everyone, its our first reef with a lot of common stuff. Hope ya'll enjoy as much as we do. A full tank shot first, then the rest will basically go L->R/Top->bottom.

 

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The original BTA. Caught him in the middle of contracting, timing can be everything. Its usually a lot bigger, long tentacles and a clown inside.

 

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Below that is one of our newest. A nice orange zoo rock.

 

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A pair of rics that are almost completely separated, just a thin string holding them together. Just below/left of the zoos.

 

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And on the bottom, some new red shrooms.

 

[wocka]

hm my ricordea in the middle is sticking up like that. i wonder if hes splitting. i can see another mouth yet

 

[rwhite]

A clone from the org. BTA, split one Sunday morning. It moved to the right at about the same height in the tank. Only a short walk and has been in the same place ever since. Its smaller than the org., but as you can see the clown believes size doesnt matter.

 

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Below that is our patch of xenia, its already spreading after about 2 months. I hope it doesnt overtake the zoos.

 

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Magic Carp, what month would you like to see or a particular coral growth?
wocka, I think some rics just do that as you will see in another pic.

 

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Below the zenia is the leather. Unfortunately, in this pic the polyps are mostly closed. Sometimes it does that when I scrape the glass, which I did for the pics. Other times its not bothered at all.

 

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Almost in the middle/about mid-height is our GSP patch. Its not spreading as rapidly as I thought it would, but thats okay. I've fragged it a couple times, only one success. Trying to make my own multi-rock.

 

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Ooops!

 

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And just below that, another new addition (my favorite) an orange/purple ric. This is what I was talking about, wocka.

 

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Right in the middle, 1 of our first corals, some button polyps. Like a big flower bouquet.

 

[wocka]

thats a beautiful ric :cheer:

 

[rwhite]

On the bottom/middle. Our cool purple/blue shrooms. Our other first coral, these and the buttons were purchased at the same time a bit more than a year ago. Wish I had pics from then, we didnt have a digital cam at the time.

 

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Just to the right of the buttons, a small zoo rock. Not very exciting, but for $5 I couldnt pass it up. These, the leather and bubble (coming up next) all were brought back from Colorado Springs in April. A ***** there had a small coral tank, but had to dismantle it so I helped them out at some good prices on the 3.

 

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And the bubble, a bit higher and to the right of the buttons/zoos. This one was looking awesome yesterday, very happy with the decision. I was afraid it would be more difficult to care for than our other corals at the time, but has turned out to be a great, easy to care for addition.

 

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To the right of the bubble is my first frag attempt ever. I just hate cutting and all the stuff that goes with it, but this one was easy I was able to peel a few of them off and transplant them to another rock. Several other frags have been made from the large colony.

 

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All the way to the right/mid is another new resident. Believe its a Favite, correct me if I'm wrong. Reminds me a lot of a brain, so far so good. I had it near the bubble at first and I think it got stung. Theres a small area of skeleton showing. Been keeping an eye on it, no change as of yet.