New coral additions and lots of pics

stanlalee

stanlalee

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Since all my fish are in quarantine (just waiting for the tank at this point) and will be for several more weeks I have been trying to add as many inverts as possible reason being no fish no host no parasites by the time they return. Added 26 snails (10 cerith, 12 nassarius, 4 margarita) to the 2 astrea already there and corals below:
zoanthus frags


palythoa frags

orange/purple ricordia with green and pink mouths (cant see well in pic)

large green mushrooms

more green mushrooms, yellow acropora

yellow acropora with colors exaggerated to show green tips (dont show in reg pics)
 
babyb

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very nice corals
your sand looks very fine, do you have any propblems with it traping nitrates
 
stanlalee

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tan acropora fuzzy polyps

pink acropora white polyps

small evergreen star polyp frag

green brain I tried to trade but since fish that picked on it isn't in the tank I put it back in

old corals: blue shrooms, two umbrella shrooms, frogspawn, brain

random



thanks for looking!
 
stanlalee

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Originally Posted by BabyB
very nice corals
your sand looks very fine, do you have any propblems with it traping nitrates
thanks and no test detectable nitrate or phosphate levels. the sand is only about 1" deep and the nassarius and cerith snails scavenge it. its fine white play sand (kolorscape).
 
babyb

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isnt it great to see the tank mold from just water and rocks into a working reef, i just added some new coralsover the past 2 weeks and i think things are finnaly comeing together now that it will be up for 3 years
 
stanlalee

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Originally Posted by zanoshanox
very nice, i'm highly impressed. How long has ti been sey up? How big? GIve us some tank specs
thanks! tank is 72Lx18Dx19H" 100 gallon with ?? gallon sump. CLSS125/cheato filtration. 2x175W halides, perhaps I'll add a few VHO/T5/PC actinics within the next week or two or not. All the live rock and old corals are transfers from my 30g +40lbs of base rock. tank has only been up a few months but 30g had been up 2yrs.
old tank after transfer

let the base rock season with some old tank cheato for a few months before set up garage style

before the little coral shopping spree

sump
 
stanlalee

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Originally Posted by costa13
nice looking tank
That is one big piece of base rock in the center of your DT. :scared:
lol yes I think that was 30lbs of the 40lbs I got. Caribsea reef bones, I'm not mad at em.
 
m0nk

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Nice pics, love that Ric! I need to get me some nice Ric action...LFS never has 'em...
 
stanlalee

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lastly poor fish after being coppered up (30g is now the quarantine tank). Treatment is now over but not scheduled to return to the main tank until mid march. Hippo tang who broke out with ich, powder brown and most recent addition Eibli dwarf who must have brought the ich home. I want to add perhaps one more fish. LPS had a nice pink square anthia but the damn thing was much bigger than all my fish! had no clue they got that big :scared:
 
stanlalee

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thanks. thats why except the acro (supposedly dwarf/large angels leave most SPS alone) all I added were zoo/paly polyps, star polyps and mushrooms. I already had him in the tank with those plus the hammer/frogspawn and the only thing he picked at was the open brain (which coincidently was the only thing a valentini puffer before liked to pic on). He muched preferred to pic at the live rock. Hopefully the new stuff doesn't taste better and his taste wont change. the brain will probably have to go again once he's back in the tank but it was in the sump for month so I can now look at it for a little while.
 
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I think your corals are nice and all but your coraline algea GOT MY ATTENTION!!! Super colors!! Where did you get your rock. Very nice tank
 
stanlalee

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Originally Posted by bonita69
I think your corals are nice and all but your coraline algea GOT MY ATTENTION!!! Super colors!! Where did you get your rock. Very nice tank

thanks all. I got all the rock locally. the 1rst 10lbs I got had little coralline algae on it because I didn't care too much and just picked on shape. the next 20lbs (from the same store) I went in looking for good coralline coverage and every piece I took home had pretty good coralline coverage. the 1rst few months nothing then like in an instant it just started growing very quickly. HOPEFULLY the base rock will do the same because its so obviously base/new rock.
old tank the rock came from (at its peak not when I took it down)
 
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